55 Cheap, Surprising Things That Make You Look Way Hotter In Under 5 Mins

As its name suggests, this nipple butter was technically formulated with breastfeeding in mind, as it helps to soothe nipples using organic ingredients that are safe for babies. Yet it’s that same blend of ingredients — like olive fruit oil, beeswax, and mango seed butter — that make the cream a seriously effective solution for chapped lips. While it can be used for other patches of dry skin, like the cuticles and elbows, too, multiple Amazon reviews rave that it keeps lips smooth and shiny without feeling sticky.

The purple color of this blush stick looks slightly questionable, but fear not. Once you glide it over cheekbones or tap it into your lips, the cream stick reacts with your skin’s pH to shift into a custom rose-pink hue. Lightweight and non-sticky, the cream blush also imparts a dewy glow, courtesy of moisturizers like sunflower seed oil, shea butter, and aloe vera.

A longtime beauty hack among makeup artists and models, applying hemorrhoid cream under your eyes is a quick way to get rid of puffiness. The temporary effect is all thanks to phenylephrine, the active ingredient in the cream that constricts blood vessels to reduce swelling.

When foundation alone won’t cover redness or perk up dull skin, it’s time to break out the colorful concealers. While they may not seem like the most natural solution, these bold hues use the color-correcting technique to balance out your skin tone. Try using the peach and orange shades before your under-eye concealer to cancel out unwanted dark circles, or spot treat redness with the green color. You can also brighten up dull areas with the yellow shade or mix the blue corrector in with your foundation to get rid of any unwanted warm tones.

For feathery brows or arches where every last hair is lined up perfectly, reach for this brow soap tin. The transparent paste works like a styling gel to set your brows for all-day wear without flaking or having to worry about color matching. Each tin comes with two mini spoolies that you’ll always want to dampen first before brushing through the soap (and then your brows).

If you’re familiar with ice rollers for reducing inflammation in the morning, allow us to introduce you to this ice bath bowl. Like a cold plunge for your face, the Old Hollywood-approved method boosts circulation, depuffs, and tightens skin in seconds. This silicone bowl has a built-in ice tray to simplify the process, and it’s collapsible to save you space.

Concealer isn’t just for your under-eyes. Applying a thin layer over your lips can help make your lipstick last all day without a single touch up. This drugstore concealer is already shaped like a lipstick bullet, so you can swipe it right over your lips (just make sure you designate this one for your lips, only, and don’t double it up as an under-eye concealer). The creamy formula wears smoothly, and can also be used alongside a tiny detailing brush to clean up any lipstick smudges.

Whether your nails have always been prone to breaking or they’re especially weak following too many back-to-back gel manicures, a strengthening treatment can help. This strengthener is a step above your average formula, as it pairs a bonding technology that protects fragile nails with a purple tint to neutralize yellow tones for nails that still look healthy, even without your usual polish.

To add soft definition to your lips, skip the lip liner and get your brow pencil back out. The cool-toned color is the perfect way to contour lips for the illusion of a fuller pout, but it blends right in with a neutral balm or gloss. This cruelty-free and vegan brow pencil gets bonus points for its micro precision tip.

If you wouldn’t dream of leaving the house without multiple layers of mascara, this lash comb is a must-have. The tiny tool is fitted with even tinier stainless steel prongs that separate lashes and brush through clumps for a finish that looks like you were just naturally blessed.

This white shaving spray kind of makes you look like Santa Claus, but that’s why it’s so genius. The white tint highlights even the finest of facial hairs, making it easier to remove them with the included dermaplaning razors. While the spray is most popular for ensuring a smoother shave, it was also formulated with skin-soothing ingredients like panthenol and scutellaria root extract.

Another way to work some color-correcting benefits into your makeup routine is with your setting powder. This face powder duo features a tinted pressed powder for the under-eyes and a loose powder that can be dusted all over to absorb excess oil and keep your makeup in place. The lilac powder shown here was meant to help with brightening, but there’s also a similar pink color and multiple other duos for color correcting by skin tone.

For fuller-looking brows that last you multiple days, there’s this brow stain. Like a more temporary version of an in-salon tint, this brow stain brushes through brows like a gel, leaving behind pigmented color after just one minute. The alcohol-free formula is waterproof and transfer-proof, staying in place through workouts and face cleansing for about two days.

Sure, an extra cup of coffee will help wake you up for the day ahead. But applying caffeine topically with this eye serum can also help to perk up your appearance. While you’ll need to give the serum three weeks to really see results, it works to brighten dark circles and reduce puffiness with a 5% concentration of caffeine and a green tea leaf-derived antioxidant.

There’s a bit of an arts and crafts factor to this lip stain, which starts as a (slightly intimidating) dark liquid liner but dries down to a peel-off film. Once the film is removed, you’re left with your lip liner color of choice in a longer-lasting finish that’s truly smudge- and transfer-proof. A fan favorite on Amazon with more than 10,000 five-star ratings, you can apply the stain solely as a liner as intended or fill your lips in with it, too.

Toning products are a must for blondes looking to banish brassiness in between salon appointments. This purple shampoo also takes fragile, color-treated hair into consideration by combining toning violet pigments with hydrolyzed milk protein, fruit extracts, and a sunflower seed antioxidant complex that further helps protect your color. The dark purple pigments are popular for light blondes, but they can be used to keep gray and white hair looking fresh, too.

Once you’ve mastered the art of contouring the rest of your face, try using the technique on your under-eyes. This double-sided pencil has both steps covered, with a taupe color for creating a soft shadow on one end and a creamy highlighter on the opposite end. If that sounds like too much work, you can use the shimmery highlighter on its own, giving the inner corners of your eyes a quick trace to instantly brighten.

You can neutralize redness before you even apply your makeup when you use this color correcting primer. The green pigments cancel out red tones from angry breakouts and skin conditions like rosacea, blending into the skin for a seamless finish. The primer also contains soothing ingredients like cica and niacinamide to further take down signs of irritation.

It turns out those oil blotting sheets you keep in your purse can do more than mattify a shiny face midday. For a simple way to make your lipstick last longer, swipe on your first layer of color, then take a blotting paper and gently press it over your lips (and repeat). On its own, the blotting paper soaks up oils and emollients without disturbing the pigment, but you can further lock in your lip color by dusting a translucent setting powder over the blotting paper when it’s pressed to your lips.

Leave it to social media to find the most budget-friendly makeup primer around. This post-shave balm may be marketed as a men’s product, but it’s glycerin-heavy formula latches onto your foundation for all-day wear (according to multiple Amazon reviewers, that is). While it’s always best to do a patch test before you commit, the balm is sensitive skin-friendly, thanks to its alcohol-free formula and soothing ingredients, like chamomile and panthenol.

Your favorite Burt’s Bees lip balm gets a multitasking upgrade with this rose-tinted balm. Packaged in a purse-friendly tin, the moisturizing balm smooths lips and adds a subtle shine with ingredients like sunflower seed oil, beeswax, and cocoa seed butter. But those same ingredients also make the balm a quick treatment for cuticles and other patches of dry skin, as well as a highlighter or a styling balm to keep flyaways (and even unruly brows) in place.

When you want to clean up a lipstick smudge or correct an uneven winged liner without restarting your whole makeup routine, a cotton swab is your best bet. This compact case holds 24 cotton swabs, each of which contains a makeup remover inside to make precision touch-ups even more convenient.

These mini scrubbing brushes are the ideal tool for smoothing lips ahead of your lipstick application. The double-sided exfoliating brush can be used on its own or alongside a lip scrub to buff away the dead skin that can interfere with the look and feel of your lipstick. The brushes are made with silicone, so they’re gentle on lips, and they’re easy to rinse clean so you can keep reusing them. They also help give your lips a slightly more plumped-up appearance.

Give your slicked-back ponytail a more polished finish (without any extra effort) with an embellished hair tie. These traditional elastics get a jewelry-like finish with various metal cuff and pendant designs. The geometric hair ties shown here come in a pack of three, so you can also try wearing them all at once with a bubble ponytail for a more statement-making look.

Baby hairs and flyaways can be annoying to deal with. Rather than restyling your hair multiple times in the hopes of getting a smooth finish, buy a clear eyebrow gel that you can designate for slicked-back hairstyles. The strong-hold formula will keep pesky flyaways in place, and the fluffy spoolie is the perfect tool for combing back wispy hairs.

If you’re all about “glass skin” and dewy makeup looks, swap out your usual eyeshadow and bring in your lip gloss instead. Tapping a clear gloss over the eyelids gives a high-shine effect that adds dimension but is super quick and easy to pull off. One word of caution, be sure the lip gloss you choose is free from those tingling plumping ingredients like menthol and capsicum, which can cause irritation around your eyes (and your lips, too).

Keeping a toothbrush and toothpaste in your purse is far from practical (even the travel-friendly sizes can get messy). Instead, keep a few of these pocket-sized wipes on hand to polish teeth and freshen breath when you’re on the go. The disposable wipes were designed to fit right over your finger, and are a clever way to help prevent stains from your afternoon coffee or happy hour wine from setting in.

If you want color that’s longer lasting than a brow stain, consider a permanent dye kit. This at-home set was created with beards and mustaches in mind, but its pre-measured color capsules are exactly what make it so popular for dyeing brows. At less than $20, you’ll get enough supplies for four coloring treatments, each one keeping your brows tinted for four to six weeks.

This heart-shaped stone may not look like much, but it’s a powerful facial massage tool. Rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, a gua sha facial can help relieve tension and temporarily sculpt your features in just a few minutes. A fan favorite on Amazon with more than 25,000 five-star ratings, the gua sha stone should be paired with your go-to serum or oil for the best results.

A matte or shimmery white liner along the inner corners and the inside of your lower lash line can really help make your eyes pop. But it’s not the only way to get the job done. These redness-relieving drops will also give you a healthier, more alert look by making the whites of the eyes appear whiter in less than a minute (and without any makeup).

Dry shampoo probably already has a place in your routine. But the oil-absorbing powder can do more than extend the life of your blowout. When sprinkled through the roots of freshly washed (and dried) hair, this tinted dry shampoo powder makes hair look fuller without any volumizing mousses or texturizing sprays.

By the time you massage this water-like mask through the lengths of your hair, it’s already time to wash it out. The fast-acting treatment has more than 30,000 five-star ratings on Amazon for its fuss-free application and ability to leave hair noticeably smoother and shinier after just one use. The eight-second mask is color safe and silicone free, so it can be used by all hair types without stripping color or weighing hair down over time.

If creating even winged liner is the most time-consuming part of your makeup routine, this stamp tool is about to speed things up. The three-in-one pen has two cat eye stamps on either end (one for the left eye and one for the right eye), as well as a classic liquid liner housed inside. All three formulas are fast-drying and waterproof to last you the entire day.

Okay, technically, you’ll need to use this sulfur soap for a few weeks to really see results, but each treatment only takes about a minute (and those results are pretty major, BTW). In addition to calming the redness associated with rosacea, the 10% concentration of sulfur in this soap also helps to heal and prevent acne with its ability to regulate oil production and kill acne-causing bacteria. Plus, since this is a cleanser that you wash right off, you don’t have to deal with its rotten egg-like scent for as long as you would with a sulfur mask treatment.

If your contour looks more muddy than chiseled, your color choice is to blame. That’s because a warm-toned contour won’t shape the face or create a true, shadow-like effect the way a cool-toned contour product will. This contour stick comes in a taupe color that’s perfect for faking definition on light to medium skin tones. Its creamy formula makes it easy to swipe right on and blend with your brush, and the contour has a matte finish that further adds to its natural look.

Anyone after a longer-lasting curl can benefit from a heated eyelash curler, but those with straight lashes will especially love the rechargeable tool. This heated lash curler was designed to be more compact, but it still features a curved clamp to follow the shape of your eye, as well as two temperature settings that heat up in just 10 seconds.

Brunettes with a cool-toned balayage or soft highlights can keep their pricey color looking its best with an at-home toning product. But while there are plenty of purple pigmented options for blondes, brunettes tend to be left out of the color-preserving equation. Not so with this shampoo, which uses dark blue pigments to neutralize brassy tones in brunette hair in under five minutes. A fan favorite on Amazon with over 20,000 five-star ratings, the shampoo should always be followed up with an ultra-nourishing conditioner or mask.

Salmon sperm may not sound like something you’d want to slather on your face, but the trending ingredient has become popular for a reason. Known as PDRN (and technically DNA fragments extracted from salmon sperm), the multitasker is credited with everything from boosting elasticity and hydration to diminishing signs of hyperpigmentation. This lightweight serum pairs PDRN with five peptides and niacinamide to immediately plump up skin while improving texture and tone with continued use.

When root regrowth starts to creep in, it’ll be handy to have this tinted spray on hand to hide. The temporary spray dries in one minute to leave you with all-day coverage, but it still washes out with your next shampoo. You’ll also notice that the pigmented spray makes your hair look fuller when concentrated along sparse spots or a widening part line.

When you want to add a bronzed glow to your face — fast — have this instant self-tanner in your arsenal. The buildable color can be applied on its own or mixed in with your moisturizer, creating a slightly shimmery, sun-kissed look as you blend it in. It’s noncomedogenic, so it won’t clog your pores, and the face tanner was also formulated to work like a serum by hydrating and soothing skin with squalane, hyaluronic acid, and niacinamide.

This rice powder cleanser helps to leave skin smoother and brighter with a hit of mild exfoliation that even sensitive skin types can tolerate (thanks in part to the barrier-strengthening ceramides in the formula). But the K-beauty cleanser can also be used as a five-minute mask when mixed with water. Amazon reviewers compare the stretchy mask to “marshmallow fluff,” noting that despite its sticky texture, it leaves skin noticeably softer and brighter once you rinse it off.

Most hair masks require a lot of waiting around and rinsing, but this spray-on treatment is the lazy-girl solution for healthier hair. Designed to be used on dry hair, the mist-on mask won’t weigh down or ruin your blowout. Instead, vegan silk proteins immediately leave hair with bounce and shine, while bond-building technology works to gradually strengthen hair with continued use.

The colorful capsules suspended in this primer are more than just fun to look at. Each one delivers a different skin care benefit, giving you a two-in-one find that serves as both moisturizer and makeup primer. As you massage the gel-cream into your skin, the pink, green, and pearly-white capsules firm, soothe, and hydrate with ingredients like vegan hibiscus collagen, green tea leaf extract, and eight types of hyaluronic acid.

This K-beauty sunscreen eliminates any excuse not to protect your skin from the sun. The broad spectrum 50 sunscreen blends into every skin tone without leaving behind a white cast, and instead subtly brightens with a soft pink tint. There’s also no chalky texture to worry about, as the sunscreen is formulated with collagen, peptides, hyaluronic acid, and cica.

Removing blackheads with a stick that’s also black in color may seem counterintuitive, but that’s exactly what this octopus-shaped tool was designed to do. As you massage the mini stick over clogged pores, charcoal and clay help to draw out impurities, like dead skin and oil, without causing irritation or drying out the skin.

Whether you’re wearing a full face of makeup or just a touch of concealer, these gems are an easy way to add some sparkle. Ideal for music festivals and nights out with friends, the rhinestones come in a massive set of more than 600 gems. The self-adhesive jewels can be reused with some lash glue, and you can apply them in your hair or on the body, too.

For oversized lashes that don’t look fake, cluster extensions are a must. This at-home kit gives you the wispiest of lash clusters, which can be arranged as sparingly or as generously as you wish, and removed at the end of the day. In addition to 10 reusable lash clusters, the drugstore kit also includes your bonding and sealing products, as well as an angled applicator to expertly maneuver the barely-there lashes.

Typically, nail tools require a bit of patience (we’re looking at you, files and polish). But you can slide this buffer right over your nails to immediately help smooth the surface and restore the shine of your natural nails in seconds. Especially ideal for when you’re taking a break from gel manicures, the nail buffer only needs to be used once each week to maintain results.

When a last-minute event pops up, and you don’t have enough time for a tan, this body lotion is a lifesaver. Part body makeup, part self-tanner, the bronze lotion immediately leaves skin sun-kissed with a matte finish. The color is transfer- and water-resistant, but it will wash off with soap and water at the end of the day.

TikTok made this drugstore mist an instant hit for anyone who wants to smell like a cupcake. Vanilla Cashmere, which blends notes of whipped vanilla, caramel, and sweet cream, is the OG viral scent, but the hyaluronic acid-infused body mist also comes in options like Coconut Waters and Strawberry Dream. It might not make you look better, per se, but it will make you feel and smell delectable.