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10 Ways to Utilize Q-Tips in your Beauty Routine

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Q-Tips: The Ultimate Beauty Tool

Yesterday I spent the day working as a rep for Q-Tips. The company has recently released 3 new vanity packs, that are “cute enough to leave out on your counter.” As makeup artists for the brand, we were only allowed to use Q-Tips to apply a full face of makeup. It was challenging and I don’t recommend it, butit got me thinking about the best ways to utilize Q-Tips in your own beauty routines.

1.   Erase Mistakes

I use Q-tips mainly for quick and easy clean up when I make mistakes. They are also great for when your mascara or eyeliner start to run. Just dab the Q-tip in a little bit of moisturizer or eye makeup remover and lightly run it over the smudged product.

2.   Smudge Your Eyeliner For Perfect Smokey Eyes

The cotton head of the Q-tip is perfect for smudging your eye makeup to give you that sultry, smokey eye. Apply a black or grey eyeliner to your bottom eye-lid and use the Q-tip to smudge the line, making it less harsh and smoked out.

3.  Soften Harsh Lines and Colors

Use a Q-tip to softly blend in a circular motion over dark, unblended areas. The cotton picks up excess pigment and softens the harshness.

4.   Prevent Bleeding Lipstick

Don’t you hate it when you apply a beautiful red lip, only to find that half-way through the day, the color has traveled past your lip line, and onto the rest of your face?  Try dipping a Q-tip in a little bit of loose powder, and run it along the edge of your freshly applied lipstick. The powder acts as a barrier, keeping lipstick on your lips, and only your lips.

5.   Highlight The Inner Corner of Your Eyes

I love highlighting the inner corner of the eyes, it brightens the whole area and makes you seem awake. In order to pull off this little trick, a Q-tip is the perfect size to get in this small area. Dip the Q-tip into a shimmery eyeshadow or pigment and dot the color right at the corner of your inner eye. I prefer to do whites, golds and neutrals.

6.   Clean Up Excess Nail Polish

Whenever I paint my nails I make a huge mess, I literally paint my whole finder and clean up the rest. If you are as messy as I am, or even if you only make tiny mistakes, they are easily fixed with Q-Tips. Dip the Q-tip in nail polish remover and rub away the errors. The small, precise tip makes it perfect for small details such as this.

7.   On the Go Touch Ups

Keeping several Q-tips in your purse or backpack is a great for touchups. I use them to clean up smudged mascara and bleeding lipstick.  Also when wearing a smokey eye, do you ever get the black goop that travels the the inner corners of your eye? Swipe a Q-tip in the tear duct to clean it up in a hurry.

8.   Dab on Some Concealer

The best way to cover up a zit is to dab it concealer and gently pat around the pimple to blend the cover-up into your skin. The only problem is, your fingers are not always clean and the bacteria you could be spreading to your face will only give you more zits. Use a Q-tip to dab the concealer on your blemish and blend with the soft edges of the cotton tip. Clean, sanitary and effective.

9.   Perfect Your Liner

Pointed Q-tip are my favorite disposable. These genius products can be an amazing tool to help you perfect a winged eye liner.  First, draw on your liner and bring it out past your eyes into the cat-eye shape. Don’t worry if it’s not perfectly sharp or precise. Next, take your pointed Q-tip and dip it in a little bit of moisturizer. Use the sharp edge to perfect the shape, taking little bits off at a time until your cat eye is perfection.

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10.  Apply Makeup in a Pinch!

Whether your brushes are dirty, or your heading straight to a fancy dinner from the office, Q-tips can be a great tool when you have to apply makeup in a pinch!

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