The best makeup facts and tips

February 27 2018
4 min reading time

We know how to contour, which foundation shade suits us best and how to shape our eyebrows. So we actually know quite a bit about makeup, right? Think again, because the following makeup facts and trivia are guaranteed to make your ears pop!

Did you know that…

… A woman eats an average of 3.5 kilos of lipstick in her lifetime?

… Men look at women with red lipstick for an average of 7.3 seconds? While otherwise they only look for an average of 2.2 seconds.

… Your skin ages 7x faster if you sleep with makeup on? Never do that!

… Women spend an average of €9,500 on makeup in their lifetime? Holy moly!

… Does it make your eyelashes curl easier if you heat your eyelash curler with a hair dryer?

… You prevent your lipstick from running if you apply lip liner first?

… You get volume on your lips by using 2 shades of lipstick? Apply the darkest shade on the outside and apply the lightest shade in the middle of your lips for the perfect kissable lips.

… You can make your mascara last longer by putting it in hot water for a while when it is almost empty? The hot water softens the mascara and you can easily continue to use it for a while!

… 21 percent of women think drawn eyebrows are the biggest no-go?

… Do you want your eyes to look optically larger if you use a white or nude eyeliner on your lower waterline?

… Your mascara dries out faster if you pump your mascara quickly? This is because too much air gets in.

… As many as 80% of women show their face without makeup to their new partner after a month?

… Eye pencils used to be made of kohl, which is why they are now also called kohl pencils?

… Your holiday tan will last longer if you scrub twice a week? Go for a mild or soft scrub, otherwise you will remove your tan too!

… Before blush existed, women would pinch their cheeks to make them red? Ouch!

… The deodorant roller is inspired by the ballpoint pen?

… The most expensive lipstick in the world is the Guerlain KissKiss Gold and Diamonds lipstick? It costs, brace yourself, $62,000! That has nothing to do with the lipstick itself; it’s the packaging that’s making it the record price. It’s made of 18-carat gold and set with 199 diamonds.

… People in Greece used to not be allowed to wear lipstick because it was meant to identify prostitutes?

… It was ever a trend to be pale? People even went so far as to try to become paler with leeches. The things we do to be beautiful…

… Makeup was used in the past to scare off enemies or to indicate your social rank?

… Girls spend about 336 hours of their lives applying their makeup? That’s two whole weeks!

… Makeup originated in Egypt?

… You leave 5% of your lipstick on glasses, cups, clothes and men? That last one isn't such a disaster ;-)