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Can You Use the Right Products the Wrong Way?
Refinery29's very own Emily Curl puts 3 products to the test: gelatin powder, a lint roller, and even, YES, a toilet seat cover. Tune-in to see if these products get the thumbs up or the big X.
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00:00Hey guys, what's up?
00:01It's Emily Curl and we're here at Refinery29 today, testing out the right products used
00:05the wrong way.
00:06Let's do it!
00:07So earlier, I had a huge problem.
00:09I keep everything in my bag.
00:11Do you too?
00:11Do you have a big bag?
00:12Yeah, yeah.
00:13Well, it's not a purse, but yeah, I have a book bag and...
00:17So earlier, some of the other R29ers dumped out my giant purse.
00:20I'm going to let you look and see what's left inside.
00:23I'm scared.
00:24Oh my...
00:25Oh God.
00:26Oh.
00:27Wait, is that a quarter?
00:28It's money.
00:29You never...
00:29Who needs an extra hair tie covered in dirt and cheese it?
00:34So the key, the trick to this one is, is you can actually use a lint roller and lint roll
00:39out the bag.
00:40I feel bad.
00:40I feel like this is like free labor on me to clean out this bag.
00:44All right, so apparently you can use this lint roller, clean out the entire bag, because
00:48it's definitely kneading.
00:51There's something dangling from this.
00:53My favorite is like the hair, like the wad of hair.
00:56It's like when you clean out your hairbrush.
00:57Do you...
00:58Have you done this with your backpack though?
00:59I haven't done that with my backpack.
01:05Oh, that's bad.
01:08Oh man.
01:10It's so satisfying though.
01:12It's like you feel so clean.
01:13It's like picking up all these tiny little like crumbs or dirt or anything.
01:18There's still like lots of large wrappers, but you never know what comes through.
01:22Look at that.
01:23Only 60 calories on whatever that was.
01:25Thomas, on the count of three, we're going to do either a thumbs up if you think this
01:28is a good idea, a good alternative, or an X if you hated it.
01:31Okay.
01:32One, two, three.
01:34Really?
01:35Yeah, no.
01:36That didn't cut it.
01:36Do you see what's still in here?
01:38There's like...
01:39What?
01:39There's like a whole thing.
01:40Do you see this though?
01:42How else are you going to clean it?
01:43No.
01:44I feel like...
01:44Oh, come on.
01:45This is dumped up all the way.
01:46I think you just need to get a new bag at this point.
01:48Yeah.
01:53So they say you can use your friendly neighborhood gelatin dessert mix and make a nice little
01:59lip stain out of it.
02:00So today we have our gelatin dessert mix, we have a bowl and spoon for mixing, and we
02:08have a little bit of aquaphor to serve as our base.
02:11So apparently you can mix these together and create an on-the-go lip stain.
02:15I've never tried this before.
02:16Do you ever use jello as makeup application?
02:19That's crazy.
02:20That's so weird.
02:21I can't believe you have it.
02:22So let's try it out.
02:23So open up the packet here.
02:25Pour a little bit in there.
02:27That could have been an aggressive pour.
02:28We'll see.
02:30Okay.
02:31So we'll take a little bit of aquaphor, which I do use aquaphor on the rag.
02:37Get some in there.
02:40Nice.
02:41All right.
02:42So it's creating...
02:44It's just like...
02:45You see.
02:45So it's creating some sort of a paste.
02:48Ah!
02:49It's like exfoliating with dessert.
02:51Kind of looks like you just like ate like a really sugary donut or something and then
02:54it didn't wipe your mouth.
02:55It really doesn't taste that nice either.
02:57You missed a step.
02:58What?
02:59You're supposed to melt it.
03:01Melt...
03:01Melt...
03:02Melt the...
03:02Melt the mixture?
03:03You're supposed to melt the mixture.
03:05That would also...
03:06That would explain things.
03:07Yeah.
03:07Probably get rid of the like granular like...
03:10All right.
03:10So Ruby, we have our lip stain slash lip scrub.
03:14So I need to know, would you give this a thumbs up or would you exit to use it again?
03:19All right.
03:19Ready?
03:20On the count of three.
03:20Yeah.
03:21One, two, three.
03:22Wah!
03:25But what a valiant effort, you know?
03:27Yeah.
03:27A nice little mixture.
03:28Maybe if we melted it.
03:28You can take this for the road.
03:30I'm going to let you have this.
03:31This is a gift, a gift to you to keep.
03:33To keep that.
03:38Jess, it's no secret that everyone, you know, has oily skin or that you have to like
03:43do a lot of skin care, right?
03:45Right.
03:45So the team is so gracious and they gave us these like state of the art, great new skin
03:50care products that we're going to test out today.
03:52Okay.
03:52Yeah.
03:53This is what they gave me.
03:54So we'll just open these together.
03:56Ready?
03:56Mm-hmm.
03:57Oh my God.
03:59Yes.
03:59Three.
04:00Oh, wow.
04:01Oh, yeah.
04:03This is good.
04:04So who doesn't love a nice toilet seat cover, am I right?
04:06Yeah.
04:06Is this from Kiehl's?
04:07Like where is this from?
04:08Yeah, it's actually from the R29 bathroom.
04:10Okay.
04:11Nice.
04:12From the tissue issue, so.
04:14So the way this works is apparently this makes for great blotting paper for oily skin.
04:20Yeah.
04:21So I think what we're going to do is blot this toilet seat cover.
04:27Is it not working?
04:28I feel like it's not working.
04:29There's nothing like coming off.
04:30I think oil blotting sheets must have like a little something.
04:33They have to have a little something in there.
04:35Because I mean, who would buy them if you could just steal these from your workplace?
04:38I don't know which way you're leaning towards.
04:40Okay.
04:40Yeah.
04:41I mean, I keep it close to the chest.
04:43Yeah.
04:43All right.
04:44Okay.
04:44Ready?
04:44Okay.
04:45One, two, three.
04:47Absolutely not.
04:48No.
04:49No.
04:49Never in a million years.
04:51No.
04:51No.
04:52No.
04:52But what a fun thing to try.
04:54Thanks everybody.
04:54Yeah.
04:57Hey guys.
04:58Thanks for watching.
04:58I'm Emily Curl and you just saw me try right products the wrong way.
05:03Tune in to see more and click here to subscribe.
05:06Can't wait to see you next time.
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