You may have considered creating your own makeup when watching prices rise steadily at the store. You may also want to reduce the amount of chemicals you use on your face.
While the thought of DIY makeup recipes can be intimidating, it’s easier than you think to come up with healthy alternatives to store-bought makeup. What’s more, you can also turn these makeup options into thoughtful gifts for your loved ones.
Here are 17 makeup products you can make at home that are simple to make, good for the environment, and can save you money. In my opinion, that makes them better than store-bought varieties every time.
1. Home-Made Lip Gloss
Lip gloss is easy to make at home. All you need is a combination of healthy oils like olive and coconut oils, beeswax, liquid lecithin, pigments like red oxide, and mica powder. Mix them together and enjoy a natural product that makes your lips shine.
If you’re still dipping your toes into home-made recipes, you can replace your lip gloss with a mix of Vaseline and lipstick, making sure that you use more Vaseline than lipstick. Both options will give you good coverage and softer lips.
Here’s How To Make This: How To Make Lip Gloss At Home That Looks & Feels Great
2. DIY Organic Mascara
In general, mascara is a little more complicated to make than some other DIY makeup recipes because you must be careful about percentages. Otherwise, you may end up with watery mascara or a paste that’s too thick to apply.
Nevertheless, our organic mascara recipe combines glycerine and bentonite clay with deep, dark activated charcoal for the perfect coverage and lashes with great volume. Try it if you want a winner without having to do all the research we did.
Get The Recipe: My Super Simple Natural Organic Mascara Recipe
3. Cocoa Powder Brow Filler
If you need to use brow fillers to achieve the perfect look for your brows, try making a brow filler at home with cocoa powder. All you need is an oil base, like almond or castor oil, cornstarch, and cocoa powder. This combination works for most lighter eyebrows.
However, if you have black hair and eyebrows, you may want to add activated charcoal to your mix because even darker cocoa powders won’t give you the right shade on their own.
4. Easy Eyeshadow From Scratch
With a few simple ingredients — zinc oxide, magnesium stearate, Kaolin clay, and mica colors — you can easily make eyeshadow from scratch. Besides, there are so many mica colors you can use that you’re not in any way limited, even if you have the craziest colors in mind.
Clay is full of minerals and very absorbent, which means that it’s the best ingredient to use in this recipe to both absorb the color and make it easy to spread on your eyelids.
Get The Recipe: How To Make Eyeshadow From Scratch
5. DIY Cream Eyeshadow Palette
If you’ve tried our tutorial about making eyeshadow from scratch, it’s time to try making a DIY eyeshadow palette. It’s easy and would make for an elegant present for the women in your life.
Unlike our other recipe, which only has a powdered base, this eyeshadow has an emulsion base that includes sunflower oil, glycerine, and emulsifying wax. It’s easy to combine the two and come up with a creamy, easy-to-apply palette.
Learn How To Make It: How To Make A DIY Cream Eyeshadow Palette
6. Make Your Own Gel Eyeshadows
Gel eyeshadows are perfect for special occasions when you need to make your makeup more vibrant. What’s more, they’re very easy to make.
All you need is aloe vera and your favorite mica powder, and you have a vivid eyeshadow gel that’s easy to put on and doesn’t fade as you wear it. The sky really is the limit when it comes to the shades you can achieve with this DIY project.
Get The Recipe: Vibrant & Colorful DIY Gel Eyeshadows
7. Powder Foundation
If you don’t need a liquid foundation for full coverage, a powder foundation is perfect for you. You have two options. You can mix arrowroot powder with cocoa powder until you reach the right match for your skin tone. The result will work, but won’t be particularly long-lasting.
Alternatively, you can try our DIY powder foundation, which uses more ingredients, including zinc oxide, magnesium stearate, and jojoba oil, for a longer-lasting powder foundation that also nourishes your skin.
Get The Recipe: DIY Powder Foundation Recipe For A Light Coverage
8. Full-Coverage Liquid Foundation
Liquid foundation is the basis of your makeup, especially if you have mature skin and you need to cover hyperpigmentation or an uneven tone. However, it’s hard to color match store-bought liquid foundation to your unique skin tone.
Our homemade full-coverage liquid foundation, on the other hand, lets you control the amount and color of the pigments you include to perfectly match your skin tone and cover any imperfection. Combine warm and cool colors to achieve the perfect blend.
Get The Recipe: How To Make Liquid Foundation From Scratch
9. Almond Eyeliner
If cat eye is still your favorite look, you’ll be happy to know you can use almonds to replace your store-bought eyeliner. Moreover, it’s an inexpensive recipe that just requires a few almonds and a safe place to burn them to ashes.
That’s right. You must burn almonds to ashes, a process that usually takes about three to five minutes. Then, grind them in a mortar and pestle and ta-dah! Your new eyeliner powder is ready.
10. Tinted Lip Balm
Homemade lip balm recipes are great to keep your lips in great shape, especially during the cold season when lips become dry and chaffed. However, you may enjoy having a touch of color on your lips apart from protecting them from the elements.
All you need to do is add mica powders to our luxurious base of cocoa and mango butters, coconut, and sweet almond oil. The result will be a creamy lip balm that nourishes your lips and looks stylish.
Get The Recipe: How To Make Your Own Tinted Lip Balm
11. Mica Luminizer
We’ve already shown you a number of recipes that use mica powder. Here’s another great idea to use this versatile ingredient.
Combine mica powder, which has a natural shimmer, with coconut and jojoba oils and beeswax, and you’ll have a homemade skin luminizer that will rival store-bought ones without extra chemicals. Luminizers do a great job of highlighting your best facial features, like a defined cheekbone.
12. Spice Blend Bronzer
Although the tanned look is not good for your skin, many love it and spend a lot of money at the store to get bronzers. Did you know you can make your own natural option? The best part about it is that it uses simple kitchen ingredients.
Cocoa powder, cinnamon, and beet powder are great ways to make a simple bronzer when mixed with cornstarch or arrowroot powder. Add nutmeg to get a natural glow, and use essential oils to thicken the mix.
13. DIY Blush Powder
Much like lipstick, blush powder needs to perfectly match your skin tone, eye color, and hair color. With mica powders and oxides, you can achieve the best matching product.
Our homemade blush powder shares a base with the eyeshadow palette, which means it also puts Kaolin or bentonite clay to great use to spread the color and add healthy minerals to your skin. To vary the color of your blush to match your skin you can add cocoa powder for a deeper brown or golden shimmer mica for a highlight rather than a blush.
Get The Recipe: How To Make Blush Powder To Spruce Up Your Cheeks
14. Natural Makeup Remover
Most makeup removers make use of oils to get all the different types of makeup off of your skin. Soap can only do that much against oil-based makeup. So, why not use natural oils to remove makeup products from your face?
Simply mix coconut, sweet almond, or olive oil with water and witch hazel and use the resulting liquid to gently eliminate makeup from your skin with a cotton ball or pad.
15. Concealer
Concealers are useful when you need to disguise dark circles around your eyes or skin imperfections. To make your own, you need an oil base — like jojoba or argan oil and shea butter — zinc oxide, and cocoa powder.
Bear in mind that the amount of zinc oxide you use will increase or decrease your concealer’s coverage. We recommend experimenting until you find your sweet spot to avoid the “racoon eyes” look.
16. Lipstick
If you’re trying to replace your favorite lipstick with a homemade version, you can do it easily with simple ingredients. Beeswax, shea butter, and coconut oil are the perfect base for this hydrating lipstick that keeps your lips soft and plump.
For color, use beetroot powder, cocoa powder, cinnamon, or a combination, depending on the shade you wish to achieve. For a matte look, use clay.
17. Lip Liner
Lip liners are similar to lipsticks when it comes to making them at home. When you run out of your lip liner of choice, keep the empty pencil and use a mix of cocoa butter, wax, and color to make your own lip liner.
For color, you can use kitchen ingredients like cinnamon and beetroot powder or turn to the vibrant mica powders and oxides we’ve mentioned before. Just make sure the shade matches your lipstick.
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