7 DIY beauty buys for easy at-home grooming

Look, we’ll be the first to admit that nothing will ever replace the feeling of freshly blow-dried hair, but with this smoothing and volumising hot brush in tow you’ll at least be able to imitate the art that your hairdresser makes. Enhance shine with smoother styles or create voluminous curls and waves with this frizz-reducing pick. 

$169.95 at Oz Hair & Beauty

Achieving the perfect manicure is all about patience and practice, but having a literal hoard of nail tech tools to help you out certainly doesn’t hurt your chances for achieving salon-level results either. This set is equipped with everything you need to create a full set of gel and acrylic nails, including a UV light and several pinky-nude nail shades.

$32.99 at eBay

There’s nothing more soul-wrenching than realising you’re in need of a colour top-up but there’s no way you’re going to be able to reunite with your colourist for a quick gloss. These coloured conditioners from evo make great additions to your usual hair washing routine, depositing and reinvigorating colour as needed and nourishing strands too.

$39.95 at Adore Beauty in Platinum Blonde, Light Beige, Caramel, Chestnut, Cool Brown, Mahogany, Purple Red and Copper

Your facialist may be out of reach but we think you’ll find this pick fits easily in your hand and does almost just as good of a job as your aesthetician. Sync your UFO to the FOREO app to optimise and customise your facial routine, then simply clip in any of the compatible UFO 2 masks to enjoy the skin care benefits of the mask formula, T-Sonic pulsations, cryo-technology and thermo-technology.

$395 at Adore Beauty

AHA extracts, lactic acid and fermented plant enzymes are to thank for the baby soft, uber-fresh skin you’re going to have after you introduce his peel to your skin care routine. Skin will appear firmer, while fine lines and wrinkles will be minimised in appearance and surface debris and dead skin cells are sloughed away. 

$116.10 at Adore Beauty

Utilise all this time inside during lockdown to finally reject the yeti life you were born into and  laser top-to-toe from the comfort of your own home – thank God for technology amiright? Block out the next six weeks in your calendar hun, because we’re getting hairless.

$549 at Shaver Shop

Want brows that speak for themselves? Then you can’t go past a brow lamination. The fluffy, natural look is now achievable at home with easy-to-use kits like this 5-step system. It utilises keratin to transform your eyebrows into the kinds of furry caterpillars that could rival even Cara Delevingne’s impressive arches.

$239 at Mecca