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Martha Stewart’s Makeup Artist Shares Her Faux-Facelift Trick

It’s a perfect technique for mature skin.

Roosa RahkonenReporter, The Looker

PublishedMay 1, 2026, 5:09 PM EDT

UpdatedMay 1, 2026, 5:10 PM EDT

Updated May 1, 2026, 5:10 PM EDTPublished May 1, 2026, 5:09 PM EDT

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The trusted makeup artist of 84-year-old lifestyle mogul Martha Stewart shared her trick for a lifted look—no knives, scalpels, or downtime needed.

On Thursday, celebrity makeup artist Nicole Daisy Toye showed her followers a “quick and easy facelift” on Instagram.

First, she took a Westman Atelier Face Trace Cream Contour Stick ($48, Shop Now) in the shade Biscuit and, using a small makeup brush, applied the product along her jawline.

“Shading this area will create some structure to the jawline,” she explained. “If you’re getting jowls here, shade it.”

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The shade was just slightly darker than her skin tone, and she applied the product lightly, creating a natural-looking shadow that added sharpness to the lower half of her face.

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Then, Toye created shadows around her nose, “narrowing” its appearance.

She applied the contouring stick from the head of her eyebrows down the sides of her nose bridge with a brush.

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“I’m using a color that has a little bit of taupe, so it’s not so warm,” she explained her product choice.

“Make sure you blend this,” Toye said, softening the lines with her finger. “There is nothing worse than seeing somebody who has contour lines going down. I’ve literally had to tell strangers to blend.”

Next, Toye—who will star on the next season of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City—shared her secret for all the women dreaming of those Martha Stewart cheekbones.

She switched to a warmer shade, Truffle, to bronze her cheeks.

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Tapping the product from the apples of her cheeks to the outer corners of her eyes with a blush brush, she said, “This makes your cheekbones pop and gives you some life back.”

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The last part of her contouring routine was the tip of her nose.

“I always do a little nose dusting,” Toye said, adding some of the Truffle color lightly to the tip of her nose with a brush and her finger.

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Looking at the camera with her contoured and bronzed skin, she said, “I feel like that totally lifted my face.”

To finish off the look, she lined her lips with the Kosas Hotliner Hyaluronic Acid Contouring Lip Liner ($22, Shop Now) in the shade Infinite.

Toye said she needed no lipstick when she used the lip product. “It just gives me the perfect blushy color.”

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In her caption, she wrote, “How to contour and bronze your face for a lifted, sculpted look using just 3 products” and added the hashtag #BestMakeupForWomenOver40.

Roosa RahkonenReporter, The Looker

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