“Accept that you are a millennial Girl” – When Blake Lively talked about using hot peppers on her lips to fit beauty norms
Blake Lively recently shared a beauty tip from the CFDA Awards on Instagram. In October, she revealed her makeup artist, Carolina Gonzalez, used the eyeshadow-on-lip trick to enhance her lips.
Grateful for Gonzalez's expertise, Lively also reflected on the outdated methods she used in her younger years to achieve fuller lips and expressed relief at no longer needing them.
In two consecutive posts on her Instagram stories, she shared photos of herself with and without makeup, writing:
"When @gonzalezbeauty does the Gen Z eyeshadow lip trick to make your lips look huge..."
She continued:
"But then... you wash off your makeup & accept that you’re a millennial girl who used to wear lip gloss with a hint of chili peppers inside for a plump because we were that committed to bad ideas. Turns out eyeshadow is way less painful than Carolina's peppered lip gloss. Thank you @gonzalezbeauty for not turning my mouth into an episode of Hot Ones."
Blake Lively spoke of acceptance and society's unrealistic beauty standards through her Instagram stories
Blake also reminisced about a trick from her younger days that involved mixing chilli peppers with lip gloss to achieve the same fuller lips but of course at a cost.
This chilli pepper trick is actually not an uncommon one and is quite popular on social media as a useful hack. The way it works is that the heat from the peppers would cause a burning sensation, which would result in plumper lips.
This method is quite similar to the bee sting technique, which is yet again another hack that has gained popularity on social media, where bees are allowed to sting the lips to create swelling. While both methods are more affordable than cosmetic fillers and other forms of lip injections or surgeries, they can be just as harmful to one's health and self-esteem.
About Blake Lively
Blake Lively (full name: Blake Ellender Lively) is an American actress. She was born in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, California to parents Elaine Lively and Ernie Lively on August 25, 1987. She has an older brother named Eric, and three half-siblings named Lori, Jason, and Robyn. She is married to actor Ryan Reynolds and has four children with him.
Blake Lively stepped foot in the entertainment industry in 1998 and since then has been part of several films and television shows. One of the earliest projects to have shot her into popularity was the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in which she played the role of Bridget Vreeland. Its sequel which was released, in 2008, also brought Lively significant fame.
Consequently, Blake Lively became a household name in the period between 2007 and 2012 when she starred as Serena van der Woodsen in the television drama series, Gossip Girl.
Other projects over the years, including The Age of Adaline (2015), The Shallows (2016), A Simple Favor (2018), and the recently released, It Ends with Us (2024) have managed to keep Blake Lively in the spotlight.
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