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10 Life Changing Beauty Hacks You Need to Know

ByCordelia

10 Life Changing Beauty Hacks You Need to Know

Happy Top Ten Tuesday! Today I’ve got 10 Life Changing Beauty Hacks you need to know. Seriously, these will make life easier for you, I swear! I’m sure you already know things like don’t wash your hair every day so that your hair is healthier (unless your hair is extremely oily) or that you can use dry shampoo to add volume to your hair in a pinch. Hairspray spritzed on your finger tips can work to groom your brows.

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10 Life Changing Beauty Hacks You Need to Know

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Liquid Foundation Hack

1. Liquid Foundation Hack
If you have dry skin, like I do, it can be hard to wear powder foundation and liquid foundation can be prone to caking or accentuating dry areas. Add a drop of Paula’s Choice Hyaluronic Acid Booster (or Josie Maran Argan Oil Light or Cover FX Infusion Drops) to your liquid foundation to help it apply seamlessly and blend flawlessly with your skin. Spritz with UD’s All Nighter or Chill setting spray to stay gorgeous all day. A good drugstore option would be the Nyx Dewy Spray. I apply with a damp beauty blender.

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Crease Free Concealer Hack

2. Crease Free Concealer Hack
For concealing undereye darkness, I use Urban Decay Naked Skin Concealer in Fair Neutral and dot it under the eyes. Then I use my damp beauty blender to blend it out. I apply my liquid foundation (as described above). Then, very sparingly, I apply setting powder also with the damp beauty blender, patting. If you don’t like the beauty blender, use a makeup puff and gently pat and roll with the puff to set. I find this works best with tarte Smooth Operator pressed finishing powder in Fair or NARS light reflecting loose setting powder. A great indie option would be the Lunatick Cosmetic Labs HD microfinish powder. I’ve found the beauty blender keeps it from creasing or caking.

Find a new favorite concealer in the Pale Girl’s Guide to Concealers!

Contouring Hack

3. Contouring Hack
Looking into a mirror, take a long makeup brush and roll it up and down horizontally on your cheek. When you feel it fit under your cheekbone, that’s the hollow of your cheek. Now line the brush vertically with the end of your brow. Your contour should not go any further in on your face than the end of your brow. That’s where you want to apply your contour and then blend back towards your ear and hairline. My favorite contouring brush is the Makeup Geek Chiseled Cheek Brush.

Learn all about contouring in the Pale Girl’s Guide to Contouring.

Blush Hack
Wearing NARS Olympia contour powder & Femme Fatale Autumn Luck blush

4. Blush Hack
Building from the contour hack, take 2 fingers and lay them to the side of your nose. Your blush shouldn’t go in any further than those 2 fingers and it should be above the hollow of your cheek.

Fake Awake Hack

5. Fake Awake Hack
Look more awake by using a white or light beige eye pencil on your lower waterline. Above I’m using Sigma Unclouded. You can help this effect a bit by adding a light shimmery shade to your inner lid.

6. Makeup Mistakes Cleanup Hack
Use a pointed q-tip to clean up lipstick mistakes around the edge of your lips. You can also use a pointed q-tip with a bit of makeup remover to clean up any eyeliner mishaps. Bonus – q-tips can be used to smoke out an eyeliner pencil or to blend eyeshadow.

7. Lip Exfoliation Hack
Use coconut oil on a q-tip to gently exfoliate and moisturize your lips before applying a lipstick. You’ll still want to apply a lip balm or lip primer after you do this, but your lips will be soft and smooth, as it’s better than using a sugar scrub.

8. Makeup Remover Hack
Use coconut oil to remove your long wearing matte lipsticks. They’ll come off easily. Bonus – this works well to remove waterproof makeup, mascara, eyeliner, and foundation. And it’s inexpensive!

9. Fatter Lashes Hack
In between applying your first and second coat of mascara, take a makeup brush and dust a translucent setting powder (or baby powder, whatever you’re comfortable with) onto your lashes. I like e.l.f. HD Setting Powder.

10. Manicure Hack
If your manicure is chipped or grown out and you don’t have time to completely redo it, grab a glitter or flakie top coat (I like KBShimmer She’s Beyond Kelp or GlitterDaze Delphinium (H) right now) and put that on your nails. Then finish with a fast dry top coat.

Bonus Tip
You can use Elmer’s Glue on a pointed q-tip to apply a nail polish shield to your cuticles before you paint them. Once you’re done, you can just peel off the glue.

Make sure you check out 11 More Life Changing Beauty Hacks!

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Cordelia Frost is the creative force behind Phyrra, a treasure trove for cruelty-free indie and goth makeup enthusiasts. She's the author of the game-changing 'Hooded Eyes Makeup Manual' a must-read for hooded eyes makeup.

Cordelia's world is a kaleidoscope of alternative beauty, gothic fashion, and life-enhancing tips, making every visit to Phyrra a journey into a more colorful and inspired self.

70 Comments

  1. You have a ton of great tips! I really liked them.
    But did you know that if you want correct your makeup during an application, you can take a q-tip with any primer and fix the area where your mistake was made?
    Thanks for the tips!

  7. These are beyond amazing, THANKS!!!!!!! on #2 how you apply the concealer does make a difference, I use Immaculate Chantilly and it’s denser, do you think it would still work the same way? I do the triangle hack right now(which was life changing, but this takes it to the next level yay! I think applying with a damp BB will be great) And then I set with a brush, Goss #2 with NARS Velvet Loose, but definitely will to try rolling it and pressing with the BB!! LOVEEEE Contour Hack, that was one I was Qing about! Question on #9 what brush would you suggest applying the powder with? I’m lash obsessed so that’s awesome Thanks!

  8. I love me a good hack especially a beauty one because I need all the help I can get! Will be putting these to use. Xo

  9. My daughter taught me the fake awake hack and I didn’t know if it really worked so I’m glad to see that you think so.

  10. I really like the fake awake hack! I never thought of that one- it really does work though!

  13. Hey Girl, Thanks So Much for These Awesome Tips & Tricks! It Seems that You & I Suffer from Some of the Very Same Issues Like Dry Skin and Fair Skin (Which I Actually Think is Beautiful, Minus the Dry Skin Part!) I Have had a Lot of Problems with Dry, Peeling Skin Around My Nose & Jaw Line Too So I Really Appreciate Your Tip! I Also Hate it When My Concealer & Foundation Crease Under My Eyes, Not a Pretty Look! I Love Using a Light Shimmery Color on the Inner Rims of My Eyes to Fake a Good Restful Night’s Sleep Too! Thanks Again Sweetie for Sharing “All” of Your Incredible Knowledge with Us! Have a Blessed Day Courtney! Lots of Love, Jana

  18. Loving your lashes – while I know that’s not the focus of this post – I couldn’t help but notice them the whole time I was reading. I want lash extensions but since I oil cleanse, the lady here said it’s not suggested as it will take off the adhesive. :/ Great hack tips… lots of good ones.

    1. Thank you! Yes, I avoid coconut oil near my eyes. I use micellar water or coconut oil on my face. My spa sells special makeup remover for the lashes / eyes so I use that.

  21. These tips are awesome! What a fantastic and well articulated post. Looking forward to using these tips in the future.

  22. I’m going to try some of those hacks! I love the brush one I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before

  23. I adore my Beauty Blender. I need to try the powder/mascara hack. I’ve read about it but never did it.

  25. Great hacks. I agree with the Beauty Blender, it is surprisingly amazing when used under eyes and very wet on application.

  28. I’ve never added anything to my foundation to help it or my skin – that’s such a good tip! I also just started using coconut oil to remove makeup. It’s so amazing! AND, it smells good too, haha!

  33. Great tips! I am usually guilty of putting blush too close to my nose or too much on the apples of my cheeks. The two finger trick should help 🙂

  35. I’m completely guilty of putting my blush too close to my nose. I’m also very fair and I feel like either I look completely rouged out and blush all over or I look anemic. It’s a fine line! Going to try your tips and focus more on the hollows of my cheeks than on the “apples.”

  36. Yay for coconut oil! Great stuff. I keep hearing great things about that Lunatick Cosmetics Lab powder! Some day… Thanks for the tips, I’m going to memorize that two-finger trick 🙂

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