Fabulous Over Forty – Where Beauty Is Ageless

Once and awhile there is a makeup line that comes along that “wows” me and leaves me longing for more of what they have to offer.  In 1991 it was Bobbi Brown, loved it then and love it now.  Then several years ago it was Giorgio Armani cosmetics, I instantly fell for the line and fell hard.  Now,  Jouer is the newest line that has a piece of my heart.

I may have mentioned before, but one day while spending endless hours on the web checking out sites I ran across Troy Jensen’s blog.   He’s an incredible makeup artist and what’s great is he shows how he creates all those looks for the celebrity faces he does.  Seriously, check it out – it’s fabulous!  One product that he uses often which stood out was Jouer.  

As I stated most of this before, I was on a mission to find Jouer and lo and behold a PR person from Jouer contacted me about Jouer to see if I wanted to try some things from the line.   Good beauty karma!  I tried it, loved it, and blogged about it.   But, I wanted to see more and get some of the product in shades that suited my pale skin tone.

While in NYC I hit Henri Bendel where it’s carried and met makeup artist Karen.   She was great at explaining the line and helping me select shades that work on my skin tone.   We both looked at each other with a scrutinizing eye and realized we really are about the exact same skin tone, eye color and hair color.   Only she’s around 20+ years younger!  I love it when a makeup artist matches most of your coloring because chances are they have experienced with the line way more than you ever have or will get the chance to and so they know what will work for your skin tone!

Karen used some colors from the new Fall collection on me including the Fawn shade of Cheek and Lip Tint on my cheeks, Lola lipstick and Exquisite lip gloss, and espresso eye shadow.  Some of the colors are part of the “Up In Smoke” collection for fall. 

I also picked up the correct shade of concealer and Age Repairing Perfector.   One other fabulous thing about this line is how the pieces all connect together – even the lipgloss!  Those pieces shown above are not just sitting next to each other, they’re actually connected. You can customize your makeup to exactly what you want!

The last fabulous thing I’m going to talk about today with the line is the Luminizing Moisture Tint.   AMAZING.   Besides being a wonderful moisturizer and texture, it gives a good amount of coverage for a tint and the Golden shade is perfect for my pale skin – it gives it a beautiful warm luminosity without looking like I have too dark of a foundation shade.  It warms up my skin perfectly.  Nearly all the products have skin care goodness right in them too.

I’m sure this isn’t the last you will hear me talk about Jouer.   (French for At Play)

When Chanel came out with Inimitable mascara a few years back, everyone raved.   I disliked it.   It just really did nothing at all for my lashes.   I didn’t get volume and I didn’t get a great amount of length.   I personally know some people who used it and it looked great on their lashes, but for some reason not me.

So when a Chanel sales associate asked me if I wanted to try Inimatable Noir Obscur, I said no – don’t bother.   But she gave me one of the mini samples anyway.   Then last week I thought I’d give it a try.   It says it’s the same formula, just more intense black shade.  

This newer version is a “wow” of an alternative.   It gave me much more volume than the original, length was great – not the most length I’ve ever gotten out of mascara, but certainly noticeable.  And the color is definitely intense black.

I’m so glad the sa put the mini sample in my bag.   I’m sure it’s one I’ll buy when I run out of my current stock of mascaras.

It seems as if we’re told “if you’re over 40, you have to have short hair”.  Not so.   I used to have medium/short hair and this summer decided to go shorter.   Well, I have been trying to grow out a bad hair mistake for over 4 months now!  

Take a look at some great medium length hair styles and see what would work for your face shape.

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Upon the first inhale of this intoxicating scent of YSL’s Parisienne I was initially surprised.   It was much sweeter than I had anticipated.  It has top notes of cranberry and blackberry and it was too sweet for my taste (no pun intended).  In fact, hubby had to put his 2 cents in and he commented that it wasn’t his favorite.

Then a few minutes later I got to thinking, “Well now this doesn’t smell like it did before, I think I’m actually liking this”.   That’s because the floral notes of rose and violet kicked in. 

After about 15 or more minutes, I then really liked the fragrance.   My favorite woody scents of all came through -  first patchouli, then vetiver, musk, sandalwood.   The hubby even said to me – “You know that perfume you sprayed before – I’ve decided I really like it now”.  

The thought behind the fragrance is the  ultra femininity of a woman, warmed by the touch of the man who embraced her.   Some fragrances I just don’t get what they mean by what they are trying to accomplish with their scent.   This one I get.  

Mally Roncal, a favorite with viewers (her ”loves”) on QVC not only because of her kind and energetic personality, but because of her fabulous products.   Mally is releasing her new fragrance Thursday, Oct. 29th on QVC on the 8:00 p.m. show 

The Mally Beauty Fragrance wraps you in the love, happiness and hopeful energy that represents Mally’s warm philosophy of life. 

Catch Mally at these EST on QVC

• Midnight – 2:00 a.m.
• 10-11:00 a.m.
• 3-4:00 p.m.
• 8-9:00 p.m. (fragrance release)

Then from 10 p.m. to midnight catch “What’s in My Beauty Bag with Lisa Mason”.  I’m sure there’ll be a Mally product in her bag!