Best of the Best: The 30 most ingenious beauty tricks

Almost everyone has a little beauty trick in store. Sometimes he just saves time or money. Like the tip from the grandmother who makes the hair extra shiny or the skin extra soft. We wanted to know exactly these tricks from you and asked in our community for it. The 30 best beauty tricks we have put together here - and of course give you our own tips.

Stefanie Ulmenstein, 46, self-employed

I do not throw away almost empty lipstick in warm red tones, but scratch everything out, mix it and fill it for my creamy leftover blush into a small tin. So I always have something on hand for traveling.

Astrid Christians, 28, Online Editor

The matte look is just in. Since I do not want to throw away my previous glossy lipsticks, matte lipstick is tinkered itself: apply paint, dab with Kleenex and dust with transparent powder.

Merle Rebentisch, 37, Deputy Beauty Resort Manager

Before eyebrow plucking, I use the powder brush against the grain. Due to the fine dust, the individual hairs get more grip, and you get them better then.

Jana Gloistein, 33, beauty journalist

While traveling, I fill a contact lens case with my favorite eye cream and the others with my favorite lipbalm. This saves space on backpack trips, and you can take the small container on the plane.

Jan Gritz, 50, fashion and beauty editor

When I was still a music editor, I often had to go to concerts in the evening and then celebrate with the bands until late at night. In order to look fresh in the morning, I quickly creamed my self-tanner's face before I slept. The Effect: The Hangover paleness was cleverly pushed on sleepy normal complexion. Works today.

Constanze Stiehl, 26, student

I often react with irritated eyelids on eye make-up remover. Therefore, I prefer to use a soft microfiber cloth from the drugstore: just wet it and gently drive it over the eyes. No redness, no eyelashes that fail! After a week it gets into the laundry, and after a few months, it is replaced.

Fatma Mirza, 22, student

For dark circles, I apply concealer not just below the eye area, but also slightly to the side of the nose, in a region that looks like a "V" from the nostrils to the inner and outer corner of the eye. So the shadows are better covered - and I look more alert.

Johanna Burmester, 17, student

For great eyelashes, a good eyelash curler is essential. The momentum will be even more durable if you warm up the pliers shortly before using it.

Inga Behrens, student

Before going to sleep, I do not just give lipbalm on my mouth, but also a little on my eyebrows - so they are perfect to brush in shape the next morning.

Gabriele Hillebrandt, 55, kfm. employee

For swollen eyes, especially in the area of the bags, I lay for about ten minutes small, filled with curd wipes on the eyes. This pulls out excess water and also has a cooling effect.

Marion Swodoba, 40, editor

As a food editor I have a delicious favorite recipe for dry skin: I give 1 liter of whole milk, 1 tablespoon honey, 2 teaspoons oil (eg hazelnut, walnut or olive oil) and sometimes 1 tablespoon coarse sea salt in the warm bath. The water has a nice soothing white color, and the skin is then very supple.

Alexandra Wolter, 45, museum educator

For my sweet body scrub I mix shower oil with brown organic cane sugar to a thick mass. In the shower I peel the wet body with it - makes a very delicate skin.

Frauke Bennigbusch, 36, controller

My oily skin shines often. So I rinse my face off in the morning with cold black tea, let it go in and do not wash it off. Its tannins tighten the pores and reduce the shine. Individual spots can also be dabbed with a cotton ball soaked in black tea.

Anita Lehmann, 30, foreign language secretary

I have a special cleansing ritual for my sensitive skin: I wash myself with a lye of soda (dissolve 2 teaspoons of soda in a bowl of warm water). I can handle that very well, and my skin feels nice and soft afterwards.

Emila Monters, 32, student

Fresh coffee grounds get me a second chance: I mix it with a teaspoon of olive oil and a dash of milk and use the mix as a special scrub in the shower. This makes the skin so rosy and velvety that I do not need any cream afterwards. Apart from that, I find my scrub good because it is absolutely fresh and I know exactly which ingredients I rub on the skin.

Angela Schöneck, 47, beauty editor

If I want to get rid of annoying hairs on the fly, I do not use shaving cream, but before shaving body lotion on the legs - the blade runs well over it, and the skin is well cared for.

Michaela-Christine Schmitzberger, 35, Assistant CPO & Project Management

For my personal all-round home remedy, I collect arnica and put the fresh flowers with high-proof schnapps (about 1 handful to 300 milliliters). The broth disinfects and leaves wounds and z. B. also better cure acne scars. I carefully dab it on cuts and pimples and rub the corresponding place with it in joint and muscle pain.

Vladimira Puhani, social pedagogue

My best refreshment for the skin: self-made facial spray. To make a high-quality white organic tea boil, decanting after cooling in a bottle with atomizer, off in the fridge with it and if necessary spray on. A true awake-maker! And the polyphenols contained in white tea are considered effective protection against free radicals!

Birgit Potzkai, 47, beauty producer

If you, like me, often suffer from torn corners of your mouth, try everything. I have had great experiences with the Schüßler salt number 3: I break the tablets, dissolve them in a drop of water, give the paste that results from them, before sleeping on the torn corners of the mouth - and the next morning nothing hurts !

Elona Meyer, 52, forwarding agent

After drying my hair, I knead aloe vera gel into my natural curls. As a result, they are defined, fixed, and nothing sticks. There is an extra boost of moisture on top of that. Also the daily application between the washes is not a problem.

Miriam Wiederer, 39, Beauty Director

My best purchase was an electric hair dryer. I dry with a normal hair dryer, then the brush is allowed. With that, my long hair, even at the back of my head, gets great shape, and especially the tips are better.

Andrea Müller, 42, office manager

Before use, I put hair treatments in the microwave for 15 seconds. The heat that comes on the hair with the cure, opens its cuticle, and the active ingredients can penetrate better.

Simone Knauss, 40, living editor

The best styling product for unruly, dry curls is still the good old "Nivea cream" from the blue tin! Rub some of it in your hands, then knead it into your hair, and you'll be able to control protruding hair again.

Stefanie Höfle, 39, lifestyle reporter

Shampooing, blow drying: With long hair it takes! If you want to go faster in the morning, a pony wash is enough - the "rest" style I use as a braid or bun.

Nadine Schneider, 24, student

For frizzy beach waves my homemade salt spray is great. For this I mix a teaspoon of coarse sea salt with 250 milliliters of water and a splash of conditioner that you do not have to wash out. Put the mix in damp hair and let it dry.

Silke Baumgarten, 54, dossier / travel / health editor

Now and then I "drink" my hair in the evening with burdock root oil. The next morning I have to wash them thoroughly, but then they are full again, soft and no longer so electrically charged.

Sandy Weingarten, 40, designer

Painted toenails are my trademark in summer. To prepare the feet well for painting, I brush the nails with a toothbrush. So the sensitive cuticles on the toes and dead skin cells are rubbed off. Better than any normal foot scrub!

Steffi Brockmeier, 35, architect

For me, washing dishes becomes a wellness cure: I rub my hands and nails generously with olive oil and put on rubber gloves; The warm water draws in very well. The result: clean dishes, delicate hands and strengthened nails.

Karin Blake, 25, hotel manager

One of my favorite beauty tricks helps against nail polish blemishes on the skin: I apply a cream or lipbalm around the nails (not on it!) Before I paint them, and then, should I miss a little paint, I can easily do it wipe off.

Kathrin Behrens, 55, Head of ChroniquesDuVasteMonde Reader Service

I always have painted nails. And if after a few days, the tips are not so perfect and I have no time (or desire) to make the nails completely new, I better only the quirks at the tips and then paint everything with over paint. Looks perfect again.