One TikTok user is going viral this week after showing her followers how to make amazing, full-coverage foundation using just flour, Pepsi, and cocoa mix.
A TikToker by the name @Taylorbnice filmed a makeup tutorial for her fans and ended up going viral, with thousands streaming, commenting, and complimenting the influencer for her creativity and commitment to looking good, no matter what odds were stacked against her.
Taylor says in her video that she was in prison for 17 years, but also placed the hashtag, "#jk jail is not for me lol but it work.'
Taylor's page shows a variety of comedic videos as well as her spending time with her young daughter and commenting on various events that happen to her.
In her video, she tells her fans that they can use flour, cake mix, powdered sugar, or pretty much any finely ground white powder as a base for foundation.
She continues by adding a cap full of Pepsi and telling those watching that its a good idea to start with a little bit of Pepsi, otherwise, you can add too much and mess up the process. As the video continues, she adds more soda to the powdery mix.
As she mixes, she laughs at the camera, saying, "So Rihanna, if you're watching this... I know how to make some s*** up."
Once that's well mixed, Taylor added some cocoa powder and then a little more Pepsi, mixing until it all becomes about the texture of any store-bought foundation.
At the end, she holds up her arm to test the foundation - and lo and behold, it's full coverage, matching her skin tone perfectly, and even covers up her tattoo in just one smooth layer. Who would've thought?
Women in prisons are more than familiar with a number of creative ways to make themselves feel good during incarceration.
“Women’s pathways into the criminal justice system are typically different than men’s, and their needs in prison are very different,” said Jennifer Vollen-Katz, executive director of the John Howard Association, a prison watchdog.
In the 1920s, women inside England’s Holloway Prison scraped paint chips off their cell walls to use as face powder and dampened red paper to use as rouge. In 1929, women inmates in New Jersey surreptitiously used pages torn from prison library books to twist and curl their hair and “pencil(ed) their eyebrows with pieces of wood reduced to charcoal,” according to a local newspaper report.
Today, permanent markers have replaced charcoal, Kool-Aid doubles as hair dye, clear deodorant for blush and M&M’s are used in lieu of lip stain. Vollen-Katz is not surprised by these DIY hacks. “There is nothing quite like deprivation to cause one to innovate,” she said. “I think it’s about self-preservation.”
Meanwhile, Taylor's video brought in plenty of comments from supporters, and those who had never seen something like this in process before.
One user shared: "This is definitely impressive. I’ve always said that our most talented people are being held down by the system."
Another supporter commented, "The epitome of not looking like what you been through. Giiiiiiiirl you look good!!! And this prison makeup hack is perfection!"
