Debunking the DIY Liquid Lipstick Hack the Internet Is Obsessed With

Another day, another vlogger DIY beauty hack to debunk. Today's DI-don't comes courtesy of social media star Zohra, who shared how to craft a DIY liquid lipstick in an Instagram video, using only two products: primer and a bullet of her favorite shade of lipstick.

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The video below, which has been viewed almost two million times on Instagram, features Zohra cutting a bullet of rose-tinted lipstick out of its tube and then mashing it down before blending it with an nondescript face primer. Once mixed together, she scrapped the newly formulated shade into a syringe and squeezed it into its own tube. The final result of her quick chemistry session? A creamy, buildable liquid lipstick.

"I'm so excited about this DIY, I have sooo many lipsticks that I don't use and now I can put them to use," she wrote in the Instagram caption. "I mixed it with a liquid face primer from sephora. [sic] The syringe and empty tube I used was from eBay!"

Sure, mixing together two of your go-to, already-on-hand products in your makeup stash to create a custom saturated shade sounds simple enough, but easy doesn't necessarily constitute as safe. At all. Just take a second to think about what Zohra did: She mixed a formula made for your face and swept it onto her lips—which, as you quite obviously know, are next to/a part of your mouth—and thus could plausibly be easily ingested. How could that possibly be safe? Turns out, it's not really.

"There is a reason why there are different categories of products for safety reasons: there are regulations," cosmetic chemist Ginger King tells Allure. "If the person uses a DIY once or twice, it may not be harmful, but no one knows long-term effect [of using DIY beauty products]." So playing with products near your mouth is especially

"You need to be very careful for [DIY] lip products," King confirmed to us, "as the product applied can be ingested." And we barely eat what we whip up for dinner in our kitchen, let alone some sort of new DIY skin hack. "You won't know much about a DIY product unless it's tested and proven safe by a clinical lab with repeated results or reviewed by a toxologist," King adds.

Bottom line: If you're dying to get your hands on a creamy, not-too-drying liquid lipstick (like the ), we strongly recommend that you save your pennies for the real deal and buy a tube instead. Purchasing a product made specifically to be a liquid lipstick (and not just something you've crafted in your kitchen) is obviously the much safer option than a DIY liquid lipstick, so go ahead, and in the name of the holiday spirit, #treatyoself.

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