Beauty Products with Cool Applicators

March 29, 2018 5:59 AM

I am looking for beauty products/skin care with cool applicators.

Examples: Blackout masks comes with a little paintbrush. Clé de Peau Beauté eye cream comes with a little disco ball thing. I want to know of more products with fun applicators!

For the sake of fun, let's say price is no object (I might not be able to afford to buy them but I want to know what they are).

posted by ThePinkSuperhero to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (12 answers total)

Benefit's Puff Off Eye Gel has a little metal applicator tip in the shape of an iron. It's cute (because it's like an iron and it smooths your eye, get it) and also literally cool because the metal feels nice and cool against my skin when i use it.

I won't vouch for the efficacy of it, I only use it because it came in a monthly beauty box, I don't know if I would buy it again. But it does feel nice going on!

I also like Boot's own brand Seventeen Cheek Stamp. The sponge applicator part has a little spring so you stamp it into the blush powder and then stamp it on your face. The applicator also has a mirror which makes it particularly handy for travel.

I haven't used it, but there's also the Vamp Stamp that supposedly makes it easy to make cateye liner.
posted by like_neon at 6:12 AM on March 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

Lancôme genifique eye serum has an awesome metal ball on the applicator!
posted by RunRunRunRun at 6:16 AM on March 29, 2018

The Winky Lux flower balm lip stain has a flower in the clear applicator tube and I love their overall brand design. No clue how it is as a product, I just window-shop department store beauty stuff.
posted by Mizu at 6:48 AM on March 29, 2018

Tati Westbrook on youtube has a series called "OMG" which is just chock full of weird ass makeup. Here's the full playlist.

A few random examples:
this terror mascara
these eyeshadow stickers
this lip foil
this eyelash dispenser gun

Her "WTF" series also has some of this, but not as much. Example. Mostly WTF is about stupid expensive normal makeup.
posted by phunniemee at 7:05 AM on March 29, 2018 [4 favorites]

Perfume in the form of bubbles! (I saw this a while ago, and I still want it).
posted by peacheater at 7:10 AM on March 29, 2018 [3 favorites]

Try searching for "skintertainment." There are lots of interesting products by Korean and Japanese brands that fit this category of skincare + cool/weird/cutesy packaging and application. I would check out /r/asianbeauty
posted by gumtree at 7:25 AM on March 29, 2018

There are eye liners with a roller applicator now instead of a brush. Mac Rollerwheel Liquid Liner, Revlon ColorStay Exactify Liner, and there's more.

Givency Noir Interdit mascara has a wand that bends 90 degrees.

Apparently, silicon blobs are the new hotness in foundation application!
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 8:04 AM on March 29, 2018

do not taunt jellyball
posted by clavicle at 9:15 AM on March 29, 2018

I don't know if this counts as an applicator, it's more like a dispenser, but in line with what gumtree had mentioned, there's this Japanese face wash that dispenses in the shape of a rose.
posted by rachaelfaith at 9:37 AM on March 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

ELF's Beauty Shield Magnetic Mask may fit into what you're looking for (in this case, the novelty is more in the removing of it than the application, though).

I have not used it but it's been reviewed well.
posted by darksong at 10:24 AM on March 29, 2018

Serendipitously, I just came across this review of a brow product that has an interesting four-pronged applicator.
posted by Lexica at 12:56 PM on March 29, 2018

I just saw these single-use lipsticks and thought of this question!
posted by Stephanie Duy at 7:40 PM on March 30, 2018