Strange beauty stories aren't rare. In fact, in the age of clickbait and social media approval, they're actually becoming more and more common. Something we don't see as much, however, is cooking with cosmetics. Why? Because it's not particularly safe.
But it looks like some people have disregarded that because one beauty YouTuber decided to bake a cake with lipstick in the name of clean beauty. The odd task that has us scratching our heads is just one of a plethora of similar videos using makeup as ingredients in food.
Warning: Don't try this at home.
Beauty has the ability to create some amazing things.
From its ability to transform faces to a million other things, makeup is one of the most versatile art forms out there. But did you know that it also has other magic powers? Such as baking? Just stay with us here because this is where it gets interesting.
Bite Beauty's clean lipsticks are packed with nothing but natural ingredients.
"Made with 12 edible oils and triple milled pigments, this lipstick provides saturated lip color with weightless coverage and a citrus flavor made from fresh pressed fruit," the brand states. And while most people just take that to mean that the lipsticks are safe for the lips, others are taking it the more literal way.
Just ask YouTuber Safiya Nygaard, who decided to bake the lipsticks into an actual cake.
That's right — she cut up Bite's high-quality lipsticks into dozens of little pieces to bake them into a real-life confetti cake. Step by step, we watched as she made a cake from scratch, adding in bits of what is really meant to adorn lips.
First, she cut up the lipsticks and folded them into the batter.
With about five different colors for decorative effect, Nygaard gently folded the pieces into the dough so as not to overly mix. Gently, she added them in one by one, layer by layer until all of the lipstick pieces were incorporated.
After the batter was done, the real fun began.
Three different pans were filled with the mixture and headed to the oven to bake. Let us remind you that as much as we were anticipating the final result of the cake, the unsettling feeling of knowing that actual lipstick would be the source of the color in the cake continued.
But the result was a swirly masterpiece.
It was a masterpiece that, in our opinion, could have been made with regular food coloring, but hey, who's judging? The colorful result that was filled with shades of pinks and purples did, however, look like quite the fancy cake. Tasty even, maybe.
She then chilled all three layers.
Once all three layers were done, they were chilled in the fridge so they could form for stacking. "I wonder: How did we get here?" Nygaard said. She also posed the question if the cake would stain her teeth. I guess we'll find out.
After icing, the cake was finally done.
Nygaard even attempted at the rustic, stacked cake trend that everyone has been loving. We can't lie, as strange as it is, the cake was quite adorable. And at first glance, you'd never know that it was packed to the rim with lipstick.
A little slicing, Nygaard was ready to eat her masterpiece.
Now all of her answers about staining and flavor would be answered. And we were happy that she'd be the one to test it out and not us.
So what did she have to say?
She gave the cake a five-star review. She even went so far as to say that "the lipstick frosting is where it's at." She went on to explain that the flavor of the lipsticks toned down the sweetness of the cake. That sounds nice and all, but I think we're going to have to pass. Nonetheless, we quite enjoyed watching someone do it themselves.
