What to Do When - Ohnoes! - Your Pressed Powder Ends Up as Plain 'Ole Powder - Makeup and Beauty Blog

Today Rae of theNotice shows how to rescue a broken pan of pressed pulverisation from the brink!

Howdy there, ladies! It's Rae from theNotice. I only wanted to take a moment to say "thanks!" to Karen for letting me guest blog. Makeup and Beauty Blog is definitely i of my favourites, so this is pretty much the best. affair. ever.

Okay. Moment's over!

It'south happened to us all: you become traveling, or you motion, or y'all take a compact with y'all on your way out the door. When you open up your traincase or cosmetic bag, there'southward a sparse moving picture of powder everywhere, and then you only know — i of your pressed powders broke in transit, and it'southward completely unusable in its current state.

But it's not the stop of the world, considering this is a trouble that's easily stock-still! Seriously, folks. It'south easier than making toast to fix a hungry stomach or tempting children with processed or Jell-O.

What y'all'll need

• Alcohol (no, non vodka. You want cleaning alcohol! I'm using isopropyl.)
• A steady hand to pour it, or an eyedropper
• Lots of tissue and/or Q-tips

We start our endeavor with one of the Smashbox Brow Tech duos from my makeup kit (this one's Blonde). The powder portion had completely broken in transit — crumbles and chunks everywhere!

You know how when y'all get to the bottom of your Special K Cinnamon Pecan, at that place's just… dregs? Well, it was like that. And for all of you who don't obsessively eat that stuff, just check out the photo below (and add the cereal to your shopping list, because it's like heaven. But in cereal class. And edible).

Then considering this was a duo, I started by scraping off the top layer of the wax with a make clean corrective spatula and using an eyedropper to moisten the powder one-half with alcohol.

Use a damp towel or Q-tip to clean upwardly around the edges a little, but it doesn't take to be perfect — trust me, information technology'due south easier to clean information technology upward at the end, when more doesn't tip out every time you move the pot!

For the wax, I just wiped off the elevation with a tissue after scraping, and information technology was pretty much adept to go. But for the powder (or for a unmarried pan) it'due south a little harder. To ready this one, y'all have to continue putting in alcohol until it turns into pudding. I know. And then much harder, right? Oh, my god! I tin can't do this! It's too hard!

…aaaand I'll pretend you recognize the sarcasm in my, erm, font.

Anyway, that's really all you need to do! Once information technology's mushy, all you have to do is permit it dry out (the stronger the alcohol, the faster it'll be ready for the next step). Because this was a half-pan, re-pressing was a picayune harder. But for a normal 26mm MAC shadow pan, all you accept to do is wait until information technology'due south but barely damp, put a paper towel or handkerchief on acme, stack a couple quarters on that, and use pressure!

SHAZAM! Just similar that, you've got a like-new pan again — clean upwardly the edges, let information technology dry out overnight before closing it, and you're gear up to confront the day. If you have a half-pan like mine, and non a full circle, just press information technology with your fingers. The effect won't wait new, but unless you've constitute a manner to get a one-half-quarter, it's the best you tin do!

TIP: if yous're pressing something large — like a foundation, powder or chroma — the bottoms of spectacles piece of work wonderfully instead of quarters!

I final thing, though. The pans in this were a lilliputian loose (if by "a little loose" you mean "totally not connected with the pot anymore"), which I'one thousand thinking was the reason for their demise. So I took 'em out with tweezers, practical a couple drops of Krazy Gum, put them back in, and afterwards nigh x seconds, they were secure over again!

For loose pans, plainly 'ole Krazy is a lifesaver. It's my number-four beauty tool, preceeded just by my Tweezerman tweezers, lash curler, and Q-tips. Just please don't use it as cosmetic glue, alright? 🙂

Is it just me, or did this turn into a lesson nearly how you lot shouldn't blog while hungry, instead of one about re-pressing broken powders?

This post was written by Rae, the beautiful brains behind theNotice. Beauty blogger, student and makeup enthusiast, Rae can't call up a time when she didn't love makeup.

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