Alex O'Brien
Beauty & Style

5 Uses for cotton tips in your beauty routine

Cotton tips can be used for more than just cleaning your ears. Check out these five clever ways to use q tips in other ways.

1. Get longer lasting perfume

Spray the ends of a few cotton tips with your favourite perfume, and out them in a plastic sandwich bag before stashing them in your purse to touch up throughout the day.

2. Fix a stuck zipper

Dip one end of the cotton tip in a little bit of shampoo, and rub the end along the area of the zipper that is stuck. The shampoo will act as a lubricant and will help loosen the jammed zipper.

3. Cure puffy eyes

Dip two cotton tips in your eye cream, put them in a sandwich bag and freeze them over night. In the morning, sweep them under our eyes to help deflate puffy under eye-bags.

4. For travel

If you're going on a quick weekend trip and don't have a lot of space in your carry-on, roll the ends of some cotton swabs in a few different eyeshadow shades, covering them liberally with product. Then, use the cotton swab as mini eyeshadow brushes with built-in colour to apply your eye make-up on your travels.

5. Shine up your jewellery

A cotton swab makes a great jewellery-cleaning tool. Just dampen a tip with a jewellery cleaning solution, and use it to clean rings, earrings, and the nooks and crannies of pendants and brooches.

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