10 Beauty tips and tricks every girl should know about

10 Beauty tips and tricks every girl should know about

From your hair, right down to your feet, everyone has their own favourite beauty tips and hacks and here, we have compiled a list of our own favourite one hundred. We have ways to save you money, ways to save you time and some surprising new ways to use some old products. Read our top 100 beauty hacks and tips and let us know if we have missed any of your favourites:

1. Make your own eyeliner gel

Gel eyeliners are great, but they can be a bit more expensive than eye pencils. You can get the same effect though, by heating the tip of an eye pencil with the flame from a lighter or a match and then, use an eyeliner brush to apply it, just as you would apply regular gel eyeliner. Just be sure that you only warm the pencil though, and make sure it is cool enough to use on your eyes.

2. Make lipstick last longer

Here is one of the especially useful beauty tips for when you go out: to stop your lipstick from smudging and rubbing off, blot the lipstick (after applying it) with some tissue paper and then, apply a light dusting of translucent powder. Repeat a couple of times to get the intensity that you want. The powder will set the lipstick and make it last a whole lot longer.

3. Create your own wonderful lip balm

This simple recipe for a lip balm is just as effective as the store bought kind and 100% natural. Gently melt the following ingredients over a low heat and then allow it to cool before using: 1 tablespoon beeswax, 1 tablespoon coconut oil, 1 teaspoon shea butter, 2 drops rose essential oil (or use any other essential oil of your choice).

4. Homemade bronzer

Try this wonderful beauty tip and create your own homemade bronzer to give you a bit of summer glow. Mix together 1 teaspoon of cocoa, 1 teaspoon of nutmeg, 1 teaspoon of cornstarch (or add more of cornstarch, depending on how dark you want your bronzer to be) and add 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, and you have a homemade loose bronzer! It’s that easy!

5. Use a credit card to apply mascara

This is one of the popular beauty tips that many makeup artists often use: hold a credit card (or any other card) up to your lashes, when you apply your mascara and it will give you an easy way to get the mascara right up to the roots of your lashes, without smudging. Just be sure to wipe the credit card clean again, before you use it in a store!

6. Stop razors rusting

This beauty tip can help you keep your razors clean and rust free: coat them with a little olive oil after each use. The oil will keep the air from getting to the razor and stop the metal from oxidising.

7. The secret to perfect smoky eyes

This is one of the most useful beauty tips for ladies who particularly love the smoky eyes makeup look: to stop the shades from becoming mixed together and creating an unsightly muddy look, always use a different, clean brush for blending. Remember too to clean the brushes, when you move from one eye to the other.

8. Use eyeshadow to get full lips

If you love full looking lips but you don’t want to do any cosmetic surgery, here is one of the good and efficient beauty tips that can help you: apply your lipstick as usual and then go over it with a coat of a pale shade of frosted, shimmery eyeshadow, concentrating in the middle of your lips; it will help add dimension to your pout and will give your lips a much fuller look, without lip injections. If you want to achieve even better effect then slightly outline your lips with the lip liner of similar colour to your natural lip colour and this will make your lips appear even bigger!

9. Use a spray starch as a dry shampoo

Are you in a rush and run out of dry shampoo? No problem, here is another one of effective beauty tips that will help: grab some spray of starch and spray that on the oily parts of your hair. Spray starch works just the same way as dry shampoo and it will leave your hair looking clean and fresh. If you don’t have spray starch at hand, you can also use baby powder (talc) for the same purpose instead.

10. Remove tanner mistakes with baking soda

If you’ve put on too much tanner and have streaky or an orange area of skin, here is one of the greatest beauty tips that can help you: you can easily remove the tanning lotion with some baking soda and water. Simply rub the mixture on the affected area (be gentle), and the baking soda will gently exfoliate the mistake away.