'Simple' hack that stops make-up breaking inside your suitcase is 'so smart'
For beauty enthusiasts, there's nothing more frustrating than reaching your holiday destination only to discover your favourite product has shattered inside your suitcase. From liquid spillages to destroyed palettes, plenty can go awry.
Fortunately, there are numerous tips and tricks worth trying when packing your case, including one specifically designed to protect your powder products. Of course, you can still use powder products that have crumbled, but it's far better if you can stop the problem in the first place.
The tip left social media users amazed when a beauty enthusiast demonstrated the clever trick in a TikTok video, showing how to shield powder products whilst they're in your luggage, reports the Liverpool Echo. The method is cheap and simple, so it can be applied to various products from pressed powder to blusher, eyeshadow and brow powder.
All you need is a few cotton wool pads to place inside your cosmetics. "The best travel hack for make-up", as it's been labelled on social media, was posted in a viral clip by @glam. bunnies.
In the footage, the make-up enthusiast was shown placing cotton pads inside her Charlotte Tilbury compacts. The video went viral, accumulating more than one million views and 120,000 likes in less than a week. Yet not everyone grasped the hack, initially.
One puzzled commenter asked: "What does it do?" The video's creator responded: "Without it, there's more chance of cracking or breaking but the cotton pad acts like padding so if it gets thrown or hit it'll be more dense together, decreasing the risk."
However, the majority of comments were from beauty enthusiasts who understood exactly why this tip was needed. Many wished they had come across the idea earlier to avoid recent breakages.
For instance, one response read: "You telling me this AFTER I broke my rare beauty blush." A second said: "Oh God thanks, I see this after my rare beauty highlighter broke up."
A similar reply said she wished she had "told me this before I broke my rare beauty blush." Another person wrote: "I need to do this for real because my favourite blush shattered everywhere."
Elsewhere, a make-up lover replied: "Should've told me before the SPARKLY BLUE in my cosmos Anastasia eyeshadow palette broke." More praise came from a fan who said: "OMGG WAIITT LIFESAVER - HOW IS THIS NOT VIRAL." Another commenter agreed, saying: "OMG, you're my lifesaver." Someone else asked: "How did I never think of this?" and a further fan wrote simply: "Smart."
The tip proved just as popular when @muddlethroughmummy shared the same idea in another video. She said the trick is especially helpful if you're near the bottom of the pan. "So simple but genius," the blogger praised. A viewer replied: "Ahhhh so smart." Someone else said: "OMG, I needed this hack. I'm going away on Tuesday."
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