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Game Episode: Laura Geller Plays “Prime or Pass?” | Beauty Trends, Makeup & Midlife · The Iconic Midlife with Roxy Manning

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  Before we leave, can we play a game together?
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  Sure.
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  I love games.
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  I could go in trying to look younger.
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  Prime or pass.
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  Pass.
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  You should always want to look as.
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  Best you can, matching your lipstick to your outfit.
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  Prime or pass.
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  Prime.
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  If it's in the same family.
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  Full coverage foundation after 50.
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  Absolutely.
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  Prime.
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  Overlining your lips to make them look bigger.
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  Primer.
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  Pass.
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  You're gonna think this is getting ridiculous.
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  Prime.
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  Lip liner is back.
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  Bigger and better than ever.
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  But not doing the way we did it back in the day.
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  Not overdoing it.
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  False lashes for daytime.
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  Primer.
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  Pass.
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  Absolutely prime.
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  Perfect makeup or great lighting.
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  Perfect makeup.
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  I agree.
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  Before we leave, can we play a game together?
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  A makeup game.
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  Okay.
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  I love games.
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  Okay, Good, Good.
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  I thought you would.
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  After I looked at your.
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  I'm like, I bet she'll be up for a game.
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  Okay.
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  So the name of this game is called prime or pass.
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  So it is a beauty rules game.
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  So I'm going to throw you a beauty trend or technique, and you just have a choice of saying prime or pass.
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  So if you like it, it's prime.
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  If it's pass, you can let it go.
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  All right, here we go.
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  Shimmer on mature eyelids.
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  Prime or pass.
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  Prime.
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  I agree.
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  Black eyeliner on the lower waterline.
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  Primer.
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  Pass.
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  Prime.
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  Okay.
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  You just have to be really okay on the waterline.
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  Not.
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  Not underneath.
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  Okay.
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  Because you see, that can do inside.
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  Okay.
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  But you have to be soft underneath.
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  Okay.
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  Very soft Would be my first recommendation.
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  Okay.
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  It's not a definitive rule that you shouldn't.
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  Okay.
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  Especially if you have big eyes.
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  Right.
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  It works, right?
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  It could work.
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  Absolutely.
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  It's luxury.
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  Full coverage foundation after 50.
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  Absolutely prime.
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  Prime.
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  But is not heavy and cakey looking.
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  Yes.
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  100% over lining your lips to make them look bigger.
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  Primer.
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  Pass.
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  You're going to think this is getting ridiculous.
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  Prime.
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  Okay.
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  I mean, lip liner is back bigger and better than ever.
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  But not doing it the way we did it back in the day.
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  Not overdoing it.
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  Just working on the outside and doing it ever so slightly deeper than the color lipstick you're wearing.
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  You can cheat and make your lips look fuller.
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  So that would.
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  If done right, it's a prime.
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  Wrong.
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  It's a pass.
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  Pass.
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  Okay.
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  I know we went through, like, a good.
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  What was it, like, one or two decades where no one was using lip liner and it was just like the smudgy lipstick.
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  And I'm glad lip liner's back.
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  Oh, me too.
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  Right.
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  Contouring after 50, it's prime.
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  Pass.
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  Because, I mean, prime.
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  If you are very square, if you need wring out the cheekbone because the volume of your face is not there the way it used to be.
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  It depends on the face.
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  As I'm speaking as a makeup artist.
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  Right.
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  I would say more of a pass than a prime because it's done wrong.
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  It's bad.
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  It's also an extra step that we don't really need.
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  Okay.
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  So we don't really need to contour as much.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  I always tell women, if you're wearing blush, put on blush in a way where your cheekbone shows.
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  So not just like, putting a little here and a little here and a little here.
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  Like, be thoughtful about your application.
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  If you put it on the way you would contour, then your cheekbone will look defined and enhanced.
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  And you don't need to do contour.
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  This is a good point.
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  I'm going to, like, put my little contour stick down.
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  You don't have to.
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  Okay.
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  Just maybe a touch.
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  Maybe a touch.
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  False lashes for daytime prime or pass.
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  Absolutely prime.
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  Have fun.
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  Not to stop the game for a minute, but I would say that if you do everything thoughtfully and it's not like these, like, when I see people with those big fake lashes, it's like, you do know people realize
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  you're wearing fake lashes.
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  Right.
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  I just want to make sure.
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  And if you don't mind that look, you go, girl.
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  But, you know, if you don't have lashes, and that happens a lot after years of, like, pulling on our eyes, a natural pair of false lashes during the day, if it makes you feel more confident and you did
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  them right where they're put on.
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  Right.
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  Go for it.
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  I need to, you know, I've been using, like, the single lashes that individuals they know.
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  No, I need to learn how to do the individuals, because when I've done them, they kind of get all wonky.
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  They're like, there's some right here.
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  Yes.
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  Is there a secret?
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  Very hard.
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  Yeah, very hard.
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  Why do you want to use only individuals?
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  Why wouldn't you just do a stress strip?
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  I think the strip is just always the way to go.
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  I was, like, trying to get all, like, okay, I need to try individuals.
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  Right.
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  Okay.
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  So I'm going to do the strip strap.
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  Right.
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  Because even with the individuals, if you are doing that.
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  Because you think, I only need a few, and it will be more natural when you put them on.
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  Even if they're the short ones, they will look different than the rest of the lash.
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  If you're only using them on the outer corner.
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  So then you wind up having to put it across the whole thing.
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  And one's going to get wonky, if not more so.
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  And if one falls off, you're in trouble.
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  So I would say a strip is quicker, faster.
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  And they make so many great ones now.
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  They do.
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  They really do.
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  It's so easy, right?
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  You just kind of throw the glue on and you stick it on.
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  It's not easy.
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  It's not easy.
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  I have so many people asking me, like, what am I doing wrong?
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  You.
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  It's a practice and it's a skill that will take time.
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  So do it when you're not going out, practice a lot when you don't have to be somewhere and until you master it.
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  And then once you master it, you can wear it comfortably when you go out.
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  Do you usually cut yours too, to, like size it, or do you just usually.
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  I don't need to.
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  Okay.
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  The ones I buy because I know now what to buy from.
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  My shape buys never need to be cut.
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  They're shorter in here and then they flutter out to a fuller.
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  But they're.
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  They're not heavy.
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  They're.
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  They're more natural looking.
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  Natural.
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  But always carry glue with you.
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  And you know those pointed things that you clean your teeth with?
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  Yes.
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  They're so convenient.
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  Yes.
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  Take one of those.
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  Okay.
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  With the point on it.
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  Keep your glue with you and from time to time, check in a mirror because it could go all wrong if half of it is hanging off and it could come off easily.
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  Your eye waters by accident.
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  You touch your eye.
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  So there's those scary mistakes that could happen.
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  What is in your emergency makeup bag?
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  Do you carry one in person?
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  Yeah, always.
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  I'm sorry.
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  Okay.
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  I don't even have a makeup bag, so I just throw in my handbag.
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  I have my baked double take foundation.
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  Because if I get warm and a little perspiry or whatever it may be, I want to blot myself.
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  If I want to touch up, like, because I got dark under my eyes, I use that foundation right under my eyes.
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  I carry lipstick, lip liner.
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  I always have a magnifying.
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  I have the compact that has magnifying and regular small ones.
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  I'm trying to think what else.
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  That's really all I carry for touching up.
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  But then if I go a night out and I have to look, I'll take a little blush also.
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  And that's it.
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  Okay.
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  Okay, that's good.
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  That's a good solid kit.
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  Yeah.
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  Matching your lipstick to your outfit.
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  Primer.
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  Pass.
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  What was the person prime is yes.
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  By the way, that.
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  That happens, too, at my age.
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  Prime.
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  If it's in the same family.
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  Okay.
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  Like, I wouldn't wear anything orangey, given that I'm wearing pink.
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  But I don't need to match the exact color.
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  Okay.
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  As long as I'm in a mauve, a rose, a pink, and it complements the color.
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  You should use lipstick.
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  It's the one piece of makeup that should enhance and accessorize with your wardrobe.
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  Not your blush, not your eyeshadow, but lipstick.
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  Oh.
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  Cause it's the most dominant thing on your face, so you should always be thinking about how it's going to come.
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  I always leave this off till after I get dressed and decide what I'm wearing.
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  Then I pick a lipstick out that will complement my outfit.
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  That's a great tip because you think maybe you think your whole face needs to somehow coordinate with what you're wearing with your eye makeup and everything.
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  But that's a great point.
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  Point that it should be the lipstick.
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  Just the lipstick.
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  Good.
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  Okay.
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  That's a great tip.
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  Keeping the same makeup routine you've had for 20 years.
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  Primer.
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  I know.
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  That's a yes.
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  Do you change up.
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  How often are you.
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  I mean, you probably change up a lot, but, like, what would you say to the woman out there listening?
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  How often should she be changing up her.
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  Her?
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  Well, if you're looking in the mirror or somebody is gently saying to you, I think you are wearing too bright a blush, or your foundation looks heavy, or if you feel that way or it's cakey, or your lipstick
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  is feathering and migrating, or your liner is too dark around your eyes, I think sometimes we don't see ourselves, and we're used to a habit of how we make up ourselves and we think it's right.
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  I know as a makeup artist, when I changed a few things on women's faces and it was change for them, it was eyebrow shape.
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  When I did their eyebrows, when I put lipstick color on, that's different from what they always wear or shape their lip differently than what they always.
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  Those were the things.
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  They were like, oh, no, no.
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  This is the color I want.
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  This is what I wear, and my eyebrows look too dark.
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  But you need to change it or let a makeup artist do you that you trust and know or gets recommended and go throughout the day and see what people say to you who know you.
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  Because if you gave positive feedback, that's big.
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  That's big.
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  That's a great meter of how to, like, judge something like that for sure.
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  Trying to look Younger, prime or pass.
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  Pass, Pass.
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  I mean, embrace who you are.
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  Listen, do you should always want to look as best you can and wear makeup that enhances your skin, not covers your skin.
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  But don't try to look at trends that someone who is much more young than yourself is.
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  Meet your.
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  Meet the needs of your skin and where you are in your life.
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  And with makeup.
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  Yes.
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  It's supposed to be fun.
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  You're supposed to enjoy it.
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  Right.
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  Just 100% and play with it and have a good time.
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  Doesn't mean those.
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  Seriously?
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  Yes.
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  You know it's wiped off.
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  Exactly.
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  It's not stuck to your face forever.
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  Right.
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  Okay, so which one do you prefer, Perfect makeup or great lighting?
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  Perfect makeup.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  Because you're not always going to be in great lighting.
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  So what happens after good lighting and you walk out and the sun's shining on your face or you have to go meet somebody and it's a different set of your makeup?
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  Better be perfect.
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  Here's another little tip.
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  Make yourself up with the harshest light, and that's usually sunlight.
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  So if you can get in front of a window and look at your makeup when you're done, or do your makeup in front of daylight, it's the harshest light.
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  If you look good there, you're going to look right great no matter where you go.
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  But if it's nighttime and you're making yourself up, use a lighted makeup mirror that gives you daytime light.
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  So which is the strongest?
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  Okay.
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  And my other tip is, I know women don't want to do it.
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  Not at all.
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  Women want to do it.
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  They don't want to have to look into a magnifying strength that they see too much because it scares them.
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  It's like, I didn't know I had that.
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  But if you can make yourself up in the strongest possible magnification that you need and your makeup looks good there, you're golden.
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  That is a fantastic tip.
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  I'm like, note to self.
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  I'll be doing my makeup in front of my window from here on out.
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  Or take the mirror to the window.
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  Afterwards.
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  Now, if you could only keep one product forever, would it be lipstick or mascara?
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  Ooh, that's such a good question.
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  Right?
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  Lipstick.
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  Yep.
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  Because you can always put on a pair of sunnies.
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  It's such a good point.
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  We can always cover up up there.
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  It's like you gotta have your mouth,.
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  You know, visible 100%.
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  Women all over New York wearing fabulous sunnies with a great mouth, and nobody knows what's happening underneath here.
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  Yes, that's such a good point.
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  It's like a cheat code.
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  You can just do, you know, do your mouth, do it quick, throw on the sunglasses and you're good to go.
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  Out the door.
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  That's right.
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  Well, Laura, it's been amazing.
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  Thank you so much for joining me on the iconic Midlife.
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  It's been amazing.