6 useful things TikTok made me buy
Yes, blame the urge to buy something new on TikTok.
Trends come and go, and TikTok is currently the place to check out the trendiest products available. Surprisingly, many of these products are actually useful while being extremely friendly on the pocket.
Think household items that make chores less of a pain, a tracker to let you know where your bags/items/pets are, or even simply things that uplift your mood – these items went viral for good reasons.
Check them out below!
1) Inkless Sticker Printer
At almost 281 million views and 16 million likes, the inkless sticker printer is ideal for printing black and white pictures/photos, memos, shopping lists, study/meeting notes, business and work plans, office aids, labels, messages, lists, web pages, QR codes and records. It's a cost-effective way to label and annotate, lightweight at only 210g and easily portable. It also makes a great gift for children during the holidays, such as Christmas, New Year, and birthdays.
Costing a mere S$17.60 on Shopee and 6 rolls of thermal paper for S$3.97, it's no wonder it's popular with office workers, homemakers, students, children, amateur archivists and more.
Check out the different types of ink printers here
2) Olive Young: Mediheal
I can personally attest to this series of Mediheal toner pads that improved my skin dramatically. It's easy, simply slap these toner pad on like a mask, go about your evening routine, and viola, better skin in days.
While we cannot all fly to Seoul to get our K-beauty fix, we can save on that flight ticket and channel it to all the beauty products that ship internationally from Olive Young! Go crazy, ladies (and gentlemen).
Olive Young ships internationally!
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3) Scrub Daddy
We all love an underdog, and Scrub Daddy is the most successful underdog to appear on the reality television show Shark Tank. Aaron Krause created Scrub Daddy, a reusable sponge that gets firm in cold water and soft in warm water. This makes for a more intuitive and comprehensive dish scrubbing experience that will leave no scratches behind.
Today, a decade after it debuted on “Shark Tank,” Scrub Daddy is sold in more than 17 countries, and consists of more than 20 products such as scouring pads, dual-sided sponges, sink organisers, soap dispensers and more.
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4) Astronaut Sunset and Sunset Light Projection
How does a perpetual sunset with all of the gorgeous colours in your room and nary the heat, sound like?
If that's your vibe, check out "sunset lamps" on shopping sites. This particular one we've highlighted has the added advantage of doubling as a room decoration just on its own. What a cute spaceman!
5) Sony WH-1000XM4 Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones with Google Assistant, Black
It's probably not a stretch to say that the Sony Wireless Headphone series is one of the most popular headphones in the world right now.
The combination of high-quality sound, improved noise cancelling (from the XM3), good battery life, and smart features like auto pause and Bluetooth multipoint at a very reasonable price makes this headphone the best all-around option for most people.
While XM5 is the latest version, its predecessor, the XM4, is going at an attractive price, and features no lack of features that made this headphone so popular.
6) Apple AirTag 4 Pack
One of the most useful trends to be popularised on TikTok, the Apple AirTags were originally conceived to accompany your keys or wallets and emits a high-pitched sound when you activate it on your phone so you can always locate whatever you need in the abyss of a bag. Someone decided to chuck it in their luggage for ease of locating it, and the hack really took off from there.
In fact, the hack got so popular that the 4-pack Airtags are currently out-of-stock in many stores! We last got the 4-pack at a substantial discount on Amazon (S$129 on Amazon, versus S$150 on the Apple e-store), but it is currently out of stock. You could also add to wishlist or simply place an order first, and Amazon will deliver when stocks are available. Your account will only be charged when they dispatch the item.
