(Chloe snorts)
- We're just going to put however much this is.
- Oh God,
Oh God.
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- I love TikTok.
TikTok is so fun
and it's so time consuming
because you just can't stop watching.
- I, like many others got into TikTok
during the quarantine.
I made a video where I tried out fashion TikTok hacks,
and I loved basically all of them.
- I haven't really delved deep
into the world of TikTok hacks.
I know there are a lot and people always share them.
I want to walk away with at least one that I do often.
- I have pretty high expectations for these hacks
because I did the fashion ones
and I think they were really good.
- So, let's get into these hacks.
- The first hack I'm gonna try today
is one that helps you get the most out of cheap mascara.
You take the wand of an expensive mascara
and the formula of a cheap mascara.
- And you clean off the whole wand
so there's no mascara on it.
According to this hack,
the formula for the actual mascara
for a lot of these brands is pretty similar.
And the big difference actually comes with the wand.
Let's get rid of this brush.
And,
okay, well obviously there's a size discrepancy,
but you know what?
It's okay.
- It looks like it's coated, so let's get in there.
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I do still feel like the mascara,
the actual mascara in the tube,
isn't as good as the mascara in the Laura Mercier one.
- The expensive mascara from Benefit
is one I've been using for years.
And I already feel like it's the exact same effect.
It feels like this is really doing something.
- It looks okay.
It definitely has mascara on,
and there isn't any clumping.
But I do feel like there's a difference in the formula.
I just feel like I need a couple more layers of mascara
to look like how it normally looks
when I use the expensive one.
- I'll see how it works out throughout the day.
But so far really, it looks exactly the same.
- For this hack, you're gonna need
a smart TV that has access to the internet and YouTube,
because I'm going to get a ring light from the screen.
- I'm super excited about this hack
'cause it just seems so simple
yet I've never thought of it.
So let's go to YouTube.
And then you just search ring light.
- We'll go with the first one.
It says, "Screen ring light 10 hours free download."
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(Vivian chuckles)
- So I darkened the room.
This is before and now I'm going to turn on the ring light.
Okay.
Oh yeah.
You can really see the difference.
And I feel like I'm more evenly lit now.
The camera doesn't show you how dark
my apartment is right now, but it's pretty dark.
- This is my face.
The screen ring light.
That's so weird.
It's definitely not as strong as using
an actual ring light,
but my face is way more illuminated, which is crazy.
- I think it would work even better
if I got even closer to the TV.
So yeah, that was a great hack.
I would totally recommend that.
That is a win.
- The next hack is a little more complicated.
This time I'm gonna use eyeshadow as lip liner.
- So first, she just hydrates her lips.
I'm just to use lip balm.
- And then it looks like she uses
a soft matte lip.
So I have that color.
The color scares me a bit.
'Cause I usually don't use a color like this pink.
- That is very light to my lips.
There's obviously definitely a chance
this is not gonna look great on me
'cause my skin tone is different,
but we'll see.
- Next step.
This Elf eye shadow.
I'm gonna use the darkest color
because my lips are pretty pigmented.
- Basically these two colors put together.
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- These are just a little bit too light to line my lips.
- This is not going on well for me.
(Chloe snorts)
This is so powdery and like messed up.
- Let me try one more coat,
and then we're going to go in with the top gloss.
- I found the culprit for why it didn't work,
this lip brush.
I ended up just getting one of these old school things
and it worked way better.
So, as you see,
yeah, it does work.
I was just freaking out nothing.
- The last step she did is to use this lip plumping gloss.
So let me put that on top.
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- Ooh, it's pretty.
I mean, hers looks better, but this isn't far off.
I don't personally like this color on me,
but I have a ton of different eyeshadow colors,
so now I have a time different lip liner colors.
Definitely think it works.
- There is some difference.
It's not as dark as I'm used to with my lip liners,
however, I do think that this overall
looks like a good makeup look in general.
- I'm so excited to try this eyelash glue liner.
I feel like it's gonna make putting on eyelashes
so much easier and so much cleaner.
- You're supposed to just apply this
as you would any regular eyeliner,
and just put your lash right on top of it.
So far, it just looks like a regular eyeliner.
- I'm trying to do this gently,
but also fast because
I don't want it to get super dry
before I put on the lash.
- So far, just feels like regular eyeliner.
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- It attached, really quickly.
- Oh God.
Oh God.
Okay, this is definitely sticking.
Is it sticking in the direction
that I need it to stick though?
- I don't know if there's like magnetic stuff in here,
but the lash literally hopped onto that liner.
- This is a 100% stuck on my lids.
Wow.
- This bad boy is on.
What?
That's the quickest I've ever put on a fake eyelash.
- This has really blown my mind.
It just feels like the thing that should have existed
instead of lash glue from the very beginning.
- I really love this hack
because it's definitely two in one.
The eyeliner looks really good.
The lash is on there.
It's a lot more clean
than if I tried to just do it the normal way
to do fake eyelashes.
- This hack is a DIY way of cleaning your makeup brushes.
I definitely need that.
I have one I'm gonna try out right now.
It's got a lot of foundation in there.
- I don't always think,
"oh, I need to buy makeup brush cleaner"
until I look at my brushes and I'm like,
"what are we going to do this?"
- So this hack is dish soap,
vinegar and lime juice and water.
Only thing is, it doesn't tell you how much
of each to put in.
- I have a bunch of water
and I'm just gonna put some dish soap.
I don't know how much to put in.
Some of the vinegar into here.
We're just going to put however much this is.
- So this is the brush.
I don't know if you can see.
But that is not the brush,
that is foundation.
- I use this brush a lot for putting on some blush.
- Swirl in the mixture.
I'm gonna have to swirl it quite aggressively I think.
And then she says, let it sit for 20.
So I'm just going to do 20 seconds, I guess.
'Cause that seem, 20 minutes seems like a long time.
- I feel like this is working.
Yeah, because the water is getting a lot darker.
This is another brush that I use.
Swirl it around in here as well.
- Then you have to wash out the brush.
- Oh yeah.
Eew.
(tap water burbling)
- She pours this down the sink to show.
And that is quite a lot of foundation in there.
To be honest, my brush just has too much stuff in it.
And I think I'm gonna need
to wash it a few more times
before it works.
It has gotten into it
and it has loosened the foundation,
but it's definitely not clean.
So I would say it works,
I just think you need to do it a few times,
if you've a really dirty brush.
- That worked really well,
but I do feel like I could have washed
this brush a little bit better.
When I was doing the little swirling thing,
it didn't really get into every nook and cranny
of this brush.
- The next TikTok hack
is one that gives you a little facelift using concealer.
- I don't think you sort of need to lift your face,
but if you wanted to try it,
this is us seeing If it will work.
- I'm gonna do this only on one side of my face
so you can hopefully see the difference.
It looks like she's putting strokes of the concealer
on a few different parts of her face
and then blending it in.
- So you get concealer that is darker than your face.
So it's more like contour.
I hope this is the right color for me.
- On her nose like here is the first place she does it.
On her eye right here.
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- I have eye shadow one.
But your eye, your chin.
- Two stripes right here on her forehead
right here on her cheekbone.
- It looks like abstract painting.
All right.
And it's just blends.
Blend it away.
Oh my God, this is not gonna blend.
Oh my God.
Well, this is my fault I'm sure.
Oh I see the idea.
I'm gonna go fix this off camera.
- Okay, So far not really seeing much of a difference.
This is the final look.
Can't really tell.
It might be the lighting.
I do see some shadows on this side.
I don't know if the shadows equate to a facelift effect.
- I took it off, put it on lighter.
It still isn't blended that well,
Do I look lifted on this side?
I think I just look a little orange
on this side.
I probably used a concealer that's too dark.
I mean, I understand the concept behind it
and I definitely think it worked on her.
- I think I'm would try this again.
Maybe with a different concealer
or different color concealer.
- This hack looks really interesting
because it is a way to make your false eyelashes
look more like eyelash extensions
instead of the strip lash.
And it's by putting them on underneath your eyelashes
instead of on top.
- You put on eyelash glue to hold these.
So that means the eyelash glue
is that much closer to my eyeball.
We'll see how this goes.
- All right, I've got my lash.
Pretty large.
And then I'll put the other one on top
so you can see the difference.
Obviously you should put the glue
on the outside, not the inside
because you're going to be sticking it upwards.
- Oh, kind of put a lot.
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So I put the eyelash glue on top of this lash
and I'm trying to let it dry and be tacky
'cause that's what she said to do.
- A, a, a, a.
You really have to open your eye very wide.
A corner is where I got one.
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- This is hard.
I just don't know if I'm underneath my lash.
Not too bad.
- It's interesting 'cause it's making me look
more like doe eyed than normal,
because it's kind of covering up some of my eyeball.
But I'm not mad at it.
- It wasn't the most comfortable thing ever to do,
but I will say it looks good.
There's no awkward mascara
eyelash line on top because it's all hidden.
- Let's put the other one on normally
and see if it looks different.
Okay, here they are both on.
I do think they look kind of different.
If you look at this one,
I think it looks almost fuller
and this one is more like spidery.
- It does work, and it looks really good.
I'm still not super comfortable
putting anything that close to my eyeball.
I mean, she look good.
- I can tell the difference.
I guess it depends what kind of look
I want for the night.
I kind of like both of them in their own ways.
- I would definitely recommend using TikTok hacks.
They're so creative.
- Whether you're a beauty novice or a beauty expert,
there's a hack out there for you.
- You're gonna find cool ways to use products
that you haven't thought of.
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