Trying Clickbait Beauty "Hacks" From Instagram

Hello

Friends and welcome to another video

Today we're gonna be testing out questionable beauty hacks from Instagram videos now

We've previously tested out some strange hacks from Facebook videos

with mediocre success and since then pretty much all I've been seeing on my

instagram explore page are similar Beauty hack videos

They seem to think that I'm a hacker that I like hacks or that I am a hack so I've decided to take these

Referrals as a sign that I should dive back in and put these videos to the test

Instagram has a lot of beauty videos in general which are often speckled or arranged into playlists on the explore page or free booted from

individual creators and reposted by big make up accounts and by design you can churn through like

Dozens of these videos at a time

I mean look at those thumbnails

Don't you want to click on those? Is that James Charles? Almost all of these videos are sped up, have little to no

talking and oh yeah Instagram also doesn't have a progress bar

so you can't skip around or rewind. In addition I find that Instagram videos are more prone to

true click-baiting than Facebook videos. You'll get some classic thumbnails like this one with a giant red vampire

Eye, but then when you click into the video

It's just a normal eye shadow tutorial

but some of these videos are just click baity in that they use a

Ridiculous seeming method in order to get an enticing thumbnail whether or not that method helps you do anything faster or better

Or anything at all and those are the videos we're gonna be mostly focusing on today as much as I would like to try out

Permanent retina damage. Alright, so let's dive right into these the first hack is certainly beauty related

But it's not for your face. It is in fact for the pits. That's right your armpits. That's what I mean

It's an armpit Beauty hack! Alright, so this video was reposted by makeup vines

But it's originally by Sarah revolta the comments are pretty harsh. There are a lot of like nauseous green emojis and

um, one girl says tbh I threw up. So basically what happens is Sarah wakes up, and oh no, she has armpits!

She doesn't want you to see them, so she's gonna cover them with honey oats and baking soda

I think actually the premise is that she has like dark skin on her

Underarms or something because she certainly doesn't have any hair. Interestingly enough,

DIY armpit lightening masks are kind of a motif throughout a lot of Instagram hack videos

I feel like it's kind of like bleaching your b-hole it's like a little unnecessary

But if you really want to I guess you can. So she puts her DIY mixture like on her armpits

And then she sits with it for a while to let it do it's good stuff

She doesn't say how long you should leave it on for? Oh... all right

So maybe she means ten minutes because as she's leaning back

She just goes "Ten!", but after some amount of time she scoops the oatmeal off and feeds it to her boyfriend

I am so happy and yet also sad for Tyler that that occurred because now he has to eat my armpit oatmeal. TYLER: what you showered

today right? SAFIYA: yes, I shower every day *not convincing smile*

and I smell very good always. TYLER: that's a lie. SAFIYA: all right the first thing she does is, honey

And it doesn't look like she has like very specific proportions

She just kind of has like a big old spoon and just puts in a big old spoon. As for the oats

She kind of does like one heaping tablespoon, so I'm gonna do like a couple of these there

We go and for the baking soda. She kind of just does like a little less all right so her next step