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Quick Fixes for Broken Beauty Favorites

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Every once in a while one of your favorite, go-to beauty products break. In the past I have tried to get the remainder of the product out and if it did not work then I simply tossed them.  Over Christmas break two of my beauty favorites broke in the same week – my favorite highlight eyeshadow and my go-to perfume.  I brought both to Sephora, the place I purchased them, and the sales assistant said there was nothing they could do.

I then decided to turn to my DIY Pinerest board and see if I could find any fixes. Nope.  I then decided to search online and within five minutes I found two fixes, one for each.  What did we do before Google?  The first easy fix I found was for my broken eyeshadow.   I followed the step by step instructions of Erica’s YouTube video, but hey, who has five minutes to watch a video?  I have broken it out into eight simple steps. I am not an expert DIY-er, I firmly plant my feet in the novice section and even I could do this!

How to Fix a Broken or Cracked Eyeshadow Infographic
Steps to Fix a Broken Eyeshadow:  Stila Eye Shadow in Kitten 

(1)  Collect Your Tools:  You will need the broken eyeshadow, a makeup brush with a rounded end, and some rubbing alcohol. Not pictured – you need papertowels and I ended up needing a spatula as well.

(2) Gather as much of the crushed eyeshadow as you can into the pan

(3) Use the back end of the makeup brush to completely crush all of the shadow so it is entirely powder.

(4) Pour the alcohol into the cap and then into the eyeshadow – you only need few drops!

(5) Use the makeup brush again swirl the alcohol around and create a thick paste.  (I had so much product on the brush that I used a spatula to transfer as much as possible back into the pan).

(6) [not shown]  Drop the pan many times on a hard surface to level out the surface of the eyeshadow paste

(7) After waiting one hour use a paper towel to firmly pack down the eyeshadow into the pan

(8) Wait one full day for the remainder of the alcohol to absorb

(9) Enjoy your new eyeshadow!

My next broken beauty favorite was actually much more difficult.  When my bottle of  CHANCE Eau de Parfum Spray decided to take a dive off my vanity my first though was please don’t shatter! Well, it did not but it dislodged the little stray/pump thing that allows you to get the perfume from the bottom of the bottle.  Like I mentioned before, the ladies Sephora said there was nothing they could do but they did offer to sell me a new one.

Since this perfume is NOT cheap I was determined to find a way to fix it and when I saw someone post a Wiki answer that they transferred theirs into a vintage bottle I knew that was my solution.  I ordered a Glass Perfume Bottle with Spray Atomizer from Amazon and set about the transfer.

Broken Perfume Bottle
Broken Perfume Bottle

Honestly, breaking open a perfume bottle was much harder than I would have imagined. For some reason I was under the impression I might have just been able unscrew it or something?  Wrong.  It took a knife, a pair of pliers, and a great deal of strength to get that top off.  In my efforts I actually broke the glass taking off the top.

Broken Perfume Bottle
Broken Perfume Bottle

Well there you go, two easy fixes for broken beauty favorites! 

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  1. ElleSees.blogspot.com says

    i have an old post on this! ya should’ve checked me out first! 😉 glad it worked out for ya.

  8. Rekha Monger says

    Such great ideas/….I’ve been meaning to fix my broken eye shadow. This post came right on time. Thanks so much.

  20. Brittany conners says

    I’ve tried the eye shadow trick before and it works so well. I figured it would be an epic fail but fortunatley it wasn’t 🙂 BTW Chance is my fav , I would’ve freaked while I watched it slowly fall of the vanity lol

  23. Amanda Elizabeth says

    I cannot begin to tell you how many bronzers I have broken when they have taken tumbles off my bathroom sink…I’m so glad to know that pinterest link I pinned actually works 😉

  24. Cydney says

    These are amazing tips! I’m constantly dropping my makeup bag and needing to repair things! Thanks for sharing! And thank you for stopping by my blog yesterday! XO

    Simply Cydney

  29. Niki Caron says

    My Stila eyeshadows are constantly falling apart! They’re such beautiful eye shadows and they’re so soft and easy to blend on the eye, but they are always breaking up on me! This is great advice and I will definitely try it!

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