From fighting frizz using a satin scarf to Katie Jane Hughes’ face base priming technique, here are 5 beauty tricks I learned on TikTok this month.
As we near the end of the year, it’s safe to say that some of the best beauty tips we picked up over the past 12 months have come from TikTok. Do we now get to say that the hours we spent scrolling on TikTok were all worth it? Perhaps not. But we can say that we’ll be heading into 2024 with a wealth of #beautytok knowledge that has improved our pamper routines for the better, from learning Pat McGrath‘s perfect lipstick trick to Erin Parson’s black eyeliner hack this month.
Ahead, we’re ending the year off with a well-rounded quintet of makeup and hair tips and tricks including, but not limited to, fighting frizz during sweater weather using a satin scarf, and learning how to “prime your brush” for foundation the Katie Jane Hughes way.
Try Erin Parsons’ clever black eyeliner hack
To be a fan of makeup artist and vintage cosmetics collector Erin Parsons is to know that her glam is most often accompanied by flawlessly drawn-on eyeliner that appears ultra-black. Thankfully this month on TikTok, one follower on the app asked Parsons the question we’ve all been dying to know the answer to. “Erin, how is your eyeliner SO black? Is it multiple layered products?” they commented on one of her videos. In response, Parsons posted an entire tutorial detailing her black eyeliner hack — which has already gone viral with two million views so far.
“Layering is key to ultra black eyeliner,” reads the title of the tutorial. And after watching the clip, which involves three layers of eyeliner, this certainly appears to be true. First, Parsons draws on her desired liner shape around the rim of her eye with a Westman Atelier pencil liner, leaving a little gap at the outer corner to elongate the eye before using a thin brush to help shape it further….
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