A veteran magazine beauty editor/writer (and a member of the 40+ club), Genevieve Monsma created MediumBlonde to help Gen Xers and Baby Boomers age the way they want.
All in Makeup
It’s not your imagination: Brows do grow thinner (and grayer) with each decade. If you battle Eugene-Levy-like brows, this may be a welcome change. But for those of us with barely-there or fair brows, this is not a happy transition. I fall in the latter camp.
Last spring, I made a desperate, early-morning run to Sephora on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. What I walked out with surprised me...
I keep a bathroom drawer stuffed with lipsticks, tinted balms, glosses, long-wear liquid color and chubby pencils. They’re great products—every one of them. But five days out of seven, I swipe on the same pinky-nude lip color...
The year I turned 40, I was invited to sit on a panel with several other magazine beauty editors. The topic: Reaching readers in the digital age. Prescient. As a courtesy, a professional makeup artist was hired to touch up each editor’s makeup before she hit the stage; I figured I’d get a dusting of powder to combat shine and off I’d go. I was wrong.
