It’s not really the type of content I watch/enjoy, so I’m really behind on what the current “hacks” are these days… but I have certainly used a toilet seat cover as an oil blotting sheet in a pinch! (And it does work.)
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Using Just For Men facial hair dye on my eyebrows – GREAT
Using Monistat anti-chafing gel as a primer (Smashbox dupe) – GREAT
YESSS! Another Monistat Anti Chafing Gel user here! Hey, it actually kicks butt as a primer, and cheap, too.
Nothing was as bad as the one using “male parts” to apply foundation…
I tuned out hacks around the time contouring your nose with a fork became popular.
My ‘hacks’ are rather conservative — blush as eyeshadow, lipstick as blush in a pinch/on travel, etc. I look forward to learning from others’ experiences.
I use eyeshadow and face powders interchangeably quite often. Contouring powders make wonderful eye transition shades (and some taupe, muted brown eye shadows work for sculpting the face as well); a simple make-up look is just swiping bronzer all over my lid and in the crease; I don’t use that much highlighter so nice shiny light eyeshadows are more than enough for me (having one more pearly and one more with a hint of gold. 😀
Toilet seat cover? That makes me lol. I get them at one of my day job sites, and invariably wind up standing up, anyway. The closest I come to a hack is a DIY essence, made from ordinary HA + matryxil, Argiriline, Gold Top Hado Labo gyokujyun HA (sp?), and prob a couple of other anti-aging, low viscosity ingredients. I ought to standardize it, bec its pretty good. Through experience, I’ve learned that anything thicker than an essence is inadvisable. (aged, oily-dehydrated) But I don’t use items like hem cream for their off-label purpose, which I think was he intent of the question.
The only thing that comes to mind is that I do, or did, use Monistat Anti Chafing Gel Powder as a facial primer for years. It does work fabulously with foundations that are also silicone based, but not so great with anything water based.
I never understood the toilet seat cover thing; I mean… a tissue always worked perfectly for me even when I was at my oiliest. It’s just maybe that I grew up in a country where toilet seat cover are still not a thing… but they are already wasteful… wasting a whole sheet to wipe the face (I image you end up using a tiny part of it) seems even more wasteful. 😆
The only beauty hacks I try are from Wayne Goss; some seem so odd… but work great. Like blotting with tissue after foundation application and before powder (especially if I use my hand or a brush to apply a creamier foundation) or powdering over a tissue.
The toilet seat covers are waxy or shiny on one side. You blot with the other. The oil comes off.
I’ve also used Wayne’s hack of blotting my face with a tissue before applying powder. I have dry skin but sometimes a foundation is too dewy for my liking. That hack works great.
Hmmm. The only thing I can think of is lightly and sparsely dotting dark liquid eyeliner on the baldest part of my eyebrow. Combined with some brow powder and brow pencil there, it looks pretty good because it’s a slightly different color/texture from the powder and pencil. I don’t dot too heavy or too dense.
I find that cheap paper napkins work better at oil blotting than toiletseat covers and there usually is a napkin available at lunchtime when I need to blot.
Monistat gel made my face shiny but I use it on my neck to prevent irritation from wool scarves in winter.
The tiny brushes sold for cleaning between your teeth are great for putting mascara on lower lashes.
Oh, thanks, thanks. The inverse psoriasis on the neck is acting up with the wind and cold, and wool is irritating me (was allergic as a child.). I feel like I’m in a play, whenever swear a scarf, anyway, and having them irritate is soooo bad. Double whammy. Still will prob have to do cotton under wool, or synthetics. (I was always a fiber snob, too, for naturals.) I’ll try the Moni trick, definitely.
Quite useful! Thanks!
I have tried a few in my day. I saw a young lady use her eye lash curler pressed against her orbital bone to apply shadow in the form of a cut crease. It really looked great on her and she had a very crisp cut crease line. Because my orbital bone is pretty high it ended up with my shadow not far enough below my eye brows but would work for someone with less high orbital bone.
I also saw someone use tape to make a secondary eyelid fold to help with hooded lids. Didn’t work for me and it was quite the time waster. Don’t think I could ever get that tape in the right spot to make a crease and when I did get something relatively close, it showed dramatically through my eye shadow. On the use of tape, the tape from lower eye lash to outer brow bone to make a crisp end to your eye shadows when doing a smokey eye or as a template for liner works really well. I have used a credit card/business card/piece of paper, almost anything with a straight edge, when I don’t have tape. I know they make a tool for applying mascara without getting it on your eye lid or under eye lash line but have used paper for this purpose also. I have very few lower lashes and when I do decide to do something with my lower lash line, I need to put something under my lashes to keep from getting mascara all over the place.
I have tried the warm up your eye lash curler to make a tighter curl on your lashes. Apparently in North Korea quite a few places use wooden bamboo skewers which they lite on fire, blow out, cool slightly and then apply to the already mascara’d eye lashes to get a very nice curl that lasts. I haven’t been brave enough to try that!!
I think everyone tried the NikkieTutorials men’s after shave primer. This worked pretty well for me as I have drier skin. Didn’t work as well for my daughter’s super oily skin.
Not sure if this is really a hack or just a technique but also tried putting powder on my eye lashes between coats of mascara to increase the volume. It did increase the volume into a clumpy mess. I remember getting it to work about 25% of the time.
I tried the fork/nose hack for contouring my nose. Should have known this would not work for me as my nose is actually too thin but contouring the base of my nose and around my nostrils does help to make my nose look slightly shorter which when you have a ski jump for a nose, is a good thing.
Again, not sure if this is a hack but I looked at Sophia’s video where she mixed all of her foundations together, (she has done eye shadows, lipstick etc.) and since I had some foundation sitting around that I knew I would never use, I mixed them all together. Actually turned out pretty nice. Worked well. I think this would be good if you mixed a big enough batch to not have to worry about mixing it differently each time but overall, not a bad outcome.
As some have mentioned, I have tried a lot of Wayne Goss hacks/techniques and some have worked pretty well. I have a foundation that actually makes my skin look oily when I wear it, so I don’t wear it often but it does work better when blotted with tissue before using a powder.
There are some foundation hacks, like putting your setting powder or spray down first, that I occasionally try. I haven’t gotten the right mix of products to really make that work yet, though. I’m always trying to find things to tone down the oil.
I have used blush as eyeshadow plenty. Not too many things, though. I am using Mederma and MSM cream to smooth out old acne scars, it seems to be helping a little bit.
I keep a Scotch-Brite sponge on my vanity as a brush cleaner. The scrubby side works as a Color Swatch to clean the brushes between colors and the soft side cleans off the wet shades or concealer brushes. Then I just wash it when I wash my brushes or throw it in the dishwasher now and then.
Something stupid posted by Wayne Goss. Milk of Magnesia as a Primer. I only tried this once but this is definitely not a safe thing to use on your face!! A youtuber actually shared her experience using Milk of Magnesia and the effects it had on her skin.
I don’t wear under eye concealer or color corrector because I’m prone to bumps and milia, so I use a peachy eyeshadow such as UD’s ABC Gum as a color corrector under my eyes, really counteracts any blue or green peeking through.
Great idea! How do you get the shadow to stay on? With primer?
The only thing that gets foundation out of my brushes is my Neutrogena All-in-One cleanser. It works a treat!
I also use a chilled spoon or cold gel pack to reduce eye puffiness when needed. An old trick I read about in Glamour magazine in the 90s!
I’ve used tape as a guide for my eyeliner wings, and it works perfectly. (Disclaimer: Be sure to use something safe for the eyes, stick it to your hand a few times first, etc.)
Once after a nice lobster sunburn when in my high school years (i know not a good for skin/cancer!) but i do have checked with my dermatologist since I been a marathon runner for 10 years plus 13.1 and 5ks and practice I love the sun! And gardening! Luckily my skin is pretty great today but as a teenager my parents would bring me along with their friends to Miami and if my cousin wouldn’t show up from New Jersey I was bored to hell with all the crazy old people. Lol! But it was fun though I have to admit and miss the ones that have passed away so much now instead of being a nonthankful spoliled brat when younger. These friends have seen me grow and my parents loved inviting them and partying with them very close friends about 40 couples that’s plenty of crazy Cubans all mixed together. But now that I have to pay for those vacations myself I surely miss those times. Oh! Where was I?…ok. I have used Desitin yes, baby diaper rash on my face after one of those suntanning barbaric episodes and to my surprise next day my face wake up to a non reddish clear/absolutely hydrated miracle. In fact, i have kept using it a few times after. I use a cotton towel to fully remove it cause is thick but it does miracles. I use before going to sleep like a mask and when I remember before a party. Other things lipstick as blush it works! Credit card or business card for attempting my not successfull at all smoky eye that’s it pretty much. Need to try that Monistat idea. Hope to learn of more amusing tips reading alone these are fun.