From hacking a fuller hairline to trying the “demi” makeup method, here are the TikTok-approved beauty tricks I learned this month.
We’re months deep into our TikTok beauty hacks column, and spoiler alert: it keeps on getting better and better. There’s never a shortage of makeup tips (like makeup-proofing your sunglasses) and hair hacks (like how to fix fraying ribbons) coming from the app, and they never disappoint. This time around, we’re kicking things off with a trick for perfect lipstick application used by makeup artist extraordinaire Pat McGrath herself, plus four more makeup and hair hacks we think you’ll love. You know the drill, scroll on for the best TikTik beauty hacks we learned this month.
Perfect lipstick application, the Pat McGrath way
As far as makeup goes, there’s no ones advice we trust more than the one and only Pat McGrath. When a clip from McGrath’s Vogue World tutorial appeared on our TikTok feed, we knew better than to scroll on and miss the chance to take notes from the makeup mogul herself. McGrath’s perfect lipstick application trick reminds us that sometimes, the best tool an artist can use is their fingers.
In the clip, Jenne Kuchera, a fellow makeup artist and member of McGrath’s glam team, explains how McGrath uses nothing but her fingertips to achieve a perfect lipstick application, every single time. “She takes her finger, works the product in [on the back of her hand], and then just stamps the lipstick on,” she explains. “I feel like Pat is the only one of the artists that does this technique—where she really does a perfect lip only with her finger.” In doing so, this form of application creates a flawless, feathered effect. “It doesn’t have this hard, crayoned-on technique and look to it. It’s this kind of softness and elegance to the lip that’s very ‘Pat,’” says Kuchera.
McGrath then explains that this perfect lipstick application…
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