- Firming up melted lipstick
If your bag has been sitting in the sun for too long and you find that the heat has softened up your lipstick, simply pop it into the fridge for a fast 5-minute fix.
- Emergency lip colour
Perhaps you can’t decide whether a new dress you’re trying on flatters your face but without extra colour on your lips it’s even harder to tell. So you look in your handbag only to discover that you’ve left both your lipstick and lip pencil at home. If you have a brown eyeliner pencil, use it on your lips instead. You may find that it looks fantastic.
- A cheesy solution
Run out of cotton wool balls and make-up remover pads and don’t want to use tissues because of the residue they leave on your skin? Cut a few squares of washed cheesecloth for wiping off make-up. It’s soft, porous and absorbent. Use a bigger swatch as a covering for overly liquid facials so that they don’t drip onto the floor or yourself; pat the cloth very gently over the mixture, just until it adheres.
- No eye-shadow applicator?
Use a cotton bud instead: it’s softer, the tip can be used to smudge and soften eye liner and you can throw it away when you have finished.
- Make-up mistakes
If you go overboard with the mascara or sustain a smudge elsewhere during your make-up application, just wipe off the slip-up with a cotton bud dipped in petroleum jelly. Then start over again using a lighter hand.
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