Trying Clickbait Beauty "Hacks" From Instagram

Hello friends and welcome to another video. Today we are going to try questionable

beauty

tricks from Instagram videos. We've previously tried some weird Facebook video

hacks

with mediocre success and since then almost all I've been seeing on my Instagram explore page are similar

beauty

hack videos. They seem to think I'm a hacker who likes

hacks

or that I'm a hack, so I've decided to take these references as a sign that I should dive back in and put up these videos. For proof, Instagram has plenty of general beauty videos that are often speckled or organized into playlists on the explore page or ripped for free by individual creators and reposted by big makeup accounts and, by design, you can play dozens of these videos in Once, I mean, look at those thumbnails.

Don't you want to click on them? Is that James Charles? Almost all of these videos are sped up, have little to no conversation, and yes, Instagram doesn't have a progress bar either, so you can't skip or rewind. Additionally, I find that Instagram videos are more likely to generate true clicks than Facebook videos. You'll get some classic thumbnails like this one with a giant red vampire eye, but then when you click on the video, it's just a normal eyeshadow tutorial, but some of these videos are just clicks because they use a seemingly ridiculous method. to get a nice little thumbnail of whether that method helps you do something faster or better or whatever, and those are the videos we're going to focus on primarily today, as much as I'd like to try permanent retinal damage.

Alright, let's dive into this. The first trick is certainly beauty related, but it's not for your face. In fact, it is for pits. This is what your armpits look like. That's what I mean. It's a beauty trick for your armpits! Alright, this video was reposted by Makeup Vines. But it's originally from Sarah Revolta, the comments are pretty harsh. There are a lot of nauseating green emojis and, um, one girl says, honestly, I threw up. Basically what happens is Sarah wakes up and oh no, she has armpits! She doesn't want you to see them, so she will cover them with honey, oats, and baking soda.

I think actually the premise is that she has dark skin in her armpits or something because she certainly doesn't have hair. Interestingly, homemade underarm lightening masks are something of a motif in many Instagram hack videos. I feel like it's like bleaching your butt, it's a little unnecessary. But if you really want to, I guess you can. So he puts her homemade mixture on her armpits and then sits with her for a while to let it work. It's good. Doesn't she say how long you should leave it on? Oh...okay So maybe she means ten minutes because as she leans back she just says "Ten!", but after a while, she takes out the oatmeal and gives it to her boyfriend. .

I am very happy and, at the same time, also sad. For Tyler that happened because he now has to eat the oatmeal out of my armpit. TYLER: You took a shower today, right? SAFIYA: Yes, I shower every day *unconvincing smile* and I always smell great. TYLER: That's a lie. SAFIYA: Okay, first thing you do is, honey. And it doesn't seem like it has very specific proportions. You just have like a big old spoon and you just stick a big old spoon in. As for the oatmeal, she likes a heaping tablespoon, so I'm going to make a couple of these.

Let's go and get the baking soda. She just likes it a little less, so her next step is to mix it all up from the beginning. It's pretty dry, I think maybe she needs a little more honey. How am I so bad at this? I will say that it looks like she just did a couple of hits and then it was kind of a nice wet mixture. Alright, ready for application. TYLER: Oh, that's disgusting, man. SAFIYA: Is this what I'm supposed to do? TYLER: This feels like the worst sexy roleplay ever SAFIYA: It's like a tip from Cosmo, it's like spicing it up by bringing food to the room.

Oh, it's honey and baking soda in your armpits. Although I will say that it smells pretty good. Alright, I'm a little unsure how to do this with my other oatmeal-filled armpit. Oh, I need help. I can't do this with my left hand. TYLER: It doesn't really spread, does it? SAFIYA: Oh no, spread it out, no, no! Down, not out! I'll hold the camera. OH NO! TYLER: Oh, shit. Oh God, I just dropped a huge chunk. SAFIYA: No, no, not out. Ty, up and down, clearly. TYLER: I think we have different definitions of armpit here. SAFIYA: Alright, here we go after a little struggle, my armpits are swollen.

My arms are going to get tired. Well, it's been about 10 minutes since I put the oatmeal on my right armpits and the oatmeal has definitely warmed up. In fact, it has turned somewhat whitish and creamy, almost as if it was cooked or perhaps as if it had reacted in some way with the baking soda. Basically, he just scrapes it with the spoon and then immediately tricks her boyfriend into eating it. Alright Ty, are you ready? I have a spoonful of oatmeal for you. TYLER: Why am I doing this? SAFIYA: Oh? That's not food, right? Are they really that bad?

Yuck! You just drooled all over me. TYLER: Very salty. SAFIYA: Is it salty? That's my sweat TYLER: *disgusted noises* Alright, after completely wiping off the oatmeal mask. I'm not sure if my armpits are any lighter, it feels like maybe they just exfoliated them a bit well. I really had to take off that oatmeal and take a look at it after the armpits. They look pretty much the same, but in terms of executing this trick, I just have oatmeal all over the floor and my shirt and I could have done it. poisoned Tyler, so I think you know you could probably use it as a body scrub on your armpits and save yourself a ton of mess, so for our second trick, we're going to do another brightening treatment, except this time instead of being for your armpits It's for under your eyes, so this is a video from Medina shrien zada.

She basically shows up and has very exaggerated dark circles. They look pretty fake, like maybe you just put a bunch of eyeshadow under your eye, and then you peel and slice a potato, put some honey and black pepper on the slices, and put them under your eye for five minutes. And then when she removes them from her eyes, the dark circles disappear, as does her eyeshadow. Further down in her title it says that she has imitated dark circles, but she is pretty far down. And I think people in the comments really disagree with that. Let's try it.

Coincidentally, it's a good time to try this trick because I was up until 6am last night. m. and I have a whole situation with the suitcase under my eyes. Okay, so the first step is to peel the potato TYLER: Do you know how to peel a potato? SAFIYA: No, I'm not very good at this, can I just cut the peel? This is much better. I got it to be like a geometric gemstone by simply peeling it with a knife. Basically, she just cuts like little sections that would cover the under eye area, and then she just puts a little bit of honey on it. they. and then she says like this.

So the next thing she does is just sprinkle some black pepper and then apply it on her eyes. Health. Okay, this isn't so bad. I'll say it from the beginning. The potatoes are a little cold, so I feel a little refreshed. So it's probably good for dark circles. Move over, cucumber slice, the potato is coming for your wig. I don't feel any sneezing or pain in my eyes from the pepper so far, the pepper is more of a texture. It's like I feel like a piece wedged between me and the potato. Alright, in five minutes let's take these bad boys out and see if my dark circles packed up and left.

Are you ready for the Princess Diaries reveal? TYLER: Well, you don't have a unibrow so... SAFIYA: I do have a unibrow. I just ripped it off, tada. Oh, it looks like I was just crying coffee grounds. Oh, actually, now that I've lifted the potato, I feel the tingle of black pepper and I like almost a little spice. Oh oh, it's hot. Oh. This is strange. I feel like I have a bengay patch under my eyes. You and I mean, like a Salone cat. I think maybe part of the logic behind this trick is that the pepper will like to stimulate blood flow.

But my eyes hurt a little under my eyes. , and I don't think they look much better. Now Ella said this was her 'routine' under her eyes, so maybe once isn't enough. But that's a lot of work and pain for a 'maybe'. So I put on some foundation because the next trick is a makeup trick, so this dramatized account was started for free and reposted this video by promisetamang. They gave it some credit, but you definitely had to click Read More to see it, so what caught my attention about this trick is that it's basically like a double surprise trick from the thumbnail.

It looks like he's using tweezers to somehow contour her nose. And when you click, she's actually using the tweezers to draw her eyebrows. After he completely fixes her eyebrows at the end, she fixes her nose a little quickly. So it was like an emotional rollercoaster, I thought I had been tricked and then right at the end I was saved. Alright, I think what you do is you just take the eyebrow gel and paint the tips of her tweezers with it. She has thinner eyebrows than me, so she worries me that my eyebrows won't be contained by these tweezers.

When she reaches back, she closes the clamp. Did that do anything? I feel like she just got some eyebrow gel on the head of my forehead, right here. I have slightly wider tweezers that might work better, so let's try the ones that didn't work much. I'm going to try more with an ointment than a gel, just so you know how to give it more impact. Oh, that's darker That's better and then you narrow it and narrow it oh, I'll skate marked, okay Let me try the other side And then we'll try to fill them oh no oh no left hand is not okay, the thing is, it's not Decidedly worse than the other, but neither is really great.

TYLER: You look like an Angry Bird right now. SAFIYA: I feel like an angry bird right now. I feel like I'm getting the intent of the trick, but my artistic skills aren't up to par. So let's try the nose contour. Maybe I'm better at it since there's less drawing involved, okay, done *humming* TYLER: oh, that's a good drawing. I don't think I did so well with this one either. I think this trick easily converts to skidmark. Skidmark output is almost always needed. I don't know what kind of brush you're using, so I'm going to use this brush and try to polish it.

What, what, what, what, polish it. I admit I don't do nose contouring very often, this side looks good, and then you move on to this side. And it's sad now, although compared to the outline of my nose, my eyebrows look great. So I'm happy about that at least, I think if you have the right features that fit inside a normal sized tweezer, maybe this will really work for you. But other than that, I think it's a little more trouble than it's worth. Okay, so The next trick is another makeup trick and I actually recognize the company.

That made it Cristine's favorite channel, troom troom. CRISTINE: *singing* Gotta get those troom troom views! Yes, this video was reposted by DIY Amazing DIY, but I think something got lost in translation because the video doesn't really make much sense. At the beginning of the video, they introduced the trick, which is like using a spoon over your eye to create eyeshadow. You watch and then they put clip-in extensions in their hair, apply some eyeliner and then a third person tells them to only use one hand and then by the end of the video they've given up on makeup altogether. of that is explained or subtitled.

It's just that if you continue watching the video after the trick, you will notice that there are many more videos and it doesn't make any sense. Okay, and with that let's try it. Alright, I'm just going to put on some base shadow. I don't really know what else this girl does, she just puts a spoon in her eye and then goes to town, to be fair. She likes this kind of tuck action and then she goes on to do something off camera. And when she returns, her eyeshadow looks much better, so there's definitely some movie magic involved.

Okay, I have a couple of different spoons. I think I'm going to choose this one because she's flatter and then I'm going to grab some of this brick color and go in. Oh, that's moving my contact. I can feel it, but. This is difficult to do with one. Watch out TYLER: oh, that'll be a good cut. SAFIYA: First, it doesn't end up being a cut crease, it just ends up being like a dramatic crease. Look well, my contacts are back. I think we're looking at something here that could be like an eyeshadow, but overall it's not very symmetrical or uniform.

Let me try the other spoon on the other eye. I think this one is a little more rounded. So I hope it sits a little bit more flush with my eyeball. TYLER: Okay, you know what? That looks pretty good! SAFIYA: The question is a starting point for eyeshadow, like you can start from here. And then continue blending it. I'm not sure using a spoon is easier than just putting the product directly into your eye. To beright with troom troom, I'm going to mix this up a little bit. You know, to give a more general look to this video.

It just confuses me. I think it's almost like a beauty phone hacking game. But that seems to be a big part of Instagram videos in general, a lot of them are stolen and cut. I guess that might contribute. Why are they so confusing? I originally suspected that it was several troom troom videos cut together. But surprisingly, all the footage is actually just from a video called full face makeup challenge using food and school supplies. I guess they weren't meant for tricks after all, it's okay. So this last hack is a hair hack that I'm really excited about, so this video was posted by a page called Makeup Vines.

But it was ripped free of charge from five-minute crafts. So basically what is it? You put a scrunchie. Like a vacuum cleaner nozzle? And then you vacuum your hair, put on the scrunchie and that's it, you make a ponytail. This particular trick, I remember seeing in a viral video a few years ago about a disgruntled father

trying

to do his daughter's hair so Tyler would have the honor of vacuuming. my head today, TYLER: basically. This is me

trying

this trick SAFIYA: Yes, but it's my head that's at stake TYLER: without further ado *turns on the vacuum cleaner* SAFIYA: AH!

TYLER: Let's vacuum up some hair! Are you ready for an instant ponytail? SAFIYA: *screaming* No! TYLER: Keep getting your shirt SAFIYA: *screaming* SAFIYA: Did it work? TYLER: *vacuum cleaner turns off* is that what they want us to do? SAFIYA: You know that tickled me. The sound was absolutely terrifying, but the feeling was quite pleasant, try again. TYLER: So I'm going to double it this time because I think it came out a little weak. Hey, that wasn't so bad. SAFIYA: I have a whole lock of hair, I'm missing it, but I guess it's clever. TYLER: You look like a brave Disney Zoo character right now.

Let me try one more time. It's still a bit messy. Ah! you have a lot of hair. Ah here. Let's go here. Come on, here we go. That's what I'm talking about and it's a ponytail. It's not perfect, but it's close. The level of perfection of the five-minute crafts is pretty mind-blowing because there are stray hairs everywhere. SAFIYA: It's not that bad. I'm surprised it worked. Even if there was one major downside to this, it's that the inside of a vacuum cleaner sees some things and you probably don't want those things on your head on top of that.

I'm not sure, it's faster than just doing a normal ponytail. yourself But the viral video is definitely more exciting. Yeah, trick you recommend to people, I don't think so, although this could be a good joke. Hey, let me help you, but I'll give you a slightly messy ponytail. Well, those were my questionable Instagram tricks, I'm not sure. I really understood any of these tricks, but I think the one that was closest to a trick that could actually work was the tweezers trick, the others may have had some effect, but I don't think the results were worth it. pain or mess, so I wouldn't consider them better than traditional methods.

I think my main takeaway from this is that the reason Instagram has so many tricks like these, which are so ridiculous in nature, is that the ones that post or repost videos work within the boundaries of Instagram where you really only get a miniature to work with. There are no video titles visible on Instagram, and you can only see the title after you have clicked on it. So you have to make a video that lends itself. until you have a crazy thumbnail And if you don't do it right Then you just have to create a thumbnail To be fair, these videos can be quite entertaining.

So if they were marketed more as things you should see rather than things you should do. be much less disconcerting. I would also tell Instagram to add a progress bar and keep everyone home. Maybe don't put black pepper under your eyes. Thank you all very much for watching it. If you like that video make sure to hit the like button and if you want to see more videos like this make sure to hit the subscribe button. Here are my social networks. handle the media and be sure to check out my next feat. I vlog there every Sunday.

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