We love a good celebrity beauty hack .
These are people with all the money in the world to buy expensive serums creams and have luxurious facials. And yet, these celebs are using everyday things found in their house — from ketchup to Coca-Cola to cat litter (???) — to make themselves more beautiful.
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If you’re up for a beauty challenge, here are 13 beauty hacks we could all use.
1. Snooki – Cat litter as an exfoliant
Snooki has been the cat’s meow since she starred on MTV’s Jersey Shore . But this one beauty hack may have taken things over the line . She has claimed that mixing cat litter with water is a good way to slough off dead skin.
2. Suki Waterhouse – Coca-Cola as shampoo
When the singer’s boyfriend, Robert Pattinson, runs his fingers through her hair, he just might smell Coca-Cola.
“I rinse my hair with Coca-Cola sometimes,” she told Us Weekly . “I don’t like my hair when it’s washed—it’s fine and limp—but Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I’ve gone through the Amazon or something.”
3. Beyoncé – Glue stick as an eyebrow gel
Want eyebrows that look like Beys? Of course, you do. You’ll have to reach into your office drawer and find a glue stick.
“My [favorite] beauty hack is to use Elmer’s Glue Stick as the ultimate brow gel in the heat,” Beyoncé’s makeup artist, Sir John, revealed to E! News . “It doesn’t clog your pores, and it washes off easily.”
4. Kate Hudson – Facial ice bath
Need to look more awake ASAP? Dunk your face in a cold ice bath, like Kate. “A makeup artist who has worked with dozens of people said ‘I used to work with this actor and every day he would stick his face in an ice bath,” Kate told StyleCaster .
5. Blake Lively – Mayonnaise as a hair mask
Some beauty hacks we learn from our mother. “My mom taught me this really great beauty tip,” Blake told Byrdie . “She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower,” Lively said. “That way, when she would shampoo, the soap wouldn’t strip the bottom of the hair and dry it out, making it brittle.”
6. Sandra Bullock – Hemorrhoid cream around eyes
Ever wonder how the Miss Congeniality star manages to stay so young? Well, she has revealed that she applies hemorrhoid cream under her eyes to prevent fine lines. Dermatologists found that it can be helpful; just be careful not to get it in your eyes.
7. Catherine Zeta-Jones – Beer as a hair conditioner
The actress may have used this beauty hack to prepare her hair for her role in Netflix’s Wednesday .
“I do condition my hair with honey and beer,” she told the Daily Mail . “I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterward, but it’s very good for the hair.”
8. Sienna Miller – Ketchup as bleach
After multiple failed attempts at dying her hair, the actress turned to ketchup to bleach her hair back to its original color.
“The only thing that made any difference was ketchup, so for about a year and a half I had to put tomato ketchup on my hair under heat until it went back to normal,” she told Vogue U.K.
9. Julianne Hough – Tumeric as toothpaste
If you’ve ever cooked with turmeric, you know that it stains everything . And yet, the Dancing With the Stars alum uses it to clean her teeth. She claims that it actually whitens her teeth .
10. Lauren Conrad – Oil pulling
If turmeric isn’t cutting it as a teeth whitener, try oil pulling ! This is when you swish oil in your mouth soon after waking up. “Supposedly, if the oil turns yellow, you’re pulling out a good amount of toxins and doing it right!” Lauren has claimed .
11. Lady Gaga – Tape as a facelift
As someone who doesn’t believe in plastic surgery, the singer prefers natural methods. In an interview with Porter, she revealed that she will use tape to pull back sagging skin on her face, like around her eyes.
“In that moment, when I have my wig cap on and I’m taping my face, it’s a sort of meditation for me,” she said.
“Every day, it starts the same way. It’s like a mantra. I wash my face. I pin my hair back and put on a wig cap, and I ask, ‘How am I going to form my eyes today with this tape? How will I pull back my neck with tape?’ Or maybe I won’t pull it back at all.”
12. Margot Robbie – nipple cream on her lips
Ever wanted to look like Barbie? Just slather nipple cream on your lips! That’s the solution the star of the upcoming Barbie movie has come up with after lip balms kept drying out her lips .
“My lip balm, I use Bepanthen, which is actually a nipple cream for breastfeeding mothers or diaper rash cream for babies,” Robbie told Elle UK .
13. Shailene Woodley – Clay as toothpaste
As a free spirit, Shailene has always been known for her unorthodox beauty hacks.
When she worked with Miles Teller on The Spectacular Now , he said that she took “Chinese dirt supplements and shoved them in her mouth” before their kissing scene.
“It’s like a dirt pouch, and it smells like crap,” he said.
If that isn’t weird enough, the actress has admitted to eating clay. “(Clay) is one of the best things you can put in your body,” Woodley stated in an interview with Into the Gloss . “One of my friends was making a clay toothpaste that you swallow instead of spit out.
