A few weeks ago, I let TikTok influence me.
Yup, that's right. I officially became a fully-fledged shopper on the app I swore I'd never sell my soul to.
Except I didn't give in and buy some brutally made fast fashion blouse or go to someone's Amazon shop front to peruse through their checkout basket. Instead, I purchased beef tallow.
Which if you don't know what that is, fair. Because it's rendered beef fat.
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I'm not a stupid woman, I know a scam when I see one. I don't dabble on #SkinTok often because I worry about how complicated it can be when there are too many options. I don't believe in the "share for good news today" videos and I certainly do not allow Andrew Tate edits to sneak their way onto my For You Page.
What I'm trying to say is that I am a mature person but a few weeks ago, I fell into a beef tallow hole. And I couldn't get out of it.
Below is the innocuous 10-second-long clip that convinced me I was missing out on magic by not owning the creamy lard moisturiser.