5 Cool New Ways to Use the Beauty Stuff You’ve Already Got

If you’ve got any of the following, please raise your hand: flatiron, lip gloss, hair elastic, face mask, blow-dryer. OK, so that’s pretty much everybody (you can put your hands down now!). Here’s how to put more pennies in that piggy bank instead of being tempted to buy another product: Make the stuff you already have pull double-duty!

Here are three of our favorites tricks for repurposing a product:

1. If you’ve got…lip gloss:

Pretty your pout and use it to prime your lids to make eyeshadow last longer.

2. If you’ve got a…hair elastic:

Make a super-stylish pony, or keep your makeup bag organized—group your glosses, pencils or brushes together. No more rummaging around in the black hole (otherwise known as your purse).

3. If you’ve got a…flatiron:

You usually straighten with it, but make curls by clamping a skinny flatiron around a small section of hair, rotate once and glide down to ends. Continue in small sections all over until you’ve got a head of pretty, beachy waves!

Are you loving these tips? We have two more for you, too—come get ‘em here! 

Thanks Glamour for the tips keep them coming!!!!!! 

A Gorgeous Way to Wear Eyeliner

Here is a great tip from Glamour Beauty Girls: Leave it to the stunning Camilla Belle to make basic eyeliner look like a million bucks. She put a fresh spin on the classic makeup trick of wearing white pearly eyeliner as highlighter. (Usually the light liner is applied on the inner rim of the eye with black liner on the outside. This makes the whites of the eyes look extra bright.) But Belle pulled a switcheroo by changing things up and putting the black liner on the inner rim and pearly liner along the outside of the lashes. Just look at how it makes her eyes and cheeks glow! Yours will do the same if you try her trick using easy-to-use liners like Maybelline’s Line Stylist Liner (in Onyx) andJane Iredale Eye Highlighter Pencil.