Cotton Buds- The Ultimate Multi-Taskers

Cotton ear buds are the ultimate multi-taskers. From correcting makeup mistakes to painting small details, they can even clean hard-to-reach areas! You might not realize how many uses there are for them until you look around one day and find all of your cotton buds are gone, but luckily it's easy enough to grab some more Cottsberry's buds right here!

Applying Makeup

Cotton ear buds are perfect for applying makeup. They’re just as good at blending eye shadow as they are at removing eyeliner.

Apply it over your eyelid, then blend outwards to soften the edges of your shadow.

Use them to tidy nail polish on your nails!

Or lipstick! You can use the little stick part of the bud to dab it onto your lips, or you can dip one corner into the tube and use that to draw a line around them (kind of like drawing with a paintbrush).

Dip another end into some lip gloss and apply that way instead — this will give you an even more natural look than using a brush or stick does because you’re basically just smearing on some moisturizer with cotton instead of placing something onto your face like regular makeup products do!

Use cottons buds dipped in facial cleanser to correct fine details of your make up- the bleeding lipstick or smudged kohl.

Crafts & Hobbies

Cotton buds make for a wonderful tool for tiny crafts. Use them for:

• Painting models, dollhouses and other small objects
• Cleaning small parts that are hard to reach on your tools so that they’re ready to use again!
• Cleaning small ornaments. You can use cotton buds to clean those hard-to-reach places where dust tends to accumulate, like inside figurines or under the antlers of figurines
• If you've ever been frustrated by glue residue on your art or craft project, try this simple trick: remove excess glue from the surface of your project with a cotton bud dipped in alcohol. This method works great for removing excess glue from anything, including paper and fabric projects!

Cleaning Hard-To-Reach Areas

 

If you are obsessive about cleaning and get frustrated by the tiniest bit of grime, then cotton earbuds are your best friend! Use them to clean:

• Hard to get to areas like the switches on your switchboard or the build up around the keys on your keyboard.
• Jewellery that’s been lying around for a long time, to make it look like new again!
• Inside of vases. When putting flowers in vases there’s often dirt which gets stuck at the bottom underneath the water level; using cotton buds can help remove this dirt when washing out a vase after using it as an arrangement container!

Medical Use

 

While medical swabs for microbiological test cultures require medical grade, sterilized cotton swabs, you can use pharmacopeial grade cotton buds for topical application of medicines like ointments and antiseptic disinfectants for minor cuts and wounds.

 

We hope that this post swayed you to adopt the humble cotton bud as your handy tool of choice.