An ex-convict from Columbia, South Carolina, shared a video of how she maintained her makeup routine while serving 17 years in prison on TikTok. Yes, you read that right. The woman claimed that she used to mix Pepsi and flour to make foundation according to a report in New York Post.
Taylor, who goes by @Taylorbnice on TikTok, revealed her secrets in a three-minute clip that clocked in over 17 million views. Her DIY makeup formula that claims to give full coverage requires flour, cake mix or powdered sugar — as long as it’s white — Pepsi and hot cocoa mix. In the clip, she taught viewers how to make her liquid foundation.
“You wanna start off with a little bit, because if you put too much in the beginning you’ll mess up,” Taylor said in the TikTok clip. She then added flour in the bowl, then poured a capful of Pepsi and stirred the hot cocoa mix in.
In the video, she said that Pepsi helps to make the mixture stick to your face and that the cocoa mix is used to match your skin complexion. If the colour appears too dark, she recommends “adding more flour or powdered sugar.”
Taylor even suggested using a tampon as a makeup brush to apply the foundation on the face. “If you want like a makeup brush, you would use a tampon and beat it in your face.” She even put the Pepsi foundation over a tattoo on her arm and her face to show its “full coverage”.
“If you want to hide a black eye, if you in prison cheating and you don’t want your man to see you cheating, this is how we do it,” she added.
She has even taught her 328,000 TikTok followers how to make eyelashes from Band-Aids and contour faces with commissary items, as per the New York Post.
Now, Taylor is hoping to make a business out of her DIY makeup products and started a GoFundMe page last week to launch her brand called The Prison Collection.
“I paid 80-90 dollars for foundation and your concoction has so much better coverage then mine,” a user wrote.
“Prison have some of the best chemist,” another user joked.
“My skin would break out so bad. I’d be afraid the ants would eat my face,” a third user quipped.
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