The internet is full of makeup hacks,
so I pulled three of November's most popular hacks
to try for myself.
I saw this first hack
from the internet's girlfriend, Alix Earl.
It's not really anything new,
it's just really trendy right now.
It's basically where you use a powder puff
to set your concealer instead
of your normal powder brush.
I've never done this before,
and it looks great when I see people do it.
So I'm going to do the powder puff on this eye
and my regular powder brush on this eye.
OK. So, now that we are all up close and personal,
we are going to apply the concealer.
Take my powder brush.
That's the difference.
And now I'm going to take the powder puff.
I think I took a little bit too much powder,
because it works more as, like, a Beautyblender,
like when you're baking.
But holy crap, I see a massive difference.
Like, this eye doesn't have a bag,
and this one still does.
This looks drastically different.
Like, I couldn't go out like this,
because one eye just looks
so different than the other.
Wow. Yeah, this is something.
I am going to continue using this
and update my other eye.
Ooh, just spilled powder all over myself.
Wow.
OK.
The internet's girlfriend was not wrong.
This second hack is apparently
an easy way to apply eyeliner.
I really never put eyeliner on,
just because I cannot apply it,
and it is not worth the stress
and trauma for me, honestly.
But this way is you just basically
draw eyeliner on your finger
and then place it on your eye
and go like this,
and it's supposed to be a super-easy way to apply it.
So I guess we're going to put that to the test
from someone who literally cannot apply eyeliner
for the life of her.
So, I have this brown liner.
It's a gel pencil liner.
And according to the videos,
you are just supposed to apply it just like,
I don't know, I guess all over your hand, like this.
I don't think it really matters.
And then you're just supposed to put it on your eyeball.
I need a mirror to do this.
I feel like maybe I applied it
in the wrong spot on my finger,
like, it needed to be up here more,
but it's not terrible.
I think maybe I just made it a little bit too long.
So let's try on the other eye.
I'm going to try to do it more
here. [motorcycle drives by]
OK, so now we're really prepared,
no matter where I put this.
Oh, oh.
OK.
So, this eye was definitely better than this eye.
I've seen it work for some people,
so I'm very confused,
but I don't think it's as
easy as everybody makes it look.
Like, I think this is actually pretty good now,
looking at this one.
But personally, I think I would just
keep using a brush or just the pencil,
because this really didn't make it any easier,
and I feel like I'm going to have to do cleanup now.
This third hack is meant to ensure
that your makeup doesn't look cakey.
You apply all of your cream products at once
instead of layering different products on top of each other.
I don't often wear foundation,
so I'm going to use this technique with my concealer,
cream contour, and cream blush.
So, basically, you just apply
all of your products at once,
and then you spray them with any spray,
and it's supposed to make your makeup look less cakey.
So, first, I have this Charlotte Tilbury concealer,
and I apply that.
I'm using the viewfinder as a mirror,
so that should be interesting.
That's pretty much everywhere I apply my concealer.
Then we're going to apply blush.
Last but not least, we apply the cream contour.
OK, I actually am going to get a mirror,
because I cannot see anything.
Because it's been sitting on my face for a minute,
you're supposed to re-cream it.
And then we just blend it in.
This is what it looks like all blended out,
with the best of my ability.
I honestly don't think it looks any different
than if I did it my normal way,
which is applying everything one by one.
I guess this could make a difference
if you do wear foundation,
because you would be just
putting the foundation in specific areas,
but I feel like a lot of people don't want
foundation only in specific areas.
I don't think it looks bad. I think it looks nice,
but I don't think it really did anything different
than my typical way.