TikTokers are hot glue-gunning eyeliner designs to their face – and it’s not for the faint-hearted

The hashtag for hot glue makeup first started when experimentative beauty TikToker Vannessa Funes used hot glue to create a metallic silver eye design at the start of March. Users were seriously impressed with the innovative DIY take on the futuristic eye stickers and jumped to create their own. The video went instantly viral and the hot glue gun eyeliner was born.

In a slew of how-to videos, Funes shows how she uses her glue gun to create a design on another surface, rubbing on her desired colour of eyeliner when it has properly cooled and taking them with a tweezer to stick to her face with eyelash glue. She assures commenters that practice is the key to making this look pop, and admits she herself had to do it many times until she became a hot gun pro.

But the trending hashtag could become rather confusing to some, as it may imply that hot glue is applied directly to the face. Whatever you do, do not do that. The danger with calling it eyeliner could also be assumed that it is placed directly on the eye line, when in fact it should be properly cooled on an external surface before going anywhere near the face. If you hark your memories back to primary school when you would accidentally hot glue gun yourself to your art project, it’s safe to say it gave a good blister. And the last thing we want any upcoming beauty gurus to suffer is a burn on the face. 

So whilst DIY hot glue gun design stickers are high in demand right now, we simply must ask, what’s next? Glue sticks as a primer and PVA face masks? Don’t tempt the TikTok beauty community now.