Not all lipstick colors are perfect for highlighting the face and mature skin after 50. Here are the ones to avoid at all costs so as not to mark your wrinkles, enhance your lips and rejuvenate your smile seemingly in vain.
With the oval of the face changing and the skin losing tone, the makeup has every interest in evolving with age to avoid the most common makeup mistakes that age the face after 50. Among the adjustments to be made, the mouth makeup – and more precisely the lipstick – is a crucial point. Indeed, if all shades of lipstick are easily worn before the age of 30, once the face hardens with the appearance of wrinkles, certain lipstick colors are no longer as flattering as before. Some harden the features a little more, others lack the panache to awaken the radiance of mature skin.
To find the ideal lipstick color after 50 years, keep in mind that dark lipsticks are clearly not the most appropriate when you have lips that become thinner with age and wrinkles around the lips that streak the mouth, because they visually reinforce the “lips” effect. “fine” and tend to harden facial features, which causes aging. Then, know that the best lipstick colors to wear to rejuvenate your face in your fifties or over, that is to say the most elegant and which do not look “motherly”, are generally bright and radiant shades, or even certain discreet colors, but only on condition that they are not too dull. So that you have no more doubts, here are the worst lipstick colors to wear after middle age“memerizing” nuances to avoid at all costs.
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Makeup after 50: here are the 3 worst lipstick colors to wear
- Burgundy lipstick
It may well be one of the essential lip makeup trends of the year 2024, but burgundy lipstick – also called purple, wine or burgundy from its French names – is far from being the ally of mature skin . This dark shade has, in fact, the annoying habit of dulling the radiance of skin that already lacks it, and of hardening facial features. It’s also a color that makes your lips look even thinner than they are. In addition, it is not forgiving with wrinkles around the lips because it particularly marks them. Needless to say, it’s a disaster if it ever slips into fine lines!
- Plum lipstick
Just like burgundy shades which are a little more red, plum lipstick, as well as all its purple variations which are sometimes a little less dark, are not flattering on mature skin. While the rosy glow of the complexion fades and brings out the yellower or even grayer undertones of the skin, purple lipstick particularly clashes with the rest of the face. It is also not the most harmonious with the teeth, which tend to be less white with age, giving the smile a “yellow teeth” effect which does not rejuvenate… Harder face, lack of shine, color that marks “barcode” wrinkles: you will have exactly the same problems as with burgundy lipstick.
- Glossy brown lipstick
If nude is a perfect color to delicately enhance the lips and the entire face after 50, this is not the case for cool lipsticks in brown shades, which risk being much too dull to achieve this. They lack the intensity to illuminate the complexion and give a “faded” appearance to makeup. In addition, they even tend to clash with mature skin with a yellow or gray complexion. It is better to prefer nude colors that are downright beige (and therefore more neutral), or even subtly pinkish nude lipsticks which restore radiance to the smile.
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