Genius lip liner hack guarantees a long-lasting look but experts say its iffy: Get that off your face

Beauty buffs are ditching lip liner for permanent marker in a jaw-dropping new TikTok trend that’s got the internet doing a double-take.Makeup influencers across the globe are lining their lips with Sharpies — yes, the same ones you’d find in a school supply drawer — leaving viewers both mesmerized and mortified.The bizarre beauty hack started making the rounds this month, with TikTokkers swiping on the bold, inked-up look (rather than lip liner like the rest of us) and sparking a viral frenzy.One gutsy glam gal, Rachel Carlisle (@rachelmadisoncarlisle), took to TikTok and casually traced her pout with a pink Sharpie from the brand’s “precious gemstones” collection  — like it was just another drugstore lip liner.“Sharpies are non-toxic — at least, this one is,” she said in the clip and added that her pout looked “super, super pretty” afterwards. Many users in her comments section agreed.“It looks so good!!” one wrote beneath the video that showed Carlisle blending in the Sharpie marks and adding a similarly colored lip gloss over it to top it all off. Another added that the hack was “honestly genius” as someone else commented, “looks stunning on u babe.”Other detractors weighed in as one advised, “Get that offf your face girl” and someone else urged, due to a Sharpie’s permanent nature, “just don’t make a mistake.”Another TikTokter, Kaitlyn Curtis (@kaitlyn.curtis2), gave the off-the-wall trick a whirl — claiming she reached for the Sharpie because she was considering getting her lips “blushed.”Her recent video shows Curtis coloring in her pout with the marker as a DIY test run for lip blushing — a semi-permanent tattooing procedure that adds a tinted flush using pigment and a cosmetic tattoo gun.Before going under the needle, Curtis wanted to see if the marker method could do the trick.Just like Carlisle, she smudged the marker like a lip liner, slicked on some gloss to seal the deal — and shockingly, ...