Tips and tricks that’ll give you a confidence boost — fast.

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You don’t need to overhaul your entire beauty routine to feel more confident. Instead, it’s really about finding the right couple of products that that are both instantly effective and make you excited to use.
Ahead, you’ll find plenty of clever little hacks in the form of over four dozen Amazon products that are guaranteed to give you an instant confidence boost. From makeup tips you probably haven’t tried to a handful of clever but impactful fashion accessories, keep scrolling to discover them all.
1Swap Out Your T-Shirts For Bodysuits
A quality T-shirt will always be a wardrobe staple. But if you’re look to switch things up slightly, a solid-colored bodysuit is just as versatile. This long-sleeve bodysuit is made from a blend of synthetic fabrics for a fitted silhouette that’s ultra-stretchy. Amazon reviewers also rave that the buttery-soft texture prevents the body-hugging one-piece from feeling restrictive.
- Available colors: 12
- Available sizes: XS – 3X-L
2Add A Few Drops Of Self-Tanner Into Your Morning Routine
For sun-kissed skin without the sun exposure, mix these tanning drops in with your morning (or evening) moisturizer. A custom bronze color will gradually develop over six to eight hours, with more tanning drops added to your moisturizer providing a deeper tan. At the same time, the quick-drying formula helps to nourish skin with ingredients like aloe vera, avocado oil, and squalane.
3Add A Few False Lashes To The End Of Your Lash Line
This false lash kit lets you decide just how dramatic you want to go with your lashes. Rather than give you a set of strip lashes, the set includes more than 100 smaller lash clusters in various lengths for more control over your look. In addition to your temporary lash clusters, the kit also comes with everything you need to apply them, including angled tweezers for placing the wispy extensions right along your lash line.
4Let Your Lipstick Create The Illusion Of Whiter Teeth
The blue undertones in this classic red lipstick help to make your teeth look whiter without any fancy treatments. Created by celebrity makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury, the lipstick is also a beauty award-winning formula for its soft matte finish that still leaves lips feeling smooth with ingredients like vitamin E and safflower seed oil. Amazon reviewers also love that the lipstick delivers rich color with a single swipe and doesn’t bleed or feather throughout the day.
5Overline Your Lips With A Creamy Pencil
Taking a neutral-colored lip pencil to exaggerate your natural lip line helps create the illusion of a slightly fuller pout. This retractable lip pencil means there’s no sharpening involved, but it still glides along smoothly, thanks in part to a moisturizing formula that includes argan oil and chamomile flower extract. The liner even includes a peptide to help boost fullness, which can be further enhanced when you top it off with a peptide-infused gloss.
6Slick your hair back to reduce flyaways & subtly lift your face
Not only does a sleek updo give you a polished finish, but the pulled-back style can also create a mini face lift effect. This frizz-eliminating balm makes it easier to smooth flyaways into place with a few swipes of the grapeseed- and coconut oil-infused formula. The multitasking balm adds some hold to your hairstyle, too, and it’s small enough to fit in your purse for traveling or on-the-go touch-ups.
7Swap Out Your Regular Leggings For Faux-Leather Ones
Give your leggings rotation an edgy upgrade with this faux leather design. The high-waist leggings remain stretchy enough for a workout, but the leather-like finish means you can wear them with oversized sweaters or even your favorite going out top. A thin fleece lining adds a little extra warmth for cold weather wear, but it serves a practical purpose, too, making it easier to slide the leggings on and off.
- Available colors: 4
- Available sizes: XS – 4X-L
8Ditch The Bold Polish For A Cleaner, More Natural Shade
This understated nail polish comes in three neutral shades that complement any style. But the sheer wash of color also helps to brighten nails and conceal imperfections with pearlescent light reflectors. Best of all, the polish works to strengthen your nails with a combination of nourishing botanical extracts like celery extract, cucumber extract, and sunflower seed oil.
9Soak Up Excess Oil & Add A Boost Of Volume With Some Dry Shampoo
Dry shampoo may not be a new beauty secret, but it’s certainly effective when you’re trying to stretch out your wash days. This drugstore dry shampoo works just as well as prestige formulas when it comes to soaking up excess oil, and it adds some volume and life back to your blowouts, too. Pro tip: try spraying the dry shampoo through your roots when hair has been freshly washed (and dried, of course) to get rid of grease before it accumulates.
10Reduce Unwanted Brassy Tones With A Purple Shampoo
To keep your blonde color looking like you just left the salon for as long as possible, you need an at-home toning product. This purple shampoo uses violet pigments that neutralize yellow, brassy tones once you lather up and let it sit for a few minutes before rinsing. The shampoo also helps to care for fragile, color-treated hair with hydrolyzed milk protein and a berry extract blend that inspired the formula’s sweet scent.
11Wear A Sheet Mask To Bed For Glowing Skin When You Wake Up
If you’re not one for a lengthy skin care routine, you can still achieve that glass-like glow with minimal effort, thanks to this sheet mask. Designed to be worn while you sleep (or really, any time you have a few hours to kill), the K-beauty mask starts out pink and turns transparent as it delivers all of the active ingredients to your skin. Speaking of active ingredients, collagen-stimulating PDRN (aka DNA extracted from salmon sperm) is the star of the show, which has been paired with niacinamide and peptides for further brightening and plumping benefits.
12Get A Voluminous Blowout At Home With A Hot Air Brush
This beauty award-winning brush eliminates the need for any other styling tools. Part hair dryer, part volumizing round brush, the hot styling tool gives you salon-quality blowouts at home for less than $50. Complete with multiple heat settings and a mix of nylon and tufted bristles to detangle and smooth hair, the styling brush is a favorite on Amazon with more than 400,000 five-star ratings.
13Apply A Shimmery Oil To Your Legs, Shoulders, & Arms
Ideal for darker skin tones, the bronze shimmer in this body oil imparts a subtle glow that washes right off (fairer skin tones should opt for the same product in the ‘Sunlit Glow’ shade). At the same time, ingredients like mineral oil, sunflower seed oil, and cocoa seed butter work to enhance skin radiance in the long run by smoothing skin and locking in moisture. The oil has more of a gel-like texture to prevent it from feeling greasy, and it’s fragranced with a warm vanilla and cocoa butter scent.
14Create An Ultra-Thin Wing With This Precision Eye Makeup Brush
For more precision with your eye makeup, this angled brush features synthetic bristles that are firm enough to sculpt clean lines but still feel soft to the touch. You can use the angled brush to apply cream, gel, and powder formulas, making it a solid option for filling in your brows as well.
15Ditch The Ever-Present Black Hair Elastic For These Hair Ties That Look Like Bracelets
If you never leave the house without at least one hair tie on your wrist, these jewelry-inspired elastics elevate things a bit. The set gives you five color-coordinated hair bands that you can wear together to mimic the effect of a stack of bracelets. When you need to throw your hair up in a ponytail or messy bun, each of the stretchy elastics still functions like a traditional hair tie.
16Depuff Tired Skin With An Ice Roller
For a product-free way to immediately improve skin, keep this ice roller in your freezer so it’s always ready to go. The cold temperature and gentle massaging of the skin reduces puffiness and redness in just minutes, even creating a temporary brightening effect. This Amazon-favorite ice roller comes in multiple colors and is easy to clean in between uses, thanks to its detachable head.
17Apply A Lightweight Face Oil For A Visibly Dewy Glow
You’ll never achieve a dewy complexion if your skin is in desperate need of moisture. This face oil delivers hydration and seals in moisture to restore the skin barrier with ingredients like squalane, jojoba seed oil, and sea buckthorn oil. Those with sensitive skin will love that it’s fragrance-free and National Eczema Association-approved, and acne-prone and oily skin types will appreciate that the oil is lightweight and noncomedogenic.
18Apply A Daily Lash Serum To Promote A Fuller, Healthier Appearance
This lash and brow serum helps to support healthy hair growth without the addition of potentially irritating prostaglandins. Instead, the serum was formulated to be a gentle treatment, using peptides and panthenol to nourish lash and brow hairs for a fuller appearance in about four weeks. The daily serum is vegan and cruelty-free, and it’s also free from other common irritants like alcohol, silicones, and gluten.
19Wear A Satin-Lined Bonnet To Protect Your Hair & Cut Down On Frizz While You Sleep
An alternative to a silk pillowcase, this satin bonnet better helps to keep your hairstyle intact while you sleep. An adjustable elastic ensures the bonnet sits comfortably on your head without sliding off while you sleep, and the satin material prevents frizz and tangles by reducing friction.
20Exfoliate Regularly For Skin That Looks Clearer, Brighter, & More Even
Bliss took inspiration from the peel treatments offered in its spas when creating these individually wrapped exfoliating pads. The small but mighty pads are saturated in a 10% glycolic acid solution that breaks down dead skin cells to reveal a brighter, smoother complexion. To help minimize any dryness or irritation, the pads are fragrance-free and include vitamin E and calendula flower extract, but you’ll still want to follow up with a moisturizer (and limit to using once or twice each week).
21Swap Out Your Black Eyeliner For Brown If You’re Blonde
When you have softer features, a black eyeliner can be too intense — especially if you’re going for a more natural makeup look. If you still want to define your eyes, consider using a brown liner, which is especially flattering on those with lighter skin or lighter eyes. This retractable eyeliner features a built-in smudger to really blend the matte brown color, but it’s available in multiple matte and metallic shades if you want to switch things up.
22Go To Sleep Wearing These Heatless Curlers For Bombshell Curls When You Wake Up
Not only do these satin-covered rods help to improve the health of your hair by eliminating the need for a hot styling tool, but they also save some time in your morning routine. Wrap your hair around the rod in sections, secure with one of the include satin scrunchies, then go to bed. Once you wake up, you’ll be left with volumized, frizz-free curls that you can run a quick brush through and before heading out the door.
23Use A Boar Bristle Brush For The Perfect Slicked-Back Bun
No matter how much hairspray you own, your slicked-back updo will only be as good as the brush you start with. This smaller brush uses vegan boar bristles that help to disperse your scalp’s natural oils as it smooths back hair for some added shine. Amazon reviewers love that the versatile brush can be used to back comb hair for more volume, too, and that it has a pointed handle to help with parting.
24Use A Salicylic Acid Body Lotion To Prevent Body Breakouts & Promote Smoother Skin
Exfoliate and moisturize your skin in one step when you opt for this drugstore body lotion. Salicylic acid and lactic acid help to keep pores clear and dissolve dead skin cells, while ceramides and hyaluronic acid lock in moisture. You can use the fragrance-free lotion to help treat keratosis pilaris bumps or target specific areas of your body that are prone to breakouts.
25Set Your Makeup With A Dewy-Finish Spray
Give your makeup some staying power without drying your skin out when you mist this setting spray over your face. The alcohol-free formula is surprisingly hydrating with ingredients like blue agave extract, hyaluronic acid, and niacinamide to create a glowy finish. There’s no sticky or greasy residue, and the setting spray can also be used to refresh makeup throughout the day.
26Gua Sha With A Serum For A Lifted & More Sculpted Appearance
When you’re using a gua sha tool to help with lymphatic drainage and temporary sculpting, you always want to apply a lightweight oil or serum first so that the tool isn’t dragging across dry skin. This duo pairs a rose quartz gua sha stone with a vitamin C serum to give you everything you need to get started. While the gua sha stone is strictly for sculpting, the vitamin C- and peptide-infused serum can be used morning and night to brighten and plump up skin.
27Do A DIY Gloss For shiny, Salon-Worthy Hair
An at-home hair gloss can help protect against color fading. But even if you don’t have color-treated hair, it will still add a healthy shine while, at the same time, minimizing frizz. This in-shower formula works in just seven minutes, using Moroccanoil’s ArganID™ technology, amino acids, and crambe seed oil to deeply condition hair as it improves its appearance.
28Exfoliate Your Lips Before Applying Lipstick
The smoother your lips, the smoother your lipstick application. This Hawaii-inspired lip scrub lets you gently polish away dry, flaky skin, using tiny sugar crystals derived from Hawaiian sugar cane. The sugar scrub is also packed with moisturizing ingredients, including fatty acid-rich kukui nut oil, which also comes from Hawaii.
29Wear Seamless Thongs So Your Underwear Doesn’t Show Through Your Clothes
From workout wear to fitted dresses, seamless underwear ensures that you aren’t left with any visible lines. This color-coordinated set gives you five pairs of seamless thong underwear for $15, and comes highly rated on Amazon with more than 50,000 five-star ratings.
- Available options: 9
- Available sizes: XS – XXL
30Fight Flaky Cuticles With This Best-Selling Treatment
Peeling cuticles and hangnails are annoying to deal with. They’re also usually pretty easy to prevent since dry skin is typically the culprit. This nail and cuticle serum starts the repair process with its blend of moisturizing shea butter, japonica seed oil, and Japanese seaweed. A dot of the serum on each finger is all you need, and because it’s thicker than a traditional cuticle oil, it won’t leave your hands feeling greasy.
31Set Your Under-Eye Makeup With A Translucent Powder
Prepping your skin with a moisturizer is the first line of defense in getting your under-eye makeup to sit more smoothly. But to ensure that your concealer doesn’t crease throughout the day, press some translucent setting powder over the area to lock it in place. This finely milled formula is weightless on the skin and completely undetectable, and because it helps to absorb excess oil, you can also dust it over the rest of your face.
32Apply Oil After Coming Out Of The Shower For Silky-Smooth Skin From Neck To Toe
To make the most of your body moisturizer, you want to be applying it just after your shower when your skin is still damp. This body oil was designed with that in mind, giving you a fast-absorbing formula that combines more than six skin-nourishing oils with squalane for an ultra-soft finish. Amazon reviewers also love that the cruelty-free and vegan body oil comes in a range of gorgeous scents.
33Sleep On Satin Pillowcases To Prevent Frizzy Hair & Creases On Your Face
There are multiple benefits to switching to a satin pillowcase, starting with the fact that the silky fabric is much softer than cotton cases. But because satin pillowcases create less friction, they contribute to a more well-rested appearance, too. In addition to keeping your face free from creases in the morning, the pillowcase helps with your hair by reducing frizz and tangles.
- Available colors: 36
- Available sizes: 6
34Use Blotting Sheets To Soak Up Midday Shine
If your setting powder isn’t doing enough to fight midday shine, keep these oil blotting tissues in your purse. These paper sheets are made with charcoal to help absorb excess oil, and they’re also more convenient for on-the-go use since they don’t require a brush or run the risk of spilling like a setting powder does.
35Wash Makeup Brushes Regularly To Avoid Breakouts
Chances are, you’re not cleaning your makeup brushes often enough, which can lead to breakouts caused by the transfer of bacteria from your brushes to your skin. Rather than take on the time-consuming task of washing multiple brushes by hand each week, turn to this electric makeup brush cleaner. The rechargeable silicone bowl was designed to rotate with the press of a button, quickly and thoroughly removing makeup residue from your brushes with the help of water and a gentle cleanser.
36Wear A thick Balm To Bed Every Night To Avoid Flaky Lips
Exfoliating your lips is only half the battle in keeping them smooth. It’s just as important to slather them in moisture, which is precisely where this beloved lip sleeping mask comes in. A go-to among celebrities too numerous to count, the overnight treatment tackles dry lips with its blend of fruit extracts, shea butter, and coconut oil, leaving them instantly glossy and smooth. It also comes in nearly a dozen addictive scents, like the Peach Iced Tea featured here and the more cold weather-friendly Hot Cocoa.
37Contour Your Cheekbones For A More Sculpted Appearance
To create the illusion of more lifted cheekbones or a chiseled jaw, a contour product is your best friend. The easy-to-master technique is made even easier with this liquid contour formula that uses a built-in sponge applicator to let you swipe or dot the color right where you want it. Because it’s a liquid, the contour is easy to blend, and it’s also infused with moisturizing ingredients like squalane and sunflower seed oil to prevent a cakey finish.
38Get Perfect Edges With This Specially Designed Brush
For smoothing down flyaways and laying edges, this mini brush is a must-have tool. A beauty award-winner for its patented design, the double-sided brush has a comb on one side for separating your edges and a boar bristle brush on the other for sculpting those edges in place (after you’ve applied your gel or styling wax of choice). Each brush features a pointed tip handle to help with precision styling, and it comes with its own storage cover to keep the brush clean in between uses.
39Dab Some Shimmer On The Inner Corner Of Your Eye & Under The Brow Bone
Making eyes look wider and more awake is as simple as applying a pop of this pearly eyeshadow along the inner corners of your eyes. The shimmery, off-white color creates an instant brightening effect and also be swiped under the brow bone for another light-reflecting touch. The cream-to-powder formula becomes waterproof once it sets, and the retractable eyeshadow stick and built-in smudger combo makes the application foolproof.
40Master The DIY French Mani With This Nail Stamp Kit
The French manicure is having a moment, and thanks to this genius stamper, it’s never been easier to DIY. The nail stamper tool uses a squishy silicone head that you apply some polish to. Once you press your nail into the silicone piece, it creates an even French tip that doesn’t require any detailing brushes or special skills.
41Take Down Redness With A Green Tinted Moisturizer
If you notice redness in your skin that foundation doesn’t seem to be covering, try switching to this two-in-one CC cream. The color-correcting formula contains green pigments that camouflage the look of redness, as soothing centella asiatica extract further helps to calm inflammation. The multitasking CC cream gives additional SPF 25 coverage, and can be used on its own, under foundation, or as a spot treatment to target specific areas.
42Prep Your Skin With An Illuminating Primer For A Super-Glowy End Result
For wizardry-levels of glowing skin, apply your illuminator first, using it as an all-over primer before going in with your foundation. This beauty award-winning illuminator adds soft shimmer and an even softer tint of color to your skin that makes it look brighter and more radiant. The lightweight formula is vegan and cruelty-free, and it helps to keep skin moisturized with ingredients like squalane and rosehip seed oil.
43Keep Your Curl Pattern Intact With A Blow Dryer Diffuser
Curly and wavy hair textures can help to enhance their curl pattern right out of the shower by using a diffuser attachment to blow dry hair. This Amazon find has more than 10,000 five-star ratings for creating frizz-free definition and speeding up dry time with its wider surface. It also gets bonus points for its adaptable design that allows the diffuser to be attached to almost any hair dryer (something that’s especially convenient when you’re traveling and you don’t want to pack an entire hair dryer).
44Fake A Thicker Hairline With This Best-Selling Root Oowder Kit
This powder compact was created to help cover up gray roots in between color appointments. But the color-matching options, mineral powder formula, and precision brush applicator also make it a clever way to fake fuller hair by filling in a widening part or sparse spots. The root cover-up powder doesn’t leave behind a sticky or waxy residue, and it promises to stay in place all day long while still being easy to shampoo out.
45Fight Acne & Body Odor In The Shower With One Cleanser
Formulated to be used as an acne-fighting face wash, this creamy cleanser uses a 4% concentration of benzoyl peroxide that also makes for an effective treatment against body acne. But that’s not all the active ingredient is good for. Dermatologists note a benzoyl peroxide cleanser like this one can help to keep your underarms and feet smelling fresher. No matter how you use the versatile formula, give it a minute to sit on your skin before you rinse it off.
46Tailor Your Clothes For A Better Fit With This Double-Sided Tape
Doubled-sided clothing tape is the ultimate hack for altering your clothes in a pinch (and in a temporary way.) The clear adhesive can be used to keep bra straps in place, close a gaping blouse, and hem pants that you haven’t taken to the tailor yet. The individual strips of tape even come packaged in travel-friendly tins to prevent fashion mishaps wherever you go.
47Depuff Your Under-Eyes While You Sip Your Morning Coffee
You don’t have to put in any extra effort with these under-eye patches, which is highly convenient, considering you’ll want to turn to them the most when you’re short on sleep. The shimmering blue patches work while you sip your morning coffee to depuff and soothe tired eyes with a mix of caffeine, peptides, and niacinamide. Try storing the individually packaged eye patches in the refrigerator to double up on the depuffing and refreshing benefits.
48Whiten Your Teeth In Just 30 Minutes
You could spend thousands of dollars at the dentist to have your teeth whitened, or you can get a smile that’s up to 19 levels whiter right at home for less than $50. These whitening strips are an Amazon favorite with more than 75,000 five-star ratings from reviewers who rave about the noticeable results. You only have to leave the strips on for 30 minutes to complete each session, but you will want to use the kit for 22 consecutive days for the most impactful whitening effect.
49Smooth Expression Lines While You Sleep
Want to give your nightly skin care a boost? This forehead tape was designed to seal in your moisturizing and plumping serums and creams, helping to increase product absorption as the adhesive prevents you from making movements that create lines over time. The hypoallergenic tape stays in place all night long, but it’s easy to remove in the morning with the help of some water.
50Plump Up Your Lips (Without The Stinging Sensation)
That stinging and burning sensation that your average lip-plumping gloss causes is actually just irritation from the active, chili-derived ingredient, capsaicin. To enhance your lips without the discomfort, switch to a gloss that uses peptides instead. This glossy lip balm immediately supports fuller lips with moisturizing ingredients like hyaluronic acid and shea butter, but it plumps up your lips even further with its blend of three peptides.
