Macgyver Your Makeup: Lips & Cheeks
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There is no one color that looks good on everyone—except the natural red from beets.
Posted by ReadyMade
Photography by Levi Brown
Siobhan O’Connor and Alexandra Spunt are bicoastal best friends and the authors of No More Dirty Looks, a new book about the toxic ingredients used in everyday beauty products. Committed to trying everything they recommend in the book, they turned their bathrooms and kitchens into beauty labs to find the best products and recipes out there. Some of it proved easy—switching to nontoxic bar soap was a breeze. Detoxing their makeup bags, on the other hand, presented a unique challenge. But if you consider that a recent FDA study found lead in all the lipsticks it sampled, you can understand why these girls learned to make their own makeup. Here’s the deal.
Skill Level
Easy
Active Time
Less than an hour
Cost
$
- Raw, organic coconut oil
- Beeswax
- beet root powder (available at fromnaturewithlove.com) or a beet
Materials
- Bowl
- Grater
- Pot
- Glass jar
Tools
In a bowl, spoon out 1 tsp dried beet root powder.
Add 1½ tbsp coconut oil and mix.
Grate 1½ tbsp beeswax into your oil paste and put it into an old pot (better if you don’t care about it). Heat on low, being careful not to let it burn, until melted.
Remove pot from heat and pour the mixture into a glass jar to cool. Once it hardens, use your finger to apply the best, easiest lip and cheek stain out there. Will last 6 months unrefrigerated.
