Blowing Bubbles With Your Micellar Water Is Just Gross Not Life Changing

A few weeks ago I watched a Tiktok that told me I’ve been using Micellar Water wrong. As with all things Tiktok a video went viral featuring a girl blowing into a cotton pad soaked with Micellar Water and creating a foam. She preludes the video with, “You don’t use micellar water by pouring it onto a cotton pad”. Her technique or as it’s being called, “the Tiktok Micellar Water hack”, is to soak your cotton pad with micellar water, place it on your mouth, and blow into the back of the unsaturated side. This causes the water to create a foam, which you apply to your face.

Yeah, but no…. If this isn’t a Vicky Pollard teachable moment I don’t know what is. I didn’t bring this up when I originally saw it, but I wanted to have a deep discussion about it or maybe I just wanted to rant. It came to my attention again because the hack is going viral yet again and I’m just sitting here babbling to myself, “Yeah but no but yeah but noooo…!”

Promise me something? Promise me you won’t do this! Bubbles are fun! Foam is fun! Hell, I’ll go so far as to say that if it isn’t creating a bunch of foam and lather it isn’t cleaning my face (which I realize isn’t true but bubbles and lather make me feel like my skin is getting squeaky anyway!). But really, you don’t want to create bubbles using this method! I just feel like you’re taking bacteria from your mouth and smearing it all over your face.

You know how I’m not a big fan of lip-to-cheek products? I mean, you know, the concept of having a stick or a liquid product that works as say a blush and a lip product seems brilliant! It’ll save room in your makeup bag, it’s multitasking, but also, it sort of grosses me out applying something to my lips and proceeding to put it on my face and vice versa. Same thing with this micellar water hack! Taking a cotton pad, blowing into it with my mouth, and following up by putting it on my face just makes me cringe.

Also, let’s discuss the fact we use micellar water because it’s liquid! You’re literally changing the formula of the product and creating a lather to apply on your face! You can just use cleansing foam or cream if you want lather.

Sorry but I’m not buying this whole micellar water hack viral moment. I’ll use it the way I always use it by simply saturating a cotton pad and wiping on my face. No bubbles for me.

What do you think of this weird hack?