Adapting beauty routines for midlife, with India Knight

The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show

Liz Earle

Wellbeing, Arts, Gut Health, Self-improvement, Women's Health, Beauty, Healthy Ageing, Menopause, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Hormones, Supplements, Health, Exercise, Fashion & Beauty, Fitness, Education, Better Second Half, Skincare, Liz Earle

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🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In a midlife makeup muddle? Beauty columnist India Knight joins Liz on this episode of the podcast to share advice on adapting our beauty and makeup routines in midlife.

Liz and India share their personal views on how midlife women are portrayed in the media, and discuss their opinions on tweakments, injectables and hair removal.

India reveals common skincare concerns as we age, plus her favourite ingredients and products for maturing skin when it comes to cleansing, exfoliating, brightening, and more.

The episode also shares makeup favourites and simple hacks, and India also answers the million dollar question: is it really worth splurging our cash on beauty products?

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0:00.0	I really admire beauty influences on Tik-Tok but I'm not going to sort of sit there watching 22-year-olds, you know, put on their makeup.
0:08.0	It's just kind of not for me. It's about confidence and about feeling as happy as you can with yourself I think.
0:15.2	But it shouldn't take forever, it shouldn't go into the realms of obsession, it should just be
0:19.6	a kind of manageable thing because another problem in this sort of area is that we've all done our makeup for a very long time and we're kind of on autopilot and we use the say the products that we use 10 20 even 30 years ago and they don't look the same on our older faces.
0:38.7	India Knight is the beauty writer catering specifically to older women and she knows full well
0:44.3	that beauty is not just skin deep. This is the Lizel Well-being show the
0:49.2	podcast helping us all have a better second half. I'm Liz Earl and it's my mission to find ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being and of course our beauty today.
1:03.3	Well as I said beauty is not just skin deep,
1:06.0	who we see in the mirror can have a profound effect
1:08.5	on our confidence, our happiness and our character.
1:11.9	And that of course has a knock on effect on how we show up in the world at work for our families,
1:17.8	with our friends.
1:19.6	Not feeling sure about how we look and chip away at our sense of self and I think we really do
1:24.6	deserve to feel comfortable in our own skin. Our bodies are our homes after all in
1:30.7	fact the only place we truly have to live. Now every week
1:34.5	thousands of women turn to India Knight's beloved Sunday Times style magazine
1:39.0	column for beauty advice and what I find really interesting is that her readers are neither make up
1:44.8	obsessive nor product-averse purists. Most of us just want to be pointed to things
1:49.8	that really work by someone we can trust and that is India. She's written a
1:54.7	brilliant new book India Knight's Beauty Edit what works when you're older and she
1:59.3	says for women who are newly insecure about the way aging manifest in our faces and what we should be doing about it.
2:08.0	Anything, nothing, denial, acceptance?
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