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40 Simple Hacks That Have A Big Impact On How You Look
Get ready for easier, better-than-ever style.
There are full makeup days and no makeup days, but on both occasions I love finding low-effort fashion and beauty hacks that make a big difference in my life. Take care of your skin and nails to elevate your natural glow. Add some simple jewelry to instantly make you look more put together. It doesn’t take much to look great, so here are 40 simple, easily-accessible hacks that are low-effort but still have a huge impact on your appearance.
1Refresh & Add Volume To Your Hair With This Easy-To-Apply Dry Shampoo
This dry shampoo uses biotin, vitamins, and black ginseng in its powdery formula to remove excess scalp oil, so the days between your hair wash showers last way longer. It comes in a compact jar with an application sponge to add volume and evenly apply the matte formula to your scalp and roots.
2Instantly Remove Wrinkles With This Gentle Spray That Has 22,000 5-Star Ratings
Just spritz some of this wrinkle remover directly onto your clothes from 8 inches away until slightly damp, stretch the edge of the garment to remove wrinkles, and hang to dry. It works instantly to refresh your clothes, and eliminate odors so you’ll look your wrinkle-free best. It also leaves behind a fresh sprintime scent, so you’ll smell as crisp as you look.
3Put Your Hair Up With These Gentle Satin Scrunchies That Won’t Leave Creases
These satin scrunchies are a chic addition to any outfit, but they offer so much more than a sleek bun or high pony. The elastics are super gentle, so they won’t leave your hair with any creases or bumps post-’do, and the outside is of course made with a soft and smooth satin fabric that won’t cause frizz or split ends.
4Protect Your Face & Get A Subtle Tint With This Moisturizing Mineral Sunscreen
Lightweight, non-greasy, and with SPF 30 protection, this tinted sunscreen is a great hack for those days you don’t want to wear a full face of makeup but still want a little coverage and sun protection. It’s suitable for all skin types, and blends in seamlessly. It’s also infused with hyaluronic acid, so it moisturizes your skin while protecting it.
5Add Color To Your Eyes, Lips & Cheeks With This Best-Selling Multi-Stick
Nothing says “makeup hack” quite like this best-selling stick that can be used to add a shimmery color to your lips, eyes, and cheeks. The cream-to-powder formula is packed with shea butter to nourish while adding a non-greasy and highly blendable touch of color to your skin — wherever you are.
6Treat Stains On-The-Go With These Gentle Yet Effective Wipes
Keep a couple of these stain removing wipes in your purse, backpack, or car and treat tricky stains the moment they happen, no matter where you are. They come individually wrapped for easy portability and work on wine, grass, tomato, dirt, and other hard-to-remove stains — nothing else needed.
7Keep Your Mascara From Clumping With This Super Cheap Comb
This eyelash comb uses super fine stainless steel prongs to slip between your lashes and keep them from clumping up after you put on mascara. Its curved design conforms to the shape your eyelid, while the slippery design leaves a clean finish. It comes with a cap so you can bring it with you anywhere.
8Rock Super White Sneakers By Cleaning Shoes With These Popular 2-Sided Sponges
Just add water to these powerful sponges, scrub them on your shoes, and watch your pairs transform into as good as new. With duel-layer technology, the white side will scrub away stains, grime, and scuffs, while the orange side will wipe away other remaining marks. Plus, they’re reusable until they naturally disintegrate with use, which is why they’re bestsellers on Amazon.
9Get Baby Soft, Sandal-Ready Feet With These Powerful, Zero Effort Masks
These super popular foot peel masks are the at-home hacks to get pedicure-worthy feet at a budget-friendly price. Simply slip your feet into the pre-lotioned booties, wait 60 minutes, rinse, and watch your feet peel in just six to 11 days. The result will be baby soft feet that will look great in any strappy sandal.
10Strengthen Your Nails & Condition Your Cuticles With This Reparative Cream
Treat your brittle nails or peeling cuticles at home with this powerful cream. It’s packed with calcium and other vitamins to repair splitting, chipping, peeling, and cracking nails, as well as shea butter and other powerful oils to hydrate and soothe cuticles.
11Create Soft Beachy Waves With These Easy-To-Use Ceramic Rollers
These ceramic thermal rollers make creating curly, shiny, and soft waves easily, whether your hair is long, mid-length, or short. Simply roll sectioned hair onto the rollers, secure in place with a clip, apply heat with a blow dryer, and remove the clips to reveal blow out-worthy curls. The velcro is self-gripping, which helps to keep these easy-to-use curlers secure.
12Secure & Lift Earrings With These Adjustable Backs
If you notice your earrings are drooping on your earlobe, check out these backs that secure to the earring post and gently lift it for a tighter, more secure fit. They’re gold-plated, hypoallergenic, and the back clasp can be loosened or tightened depending on the thickness of the earring’s post.
13Smooth & Exfoliate Lips With This Highly Rated Sugar Scrub
Get smooth, plump, and hydrated lips with this delicious sugar scrub. It’s made with Hawaiian cane sugar, kukui oil, and shea butter to exfoliate, remove dead and dry skin, and moisturize your lips in seconds. The result is supple, soft lips. Plus, it’s great to use as a primer before you apply lipstick, which is why this scrub has a 4.6-star rating on Amazon after over 4,000 ratings.
14Get A Seamless Look & Subtle Lift With These Reusable Nipple Pasties
If you’re wearing a top or dress with a tricky neckline or no straps at all, these reusable nipple pasties adhere directly to the skin for worry-free coverage and lift — all while being invisible under your clothes. They’re resistant to water and sweat, and have a medical-grade adhesive that peels off gently and pain-free.
15Keep Your Clothes Lint-Free Wherever You Are With This Portable Roller
The unique thing about this lint roller is the retractable cover that twists over the adhesive tape, making it fit into your purse stick-free so you can spot-check yourself wherever you need it. It has 90 sheets of sticky tape that traps pet hair, dust, crumbs to keep your clothes looking good as new.
16Lock In Your Look & Create A Matte Finish With This Makeup Setting Spray
When applied over your normal makeup, this setting spray locks your foundation, eyeshadow, blush, concealer, and more in place to preserve it for longer. The weightless formula also provides oil control to create a seamless, matte finish, and it dries super quickly so you can be on your way out the door.
17Treat & Heal Pimples With These Invisible Patches That Have 23,000 5-Star Ratings
Packed with hydrocolloid, stick these pimple patches directly onto your troublesome, unwanted zit for at least six hours to remove gunk, minimize redness, and reduce the overall appearance of breakouts. They’re ultra thin and translucent, so you can wear them day or night. These are a popular, effective choice on Amazon with over 23,000 five-star reviews.
18Customize Your Necklace Lengths With These Extenders
Stacking necklaces is all the rage right now, and these extenders with classic lobster claw closures allow you to customize the length of your jewelry for effortless and knot-free layering. They come in four lengths — 2, 3, 4, and 6 inches — and in both gold and silver to seamlessly match to your favorite jewelry.
19Get Salon-Worthy Cuticles With This Gentle & Best-Selling Pusher
Give yourself a salon-worthy manicure at home with this stainless steel cuticle pusher, which is a bestseller on Amazon with a 4.7-star rating. One side features a curved end to gently push cuticles back, while the other side has a flat end to remove excess dirt from under the nails. It has a textured nonslip handle to make an at-home mani easy.
20Get Long-Lasting Lip Color With This Velvet Lip Tint
Available in dozens of stunning colors, this lip tint uses high-intensity pigments to stain your lips for long-lasting color without feeling sticky or clumpy. The applicator is designed to conform to the shape of your lips, and the adhesive formula means you won’t need to keep reapplying throughout the day.
21Reveal Smooth, Glowing Skin With This Turmeric-Infused Body Scrub
With over 33,000 five-star ratings, reviewers are raving about the deep cleaning properties of this body scrub. Not only does it gently exfoliate to remove dead skin and dirt, but it’s also packed with collagen and sunflower, coconut, and jojoba oils to deeply hydrate and plump to reveal a full-body glow.
22Quickly Dry Your Hair Without Damage With This Hair Wrap
Unlike harsh towels, this microfiber hair wrap is designed to twist and loop around your wet hair to dry it quickly and gently without rubbing, breaking, or damaging hair. Plus it has an elastic band that keeps it in place so you can do your skincare routine or put on makeup without your hair falling down.
23Whiten Your Teeth With This Popular Activated Charcoal Toothpaste
Whitening your teeth is as simple as brushing them when you use this activated charcoal toothpaste. With organic coconut oil and baking soda, this toothpaste not only removes plaque and freshens breath, but also whitens teeth without creating tooth or gum sensitivity. It’s a simple yet effective solution Amazon shoppers love — just peep the 24,000-plus five-star reviews.
24Rejuvenate & Plump Under Your Eyes With These Golden, Vitamin-Packed Masks
Refresh your under eyes instantly with these spa-worthy masks, which use glycerin, hyaluronic acid, and vitamins C, E, and B3, to hydrate and soothe your skin. They come individually wrapped so you can take them with you wherever you go, and they’re gentle on oily, dry, or combination skin. Pro tip: keep them in the refrigerator for a super satisfying cooling sensation.
25Get Your Jewelry Shining With These Polishing Cloths
Use these cleaning cloths to polish your silver, gold, and platinum jewelry until your pieces are shiny like they’re new. Two-sided, the inner cloth cleans and the outer cloth polishes for two-in-one, mess-free jewelry care. Plus, they fit into your pocket or purse to touch up your jewelry on-the-go.
26Achieve The Perfect Cat Eye With With These Clever Eyeliner Stamps
Looking for a perfectly even cat eye without the classic trial and error hassle? Check out these stamps. Each pen has a liquid eyeliner on one side, great for starting the process and lining your eyelids. While the other side has a stamp — one for your left eye and one for your right eye — to create a perfectly symmetrical wing every time.
27Instantly Cover Up Roots With This Water-Resistant Spray
This root spray offers water-resistant, fast-drying temporary color so the time between salon color touch ups can last a little longer. It comes in multiple common shades and works on straight, coily, and very curly hair instantly to cover up your roots without smudging or leaving sticky residue.
28Keep Your Clothes In Place With This Best-Selling Double-Sided Tape
This double-sided tape adheres gently to your skin and clothes to keep your outfit in place all day long. It creates a seamless, invisible adhesion that won’t rip clothes or hurt skin, and can be used on spaghetti straps, deep V-necks, socks, off-the-shoulder necklines — you name it. This is a trusted tape on Amazon with bestseller status and over 24,000 five-star reviews.
29Get Brighter, Whiter Eyes With These Gentle Drops That Last For 8 Hours
If your eyes are prone to redness, these drops work in one minute and last up to eight hours to get your eyes soothed and back to their natural radiance. They contain brimonidine, which targets and relieves redness without constricting the oxygen to your eyes, like other eye drops, making it even more gentle and long-lasting.
30Extend Or Take In Your Jeans With These Add-On Buttons
These add-on buttons pierce and snap directly into the waistband of your jeans so you can always make sure your favorite pair fits like a glove. They’re made of high-quality metal, closes with your existing button hole, and can be adjusted to add or remove up to 1 inch at the waist.
31Shape, Fill & Define Your Brows With This Pencil & Comb Combo
We love a two-in-one hack like this eyebrow tool with a pencil on one end and a comb on the other. The retractable pencil has a narrow flat tip with an ultra-creamy formula that fills in and shapes your brows, while the spoolie combs and locks it in for perfectly styled brows all day long.
32Hem Your Clothes Without A Tailor With This Iron-On Adhesive
Make permanent and easy adjustments to the hem of your jeans, dresses, skirts, and more with this iron-on double sided adhesive tape. Heat activated, it works on cotton, denim, suede, wool, corduroy and other heavy fabrics, to get a custom tailored look without the custom tailor price.
33Flawlessly Layer & Separate Your Necklaces With This Clever Clasp
This clasp connects to three necklaces (or six if you double up) to help you achieve the layered look while keeping them untangled and separated so they don’t all land on your neck at the same spot. Plus, the layering device has one center clasp, making it easy to remove all your jewelry at the same time.
34Get A Chic, Seamless Bun With These Elastic Hair Bands
Create a seamless and flyaway-free updo with these bun makers. They come in four sizes, great for thin, thick, long, or short hair — and everything in between. Just put your hair in a ponytail, add the donut, wrap your hair around it and secure with an elastic band. Then spritz with your favorite hair spray, and enjoy.
35Elevate Your Look With These Gold-Plated Hoop Earrings
Putting on a simple but statement-making piece of jewelry like these hoop earrings can instantly elevate your look with very little effort. They’re super lightweight and come in six different shapes and sizes, ranging from super comfy huggies perfect for everyday wear to dramatic drop earrings.
36Take Care Of Your Hair & Skin With These Super Popular Satin Pillowcases
Take care of your hair and skin while you’re sleeping when you swap out your regular pillowcases for these satin ones. They’re gentle on hair to reduce friction that causes breakage, split ends, and pulling and soft on skin to reduce red marks when you wake up. They have over 222,000 five-star ratings, and fans are obsessed with how soft and luxurious they feel.
37Freshen Up With These Oil Absorbing Tissues That Have A 4.7-Star Rating
Keep a package of these blotting papers in your purse or pocket and freshen up your face anywhere you need it. The charcoal helps them rapidly absorb excess oil to control shine and leave your face matte and refreshed after every use. Plus, they’re a little larger than other brands so you can use one sheet on your entire face.
38Nourish & Hydrate Your Cuticles With This Vitamin-Packed Cream
Hydrate your cuticles with this salon-worthy cream, which is packed with vitamins, oils, butters, and minerals to be ultra moisturizing and nourishing without leaving you with any greasy residue on your fingers. It’s super easy to apply, too, just brush and spread it over your nails with the handy brush applicator.
39Dry & Style Your Hair At The Same Time With This Viral Hot Air Brush
This hot air brush from fan-favorite brand Revlon has over 384,000 five-star ratings because it dries and styles your hair at the same time and gives you a salon-worthy blow out from the comfort of your own home. With a 2.8-inch barrel, the brush can add massive volume — all you have to do is brush.
40Remove Deodorant Stains With These Sponges That Really Work
Give your black and colored clothes a refresh when you use these sponges to remove deodorant stains. With a loofah-like texture, simply add a little water and scrub away any lingering white powder. The sponges are reusable and naturally deteriorate with each use, so you’ll know when to move on to the next one in this pack of two.