I just came up to speed with the term hack too. Beauty sites now refer to their tips as “hacks.”
I avoided beauty hacks because I thought they involved painful things. Now I have to use the word hack to talk to other young women about how tos.
Here is an example of a beauty hack.
“Do the Bang Wash
If you want to skip shampooing but don’t want to leave the house with stringy bangs, just wash your bangs. It’s easy: pull the rest of your hair back in a ponytail, wet your hands with a small dime-size amount of conditioner, run it through your fringe, and rinse it out under the faucet. If you have straight hair, it’s probably not necessary to blow-dry, as they’ll air-dry in minutes. If your hair is a little more unruly, quickly blow-dry and style your bangs as you normally would.”
I can remember when a hack job was the completion of a task in the quickest possible time with no regard to quality or attention to detail. I hack was a person who worked like this. Or for people who lived in big cities a cab driver. No connection.