My daughter and I love to watch beauty hacks and tricks and find makeup that’s inexpensive but works like a million bucks. So when we saw beauty influencers on TikTok making their own lip stain using only a Q-tip and food coloring, we had to try it.

I should mention some people commented that using food coloring on your lips may not be safe, even though it’s food safe. I also have a tendency to go to a bad place when I eat too many M&M’s and I blame the dye since it’s one of the only things I eat with artificial coloring in it. (I’m sure it’s not the fact I eat two pounds of them in one sitting.) Because of this, I went for a food coloring with no artificial dyes hoping for the same result — and I got it.