44 life hacks to help you spend less money on cosmetics

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

These tricks and tips will help you stay beautiful and save money.

1. Decide on the composition of the cosmetic bag

Your favorite blogger has 57 eye brushes, but you only have three? She has primer, bronzer and highlighter, but you only have foundation? This is fine. For beauty bloggers, makeup is a job. They should have a lot of makeup, and they get most of the products for free. Think about what products you really need, and don't waste your money on a pointless cosmetic race.

2. Look for budget counterparts

The beauty industry imposes a myth that quality is the prerogative of the luxury segment, and some shades are found only in limited lines of expensive brands. In fact, many mass-market products are no worse than luxury ones.

In addition, large cosmetic companies cover all market segments with different brands. For example, expensive Lancome and quite budgetary Garnier are the same L'Oréal.

3. Take a closer look at the lines

On eBay, AliExpress and other similar sites, you will find tons of tools that are exactly like brand names. Perhaps with distorted names and no corporate logos. But they are much cheaper.

You shouldn't buy replica grooming, but eyeliner, glitter eyeshadow, or lip balm can be purchased.

4. Feel free to take testers

In any major store, you can take a sample of the product you are interested in to check how it suits you and to see the shade in natural light. But not only for this. Samples can diversify your cosmetic bag without spending.

There is nothing wrong with that. In the West, cosmetic companies distribute samples massively and completely free of charge. We fill beauty boxes with them and sell them.

5. Divide sponges and cotton pads in half

Consumables always run out quickly, so why not save on them?

6. Store cosmetics properly

Check the expiration date on the packaging and try to make sure that the product lasts all the time. Extending the life of your cosmetics is easy. It is enough not to store it in the bathroom or on the windowsill and always close the lids.

7. Give preference to large packages

This applies to products that are exactly right for you.

8. Extrude as much as needed

All girls sin with overspending of cosmetics. If you really pour shampoo, then a full palm. Find out how many beauty products you really need and buy products with dispensers.

9. Apply one cream morning and evening

Day and night cream from the same line are usually almost identical in composition. The latter is only slightly denser and more nutritious. But a couple of drops of essential oil or ampoule vitamins turn any daytime remedy into an evening one. Why pay twice?

10. Try homemade makeup remover wipes

Place a stack of cotton pads in a jar and saturate them with a solution of 2 tablespoons of baby shampoo, 2 tablespoons of coconut oil, and a glass of distilled water.

11. Don't overspend on body scrubs

Microscopic particles contained in them do not give a peeling effect. We just love the delicious flavors of these scrubs. But an ordinary hard washcloth removes keratinized epidermis ten times better. If you really want to pamper yourself with a spa treatment, use regular coffee and vegetable oil or cane sugar.

12. Mix the rest of the perfume with the body lotion

Get a new deodorant moisturizer.

13. Don't waste on dry shampoo

First, it is more effective to wash your hair. Secondly, you can use regular baby powder to mask dirty hair.

fourteen. Don't overspend on brush cleanser

Disinfectant sprays and lotions are designed for professional makeup artists. At home, it is enough to wash brushes with shampoo under running water. Or you can make a homemade product by mixing equal proportions of vegetable oil and dishwashing detergent.

15. Extend the Life of Your Favorite Product

Just remove the tube stopper. This can be done with lipstick, mascara, liquid eyeliners and any other means in tubes.

16. Use every last drop

When the product remains only on the walls, squeeze the remains into travel bottles. For convenience, the packaging can be cut. The latter can not be bought on purpose, but collected, leaving the packaging from the miniatures.

17. Remove the product even from solid vials

If the package is problematic to cut, and the dispenser is no longer able to cope, use a cocktail straw. Cut it to form a spatula and scrape the product off the sides of the bottle.

18. Finish the shine to the end

Lip gloss often becomes so thick that it is impossible to reach it even if you remove the stopper. A glass of boiling water will help to extract the viscous product. Dip a tube into it. The gloss heats up and you can use it again, or you can pour it into a more convenient container, such as a lens container.

19. Buy one bright lipstick and create shades

Red lipstick will look pink if you apply it in one layer, and nude if you make a foundation with foundation. You can also create shades using shadows and glitter.

20. Don't throw away broken lipstick

It is easy to glue if you heat the piece over a lighter, candle or with a hair dryer.

21. Make your own lip balm

Get some colored and white gum, some petroleum jelly, and some food coloring. Melt it all in the microwave (about a minute), stir and pour into a convenient container. For example, you can use a tube of old lipstick. Freeze.

22. Don't spend money on lip augmentation products

Any burning essential oils will help make lips visually more voluminous. Just add a drop of peppermint oil or cinnamon oil to your shine.

23. Don't overspend on a lip scrub

This is also an absolutely marketing product. You can renew the skin of the lips with the help of ordinary crystallized honey.

24. Use sticks instead of lipstick and blush

Sometimes the blush is made even with a regular matte lipstick.

All-purpose products are a great way to minimize your makeup. For example, 2-in-1 sets like blush and eyeshadow or mascara and liner are more profitable than separately.

25. Dilute too dark foundation

Do not rush to send the foundation in the trash, if you have not guessed right with the tint. Wait until summer when you tan, or mix it with a moisturizer. The same trick can be done with bronzer.

26. Use cushion endlessly

Every time you buy a new cushion, you pay extra for the box. Instead of a special sponge, you can use a regular one by placing it in an old powder box and soaking it with a homemade composition of your favorite tonal and matting agents.

27. Restore, do not throw away broken powder

Moisten the pieces of powder with rubbing alcohol and tamp thoroughly. It is convenient to do this with a coin or spoon. In this way, you can repair any pressed products, such as eye shadow or blush.

28. Use loose products to the last grain

A regular coin will help to open the jar.

29. Breathe second life into mascara

You only need a couple of drops of contact lens solution or eye drops. The dried ink will look like new.

30. Use an expensive mascara brush with a cheaper

When your branded mascara runs out, rinse the brush under hot water, screw it into the tube of the cheaper one, and don't be surprised if you don't notice the difference. Very often, the volume, curl and length of the eyelashes depend on the type of applicator, and not on the composition of the mascara.

31. Don't buy an eyebrow brush

The applicator from the old mascara will perfectly cope with their combing, styling and tinting.

32. Never do this

By sticking in and out of the brush, you force air into the tube. This makes the mascara dry faster. To get rid of the lumps, unscrew the mascara and twist the applicator inside the tube.

33. Use mascara as eyeliner

All you need is a beveled brush.

34. Use the felt-tip eyeliner longer

To do this, pull out and turn over the tip. The inside of the liner is probably not dry yet and can work.

35. Make the shadows brighter

Get one good base and lots of budget palettes. With a base or light kayal underlay, even poorly pigmented eyeshadows look and behave gorgeous on the eyelids.

36. Make a new polish from old eyeshadow

Just mix the loose eyeshadow with clear polish. For better mixing, drop two metal bearing balls into the bottle.

37. Transform a boring glossy varnish into a new matte

To do this, add a couple grams of cornstarch to the vial and stir well with a toothpick.

38. Replace latex varnish with PVA glue

Liquid latex is applied around the nail for a neat manicure. The same protective film on the cuticle can be obtained using stationery PVA.

39. Wear gel polish longer

Opt for beige shades or just cover your nails with a top. So it is less noticeable that the nails of the industry, which means that you can do a manicure less often. For neatness, file the gel polish at the base and top it with a regular colorless varnish.

40. Use homemade hairspray

If you do not use varnish for everyday styling, there is no point in buying it. When needed, it can be made from scrap materials.

To do this, dissolve 1, 5 tablespoons of sugar in a glass of hot water. When the mixture has cooled, add 10-15 drops of your favorite essential oils. Pour into a spray bottle and enjoy.

41. Buy out of season

In winter, rich colors are in demand, in spring - pastel, and in summer - bright. Cosmetic brands and retailers are driving up prices for their color lines. Outsmart them - buy golden eyeshadows in the summer and orange lipstick in the winter when the demand for them is minimal.

42. Keep an eye on sales

On the eve of the holidays, online and offline stores are organizing sales. If there is no urgent need, wait for discounts and only then buy expensive products.

43. Use promo codes and coupons

If you track the offers of beauty brands and stores, you can get good discounts.

44. Watch the draws

On the pages of bloggers and cosmetic brands, cosmetics are often presented. Contest rules are usually simple: leave a comment under a video or post, make a repost, join a group.