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From utensils to ingredients and certain household appliances, we no longer count the bridges made between the kitchen and the bathroom since the advent of social networks. The result is tricks as original as they are unexpected, the success of which is no longer to be verified. The latest is to use aluminum foil to put an end to electric hair and flyaways once and for all.
In search of unstoppable tips to deal with the vagaries of their beauty routine, TikTok users are no longer content to look for ‘innovations’ in their bathroom. The kitchen has become in recent months a real refuge, if not an inexhaustible source of inspiration, to bring to light techniques, methods, and beauty gestures supposed to change the future of their peers. And it must be recognized, in terms of views, it is always a success, as evidenced by the latest tips that have gone viral: a colander to obtain perfect curls, a fork to perfect your contour, or even peanut butter as a false nails. To believe that the kitchen has turned into a life-size laboratory for tiktokeurs in need of buzz.
It is therefore not surprising that the latest find of users of the Chinese social network comes straight from the pantry, if not from the cupboards of the kitchen. Aluminum foil, which ordinary mortals nevertheless try to get rid of for ecological reasons, has become the new secret weapon of beauty addicts. The latter have found an unexpected new use for it: taming flyaways, and especially electric hair, that little hair that stands up on the head after a brush stroke, for example, because of its sensitivity to static electricity.
If she is not the source of this tip that has gone viral, the user Lauren Baxter Preble clearly helped popularize her on the Chinese social network, with no less than 8 million views for her video, and more than 650,000 ‘likes’. A real success. In search of a trick to get rid of this rebellious hair, the young woman tries a method communicated by another user: aluminum foil. In no time at all, Lauren Baxter Preble tries the experiment, passing a simple aluminum foil over her mane, and is literally left speechless. The hair is perfectly straightened, without any flyaways. As we have said: a real success.
It didn’t take much longer for the trick to spread at high speed on the social network, gaining more and more followers around the world. A very useful method if you consider that electric hair was until then a major problem for tiktokers, with nearly 20 million views for the hashtag #statichair.
In view of the polluting aspect of aluminum foil, it will however be necessary to redouble our imagination in the months to come to find a slightly more ecological alternative to this infallible technique. Fine, dry hair being more sensitive to static electricity, it is advisable, for example, to moisturize it as much as possible and not to over-wash, to rinse at a moderate temperature, to ensure that the air is not too dry in the bathroom, and possibly use a brush with natural bristles. So many solutions that should make it possible to leave the aluminum foil where it is supposed to be… in the kitchen.