TikTok’s Viral Lube Make-up Primer Hack May Irritate Pores and skin

The world of magnificence hacks on TikTok is a really slippery slope — actually. In a string of latest viral movies, some customers on the app are giving their basis further glide by mixing it with… lube. As in sexual lubricant. As in bow chicka wow wow. 

A model of this, er, trick has been utilized by @lukeketuhok in lots of prior make-up movies, nevertheless it actually took off October 11, when Sean Anthony (@seananthonyv) posted a video of the hack, which has since earned greater than 1.5 million views and 100,000 likes.

“It’s a must to begin mixing lube along with your basis,” an automatic voice urges as Anthony mixes basis and Durex lubricant collectively on a palette. “It makes it glide further clean… makes your base flawless and contemporary.” The outcomes, admittedly, do look superb; Anthony’s pores and skin seems radiant after ending his make-up routine. That is why nobody must be shocked that different folks raced to attempt lube make-up for themselves. 

Searches for “lube make-up” or “lube primer” on the app will grant you dozens of movies of different folks squeezing lube onto their faces (now there is a sentence we did not suppose we would ever see in Attract). A lot as folks appear to like the outcomes that mixing lubricant into make-up can wield, not even Durex — the model that makes the lube system most individuals have used of their movies — can get behind it. 

“We recognize the creativity right here (and your make-up appears nice) however we do not suggest utilizing our lubricants on the face as make-up primers,” the verified Durex TikTok account wrote in a touch upon Anthony’s video. 

There is a purpose lubricants are solely meant for use for… you recognize. “Except the lube you’re utilizing is Vaseline, do not combine your intercourse and make-up equipment,” says Mona Gohara, a board-certified dermatologist in Connecticut. “Well-liked lube substances equivalent to nonoxynol-9, propylene glycol, and perfume will, positive sufficient, slide your face proper into zits, redness, or full-blown irritation.” Beauty chemist Ginger King additionally notes that propylene glycol, “an anti-freeze, can have irritation potential,” and that the frequent lube ingredient glycerin could cause stickiness (which is not the finish of the world, simply very annoying). 

You possibly can obtain considerably comparable outcomes by swapping out the sexual lubricant on this hack with a skin-care serum, which is what King recommends doing. “It looks as if the intention [of using lube] is simply to get viral on social media,” she concludes. 

When you’re contemplating utilizing this TikTok hack as an on a regular basis observe, you would possibly wish to rethink. However, hey, if going viral is your aim, we cannot cease you — simply watch out to not depart that lube in your pores and skin for very lengthy. 

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