Whether you have a spot breakout, a skincare addiction or love beauty, you've come to the right place. We've found the top 25 TikTok approved beauty products and where to buy them cheaply.
TikTok, love it or hate it, it's become a powerful platform for the beauty community: generating hype around beauty trends, beauty products and budget skincare.
If you are looking for inspiration, advice and beauty hacks to clear up everything from discolouration to pimples, here are the TikTok beauty products reigning supreme this year.
With 2.4 million hashtags dedicated to it, e.l.f. Poreless Putty Primer really does give a poreless and smooth finish to any complexion. Check out the users creating endless viral videos showing the primer's vanishing effect like this one from LilHuddy, known for his relationship with Charli D'Amelio, co-founding the TikTok collective, the Hype House.
e.l.f Poreless Putty Primer retails for £8. Still, you can get it for 40% off (£6) when you sign up to e.l.f.
Revlon Oil-Absorbing Volcanic Face Roller, Reusable Facial Skincare Tool for At-Home or On-The-Go Mini Massage has over 3 million hashtags dedicated to it, and it's a pretty amazing product. Use the roller to absorbs residual oil in one go to prevent pimples and acne from budding. As you roll, it mattifies the skin and massages your face, and it can be used over bare and makeup-caked skin. Best price £9.50 from Amazon.
Garnier Micellar Water has a crazy following on TikTok, with the #garniermicellarwater garnering 9.5 million views. Creators are showing fellow users their skincare hacks on how they incorporate this simple product into their routines. This wonder cleanser is usually £6, but you can get it for £3.95 at Superdrug.
Bio-Oil Multi-Use Skincare oil £7.95 from Amazon. This isn't your average skincare oil, as this one has gone viral all over TikTok for its ability to reduce the look of scars, stretch marks, discolouration, fine lines, and dehydrated skin.
CeraVe is one of TikTok's favourite ever beauty brands. It's gone viral is partly thanks to Hyram, the Youtube and TikTok sensation who deconstructs skincare products and their ingredients to show followers the correct way to apply them.
CeraVe has so many hero products on TikTok, but clear winners are the Hydrating cleanser and SA Smoothing cleanser. The hydrating cleanser uses Hyaluronic Acid to strengthen and restore hydration, and the smoothing cleanser has Salicylic acid allows the cleansing formula to perform a chemical exfoliation. Currently, all CeraVe products have 25% off at Lookfantastic.
The Ordinary is another brand that has soaring reviews on TikTok, and the winner here is The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution with over 15 million hashtags. This peeling solution looks alarming thanks to its blood-red colour, but the skin is bright, clear and radiant when it's removed. Just £6.30, Boots.
The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1% £5 from Boots is another beauty game-changer with 7 million hashtags talking about. Just £5 from Boots, this potent serum regulates sebum production and blemish-causing bacteria for a visibly clearer complexion.
Along with the two above brands, Paula's Choice's is another massive TikTok favourite. Beauty influencers such as @whatsonvisface and @skincarebyhyram constantly rave about this product, so if you have oily or acne-prone skin, try Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid Salicylic Acid Exfoliant.
It's a gentle exfoliating solution that absorbs quickly to remove all of the pore-clogging impurities lingering within your complexion. It's expensive so try the travel size first for £9.
And with 19 million hashtags dedicated to it - the Isle of Paradise Tanning Drops are the tanning drops TikTok users swear by. Praised for their ability to give skin an overnight radiant and natural-looking)glow simply by mixing with a moisturiser. Usually £20, but you can get it for just £15.95 at Beauty Bay.
You can't beat K-Beauty and if you want true head-to-toe exfoliation that lets you see the difference, then grab these Korean exfoliating washcloths. This TikTok beauty product is perfect for ridding your body of buildup and dead skin cells — watch this and see for yourself. It's hit around 35 million hashtags on TikTok, and you can grab two for just £6.99 at Amazon.
If you have spotted teens wandering around with plasters all over their faces, thank TikTok and the power of unassuming hydrocolloid Band-Aids.
There are a whopping 221.8M hashtags dedicated to these plasters. Designed to promote wound healing, these bandages are a beauty must-have as they effectively absorb oil, allowing acne to clear up faster. Total beauty bargain at just £3.59 at Superdrug or Masterplast Blister Hydrocolloid Plasters £2.99 from Amazon.
EOS Shave cream is another beauty hack favourite as it can be used both wet or dry to shave your legs; plus, it doesn't foam, so your legs feel pretty smooth afterwards. It retails for £14.99, but you can try it for just £4.49 on JustBeauty.co.uk.
Caudalie Instant Detox Mask. The detox mask has gone viral as users proclaiming its pore-clearing abilities as a ‘vacuum for the pores’ and has users raving in their thousands. It retails for £22, but you can get the large size for £16.50 or try the 15ml size for £6.99 at Salon Skincare.
Florence by Mills Mind Glowing Peel Off Mask is a beauty line launched by Millie Bobby Brown, also known as Eleven from Stranger Things. It's a peel-off face mask that looks like an iridescent purple goop! It's not only super satisfying to play with (see below) but works wonders on the skin too. Usually £20, you can get it for £14.40 at ASOS.
The Pixi Glow Tonic has been popping up left, right, and centre on TikTok as skin care-obsessed users hail its exfoliating abilities. If you don't believe the hype follow the hashtag #pixiglowtonic and see how it works for yourself. It's just £10 at Cult Beauty.
First Aid Beauty Bump Eraser Body Exfoliant has also had much attention on TikTok as it's one of the few products that gets rid of Keratosis Pilaris (the bumpy skin on the backs of arms and legs). It's currently rated by thousands of users. Expensive at £25.90, but at Feelunique, you can get it for £17.26 with 15% off.
Vaseline (just £1 at the Poundstore) is a beauty hack product. Used by TikTok users to reduce cystic acne with a technique known as "slugging".
This is the act of slathering on a layer of jelly as a final step in your nighttime skin-care routine (i.e. after moisturiser) to "seal in" the skin-care steps that came before it. The idea is that it creates an extra barrier that helps the skin heal itself, leading to fewer breakouts.
Dove’s Beauty Cream Bar, with the hashtag #dovesoap, has amassed over 30.3 million views on the platform, with countless users explaining how using the soap as a cleanser has cleared up their spots and blemishes.
Better still, it costs just 50p and is kind and gentle on the skin as it's formulated with one-quarter moisturising cream to give you soft, smooth, and healthy-looking skin.
Dr Jart Cicapair Tiger Grass Colour Correcting Treatment is £12 on Beauty Bay. It is a fantastic colour corrector and has ramped up thousands of posts, hashtags and videos (see below). It's a good one to try if you're sick of blotchy skin.
Carbon Theory Cleansing Bar looks like a scary bar of soap, but it's a clarifying combination of tea tree and charcoal AND exactly what oily and breakout-prone skin needs. It's a beloved TikTok product with thousands of hashtags dedicated to it and as good as the reviews say. Buy it for just £6 at Boots.
Looking to improve the condition of your hair? Well, look no further than Briogeo Scalp Care Brush and Briogeo scalp revival, both £12 from Cult Beauty and Beauty Bay. This hand-held massager and shampoo are raved about by TikTokkers, who say using these products improve circulation and overall scalp health.
Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze is one of the hero products adored by TikTok's brow fanatics. There are hundreds of videos and hashtags about this product and stores can barely keep it in stock. Usually £25 but it's just £18.35 at Beauty Bay.
Finally, Make-Up Revolution Eye Bright Concealer is the latest wonder product to go viral with the beauty insiders at Tik Tok. Reviewers say it's the perfect Charlotte Tilbury dupe and at just £8 and is raking in plenty of five-star reviews from happy customers. Try it for yourself at Superdrug.
