One thing I will say I'm trying to do is grow out my brows a little to be fuller and less arched. Which ain't easy. I see strays outside of the neat little shape curve and want to pluck them out right away. Patience. It's kind of funny really, because I never even touched tweezers until after I turned 26 or so and had quite full, nice brows back in the day . . .

Mo could you fill in the sparser bits to help hide the strays? I've got a brow box by urban decay it's a bit of a faff so I only do it for 'going out' but could be worth it short term x

Louise, I have one of those old fashioned Maybelline brow & liner pencils that I use occasionally. I wouldn't say they're sparse, it's just the changing shape of less an arch. It's kinda like a haircut growing out, you just gotta get through the transition period Like, I can see in my mind that other brows are going to join the party, but the first one or two that aren't near the others seem SO out of place. OCD a bit over here.

I will admit I wear no make-up. My skin is very sensative, and make-up can cause it to break out with a very unpleasant rash as well as just make it more prone to acne.

I do moisturize, and I would like to make sure I am using the best moisturizer possible.

This year, I want o give coconut oil a try. To really, really try it and see if my skin can handle it and if it helps reduce breakouts (I have been suffering a lot of these from the hormone changes lately!)

Deb - no, lotions aren't ok either. There are special lotions available, but basically a company has to buy them and supply to staff. Rarely done in my experience.

I had an instructor once who made us feel his rough dry hands. Lol! Said if your hands didn't feel this way, you needed to get out of the kitchen.

People are allowed to wear (*unscented*) deodorant though. Haha. Well, I guess it's under all your clothing and your cleansuit... and there's just a limit. Haha.

Thistle, be careful and definitely patch test with coconut oil: it is highly comedogenic for a lot of people. I do okay removing makeup with it and using it to deep condition my hair, but I haven't had the will to try it out as a skin moisturizer.

What everyone here ^^^^^^ has said!!!

I USED to feel happy going out with no makeup on, or with very, very minimal (blush, mascara, some lip gloss) on. But aging has changed that, for me.

My mom and much of my family except my one grandmother were never good at fashion OR makeup. I can remember clearly noticing that my aunt's eyebrows were thinning as she got older, and it didn't occur to me that was connected not with her individually but with aging. And even then, it didn't occur to me to notice it when it happened to MY eyebrows until early this year. I messed around a while with eyebrow pencils and then landed on the perfect one for me, and now I feel as if it's a Fountain of Youth for my look.

I agree it is important if you do wear makeup, to get more and more skilled with it -- and often that means, to get better equipment and better quality products. I wear glasses, so it's been some time that I've been using a magnifying mirror to do makeup. Now I'm thinking about one of the LED lighted mirrors. Better brushes have made a huge difference in my eye makeup. And I watch a lot of the makeup tutorials on YouTube.

This sounds as if I pack all sorts of stuff on, but i don't. I use more night and treatment products, and then sparingly apply foundation, where I need to even out coloration, or (most days) love wearing tinted moisturizer. This year i want to really learn how to choose and use a good bronzer. I think that can help compensate for the general loss of contrast in my skin and hair, but I don't want to look clownish with it.

Mo and Linda, eyebrows were the start of the makeup for me because I always had full thick brows and I started seeing more and more skin showing through. I use the Tarte pencil because you do not have to sharpen it. I found powders rub do not last as long on me.

I guess it goes hand in hand with fashion. Thin brows were the thing in the late 90's early 00's and now thicker ones are back. Too bad for me, mine were thick until 1996 and now are fair, but not full lol.

This is actually a 2014 goal for me to update the make-up routine. I feel like a little update would go a long way in boosting the polish factor.

I got a new eye makeup kit for Christmas (a Laura Mercier one) and it includes tightline cake makeup. I learned to tightline my eye with it and I love the results, so that's my makeup refresher for the year.