De-potting, Re-potting (powders-pressed powders)

You know your very favorite bronzer, the one you just dropped on the ground...the one that is now totally shattered? 


Ugh, we all have our favorite blush, bronzer, powder or eye shadow that's totally ruined. But guess what, you don't have to throw it away! I know how to fix it! It's a totally life saver/money saver. It's awesome! 


This is what you'll need-


1- Your broken make up thing haha


2- A metal spoon


3- A quarter 


4- Either a tissue or an old piece of fabric


5- Rubbing Alcohol


6- And a dropper to dispence the alcohol


7- A plastic bag


So first what you'll do is take your broken, let's say bronzer- 
You'll take the container with the shattered pieces and set it inside the plastic bag, don't close the bag, we're just gonna keep it inside to save us from messes.
Take your spoon and press the powder down to mash it up into a fine powder (through the plastic bag) break it up inside your container. Once it's pretty powder-y, you can take it out of the plastic bag and just set it on top of the plastic (saving you from lots of messes!) Now you can take your dropper and alcohol -
You'll now drip the alcohol on top of the pressed powder. Now take your quarter and wrap it in either or fabric or tissue get the fabric covered quarter wet and press it on your pressed bronzer. This is going to get it really flat and nice looking. All compact so you wont have any crumbling later. Once everything is evenly pressed let it sit to dry. Once the alcohol evaporates and dries up- You are good to use again! Voila! Good as new!! 


You can use this same technique if you have loose powder and want to make it a pressed powder in a compact! This is super easy to do! It's also really great if you want to make a custom color. 


These are some picture of what I made tonight! My old bronzer broke, I didn't want to get rid of it, so I put it in an old container for lose powder. Now that I know this technique I re-ressed it and put it in an old blush pan!

1st thing I did was, take my empty container setting it on a plastic bag along with the lose bronzer.

Then I took my spoon and scooped it into the empty pan. 

 After I filled all that up I put it inside the plastic bag to smash down and press the lose bronzer. 

This is what it looks like when it's all nicely packed down dry.

These are all the products I needed to use! This is also what the bronzer looked like after it was pressed down.










I then dropped/dripped some alcohol into the pan. 

This is where you press it in. The quarter is inside the fabric soaked in alcohol. You can see the rings the circle of the quarter is creating. This works really well for mac eyeshadows which are the same size as the quarter. 
So press until it's very firm. Let dry.

This is the end product! Nicely compact.


Once this is dry the alcohol smell will be gone and ready to use! 


There you can see the quarter in the fabric.


Super easy and really fun to do actually haha










I'll link a video on this method so you can see it in action. I learned this from Kandee Johnson, who I LOVE!!

Hope you thought this was totally awesome like I did!!!