6 unexpected uses for your everyday beauty products (like bright lipstick as...concealer?)
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We’re all for multitasking, whether it’s finding the perfect beauty wipes that can do everything we need with minimal effort, or using our fave beauty products to the very last drop. We all know that certain products double up really well, (lipstick as cheek stain, eyeshadow for contouring - the usual), but sometimes the multiple uses of products are less expected, like lipstick as concealer or using deodorant as a face mattifier.
Tricks like these can be perfect when you’re in a rush or don’t have your full beauty kit on hand. Plus, a lot of them were suggested by the most coveted artists in the business (Gucci Westman! Jen Atkin!) and are used on celebrities and models alike. So, because we like shortcuts and would read the lazy girl’s guide to literally anything, we’ve compiled a list of the most unexpected other uses for our beauty products.
Browse the gallery below to learn about the secret double lives our favourite products have been living.
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Beauty Blender for hair strobing A U.K.-based hairstylist named Jamie Stevens cuts a Beauty Blender in half and uses it to apply hair dye for a soft, strobe-y effect. “The soft and round edges of the blender means that the applied colour blends into the hair so you don’t get random splodges of colour,” he told Cosmo UK.