Cool Makeup For Gray Hair

 

When you have gray hair, color is your best friend. A bright pop of strong color on lips paired with a rosy flush on cheeks looks modern and gorgeous against gray locks. Adding navy liner to enhance blue, gray, or green eyes is a more subtle way to use color to your advantage. Here’s how to get the look:

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Step one: Brighten up and hydrate the undereye area with a great moisturizing concealer.

Lancôme Efacernes Concealer ($30) or Sephora 8 Hour Perfect Concealer ($15).

Step two: Apply a tinted moisturizing balm with your fingers to even out skin tone. A balm is a great choice for very dry skin as it provides intense moisture and a dewy finish.

Kevin Aucoin Tinted Balm ($48) Bobbi Brown Tinted Moisturizing Balm ($54)

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Step three: Use a touch-up concealer stick to eliminate any traces of redness. Only apply where needed. Blend with fingers.

NARS Concealer ($24) Avon Ideal Flawless Concealer Stick ($7)

Step four: When your hair goes gray, your brows can also start to fade. Define their shape and color by filling them in with a powder eyeshadow and a stiff angled brow brush. Here, a soft taupe shade worked best.

Step five: To open and define eyes, sweep a light base color like ivory from the lower lashline all the way up to just below the brows. Then sweep a medium shade, here we applied a soft pinky nude shade.

Step six: Line your top lid with a thin line of navy eye shadow applied as liner. Navy liner will enhance the color of blue or green eyes.

Step seven: Finish eyes with a few coats of lengthening mascara in black.

Diorshow Mascara ($25) or Covergirl Bombshell Mascara ($11).

Step eight: Add a glowy touch of sheer color with cream blush to the apple of the cheeks blending outwards with fingers.

Flower’s Win Some Rouge Some ($8)  Stila’s Convertible Color ($25).

Step nine: A strong lip in a vibrant pink looks gorgeous against gray hair.

Laura Mercier’s Sheer Lip Color ($24) or Covergirl Colorburst Lip Butter ($9)

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