How Do You Fix Broken Powder Makeup

We've all been crushed equally we witness (in what cruelly feels like irksome motion) our brand-new pressed powder crash onto the flooring and explode into smithereens. Or perhaps you opened your makeup pocketbook to a colorful, chalky mess. Surprise!

Your heart sinks because how much you paid for a compact that is at present rendered useless. Forget trying to salvage information technology past lightly dusting the peak; a few flecks of loose, errant blush or bronzer is poised to make a dazzler disaster turn into a fashion one when it lands on your dress.

Fret not, there is a mode to save cleaved powders, blushes, bronzers, highlighters and middle shadows with a "solution" you already have at home: rubbing alcohol. The reason it works? The liquid evaporates relatively speedily and has other skin-friendly perks.

"The alcohol will not innovate any bacteria contaminants," explains corrective pharmacist James Hammer. "It will fifty-fifty have a sterilizing outcome on a product that you may have using for awhile."

Keep in heed, this only works with powders — not creams, jellies or the many varieties of textures trending at your local beauty stores. And while this fix keeps you lot from tossing that pricey palette, remember that the powder won't ever exist as solid and daze-proof every bit when y'all commencement purchased information technology, so treat it with care when toting it around.

"It may experience a bit softer in use and you may selection upward a chip more than than usual on your makeup brush," Hammer adds.

What you'll need:

Rubbing booze
Saran wrap
A butter knife
A spoon or dropper
A small dish (optional)

What you'll do:

1. In a move that makes the situation announced worse before it gets better, cover the meaty with plastic wrap and crush the pulverisation until it looks finely milled. The smaller the particles, the easier information technology comes back together in the cease.

You'll need to crush it even more before it can get reconstructed back together. — Yous'll need to crush it even more earlier it can get reconstructed back together. Anna De Souza

two. Pour rubbing alcohol in a small dish for easier access (optional).

3. With a spoon or dropper, begin saturating the powder with the rubbing alcohol. If you overdo it, it'll only take a bit longer to dry out.

4. Smooth what's now become a paste with the back of the spoon. Make sure there aren't any air bubbles in the paste equally it'll weaken the integrity of the compact one time it dries and may make it more than susceptible to crumbling again.

Smooth the paste with the back of a spoon. Anna De Souza

five. Permit information technology to dry for 24 hours.

It dries back to its original color! — It dries back to its original colour! Anna De Souza

Use your fluffy brushes and sponges on information technology over again! You'll find that in one case dry, the paste will turn back to its original color and texture.

Every bit another option, you can always add some face moisturizer to the crushed pulverisation instead to created a tinted moisturizer.