As I was going through my makeup collection, I found this little box where I store all the little sponge applicators that usually come with the palettes and eye-shadow compacts I buy. I don't know about you, but they drive me crazy every time I open a palette!!! So I tend to store them in this little box I have. I tried to think of ways to use them (apart from the obvious one - to apply eyeshadow!) so that I can give them some love and I get some use out of them.

After some search online, these are the uses I found for them:

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• Apply lipstick as a stain

Especially with some very pigmented and dark coloured lipsticks, some times you may want a more subtle effect on your lips, more like a stain. That's where the sponge tip applicators come handy! They absorb the oiliness and apply the right amount of pigment on the lips! 

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• Use it to apply lipgloss over a lipstick

How many times have you applied a light lipgloss over a dark lipstick, only to find out that after you've placed the wand back, you've tinted your lipgloss? I know I've done it before and I wasn't happy!!! In order to avoid this, you can wipe the lipgloss applicator on to the sponge tip applicator and then go on and apply the lipgloss over your lipstick! Easy peasy!

  Lastly but not least, you can use the sponge tips to create a gradient manicure. You can do it using 2-3 colours like shown in the picture above, or you can follow the technique shown in the video here:




After all this I definitely have some more uses for my sponge tip applicators! If you have any more tips and uses for them, please leave a comment below!