Grandma's makeup tips include "Don't get old"

She was asked to film a makeup tutorial for her grandson Kevin's YouTube channel, and no one knew what she would do. She sits down in a dark green dress ("I love green") and starts with L'Oréal cream. It goes on before the makeup, and at night too, because it helps with wrinkles. "That's what I do."

Next is the beige color. She shakes it up, dabs it on "like I did it last time" and goes round and round, because it covers redness, and she has some. "I went to so many skin doctors, they didn't do nothing for me," she says. "Waste of money. So I said, let me live like that."

The lines on her face get the same verdict. "I don't like these lines, but what are you going to do when you reach a certain age? You're going to get it." Eyeshadow goes on next, "just a little," because she only wears it on special days, and on New Year's Eve "you got to be like a different person."

Then she gets to her eyelids. "I don't have too many," she reports. "It disappeared. I used to have beautiful ones. Don't get old, girls. Don't get old." And in the very next breath, "But you got to have fun."

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The rouge (yes, rouge) comes with a warning not to put too much on. There's one move she doesn't like to make, because she doesn't want stuff getting in her eyes. Then you have to run to the doctor, and she doesn't want to run to the doctor. Then the eyebrows. "I used to have beautiful eyebrows. No more. Don't get old."

Somewhere in there, she remembers a dance in Hawaii with her husband. The guys had volunteered to stand in a line, and they didn't know what was going to happen. Then the girls were told to go in the line, and they kissed all the guys. "My husband never expected that," she says. He was furious.

"This is what I like," she says, holding up a brush that turns around into a brush for your hair. "I'll bet you never seen this." Put it all together and "you're like a new woman." She's done with heels, though, because she doesn't want to fall.

"That's the way it goes," she says again, a line that could go on a T-shirt. Her last tips have nothing to do with makeup. Have a happy, healthy New Year, joke around and laugh, because "laugh is good medicine."

Now she's ready to go dancing. "Jitterbug or slow ones or condos," she says. "No, not condos. What do you call it?" Make sure your nails are done, she adds, and then she signs off. "Okie do. Take care, and have a healthy New Year's Eve."