Fashion faux pas can become embarrassing mistakes from nylons that catch a giant snag to pants that reveal a horrifying camel toe.
One California fashion guru reveals 10 keys to avoiding wardrobe malfunctions down pat with 10 hacks that are not only stylish and practical, they’ll save you some money at the same time.
Beauty vlogger Andrea Brooks, 31, shared her favorite tricks to keep an outfit together to her four million subscribers in her latest YouTube video.
Brains and beauty: YouTuber Andrea Brooks details her clever clothing hacks in a creative new video posted to her channel
Pack a secret pair of emergency underwear
The clip began with Andrea sharing a life-saving hack for all the ladies that have experienced an unexpected early arrival from Mother Nature.
‘Sometimes we don’t predict the weather very well,’ she explained. For such dilemmas she advised to stash a secret pair of panties in a purse for those dire moments.
Her hack is to slip the extra underwear into ‘incognito packaging’ such as an empty gum box, mints tins, or candy containers.
‘Just stick them inside and if you have to change while you’re out and about it won’t be like you’re grabbing a pair of underwear and running to the bathroom,’ she said.
Smart hacks: Fashion vlogger Andrea Brooks, 31, shares her top 10 wardrobe hacks to avoid embarrassing malfunctions such as packing an emergency pantie for period leaks (above)
Secret stash: The underwear is then unrecognizable in a gum box and always within reach
Stop rings from sliding off
The second hack was for all the jewelry lovers as a way to never lose rings again.
‘I love rings. And I love when my rings are perfectly stacked. What I don’t love is when throughout the day some of them keep sliding off and sliding around,’ she said.
‘Sometimes I even lose them and I don’t even know it,’ she added.
She shared that the key to keeping all her rings in place is to add a thin layer of adhesive using a glue gun onto the inside of the ring. After drying, that layer will help the ring fit tighter on the hand, and prevent it from slipping off.
Jewelry glam: Andrea shares her love for rings and hatred for ones that slip away
If the ring fits! She changes the ring size by adding a layer of grip with a glue gun that allows the ring to fit snug on her finger, preventing it from slipping off
How to prevent a camel toe
Next she took to addressing every woman’s greatest fear in leggings – the dreaded camel toe.
‘You can prevent it by adding a pantie liner to the crotch area of your panties or your leggings,’ she revealed.
She then demonstrated by wrapping a pantie liner horizontally around the crotch area to block any unwanted lines while wearing thing pants or leggings.
Wrap it up! She wraps a panty liner around the crotch area of her underwear to prevent the camel toe
Transformation Tuesday! The leggings trend has led to a camel-toe problem for tight pant lovers but Andrea’s solution says goodbye to the humiliating lines in one easy step
How to curl hair with a bra strap
Andrea then moved onto a quick and easy hair care tip.
For those that want a heatless curl she shared that an easy hack is part your hair into two sections along the shoulders and wrap pieces of the hair around the straps of a bra or tank top and clip it there for a while.
‘Keep doing what you’re doing for an hour or two. After you take it out of the bra strap, you’ll have a nice wave going on!’ she shared.
Heatless haircare: The beauty blogger shares a quick fix for wavy hair is to wrap strands of hair into a bra strap, which has tight grip, and will release waves an hour or two later
Make your own slip-free headbands
The hair fanatic, who has rocked everything for luscious curls to elaborate updo’s shared her pet peeve is wearing headbands that slip while on her head.
To lock her headbands in place, she shared the hack is to use a glue gun along the inside of the fabric, let it dry, and then it’ll work as a grip to stay right in place on the hairline’s crown.
Locked and loaded: Using a glue gun, Andrea creates grip on slippery headbands
How to prevent nylon snags and re-use ruined ones
Her following tip involved one of her favorite fashion pieces: nylons.
‘I love nylons. I love everything abut them, they’re so cute. But I don’t like how vulnerable they are. Snags, they just come out of nowhere!’ she exclaimed.
Her tip to prevent those runs for happening is to spray down the nylons with conventional hair spray.
‘What this is going to do is actually strengthen your nylons to help prevent runs,’ she said.
However she warned that the thin fabric may still get those irritating holes in them, but if they do, fear not. Instead of tossing the tights, the fabric can be cut up and used to create hair ties or headbands instead.
‘Don’t just toss em!’ she warned and shared the bands can be used while putting on make-up by keeping fly-aways far from the face or for showering purposes.
Rip off!: Andrea bids tata to rips and runs in nylons by using hair spray to strength the fabric
Cut it up! A use for ripped up tights is to cut them up into handy hair bands and hair ties
How to loosen too-tight clothing
Andrea then addressed the universal issue of having clothes shrink in the wash. She donned a sweater that fit too snug along the arm and revealed an easy trick to loosen the fabric back to a comfortable fit.
‘One of my pet peeves is when my sleeves are too tight on my arms. Ugh I hate it,’ she said.
She then showed her quick solution by filling a sink with water and adding hair conditioner into the mix. After jostling the mixture she added her sweater for a half an hour soak.
‘When it’s done soaking, pull the fabric out, just stretch it out. When you’re done stretching, rinse,’ she instructed.
She then said to allow the fabric to air dry and afterwards the fit should be back to normal and no longer snug.
Soak and save: Andrea reveals how to save money on too-tight sweaters, by loosening them up by soaking them in water and hair conditioner, stretching them, and letting them air dry
Fit and fab! The too tight sweater (left) now fits like a glove after a half hour loosening hack
Repair lost drawstrings
The beauty blogger then displayed herself wearing a pair of joggers, with one of the drawstrings list inside the pant lining.
She revealed a quick way to fix the drawstring debacle is to remove the string entirely and attach it to anything hard and thin. She taped the stripe to a paintbrush and weaved it back through the whole in a quick, five-minute fix.
Missing link: When drawstrings go missing Andrea shares an easy way to restring any pant
One, two step: First tape the drawstring to a hard and thin object paintbrush (left) and lace it through until it comes out the other hole, then untape, and enjoy the restrung pants (right)
How to make your own earring back
The jewelry-lover then switched to a common girl problem of losing the back of an earring. She shared that in cases of an emergency, a pencil eraser will do just the trick.
‘Just replace the lost earring back with a pencil eraser and it’ll keep your earring in place for the rest of the day until you can get a new one,’ she revealed.
Dare to DIY: When earrings back go missing, keep the earring on tight by using a pencil eraser (left) to keep the jewelry in place and worry-free (right)
Create DIY foot supports
Passing jewelry and on to shoes she shares her cheap fix to toe pinching high-heeled shoes.
‘What you can do is get that little bra insert, make sure it’s thin though, and you can place it in the toe of your heel and what this’ll do is it’ll actually absorb some of the impact from when your feet are slamming against the ground for eight hours a day,’ she said.
From preventing period scares to creating instant fixes to painful shoes, Andrea’s hacks covered all areas of the wardrobe needs for just a fraction of the replacement cost for faulty fashion items.
Cinderella comfort: Andrea uses a thin bra pad as toe pads for uncomfortable high heels