Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Retailers TikTok has a way of making even the most ridiculous ideas sound perfectly normal. Using sexual lubricant as a make-up primer? Sure, why not. Dotting eight dots of eyeliner around your eyes to hypnotize men? Anything is fair in the search for love. Applying your foundation with a jade roller instead of a brush? …
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Skin-icing is one of the beauty hacks that’s been doing the rounds on TikTok all year long. — Picture courtesy of Vladimir Gjorgiev / Shutterstock via ETX Studio SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 26 — TikTok users have been getting creative all year long to propose a host of beauty tips, each more ingenious — and sometimes outlandish — than the next. …
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Written by Leah DolanMegan C. Hills, CNN Another year of masks, “Zoom” face and excessive screen time appears to have knocked the beauty industry off its axis. In 2021, TikTok — the video platform with a track record of catapulting cosmetics to such success that they remain sold out for weeks — was awash with weird, wonderful and downright strange …
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It pretty much goes without saying that TikTok is how many of us discover new trends. In 2021, a slew of TikTok makeup products, as well as skin care, hair care, and all other things beauty, took the platform by storm and effectively challenged the way many of us tackled our routines. Honesty and transparency are key values pulsing through …
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If you have yet to buy a single TikTok beauty product recommended by a TikTok influencer, that can only mean one thing: You’ve clearly never used the app before. I joke, but seriously—TikTok beauty product videos are so convincing, they’ll have you instantly ordering a perfume without ever smelling it (I’ve done it. Multiple times), or buying a red lipstick …
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Amelia Crook did not set out to have an existential crisis. The 43-year-old was simply looking for some tips on how to update her style. She used to spend her days reading Vogue, maintaining meticulous lookbooks on Pinterest, and even took a mid-career sabbatical to intern for a milliner in New York whose clients included Debbie Harry. But now, she …
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Charlotte Palermino sometimes slathers her face in Vaseline, or what she calls “the unsung hero of skin care,” at night. She also uses Cetaphil cleanser, despite the fact that it has parabens. In doing so — and publicising it — she’s bucking industry trends, which are increasingly leaning towards avoiding certain ingredients and products. Unlike many other celebrity, influencer and …
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