Tip-full Tuesday: Fixing Broken Powder Cosmetics

You woke up yesterday morning and pulled out your favorite eyeshadow, blush, powder compact, etc. only to find that it is smashed to pieces from being jostled around in your makeup bag or purse, or maybe it was just some random, unfair, freak accident. Is your first response to toss it and go out and buy another one?

I recently ran into this problem - I had just bought a bunch of neutral shadows to put into one of my wonderful Z-Palettes (go check them out! I love them!), but I dropped my Z in a weird way and it cracked and smashed a few of my new shadows.  [This is not a normal characteristic of the Z-Palette; I have accidentally dropped all of my Z's many times and they have never broken anything before; and I have dropped the same palette since and it hasn't broken anything else.]
This is what I was left with:

 

This is just 1 of the 4 shadows that were smashed. Since they were brand new, I did not want to go and replace them immediately, so I began to research how to fix broken powder cosmetics - and since everything I found seemed to be rather messy - I altered it slightly and am very happy with the results.

All you need is:

-70% Rubbing Alcohol

- a couple of tissues

- a syringe or dropper of some sort

- a quarter (for MAC/round eye shadows) or something of a similar size and shape of what is being fixed

The first thing I did was lay out a tissue on the table - since the shadow was broken and I had to transfer it out of the Z-Palette, I didn't want to get black shadow all over the table. 

Next, take your dropper or syringe and fill it with rubbing alcohol. Then add enough drops to the broken eyeshadow, blush, bronzer, setting powder, etc. to create a goopy-like substance.

Take a clean tissue, fold it to give it a little more thickness and place over the top of the powder. Now take a quarter, your fingers or whatever is similar to the size and shape of the container and press down on it firmly. 

Remove the tissue and your makeup is as good as new! 

 
**The "cracks" that appear aren't cracks at all - they are just creases left from how the tissue was folded.

I hope this helps you to fix any broken cosmetics you may have!

Lipstick & Loves,
Sara