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Keep Your Tikka In Place With The STK Kit

by Raj Desai | 8/30/21

All products listed were in stock and priced as shown at the time this was written. Dulhan is not compensated for the following recommendations.

It was a night like any other. Pizza for dinner. Coaxing my toddler to eat the pizza. Wrestling my 2 dogs to stop eating the pizza. All capped off by my nightly obligatory Instagram scroll.

And BAM. That’s when I found it, shining in all its iridescent glory—the STK Kit.

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I love the idea behind this kit. Because beyond your random hack that involves repurposing other beauty products, I don’t know of anything specifically designed (or marketed) for keeping tikkas in place.

I’m also just a sucker for good packaging. Which is why I can’t go to Target unsupervised.

Eager to test it out, I ordered some kits for myself. Annnd I ordered a jewelry set (on sale!) from The Kundan Shop to test it out on. 😇😈

What's In The Kit

Each kit comes with a comb, adhesive, a stick to loop around the tikka hook, and an instruction card.

How I Used It

Step 1: Comb

I parted my hair with the comb and figured out where I wanted to place my tikka. After I studied which part of the tikka would be resting on my forehead, I applied the adhesive to the back of it.

Here’s where I ran into a couple of issues.

First, the tikka I purchased has a lot of white space, which means less surface area for me to apply the adhesive.

Second, the shape of the tikka I used was a problem. Because it’s rounded, the only part of it that touched my forehead is the outer edge.

Step 2: Loop and Stick

Once the adhesive felt sticky, I looped the end of the tikka (the part that clips to your hair) in the white hook and firmly pulled it back through my middle part. At the same time, I pressed the pendant part of the tikka onto my forehead (approx. 30 seconds).

A couple of bobby pins later, I was ready to put it to the test.

The Result

I’ll admit, take 1 didn’t go well. The tikka came off after some light headbanging and kitchen shimmies (what?! That’s realistic reception dancing).

That’s because of the tikka design and shape. So I decided to redo my experiment with a tikka better suited to the task.

Take 2

I dug up a tikka that has a flat, solid back. That meant tons of surface area to apply the adhesive, and I’d be able to push the whole thing flat onto my forehead.

I reapplied the adhesive, waited 30 seconds, pressed it securely in place, and once again put it to the dance test—and it stayed!

The Verdict

For $14, you get your money’s worth with this kit. Especially if you need it for a week of wedding events or, more realistically, choreo for your next TikToks.

The only caveat is that the type of tikka you’re using, matters. This product will go a long way if the tikka you pair it with has lots of flat, solid space for the adhesive to stick to.