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Vol. I
Stop Looking Tired
Smooth under-eye concealer, dark circles that don't turn gray and softer-looking bags
$27

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For women over 60 with hooded eyes
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Vol. I
Smooth under-eye concealer, dark circles that don't turn gray and softer-looking bags
$27
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Vol. II
Crown lift, a part that doesn't show your scalp and a fine-hair cut
$47
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Why my liner kept disappearing · 2 min

Linda Hensley, 63, Charlotte, North Carolina
Liner that shows with your eyes open and doesn't smudge underneath by lunch. I tested every step on my own droopy lids, with drugstore pencils. Then the brows, lashes, lips and cheeks that go with it.
I grew up in Cedar Fork, a little mill town in the North Carolina Piedmont. I got my hooded eyes and my laugh from my mother, June. For forty-one years I ran the front office at Pruitt Heating & Air in Charlotte. Walt and I have lived in the same brick ranch house since 1987, with his tomato plants along the fence.
I'm not a makeup artist. I worked Saturdays at a cosmetics counter as a teenager, and the lady there taught me to step back and look. Around fifty, everything I knew stopped working: my liner disappeared, my concealer cracked and my hair thinned at the crown. I stopped fighting my silver in 2020.
I only keep what I can still see working the next morning, in plain window light, on my own face.
I am 62-years old and have been searching for a wing technique that will work for me for a long time. My eyelids are both hooded and wrinkled. …
— a viewer, under a video about eyeliner on hooded eyes · 550 likes
No matter what product I use on my lower lid, a pencil or liquid eyeliner, it always, always, always migrates under my eye giving me raccoon eyes. WTH? What am I doing wrong?
— a viewer, under a hooded-eye makeup video · 85 likes
I always get a gray, which ends up looking worse than the natural darkness.
— a viewer, under a video about concealing dark circles · 5,400 likes
… Nothing I do works it looks great when first applied ,but then it's all down hill ! NOTHING really works, unless you're under 30 lol
— a viewer, under a video about concealer creasing · 3,100 likes
My hair splits in the back and it looks like a bald spot. Urgh.
— a viewer, under a video about the part at the back of the head · 946 likes
Now do this for fine thin hair. All the examples here look like they have abundant, wavy hair.
— a viewer, under a haircut video for women over 60 · 706 likes
These are public YouTube comments from people with the same problems, under other creators' videos. They are not reviews of these books.
You can buy the first two on their own. Linda's Hooded Eye Method and Lines, Neck and Crepey Skin only come in the set of four.
The book for your video

Vol. I
Smooth under-eye concealer, dark circles that don't turn gray and softer-looking bags
For concealer that settles into the lines and circles that go gray, so people stop asking if you slept badly.


The book for your video

Vol. II
Crown lift, a part that doesn't show your scalp and a fine-hair cut
For fine hair that goes flat at the crown and a part that shows your scalp in every picture.


The book for your video

Vol. III
Eyeliner that stays visible on droopy lids, plus brows, lashes, lips and cheeks
For liner that disappears into the fold, or ends up under your eyes by lunch.


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Vol. IV
Foundation that stays out of wrinkles, plus neck, chest and crepey arms
For foundation that sinks into the lines by noon, and a neck, chest and arms you've started covering up.


| Book | Pages | Chapters | Tricks | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vol. I · Stop Looking Tired | 139 | 8 | 10 | $27 |
| Vol. II · No More Flat Hair | 139 | 8 | 17 | $47 |
| Vol. III · Linda's Hooded Eye Method | 180 | 9 | 24 | In the set |
| Vol. IV · Lines, Neck and Crepey Skin | 146 | 8 | 12 | In the set |

On a hot Tuesday in July of 2017, I sat in the grocery store parking lot on my lunch break with the engine running. I flipped down the visor mirror to check my lipstick. There was a gray-black smear in the hollow under each eye, like I'd been crying at a funeral. I had stood at the front counter all morning talking to customers looking like that.
My mistake was simple. I'd lined my eyes the same way since the eighties: soft black pencil, eyes closed, thick on top and smudged underneath. My lids had changed. My method hadn't.
That evening I went straight to my vanity. I changed one thing at a time at sunset and checked it again the next morning in the window light. The old pencil was the first thing in my Tried-and-Gone drawer, with an index card saying what went wrong.
These four books are what stayed out of that drawer. One for liner on hooded eyes, with the brows, lashes, lips and cheeks around it. One for the under-eye that turned gray on me. One for fine hair that won't hold up at the crown. One for foundation in the lines, and the neck and arms I'd started hiding. Everything in them was tested on my own face.
From my vanity to yours,Linda
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No. It only comes in the set, and so does Lines, Neck and Crepey Skin. If you get the set, you don't need to buy Stop Looking Tired or No More Flat Hair too. They're already in it.
I wrote it for women like us who know plenty. What changed is our faces, not our skill. If you're coming back to makeup after years away, every trick still goes one step at a time.
A mirror, your readers, an eye pencil, mascara and a concealer. A hand-held magnifying mirror helps a lot. Everything else I use comes from the drugstore.
That's my lid too. You draw it with your eyes open, chin level, starting from the spot that still shows. It's all in “Liner That Shows With Your Eyes Open”, and the crepey part is in “Shadow on a Hooded, Crepey Lid”.
I did for thirty years, until my eyes burned every evening and my eye doctor told me to stop. Now I line only from above, at the lash roots. If you do line it, use a clean, freshly sharpened pencil that's never shared, and stop if it stings or turns red. With dry eyes or contacts, stay outside it and follow your eye doctor.
No book can make lines disappear, and I won't tell you otherwise. What helped me was less product, only where the shadow is, and powder only where it folds. That's “Three Spots, Not the Half-Moon” and “Set It Without the Powder Look” in Stop Looking Tired.
No book can erase lines, and mine doesn't try. What changed it for me was less foundation, thinner, pressed on instead of rubbed, and powder only where I shine. That's “Less Foundation, and Thinner” and “Press, Don't Paint” in Lines, Neck and Crepey Skin, and the neck and arms are in there too.
Mine did in a church directory photo. Lighter isn't brighter: light over dark circles goes gray. “Dark Circles That Don't Turn Gray” shows how to pick the shade and where a corrector goes.
My crown looked like a white road in a wedding photo. I can't make hair grow. I can show you how to move the part, lift the crown with rollers and soften the scalp you see. That's “The Crack at the Back” and “Rollers at the Crown” in No More Flat Hair.
I walked out of a salon with a granny cut once, and I sat in the car a while before I could drive. “A Cut for Fine Hair” and “Words for the Salon” cover what to ask for, and Take This to Your Stylist is a page you fill in and bring along.
My books don't teach exercises or massages for that. They show where the liner goes so it shows on the lid you have. If a lid droops suddenly, see a doctor right away. If it creeps down on one side, ask your eye doctor.
I'm 63, and I won't pretend to be anyone else. What I show is a real face with hooded eyes and lines, tested at my own vanity. Every trick also has a gentler version for tired eyes and shaky hands.
Mine are thin too. I curl them cold and gently, never pulling, and put the mascara mostly at the root. That's in “Fine Lashes, Seen”, and The Trick Library has “Mascara That Doesn't Print on the Hood”.
Sit down at your own vanity with your readers and a sharp pencil. Draw it with your eyes open, and see how it looks tomorrow morning in the window light.
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