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Investing in quality beauty products can cost you a pretty penny. But there’s an affordable alternative to those budget-munching products that you simply cannot do without.
Best of all? This substitute product is multipurpose – it provides a solution to a variety of grooming dilemmas. Baby powder has long been known to be useful for more than just keeping babies’ bums dry.
With these tips, your budget no longer has to suffer for beauty!
1. Oily hair? A dash of baby powder to the rescue
Sprinkle some powder onto your roots and comb it through your hair until it’s fully blended.
For a better result – because it can make your hair static – do this the night before and allow it to set.
Bear in mind, though, that the hair shouldn’t be too dirty or white residue will stay behind in your hair.
2. An alternative to that costly face powder
Keep your skin from becoming shiny in the course of the day by lightly dusting baby powder on your face and spreading it in evenly.
Don’t apply too much powder. Unlike actual face powder, which is made to absorb into the skin, baby powder can look chalky if you apply too much.
3. A substitute primer
Use your fingertips to apply a little powder to your eyelids before putting on eye shadow. It prevents moisture from forming on the eyelids, helping the eye shadow last longer and not fade.
4. Make waxing less painful
Before waxing at home, apply powder to the skin. The powder absorbs any moisture on the skin, which means you won’t have to repeatedly wax the same spot.
Applying powder to the skin area also helps the wax hold onto the hairs – as opposed to your skin – making it less of a flinch-and-scream experience.
5. Take away that stinky shoe smell
Here you have two options: If you’re wearing closed shoes without socks such as pumps, you can pat some powder over your feet. It will prevent it from sweating and creating a nasty smell.
If it’s shoes you’ve worn with socks and the shoes now have an odour, sprinkle powder into the shoe. It will leave it smelling fresh.
6. Turn glossy lipstick matte
Want the matte-lipstick-look à la Kylie Jenner but ‘unfashionable’ glossy is all you own? Here, too, baby powder can come to the rescue. Lightly dab powder over your lips and voilà!
7. Lengthy lashes
This hack helps attain thicker, lengthier lashes. Apply the first coat of mascara, then dust powder onto your lashes. Then apply a second or even a third layer.
8. Eyebrows on fleek – easy and quick
The obsession with perfectly sculpted eyebrows is seemingly here to stay, so here’s another way to ensure you’re trendy.
First use a brow pencil to shape and fill in your eyebrows, then add baby powder to your brow brush and comb it through your eyebrows. This will make them look fuller.
Sources: glamour.com, cosmopolitan.co.za, stylecaster.com
