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Prom night beauty emergencies have a fix that doesn’t require a trip to the dermatologist.

TheThings Celebrity, the lifestyle offshoot once tied to TheTalko’s video production slate, put out “10 Things To Know Before Prom” in late April 2017 with a different angle than the usual red-carpet-gown roundup. Instead of ranking celebrity looks, the video runs through practical, at-home fixes for the grooming disasters that hit the night before a school dance — the puffy eyes, the chapped lips, the last-minute panic over an outfit that isn’t quite ready. It’s a countdown built for the bathroom mirror, not the awards-show recap.

• The video’s headline fix is a 15-minute DIY under-eye treatment combining baking soda, turmeric powder, freshly squeezed pineapple juice, and lemon juice to counter the dark circles caused by pre-prom stress and lost sleep.
• For chapped lips or a cold sore flaring up at the worst possible time, the recommended remedy is a moistened, warm bag of green tea pressed against the area.
• Beyond the cosmetic quick-fixes, the countdown widens into skincare prep, outfit coordination, pacing expectations for the night, and the logistical planning that keeps the evening from falling apart.

The Under-Eye Emergency Kit

Anyone who’s stayed up too late picking out shoes or triple-checking a dinner reservation knows the morning-after look: puffy, shadowed eyes that no amount of concealer wants to fully cover. The video’s answer skips the drugstore aisle entirely. Mixing baking soda and turmeric powder with fresh pineapple juice and a splash of lemon juice creates a paste that, left under the eyes for 15 minutes, is presented as enough to noticeably reduce dark circles before anyone steps into their gown or tux.

Fifteen minutes with a paste of baking soda, turmeric, pineapple juice, and lemon juice — that’s the entire prescription for erasing a night of pre-dance insomnia.

Fixing Chapped Lips and Cold Sores Fast

The second cosmetic emergency the video tackles is just as common on prom night: dry, cracked lips, or worse, a cold sore that picks the worst possible week to show up. The suggested remedy is simple — a warm, moistened green tea bag pressed to the lips. According to the video, the same trick doubles as a treatment for cold sores, making it a one-item fix for two separate problems without needing a pharmacy run.

Skincare Prep and Outfit Coordination

The countdown doesn’t stop at emergency remedies. It also walks through basic skincare preparation in the days leading up to the dance, plus getting an outfit locked down early enough to avoid a scramble. That kind of advance planning around what to wear echoes the kind of scrutiny paid to formalwear at any major dressed-up occasion, the same calculus that shows up in coverage of the most expensive royal wedding dresses — get the fitting and the details sorted well before the actual event, not the morning of.

Pacing the Night and Locking Down Logistics

Rounding out the list, the video covers pacing expectations for the evening itself and the logistical planning — transportation, timing, the small details — that keep a night with dinner, photos, and a dance floor from running off the rails. It’s less about any single hack and more about stringing the checklist together so nothing gets missed once the night actually starts.

TheThings Celebrity built the whole thing around ten manageable steps rather than a single overwhelming to-do list, which is probably why the green tea and turmeric tricks are the two anyone actually remembers afterward — they’re the ones you can pull off solo, in your own bathroom, with zero advance shopping required.