Anti-ageing make-up tricks

Thanks to Yahoo! we have eight make- up tricks that will do you a whole lots of good. With all due respect to

wrinkle cream you so much love to buy, especially when you've hit that age - 30+, the right foundation or

lipcolour can make you look younger — instantly.

Try a pink lipstick

"Everyone looks younger with cherubic rosy lips," says make-up artist, Christian McCulloch, who works with Demi

Moore and Naomi Watts. If you're fair, slick on a mauve-y rose shade such as Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter in Sugar Plum, for deeper skin tones, go with a bolder colour like Berry Smoothie.

Apply a natural glow

If your skin seems dull, try a foundation with light-reflecting particles (they're tiny, so you won't look like a showgirl). "They hide flaws and make skin look radiant," says make-up artist Sonia Kashuk.

Any formula labeled illuminating, brightening, or luminous will do the trick. Try Sonia Kashuk Perfecting Luminous Foundation.

Laugh off lip lines

"When you apply lipstick so it has a crisp border, it draws attention to fine lines around your mouth," says Kashuk.

Try lightly dabbing your finger around your lip line after swiping on your shade: It'll make the edges soft — and your smile juicier.

Smooth lids with shimmer

A neutral-colored shimmery eye shadow is like Spanx for crepe-y eyelids: It gives the illusion of tautness.

Use a powder — not cream — shadow one shade lighter than your skin, such as Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Sin (for light skin), Baked (for medium), or Smog (for dark).

Airbrush skin with primer

It makes you look like you're always standing in flattering light, says make-up artist Maria Verel, whose clients include Diane Sawyer. "Primer blurs the appearance of uneven skin and fine lines, so your face seems smoother."

Rub on a pea-size drop after moisturising — even if you don't wear foundation over it. Verel likes Make Up For Ever HD Microperfecting Primer.

Fight gravity with eyeliner

"After age 40, eyelids can start to droop at the outer corners," says Sandy Linter, a Lancôme make-up artist who works with Christie Brinkley. Her fix: Line your top lash line with a creamy black pencil, then use a pointed Q-tip to smudge the line slightly up and out past the outer corner "to create a subtle lift."

Use cream blush

Powder blushes, which sit on the skin's surface, can exaggerate the look of fine lines, "but cream formulas sink

into skin to give a dewy finish," says Kashuk.

Brighten eyes with beige pencil

"Big, sparkling eyes convey youth and happiness," McCulloch says. No kidding! His trick: Line the inner rims of

your eyes with a cream-coloured eye pencil

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African women’s g*nitals provide clue to HIV prevention

Following the discovery of an unusually weak inflammatory response to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, in the g*nitals of some African female s*x workers who are naturally protected from infection of the virus, scientists believe they may have discovered an important clue that could influence future HIV prevention efforts.

Results of a long-term study just published in the journal PLoS ONE, said over the course of a 15-year study which involved women from Benin Republic in West Africa and Zimbabwe in South Africa, researchers found that when some of these women are exposed to HIV, the immune-system cells in their g*nitals, produced fewer inflammatory molecules than the cells in women infected with the virus.

Spokesperson for the research team, Dr. Michel Roger, of the University of Montreal Hospital Centre and its microbiology and immunology department, observed that in Africa where the discovery was made, women represent over 60 percent of HIV cases, even as the proportion continues to increase.

”Studying women who are naturally resistant to the virus enables researchers to identify interesting information in terms of developing vaccinations or microbicide gels that could prevent transmission of HIV,” Roger noted.

Although these molecules are usually helpful by activating lymphocyte T-cells that destroy viruses, HIV actually uses these T-cells to invade people’s bodies, the researchers said. Fewer T-cells means fewer target cells available for the virus to use.

The researchers also found the women’s immune response in their g*nitals — where the virus entered their body — was different from their body’s response once the virus was in their bloodstream.

The study concluded that a better way to stop the spread of HIV would be to block the virus from entering the body, rather than fight it once it had already invaded.

According to Roger, “AIDS vaccination research has entirely focused on the bloodstream and this approach has been a failure. Our research shows that the immune response is different at the site of the infection, and that we should turn to the entry points in order to find a means for blocking the virus.”

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