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    30 Cheap Personal Care Products If You'd Rather Just Do It Yourself

    Eyebrow razors: $4.99. Never having to have someone yank a wax strip off your face again: priceless.

    1. A painless, mint-flavored teeth-whitening pen for sensitive teeth and gums that can help lighten up years' worth of stains from coffee, tea, wine, or just...you know. Existing as a human with teeth.

    2. An earwax removal kit, so you don't have to wait until your yearly physical for your doctor to be like "um WHOA" and fix it for you. This is quicker, easier, and will be a huge relief for those of us waxy individuals who sometimes wake up in the morning with an ear so fully clogged-up that it feels like you're underwater.

    Reviewer holding up the small bottle of ear wax removal aid

    3. A set of itty bitty dermaplaning razors you can use to take care of those lil' unibrow hairs that keep dodging your tweezers or work whatever face fuzzies you might want to take care of in a gentle way — *far* less expensive than taking care of it at a salon.

    4. Or a painless battery-charged hair remover you can simply glide over super fine hair like the hair above your lip or between your brows instead of going into a full "YIKES" mode with salon wax.

    5. And a pair of cuticle scissors that are perfect not just for nails, but for trimming those, uh, enthusiastic eyebrow hairs that like to shoot up Jack and the Beanstalk-style faster than you can blink.

    Reviewer holding up tiny stainless steel scissors with curved blades

    6. A bottle of Meltdown acne oil for anyone who's cycled through a bunch of harsh prescription acne treatments from dermatologists that never *quite* do the trick. With its soothing rosehip oil and its redness-combatting black cumin seed, literally *thousands* of reviewers swear by this stuff.

    Model rubbing the oil from the small pump bottle on their skin

    7. A foot file to remove calluses and hard or cracked skin from your feet with some gentle, pain-free rubbing instead of the whole hullabaloo of a pedicure. It works whether your feet are dry or wet at the time, and will leave your heels feeling gloriously soft.

    Before image of a cracked foot with an after image of the skin smooth

    8. Or a popular Baby Foot exfoliant foot peel — you apply the two bootie-shaped masks on your feel for an hour, wash your feet, and then over the next five to seven days enjoy the bizarre satisfaction of watching the dead skin on your feet peel away to reveal smooth feet.

    9. A brightening facial scrub made with turmeric, cinnamon, raw manuka honey, chamomile extract, and lemon extract to address hyperpigmentation at home without the whole song and dance of expensive treatments like microdermabrasion and chemical peels.

    Model with turmeric face scrub on their face, holding the jar of it to the camera

    10. A bottle of Elizavecca Hair Treatment, a repairing mask infused with collagen ingredients and protein extracts that will help restore hair health and reduce shedding. All you gotta do is apply it on wet hair after a shampoo, wait five minutes, and rinse it out — hair health restored, sans expensive moisture treatments at the salon.

    Before and after image of a BuzzFeed editor's hair, with the after image looking much shinier and curling more

    11. And SheaMoisture's Smoothie Curl Enhancing Cream, a moisture-restoring formula that helps define curls and make them✨shine✨ without weighing them down, so you can get that "just left the salon" kind of curl.

    12. A gel nail polish kit complete with everything you need for professional-level manicures without ever once interrupting the sacred flow of your Netflix queue.

    13. *Plus* a set of colorful, gel-friendly flower nail tattoos so you can have an entire happy little garden blooming on your fingers without having to book an appointment with someone to make it happen.

    14. And when you're done, an acetone-free soak-off gel nail polish remover you simply apply directly on top of your nails like an extra coat of polish — it bubbles up and shrivels the gel polish, making it easy to remove without all the hassle of going back to a salon or the weird smells of other at-home removal kits.

    15. A tin of Cirepil blue wax beads that use a gentle hard wax to easily remove both the coarsest and finest of hairs in a matter of minutes, leaving you with skin so smooth that you're going to have to sit on your hands stop yourself from stroking your underarms and legs in public.

    A before image of a reviewer's underarm hair, then a picture of the blue wax with hair of it, and an after image of the reviewer's hairless underarms

    16. Or for a gentler option, an easy-to-follow hard sugaring kit you can use right at home to take care of medium and coarse hair removal, whether it's for a Brazilian or your underarms, legs, or even toes. The process is not only quick and easy once you get the hang of it, but some people experience the hair growing back much finer afterward.

    17. An easy-to-use root touch up every bit as effective as going to a professional to get it done — it takes 10 minutes to apply, and then gives you even coverage that lasts several weeks.

    Reviewer showing gray roots in hair and same reviewer showing touched up roots that match their dark brown hair

    18. A long-lasting stainless-steel tongue scraper to help take care of odor-causing bacteria and soft plaque before resorting to making an extra dentist's appointment for other options. Reviewers are especially pleased with its durability and that it's designed not to trigger your gag reflex.

    19. An eyebrow tint to semi-permanently dye your brow hairs for up to six weeks, helping either fill them in or to dye over gray hairs just as effectively as a salon tint would. A lot of reviewers swapped this for doing brow makeup completely.

    Reviewer's brows before the tint, during the tint, and after, to show the subtly more filled in, darker effect

    20. A dual hair dryer and brush to dry your hair as you style it and give your 'do an incredible amount of volume and shine, without the cost of a pricey blowout.

    21. Or a well-loved collapsible diffuser attachment for drying and styling curly hair — it's built with an extra-large design for quicker drying, and 360-degree air flow to diffuse hair evenly and gently, so hair can maintain its natural curl and bounce.

    22. A cordless, rechargeable hair cutter and trimmer designed to be beginner-friendly, so you can give yourself *and* other people decent haircuts if you can't get to a salon. It comes with color-coded combs to guide you to the precise length of hair, along with a mode for cutting hair near the ears, so it's as close to foolproof as a nonexperienced haircutter can get.

    23. And a hair thinner and cutter that people swear by for all sorts of styling hacks, whether it's trimming their bangs, maintaining a cut, giving themselves natural looking layers, or trimming and styling wigs.

    24. Plus a vanity mirror equipped with lights, 180-degree rotational views, and up to three times the magnification so you can see what you're doing to the back of your head.

    Reviewer image staring into the lit mirror with three panels

    25. A vitamin C-based face serum for brighter, firmer skin with muuuuch faster results than most of its competitors, and a lot less stress than expensive procedures or treatments. Plenty of reviewers could see a difference within just a few days of use.

    Before and after image of reviewer with more refreshed skin after use

    26. A cuticle cream that's basically a dream team for your nail beds: the shea butter and sweet almond oil soften dry cuticles while the vitamin E and argan oil strengthen your nails, so you don't have to rely on a manicurist to get that healthy shine ✨.

    A container of cuticle cream

    27. A suuuper popular Bio-Oil made with vitamins A and E, chamomile, and lavender — you may recognize it as a product a lot of people use to help fade scars (both old and new), soothe cracked and dry skin, and help moisturize without affecting your pores. Basically, it's all the refresh of a facial or a moisturizing treatment without having to drive somewhere.

    A model rubbing bio-oil on their hands

    28. A color-depositing clenditioner you can either use in the shower to maintain your hair color or even out fading highlights, *or* apply to dry hair for to get a temporary tint all on your own.

    29. A podiatrist-level toenail clipper to quickly and easily take care of thicker toenails and ingrown ones, so you don't have to wait for a pedicure to take care of them properly.

    Reviewer holding up the small plier-shaped toenail clippers with pointed edges

    30. A reviewer-beloved anti-dandruff shampoo that may save you a trip to the dermatologist — this relieves flaking and itching and helps prevent outbreaks by getting directly to the root. A lot of reviewers mention that it not only started working from the first use, but it *also* helped with shedding and hair loss caused by dandruff in the first place.

    before and after image of reviewer with dandruff on their scalp and without

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