The Best Makeup Looks For Women Over 50

We're all about embracing age, but that doesn't have to mean letting your looks go. When you hit your 50s, a lot of changes happen to your face: lines, thinner eyebrows, age spots... you know the story all too well. Luckily, there's a simple fix to your beauty challenges: makeup.

We're not telling you to pile on the products so you can look half your age, though. As our fashion idol, Iris Apfel, once said (attributing the quote to our other fashion idol, Coco Chanel), "Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately to look young." So use just enough makeup to enhance the beauty that is still very much there.

How to do that? Here are 30 makeup ideas from some of the most gorgeous over-50 celebs.