Tanya Strelova shares 11 practical beauty life hacks to save time, money, and stress, including perfume longevity, makeup tips, and DIY organizers.
Key Takeaways
- Simple household items can be repurposed for effective beauty hacks.
- Small adjustments in makeup application tools can improve precision and results.
- DIY beauty solutions can save money and reduce waste.
- Organizational hacks help keep cosmetics and accessories tidy and accessible.
- Maintaining tools and products properly extends their usability and effectiveness.
What the video covers
- How to extend the longevity of perfume using baby oil and an empty rollerball bottle.
- Proper technique for using sifter powders to avoid waste and mess.
- Creative use of broken hair clips as a winged eyeliner stencil.
- Transforming a regular wooden pencil into a micro-pencil for drawing realistic brow hairs.
- Making a cosmetic organizer from a regular towel for versatile storage.
- Using a silk scarf as a stylish tie alternative.
- Preventing fingerprints on mirrors with a water and fabric softener solution.
- Creating realistic freckles using a damp brush and contour products.
- Cleaning small makeup brushes effectively with an old toothbrush.
- DIY makeup remover pads by soaking cosmetic pads in remover and storing them in a jar.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and perfume longevity hack
- 00:52Using baby oil to extend perfume life
- 01:40Proper use of sifter powders
- 02:20Repurposing broken hair clips for winged eyeliner
- 03:02DIY micro-pencil for brows with a nail buffer
- 04:23Making a towel organizer for cosmetics
- 05:04Using a scarf as a stylish tie alternative
- 05:50Preventing fingerprints on mirrors
- 06:27Creating realistic freckles with contour and water
- 07:18Cleaning small makeup brushes with a toothbrush
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Hello everyone. I’m Tanya Strelova, your beauty lifehacker, as always. You often write in the comments that you miss my helpful tips, and I totally get you. Pouring all this into the container. My channel originally took off thanks to lifehacks, though I film
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them less often now. Some skills you never lose. I’ve put together a fresh batch of interesting, effective, and truly practical lifehacks that might just save you time, stress, and money.
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Get comfortable, we’re starting. In this little bottle, I have my own mix of Bubblegum-scented perfume from Moschino, only now it lasts much longer. I’ll show you how to upgrade your fragrance and triple its longevity. We need an empty rollerball bottle. I
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didn't overcomplicate things; I just took an old perfume bottle that ran out and gave it a good wash. Actually, you can buy them in all sorts of sizes on marketplaces. Next, take any baby body oil. I’m using the basic Johnson's
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Baby. It doesn’t have a strong scent. Fill exactly half the bottle, then generously fill the second half with your perfume. I just keep spraying until the bottle is full. Putting the rollerball back in place. Close it up and shake it well. And voilà, the
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longevity potion is ready. The trick is that the oil literally seals the scent onto your skin and keeps it from evaporating quickly. It ends up being super long-lasting. Plus, you can easily toss this little thing into any bag, even a microscopic one. It really
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lasts way longer. I’m planning to do this with all my less durable perfumes now. Admit it, you’re also using these sifter powders the wrong way.
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These powders are super popular right now, but you shouldn't shake or dispense them like regular loose powders. I’ll show you the secret to avoid dumping half the jar into the trash. Take a makeup brush and gently run the back of the handle over the
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mesh. Like this. See? The powder gently rises to the surface on its own. The longer you rub, the more powder appears on top. All you have to do is pick up exactly as much product as you need with your brush. No excess, no mess
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everywhere. Using it this way, your jar will last much longer. I often use these clips to keep my hair back while doing makeup. Such a handy little thing. But if your clip happens to break, don’t you dare throw it away. Take a
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close look at the metal base. Does it remind you of anything? It’s the perfect shape for a winged liner. It's thicker at the base and elegantly tapers toward the tip. First, I grabbed a felt-tip liner. Place this little
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metal piece against the outer corner of your eye. Fill in the empty space. You’ll just need to touch it up a bit, but the tail is already done. By the way, I also tested it with liquid eyeliner. It works exactly the same way.
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Remove the clip and boom. Actually, I like an even sharper tip, so I extended it just a bit. Perfectly sharp, graphic eyeliner in just a few seconds. What could be better than that? Yeah, I agree. And, of course, it still needs
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mascara. There, that’s definitely better. How do you draw on brow hairs if you don't have a micro-pencil handy?
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Actually, you can do it with a regular wooden pencil like this one. I have this pencil from Vivienne Sabó, and if you use it normally, you get pretty thick lines. Now, let’s take a regular nail buffer. Our goal is to
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file down the lead on one side so it becomes flat, like a little spatula. If the pencil is too soft, you can keep it in the fridge for a while first. Look at how incredibly thin the tip turned
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out. Like a blade. It's even thinner than a micro-pencil. And now, just turn it sideways to fill in gaps in your brows or, like me, draw some in. I decided to draw in my brows too, because I want to add some hairs at the
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front. Did you know you can make an organizer for cosmetics or other gadgets out of a regular towel? I’ll show you everything now. Fold it in half. Take one edge, bring it to the center, and fold the sides like this to
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form a triangle at the top. Do the exact same thing with the other side.
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Now, turn the resulting pouch inside out. And there you have an organizer you can fill with anything you like. In my case, it’s cosmetics. Actually, you can store any girlie things—or not just girlie things, like cutlery or even some food items. If you suddenly
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want to spice up your look with a stylish tie but don't have one, a simple scarf works perfectly. I’m using this silk scarf. First, roll it into a thin tube all the way to the end. Next, fold it in half. I’ve already
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put on the shirt I need for this outfit. Feed it through the space between the buttons. And pull the ends through this loop. Tighten it up like a regular tie and adjust it a little. It looks very
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stylish, so keep this trick in mind for another way to use a scarf. I don’t think I’m the only one annoyed by these fingerprints on mirrors. Because of them, I have to wipe the mirrors down every single day. Especially my
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makeup mirror, which I drag from one room to another. So, take some water and fabric softener, and pour a little into a container. Next, you'll need any convenient cloth that cleans glass well. Wring it out and wipe the surface of
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the mirrors where you don't want fingerprints to stay. Then, you need to wipe it all dry with a towel. I’m using a waffle-weave towel. And look, nothing stays behind. I’m pressing my fingers to the mirror, and it stays
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clean. I’m specifically showing you from different angles so you can see it for yourself. I know that for some people this trick didn't work for some reason. It only failed for me in one case, when I didn't go over it with a
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dry towel afterwards. Other than that, the life hack is actually really good. Confess, who among you has already lost hope of making realistic freckles?
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Actually, there is another brilliant way to get really cool freckles. And no, you don't need to buy broccoli for this. Take any contour product. Both cream and powder ones will work. I've also prepared a brush and some water. I
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dip the brush into the water. And now you need to squeeze out the excess water well, so it's all messy, yet slightly damp. This is exactly what we need. I’m removing the excess moisture again, so it’s almost completely gone. And now I pick up our
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contour with this messy brush, then go over the areas where I want to add freckles. Just look at what's happening on my face. This is that very effect of realistic freckles. Since the bristles are different, they turn out in varying
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sizes, which is why it looks real. I’ve even stopped using spray now because I discovered this method. And girls, you don't need to go out and buy broccoli. For the next life hack, we'll need your old toothbrush. I hope you
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haven't thrown it away yet. On the back of most toothbrushes, you can see these raised patterns. They are generally designed to clean your tongue. But they can also be useful for cleaning your brushes. I’m not talking about large
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brushes, but the small ones we use to draw eyeliner, line our lips, and so on. I add some detergent to water and stir it up. And now, in this way, I clean all these micro-brushes of mine.
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This method is also great for cleaning the brushes I use for tinting my eyebrows or eyelashes. The dirt comes off very well thanks to these grooves.
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Now we are going to make DIY makeup remover pads ourselves. I have this empty jar from a face mask. I also ordered this huge pack of thin, round cosmetic pads from a marketplace that are useful for many things. They cost
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pennies. I pack them into our jar. I think that's enough. And I have some of this makeup remover left, which is great at removing all cosmetics, even the long-wear kind. I just pour all of this product in. See, it slowly goes
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down and saturates each pad. Close the lid. Leave it for a few minutes to soak through. The pads are now ready to use.
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Now you don't have to spend time getting the bottle, grabbing a pad, and applying the product. We just take one that's already soaked. They will be very useful to me while filming videos.
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A lif...
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mine is from some buttons, and make a small cut at the bottom with scissors.
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Now, I push the handle of the brush through this hole and then seal the bag shut. And now you can put the brush into your makeup bag in this state. No dirt will stick to the bristles. By the
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way, you can also use this trick for toothbrushes. Thank you so much for watching this video until the very end.
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It means a lot to me. Subscribe to my channel and give this video a thumbs up . Tanya Strelova was with you. Love you all and bye for now.
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