Forget Dry Shampoo: This Makeup Bag Essential Might Just Work Better

Published Sep 17, 2024, 7:45 PM

We know the world of beauty is changing fast and there’s absolutely no way anyone can possibly keep up with all the wild trends, new treatments and products so now on Wednesday’s we do the hard work for you.

Tried & Tested is the show where hosts Erin Docherty & Emily Vernem put new products, treatments and hacks to the test so you don’t have to! Unless they are really worth it.

This episode Erin is reviewing a TikTok trend which sees her swapping out dry shampoo for micellar water to save try --  while Em is testing out the 'boyfriend blush' hack to see if it works or a waste of product - but will they work?

LINKS TO EVERYTHING MENTIONED: 

Hannah Cho
Napoleon Perdis Cheek Switch Crème Blush Stick - $59
'I ditched my dry shampoo for this viral hack for flat hair. Here's what happened.'
Dr. Shereene Idriss 
Bioderma Sensibio H2O Soothing Micellar Water Cleanser -  $32.99

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CREDITS:

Hosts: Erin Docherty & Emily Vernem

Executive Producer: Talissa Bazaz

Audio Producer: Lu Hill

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So you're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast.

Mama Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is recorded on Makeup is my therapy in love. I'm obsessed and I don't even feel guilty about it.

Hello and welcome to Tried and Tested, the show where I put new products, treatments and hacked to the test so you don't have to unless they're really worth it. Today I'm joined by the host of The Spill and beauty Obsessed m Vernon.

My neighbor. We've always sat close together.

And we've never done a pod together.

No, you can hear me every weekday on the Spill, but this is new ground for me.

But you're a beauty gallup, hyeh on my products them having a watch while I'm on BOD.

I think everything on my face right now is like stuffy. You've given me.

It's good to see because this episode I'm desperate to talk to you about the new hair hack.

Doing the rounds.

It's my cellar water to clean your hair without actually having to go through the hassle of washing and drying. But am you're bringing something along as well?

Yes, I've got a blush hack it's called the boyfriend blush trend. I'm new to blush and I don't know how this happened, but now I'm I'm full throttle. I want to do them.

All testing testing one to a three.

Did it work? A little bit of background, So I was doom scrolling TikTok one night and I came across a TikTok by Hannah Cho, who's a beauty TikTok influencer, and she was talking about the boyfriend blush trend. It's meant to make you look more youthful and also have like a slimmer face.

Why is it called the boyfriend blush.

I don't don't know. I think it's because maybe it looks like you know when men like do a workout and they just go really red.

You're just completely red.

That's a look for money to by going for Okay, So the hack is is that you take your blush. So I'm using Napoleon. I also do have blush on. And what you're meant to do is that you make like a triangle down your face, so the point to end of the triangle is facing downwards.

This immediately makes me feel like it's gonna like drag your cheekbones down instead of lift them off.

I actually do put my blush in this area. So it's going from the inner eye like area up to the cheekbone and then down like.

Right down past your nose, yes, in to my mouth the corners of your mouth basically, and.

Then join yeah, and then joining the triangle. And I actually do put my blush in the lower part. I have a round face, and it makes my face look slimmer. But I don't do this much. And it also says it's good if you have rose sha. So if this trend takes off, girls with rose sha will be on board because I have it naturally. Anywhere there you go, you're like, I'm made, so like everyone do the boyfriend blush trend.

Obviously with blush though, there's different ways to apply blush for your face features, So me just being.

Like, no, you're supposed to put it really high on your chain.

You know, it depending on your face shape, right, because I have a round face, I want to make it look a bit more demure, so as I go down.

So do you feel for this one? It depends on the shape of your face.

I think so, but then I saw it on her and I saw some other influences do it. Devin Aoki, who's a model and actress, has quite a slim face already, and she does it, and it looks so good on her. She just looks young, like a young person. She she just looks like a young a young and are young. And I feel very girly, like girly pop, very cute, see, very demure. What do you think, Well, it looks good on you.

I didn't even notice. I was going to say, like, if I dragged it down past.

I think she should try it.

I don't know. I'm scared.

I know I think she tried. Everyone I've seen on TikTok look really good with it.

Okay, if you rate it, I'm going to try it. I do it's wrong, Yeah, I'm gonna.

The risks are that you can probably look like you just ran a marathon, but then you can tell people who ran a maratha.

But then also I feel like that look is in right now, like over blushing is like okay.

Yeah, I think I do have blush blindness, Like I don't actually see the blush on my face, So I just go hardcore.

So this is gonna be your go to way to apply blush. Now.

Yeah, I'm waiting for someone to look at me, like, look on my face and do a double take. And that's when I know I've gone too far. Okay, when they're like, oh, I'm not.

Sure about that, you're glowing? There we go.

Okay, So that's one to try. Okay, I'm going to talk about this hair hack.

It's been doing the rounds.

It's basically my cellar water to clean your roots without actually having to go through like the washing and drying process. Obviously, that is just like the bane of my existence. I don't know about you, but.

I'm an oily girl.

I hate it, Like my hair isn't overly oily, but I just can.

Your hair always looks great? Is it my cellar.

Waterry jumping a hand?

So, basically, as I said, the trend is called the my cellar water dry shampoo hack. It is not as fancy as the boyfriend. I'm like, where's the name for this one? It basically involves sprang my cellar water in your hair instead of dry shampoo, and apparently it's supposed to work better.

Apparently it's supposed to pull the oil.

Out out better because my cellar water contains my cells.

I'll tell you about that in a minute.

I know yours isn't doesn't have a funky name to it like mine, but I've thought of one.

Which you've thought of it.

Yeah, I've got it right now.

Okay.

As I said, it's called the Myceella water dry shampoo hack, and it sounds so unsexy.

Yeah, okay, I think we should call it the my Sellar poo ha. It's like dry shampoo but my sellar so my sella poop, my sellar poo cham sella sella. I think shamp sella.

Do you think it's going to catch you on?

No?

But the hack kind of originated from a makeup artist and YouTuber Taddy Westbrook. You know Teddy west Yeah, she was the.

One who had the drama with James Charles.

Yeah.

Yeah. They were like big makeup influences and everyone was obsessed with They were also best friends. They had a bit of a falling out, I want to say, at Coachella one year, and I remember they both posted their story on their YouTube channels that had like millions of views, and it was just so interesting because everyone was just dissecting all their stories because all of their like big YouTube videos would have all these ads in between, so they'd be like crying, and then it'll be like.

Spec savings, you are a beauty girl.

I insert the pop culture with the beauty girl. This is how we do it.

I didn't actually find it on Taddy Westbrooks account. I just know it kind of like originated from her, but I first came across it on Matthew Newman, like Matt Love's hair. That's his Instagram handle.

Stop doing this? Yeah right, halfback is my life? Oh oh, we've got a little tricksy truth or I love the flippy over for the half back with the double twist. All right, we got to do this.

We've talked about him on you Beauty before. He has the most glorious long hair and he tries a lot of different hacks. He's a New York hairdresser. He's amazing if you don't follow him though. His hair is so long, beautiful, glossy.

And he knows what he's talking about.

So he posts a lot of hacks and if it works for him, then I'm usually like, Okay, there must be something in it.

I love that.

So the reason behind this hack is apparently because the my cells, which are like the tiny little cleansing balls in my cellar water. They're supposed to act like magnets and work like they do on your face, and they're supposed to like absorb oil, the oil.

And dirt in your hair.

So that obviously helps remove the oil from your hair, especially if you've got finer hair. Apparently it can also add a bit of volume to your hair because you don't have that oil weighing your hair down.

So I was intrigued.

So you need like an empty spray bottle and some of my cellar water. You can obviously get a spray bottle from Priceline or whatever, and you'll also need like a brush and a blow dryer.

So I tried this.

Squirted my cellar water into spray bottle, separated my hair into different sections. I did this like thirty minutes before I had to leave the house and go to an event, and it was just probably not.

Really do it all, Like if you're doing a hack, you're like, I need to have.

That times right in for it. For background.

My hair hadn't been washed in like two to three days, so it was pretty oily. I used the bioderma my cellar water. The big big bottle anyway, sprits it through my hair, and then when it came to actually blow drying my hair.

Going through that.

Whole process, I was like, oh my gosh, this takes probably as long as it would if you're just washing your hair drying it.

So it's kind of like, ah.

That's a whole purpose of dry shampoo. It's like, it's meant to take me like five seconds, and I'm meant to.

Look good exactly.

The only good thing with this though, is it's obviously not leaving like residue on your scalp like I usually use like a brunette dry shampoo. But then during the day I'll touch my hair and then I'm like, oh my gosh, my fingers are all brown.

Like am I melting?

What am I doing here?

So again, that's like the thing that I was kind of like, Oh, that kind of drew me to it because I was like, I do hate that because I would never usually use like a clear or like a white powdery dry shampoo because you can see it in dark hair. Anyway, I tried it, my hair ended up looking kind of like oily and still like real bitsy at the front, you know what I mean.

Like the sections were kind of yeah, it just kind of well, you're like.

I know I have a hairline, but no one needs to see me. The whole world doesn't either see that.

Yeah, that's exactly it. So I don't know if I would try it again, I wouldn't.

It sounds like a lot of work.

It was a lot of work, and it didn't work as good as dry shampoo, so I was kind of like, so it doesn't replace washing your hair. I don't think it replaces dry shampoo if you want to like a really quick freshen up and like you were at the gym or something like that and didn't have dry shampoo, maybe.

But water at the gym.

Some people have been using cotton pad and applying it to their hairline and it worked for them.

I don't know what for everyone. I saw, and I was kind of like, what the hell?

But then I also saw a TikTok on people using I think it's like a gany in my cellar water that we don't get in Australia, and it's like a madifying my cellar water. So it didn't make your hair as shiny and kind of grazy looking.

So I don't know. We don't get that here.

So damn it.

But a bit of a fail for me for that one.

Damn it, damn it, damn Well, least now we know how good dry shampoo is.

So am end of the day, your blush hack. I feel like it's a good one.

No, I feel like it's a good one. I think I encourage everyone to try it. Also, when I was doing it in the office before this record, because I have no time management skills, everyone was like, your face looks so good, like more compliments than usually.

Just guys, it does look good. Thank you.

I'll try it on you the recording.

I would say maybe no for the myself.

No, I don't think it's too long.

I don't know, just a whole other thing.

It really looked good though I had high hopes, but.

Also my sother what is expensive? Like do we need to be using that all on my head? You just need it for your face?

I feel like, yeah, try shampoo's already there. Stick with you, dry shampoo.

Thank you so much for joining us on this episode of You PDM.

I'll see you at my desk.

When we walk out here together.

But tell me where can people find you if they want more of you?

If you want more from me, I host our daily entertainment pop culture podcast with Laura Brodnick. It's called The Spill. Please check that out. You can also find some of my words on mamameia dot com dot You like erin, Yeah, I'm here as well. I'm here all the time.

We're always tapping away.

I'll be back in your ears next week with another test or two. And if there's something you want to see or something that you want us to try and test it, email us at podcast at MoMA mea dot com dot au, or pop into to the ubi d Facebook page or jump over to the ubud Instagram and send us a d M and we'll catch you next way. So many options, very contactable.

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