People are just realising there’s a hack to make eye pencils last longer, and it’s blowing their minds
HOW often do you splash out on new make-up?
With the cost of living crisis at its peak, the thought of your foundation producing its last dribble, or your blusher blending its last cheek is too much to bear.
Make-up is one of life’s little luxuries and while high street stores like Primark and supermarkets like Aldi do a great job of duping the designer buys, the cost can still add up.
Beauty fans have long been aware of the pencil sharpener hack to get more use out of their eye-and-lip liners, but there’s another top tip in town that’s blowing people’s minds.
A TikTok user named Gigi sharpened her eye pencil like everyone else until one day, she played around and discovered a neat trick.
It was such a game-changer, she had to share it with the TikTok community.
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Posting to her feed, called Gurtz_gigi, she revealed the mind-blowing hack.
The clip shows Gigi holding her NYX white eye pencil, with text reading: “I used to sharpen my NYX eye pencil until I realised…”
The image then skips to show the bottom of the eye pencil, and Gigi – who sports fabulously-manicured nails with metallic tips – points at the very end.
She then gives the bottom end of the pencil a twist and it comes off easily in her hand.
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Gigi produces a regular cotton bud, up-ends the pencil and pushes the bud through into the empty interior.
The camera pans back to the top of the pencil and, slowly but surely, the white tip begins to rise up.
There’s so much more of Gigi’s eye pencil to use – and she’d never have known if she hadn’t played around with it.
She calls the hack: “Brilliant!”
Gigi has over 20,000 TikTok followers and an impressive 6.2million people have watched her hack video already.
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It’s garnered some mixed reviews from fellow beauty fans, but most are so happy with the discovery.
“It actually works, my mind is blown,” declared one happy user.
A second exclaimed: “I have gone through six black ones and you’re telling me I can just do that?!”
And a third frustrated beauty lover asked: “Why do they make it so hard.”
Others had a hard time trying the new hack, with some struggling to get inside the product.
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“How did you get the bottom off? Mine is like glued shut,” said one.
And another warned: “I did it and the tube snapped into tiny pieces. I had to dig out all the product and put it in a separate container. So be careful/slow!”