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10 Makeup Life Hacks You’ve Never Seen Before

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A business card and a strip of scotch tape are about to replace half your makeup bag.

TheThings Celebrity’s “10 Makeup Life Hacks You’ve Never Seen Before” skips the $40 brushes and expensive stencil kits and goes straight for what’s already sitting in a junk drawer. The video builds its list around household objects doing the job of professional tools — a straightedge for eyeshadow, tape for eyeliner, even a hairdryer for a curling iron. It’s the kind of no-budget approach that made TheThings Celebrity’s DIY beauty listicles a recurring hit in the mid-2010s.

• The video’s headline technique uses a business card held flush against the outer corner of the eye at roughly a 45-degree angle toward the temple to sweep on eyeshadow for a sharp, fallout-free smokey eye.
• A separate hack places a strip of scotch tape along the lower lash line as a stencil, letting users draw a symmetrical winged eyeliner flick without freehand wobble.
• The clip is framed as a rundown of 10 shortcuts, also covering a repurposed mascara wand as a brow spoolie, powder-set lipstick, and a frozen eyeliner pencil meant to resist smudging.

The Straightedge Method For A Sharp Smokey Eye

The card trick is presented as the fix for one of the most common smokey-eye complaints: shadow that ends up smudged past the crease or uneven from one eye to the other. By propping a rigid edge against the outer corner and angling it toward the temple, the video argues anyone can sweep powder along a clean, consistent line instead of eyeballing it freehand.

Hold the card up to the outer corner of your eye at a 45-degree angle and apply your eyeshadow along the edge of the card.

It’s a low-cost stand-in for the specialty eyeshadow stencils sold in beauty aisles, and the video treats it as proof that the shape doesn’t require a special tool — just something stiff enough to hold a line.

Tape Stencils And The Winged Liner Flick

Winged eyeliner gets the same treatment. Rather than drawing the flick freehand and risking a lopsided result, the video has viewers lay a small strip of tape diagonally from the outer corner of the eye toward the end of the eyebrow, then fill in the triangle beneath it. Peeling the tape away afterward leaves a crisp, symmetrical edge on both eyes — the same logic pro artists use with a business card, just adapted for a straighter, more precise line.

Beyond The Eyes: The Rest Of The List

The remaining hacks stretch across the rest of a routine. An old mascara wand, wiped clean, becomes a spoolie for grooming eyebrows. Perfume sprayed onto a hairbrush before styling is pitched as a subtler way to scent hair than spraying it directly. For lipstick longevity, the video suggests holding a tissue over the lips and dusting powder through it to set the color, and it recommends applying highlighter before foundation for a softer, more natural glow underneath rather than on top.

A few of the tips lean into unconventional territory: dabbing baby powder onto lashes with a cotton swab between mascara coats for extra volume, heating an eyelash curler briefly with a hairdryer for a longer-lasting curl, and freezing an eyeliner pencil before use so it stays firmer and resists smudging through the day. Concealer, meanwhile, gets blended with a fingertip instead of a brush for a seamless finish.

The Draw For Amateur Makeup Fans

None of these tricks require a trip to Sephora. That’s the entire pitch — the video is built for viewers who want red-carpet-sharp lines without red-carpet-sized budgets, the same audience that clicks on lists breaking down celebrity beauty transformations or how stars like the ones in celebrity doppelgänger comparisons manage to look camera-ready on demand. It’s also the format that lets a channel like TheThings Celebrity churn out quick, shareable how-tos alongside its bigger entertainment coverage, whether that’s a listicle about the priciest royal wedding dresses or a rundown of ten household-item beauty fixes.

None of these tricks are patented or exclusive — a business card for eyeshadow and tape for eyeliner have floated around beauty forums for years — but packaging all ten into one quick list is what turned this into the kind of clip people bookmark before a night out. Worth testing the tape trick on one eye before committing to both; that’s the whole point of a stencil.