Makeup Repair!

DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES!

So as most of you know I am not fully employed at the moment.  I really enjoy shopping - and with the seasons changing -- and my inability to buy new things for fall slowly becoming more apparent - I am beginning to contemplate selling a kidney on the black market (a girl could buy a lot of shoes with $200,000!!!). With limited income, I don't have much to go on - and I am starting to become very creative (to avoid a major depression).

 I always enjoyed makeup, and I have a ton of it - the "everyday stuff", "party shadows", "wild lipsticks", "fall in lover with me sparkle mascara"... etc (looking for a boyfriend? I have amazing full and long faux eyelashes!). Furthermore, I sometimes catch myself daydreaming about:  MAC, Bare Minerals, Estee Lauder, Clinque, Sephora, Smashbox, NARS, and Bobbi Brown. (These cosmetics are expensive: ranging from $8-$65+) Needless to say this has been a very interesting summer - and sadly, I have reached the bottom of a few compacts. Instead of allowing myself to shop-lift, I decided the most legal/best option was to go through my mother's "old" makeup. (For those of you who have never met my mother she really, really, enjoys accessories. She has tons of coats, amazingly beautiful jewelery, and maybe 70 pairs of shoes; I assumed she must have had at least 30 different lipsticks, and a ton of eyeshadows, liners, pencils, etc...). Thankfully, my mother once worked at Nordstroms -- so she has a ton of the "good stuff" -- and a pretty big variety -- but -- a lot of the mineral eyeshadow were crumbled, broken, and messy.

My amazing mother let me take pretty much everything I wanted (except one NARS compact and a few eyeliners) -- BUT -- before I could claim my "shopping" a success, I had to figure out what to do about the broken eyeshadows. After a few google searches, and youtube videos -- I present you with the best, easiest, and cheapest way to fix broken, crumbly, messy eyeshadow: 


Materials Needed: 
1 plastic ziplock bag (the smaller; the easier)
A baby wipe (or wet napkin)
1 cotton Q-tip
Rubbing alcohol


STEP 1: Place the open eyeshadow compact in the plastic ziplock bag. Put all the shadow powder in the bag.

STEP 2: Clean out the compact with a baby wipe, and then dry with napkin.

STEP 3: Fill-up the rubbing alcohol's cap with alcohol.

STEP 4: Take the Q-tip - dip it in the alcohol and line the inside of the compact (just wipe the wet Q-tip inside the compact).

STEP 5: Slowly pour the loose powder back into the compact.

STEP 6: Slowly put a drop or two of rubbing alcohol in the compact - mixing the alcohol and powder with the tip of the Q-tip.

STEP 7: Mix the powder and alcohol together; slowly adding a drop (or two) of alcohol at a time until it mixes and becomes a thick paste.

STEP 8: Smooth out the paste - leave compact open - and dry over night.

*The next morning you will have your old, broken, crumbly, eyeshadow looking, feeling, and functioning like new! (And probably rid of any yucky bacteria!)*




Hopefully, this will save many broken, crumbly, 
and messy eyeshadows!

Don't waste your money people! 
(unless it's on me!!!)







Xo.


DSB