She’s faking it — faux real.
Feigning the fetching afterglow of a surgical nip/tuck comes as second nature to one beauty buff who’s discovered a cost-effective, cut-free way to give herself a phony face-lift.
“How to fake a face lift!” Ghazal Wahidy, 29, a makeup content creator from Alberta, Canada, captioned her click-worthy TikTok tutorial on creating the crisp contours of the skin-tightening surgery with concealer.
She stamped her trending clip with #FaceLiftMakeup, a hashtag used by more than 435.1 million cosmetics connoisseurs online who’ve opted to enhance their looks with inexpensive creams and powders rather than going under the knife for an operation that can cost upward of $10,000 in major cities like New York. In fact, in July, a 50-year-old Arizona woman sold her home in order to pay for a $14,000 face-lift procedure. The big-spender Gen Xer now lives in a van.
But rather than going for broke, women who follow Wahidy’s two-step DIY will likely be able to get the look and keep a stationary roof over their heads.
Beckoning over 3.3 million viewers to her haute how-to, Wahidy — who’s previously soared into the social media stratosphere with primping tips on achieving “top model” fox eyes and glass skin — demonstrated how wannabe glamor girls should apply product for face-raising results.
Designating the right half of her mug as the “what not to do” section, the brunette instructed viewers against plastering their under eyes with globs of concealer then dabbing it into the skin with a beauty sponge.
Instead, Wahidy — using the left side of her face as her “what to do” canvas — brushed a few small strokes of the cream between her nose and the inner corner of her eye, then applied a small, diagonal swipe of concealer to the outer corners of her eye and lip. Blending the slanted lines into the skin added an angular structure to her face, impressively creating the posh effects of a face-lift.
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And amazed makeup tastemakers applauded her no-op polish.
“Wow beautiful,” rooted a virtual fan.
“The left side of your face is naturally more lifted,” praised another.
No stranger to receiving digital accolades for faking a funky glow, in June, Wahidy scored internet success when she joined in on the #FakeTanLines movement, which saw beauty aficionados use slices of tape along with puffs of blush and bronzer to falsify the look of spaghetti-striped tan lines on their bikini areas.
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“When I was in high school, I tanned in the sun or in tanning beds a lot, and that’s not great for your skin,” Wahidy told The Post of the summertime trend. “This is a much safer alternative.”