This is a make up tip. You can purchase a little plastic container in the sample/travel section of your favorite grocery or drug store (cost about 99 cents) and then put the last bit of your lipstick in it with some Vaseline. Scoop out the last bit of lipstick from the tube and mix it with the Vaseline in the plastic container and boom! You have lip gloss in a favorite shade.
By kimchee from Scottsdale, AZ
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To make chocolate gloss, use equal parts of shortening and Vaseline. Melt in your microwave using only short increments of time as not to overheat. Heat only until melted. You can also do this in a double boiler. Then stir in cocoa powder to taste.
My daughter is 5 years old and loves all of the sparkly and colorful lip glosses that come in cute cases with her favorite characters on them. The problem is that these glosses are terrible for her lips! They are very low quality and drying to her lips.
Mix all ingredients together and heat in the microwave until it begins to boil (usually 1-2 minutes). Stir well, mash the berries, and let stand 5 minutes. Strain the mixture to remove pieces of cranberry.
If you melt a chunk of lipstick (or two) and petroleum jelly you can make a really nice lip gloss that moisturizes your lips. Mallory D
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How do you make lip gloss out of Koolaid?
A quick search of the Internet found these recipes and instructions.
From Creative Kids at Home
www.creativekidsathome.com/
How to make Lip Gloss
Vegetable shortening, honey, unsweetened drink mix (eg. Kool-Aid), hot water
Use a small bowl to mix 1 tablespoon of the solid vegetable shortening and 1 teaspoon of honey. In a separate bowl, mix the drink mix and 1/4 teaspoon of hot water until it is dissolved. Stir in as much of the drink mix as possible. The actual amount will depend on the temperature of water. The more you can dissolve, the stronger the flavour will be.
You can choose the color and flavor of you lip gloss by the type of drink mix you use.
Add one drop of the water mixture to the shortening/honey base. Stir well. Repeat until you get the color/flavor combination you want. Pour into a clean container or old lip gloss pot.
Store in the refrigerator. Keeps for 3 days, but it tastes so good that you will use it up very fast!
LIP GLOSS RECIPE
2 Tablespoons solid shortening (Crisco)
1 Tablespoon Kool-Aid drink mix (dry kind with sugar)
Mix the solid shortening together with the drink mix, microwave until mixture is melted, pour into a small container, and set in the regrigerator for 30-40 minutes.
Congratulation you have just made shiny lip gloss for just pennies on the dollar.
Hope this helps!
This recipe isn't made with Koolaid but sounded good:
Chocolate Lip Gloss
1 1/2 tsp cocoa butter
1/2 tsp. Coconut butter
1/8 tsp. Vitamin E oil
Use double boiler or microwave. Heat the cocoa butter, coconut butter, & Vitamin E oil until melted. Stir in the chocolate chips. Stir until chips are melted and mixture well blended. Pour Mixture into a small decorative pot or holder. Cool 10 to 15 minutes Not to eat.
I have used this recipe to make tinted and/or flavored lip balms/glosses. You can vary the ratios to your own preference.
1 teaspoon beeswax/parafin wax
1 teaspoon petroleum jelly
A few drops candy flavoring, presweetened kool-aid mix, or mint flavoring.
Heat each separately over the stove (med/low heat),
Combine wax and petroleum jelly, blend well, remove from heat and add flavor/coloring.
I also add a drop or 2 from a vitamin E capsule at a time.
I usually quadruple this recipe to make it worth the time.
The tiny gourmet jelly jars that come in gift baskets are great containers, so are the really tiny "Altoid tins"
Use care if doing this with kids - Petroleum jelly is flammable
OMG! It worked so well. You rock! It's like awesome. And I had all the supplies. Other sites said I need beeswax, coco butter and other stuff. I thought it was called Homemade Lip Gloss.
hiya! Another way to make ligloss is to recycle old lipsticks by mixing in with pet. jelly
u take vaseline and then u take a colored lipstick or eyeshadow and put it in there.
i know a specific recipe.
u put the vaseline in a bowl.
then u put put the colored eyeshadow or lipstick in.
then u squeeze sum strawberry juice out and mix it. then use it! bye
Hey I am starting this club with my friend and I need ideas for stuff to sell~ any ideas?- thx megan
Don't use the crisco shortening--it turns out very grainy. Try something like melting old lipstick, adding vitamin E, and add flavoring.
This recipe was so nice!! My friends loved the lipgloss I made. Good job people! Emily says hi!
If you melt vaseline in a microwavable bowl, and then mix it with kool-aid mix, its really easy.
Well hon, it is best to use a tablespoon of petroleum jelly, kool aid mix, and a bit of honey. It works for me!
Oh yeah, and you can use a 35 mm film roller case thingy to keep it in! HOPE I HELPED! --Renee Johnson, Fabulous Fashionstas CEO
Equal parts lipstick, petroleum jelly and a drop or two of essential oils. Put them in a container and microwave it for one minute and thirty seconds, then mix it and let it set to solidify. A great mix.
That was so much fun! We put it in the freezer so it would get done faster. IT WORKED! Only, I tripped over the dog when I was going to put it in the freezer, and I lost like half of the stuff. lolz
I need some ideas for containers to use. Making lip gloss for my daughter's sleepover and don't know what the girls can use for containers!
I did this with my kids and it worked. Check out my bog to see a picture. www.cosmeticsgenius.wordpress.com
Try mixing a tiny bit of water with the Kool Aid and then mixing it into the vaseline. It's not going to look "store bought" or anything, but it works!
Crisco shortening and honey mixed together. Crisco is better than vaseline, and it is good for skin too!
Blessings, Robyn
I am making my own lip gloss. Some of the recipes on this site include honey as an ingredient. I'm allergic to honey so is there a substitute I can use? Or do I need it at all? Thanks.
By Brittany H from Pittsburgh, PA
You don't HAVE to use honey in lip balm. But if your recipe calls for it, I don't know what would be a good substitute. I made lip balm with honey once, and had a problem with separation -- apparently it had to do with the temperature.
Here is a link to some recipes at Magestic Mountain Sage. I've ordered supplies from them before (both packaging and ingredients). In particular, read the last one (Make Your Own Lip Balm). They give proportions for beeswax and different oils. They also have recipes for lip balms that don't use honey. If you have questions, you can e-mail them. That's how I found out what went wrong with the honey lip balm.
www.thesage.com/
Best of luck with the lip balms! They can be a lot of fun to make and share!
Thanks! I will try some soon and see if they will work for my science fair project!
Does anybody remember a recipe for lip stain made from Jello?
I read about it in a magazine somewhere and can't find the recipe.
I even emailed the Jello website, but haven't heard back from them.
Yes. I saw that tip too. All you do is dip your finger in the jello & apply it to your lips & they will stain - it said cherry for red lips & watermelon for pink - I haven't tried it, but I thought it sounded interesting too.
I've seen that recipe before, too! I'm pretty sure that you melt vaseline and add the jello powder to get right color/consistency. You can store it in little pill dispensers or paint pots.
Hello I read something just this month. They said the models use a lightly dampened q tip with water into not jello but kool aid. Strawberry was the most used. They said it strains the lips for an all day event without losing any color.
This tip was in a recent "first" magazine. Wet the end of a q-tip with water and dip lightly in jello and apply to lips(the magazine stated strawberry-but I am sure you could use cherry for darker stain, peach for lighter stain, ect.). I use this and apply a light gloss.
I tried it, and was pretty disappointed. I got a little better result when I mixed enough water in with the jello to make a paste, but it barely changed the color at all. I even got the black cherry kind (which is dark!) to try it with. Maybe koolaid works better?
Try gel food color in a small plastic bottle from a candy-making or baking area of a cooking store. (I have found that Jello and KoolAid lip stains were too acidic for my skin.) There are many colors (light pink to maroon) to choose from, the color lasts a long time, and the bottles snap shut tightly. To apply wet your lips and dip a Qtip into the bottle.
Correct! I do this all the time and it works really well.
Does anyone have a recipe for a lip STAIN? Thank you!
Smoochie
My grandmother during the great depression used to stain her lips with one thing or another. Beet juice, red crepe-paper, map colors, and when she could get it, henna mixed with extra strong tea/coffee or blueberry juice, but the color from henna alone was more orange and whatever mixture you choose with henna must stay on for 12 hours without licking, wetting, or wiping.
It is mixed with a small amount of olive oil and hot water, allowed to sit for about 1/2 hr. Before first application. Add Vaseline to the areas of skin surrounding the lips to prevent smearing prior to application, and check often. Do not lick or swallow henna mixture while staining skin.
Beet juice is more burgundy. Blueberries adds blue. If the henna is too orange. As any of it wears off, it looks even more natural. To remove, use strong clarifying shampoo and light scrubbing, adding Vaseline after clean overnight before returning to lipstick.
One factor that must be considered, just as with hair coloring is that all lips do not start the same color, so if you have darker pigmented lips, you will not likely need to do much at all, benefiting more from beet juice alone.
If you have light pigmented lips, follow the directions i mentioned. Henna alone works best for fair or red haired women. You may have to experiment several days to see which
is best.
Tip: remember to make notes as to exactly how you came up with the color you like most because later on, you may forget it and not be able to get it just right again.
When longest time is up, gently wipe with dry paper towel, then damp, then wet paper towels. Blotting to dry. Do not rub or use lip balm/oils/chap stick. It will wear off according to how much you lick and scrape your lips with your teeth and how strong your face skin cleanser. I would use no soaps, oils, lotions, etc. On the lip when stained with henna and strong tea/coffee until you are familiar as to how long it is lasting. It's much like sunless tanning.
Any leftover mixture can be frozen in a covered Styrofoam cup and thawed out as needed later. God bless and help you. : )
I can think of jello & kool-aid which will definitely stain! Plus you get a good color assortment!
Spaghetti sauce for orange.
Thank you so much for these very unusual and just wonderful recipes! How wise your grandmother is and so frugal. I guess it just goes to show that a person will make do with whatever they have and she's genius!
One question though: what color henna do I buy? I used to use it on my hair and I know it comes in several colors, including clear. I don't think you meant 'clear', but maybe you did.
Would you mind letting me know what color henna to use, or what color henna you use?
Thank you so much!
Smoochie
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Lynda, you mentioned that your grandmother used henna as a base for her lip stain, but I don't know what color henna to buy. Would you let me know, please? The recipes sounds like a winner and I'd love to try it.
Best Regards,
Smoochie
Whatever you do, DO NOT use any "colored" henna on your lips. These aren't really henna they're just hair dye chemicals which are labeled as henna or contain some henna extract. Lynda meant henna as in natural henna, which you can buy off the internet in powder form. Just make sure that it is 100% henna and generally the fresher the powder the nicer the color.
How do you make semi permanent lip stain?
By chris from Cumming, GA
I saw a recipe for lip balm made out of crisco and honey and whatever color of koolaid type powder you desired to use...I have heard it is great, when I make mine, I keep the color out of it and just use the honey crisco mix, but in the colder months, I just keep a little tiny jar of coconut oil in the bathroom and put that on my lips all the time. The honey crisco recipe is great though, and it is carry-able in your purse, the coconut oil will lose its solidity if it gets too warm.
Blessings,
Robyn
Use a non-toxic child's marker. Mix a brown/red or pink. Use a gloss over the top if desired.
Koolaid powder mixed in Vaseline or just wet it down and rub it on, it can be bold so watch out! Or take a minute to enjoy a red popsicle. It will give a nice flush to your lips. Just think about when you were a kid and would have stained lips from one!
Is food coloring a good thing to use when trying to color lip gloss or should I use Kool-aid packets?
By luelue
Yup you read it right. I'm going to show you how to make lipgloss out of crayons! It's really fun and easy, and it's interesting to try different crazy colors and see which is your favorite.
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I like lip gloss from a certain store, but recently the prices there are huge, and the items are small. I thought it might be fun to try and make my own. Any recipes? I really appreciate it thanks.
A good frugal gift idea is to mix three tablespoons all vegetable shortening and a package of Kool-Aid and microwave for one minute.
Mix solid shortening with drink mix, place in microwave until mixture is melted.
Make Your Own Lip Gloss. You can make your own lip gloss for a fraction of what you would normally spend on make up. Take some Vaseline and mix in the right amount of food coloring. . .
When your lipstick is running low, transfer it to a small container and add vaseline to it. You then have instant lipgloss which also acts as a lubricant for lips.
