Who wouldn't love an opportunity to give mom a makeover? Good Housekeeping just helped a few daughters do just that for their moms.

"We all love our moms, but there's always a few things we kind of wish they'd change," said Alyssa Hertzig, the magazine's beauty editor. "So we helped them do that with Edward Tricomi and Joel Warren from the Warren-Tricomi Salon in New York City and Laura Geller, who is a celebrity makeup artist."

Nilma Perez's daughter said her mother had no time for a beauty routine.

"I've been trying to get my mom to do something with her hair, some little color in her face. She's such a beautiful woman," said Giselle Gonzalez.

"Nilma had very, very long hair so we cut about four inches off. We added lots of layers, which made it look a lot more beautiful and it just felt so much lighter. You could just tell immediately she felt great with that hair cut," said Hertzig.

"I love the fact that my hair looks and feels light. I could actually go all day like this," said Perez.

Donna Bernesser's daughter wanted to remove her mother's dark circles around her eyes, so Laura Geller used the Physicians Formula Eye Definer ($7) on her.

"It's called 'creaseless concealer' and that took years off right there, which was great," she said. "Then we enhanced her eyes with a very thin line of brown liquid liner. One that we really like is Physicians Formula Felt-Tipped Eye Marker and its got this kind of little marker end so you can get a really fine tip and go as subtle or dramatic as you want."

"I loved it. It was like the best gift," said Bernesser.

Too busy to reapply makeup all day long? Good Housekeeping suggests Spackle Under-Makeup Primer ($21.50).

"You put it on before your makeup and it helps form a barrier between your makeup and you skin and lasts hours and hours longer," said Geller.

Good Housekeeping's beauty editor recommends a bright lipstick for women in their 40s and 50s. That's because a woman's skin loses color as she ages, and a subtle lipstick color can give women a washed-out look.

Your hair can also get drier and duller with age, so women over 40 should use an intense conditioning treatment for a few minutes. That will soften hair strands quickly.