The Internet is full of beauty hacks. After all, don’t we all want easy tricks to look good instantly. But hold on for a moment and think if it was so easy would it actually be good for us? There are a few of these beauty solutions that are anything but healthy. Take a look at the ridiculous beauty hacks that failed to get our seal of approval.
1. DIY glow-in-the-dark nail polish
All you need are two ingredients: a clear nail polish and a glow stick. Just break the glow stick, mix the contents with clear nail polish and apply! Easy as pie, isn’t it? Well, if the chemicals in these glow sticks were healthy enough to be on our nails, they’d be available in bottles at beauty stores. But they aren’t, so just lay off this hack until proven safe.
2. Using Vaseline to grow thicker lashes
Considering how often we incorporate this magical product in our beauty regime, it’s quite unsurprising to see it being incorporated in your eye make up. Yes, it certainly works to thicken your lashes, in the sense, that it forms an extra layer for them. However, petroleum jelly is quite capable of and has proven to travel to your eyes and cause acne-like boils around your lash line and under your eyelids due to clogging. Try using lengthening mascaras, instead.
3. Oreos as mascara
We’re all about creative, but this beauty hack goes way beyond the line of creativity and has set up shop at plain craziness. Katharine Ward made waves on YouTube and Pinterest last year when she came up with a recipe to make mascara out of Oreos. The thick concoction actually worked to make her lashes look quite thick and long, but let’s be sensible here. There’s a reason why we’re not supposed to be put food on our eyes, and if and when Oreos (which she mixed with alcohol) gets into our eyes, it’s probably going to burn them out. Not to mention, buying all the ingredients for her recipe, i.e. a primer, Oreos, rubbing alcohol and a tin would probably cost you way more than a decent mascara.
4. Lemon and potato juice for fairer underarms
For years now, we have believed that lemon juice and potato juice can actually turn dull skin fairer, but here’s the real deal. Both these components possess high pH levels and are actually quite harmful for the delicate, thin layer of skin. The result would be red, itchy underarm skin, which gets even duller. However, you can always dilute them with water first to reduce its abrasive effect.
5. Cooking oils as moisturisers
Sure, our grandmothers have been using oils for decades, but what they forgot to tell you is that cooking oils are a sure shot way to get acne breakouts. Cooking oils are fairly thicker, and are capable of clogging your pores, especially when used on your face. If you must use oils, try lighter ones such as coconut oil, which boast of several benefits and are completely light on your skin.
