There is nothing more frustrating than to find your favourite makeup either broken or dried out. The last time that I checked my makeup I had a few items that I really liked and found that they were dried out or broken, so I applied some of my own tricks to revive them and tried new ways I found else where.
So, how do you fix broken makeup?
- How To Revive Your Dried Eyeliner
- How To Revive A Pencil Liner
- How To Revive Your Lipliner
- How To Revive Your Broken Lipstick
- How To Revive A Dried Lipstick
- How Do You Fix Your Dried Mascara
- How To Fix Your Dried Mascara With Hot Water
- How TO Revive Your Cream Foundation
- How To Fix Broken Makeup (Powdered Formulations)
- How To Broken Makeup With Rose Water
- How To Revive Your Colorpop eyeshadow
- How To Revive Your Cream Eyeshadow
- How To Preserve Your Face Masks
- How To Make My Makeup Brushes Last Longer
- How To Revive A Liquid Lipstick
- How To Revive Liquid Lipsticks, Eyeliners, and Eyeshadows Another Way
The tips have helped me revive alot of my makeup that was either broken or had just simply dried out, but could still be usable they just needed some extra love and care to bring them back.
How To Revive Your Dried Eyeliner
When it comes to eyeliners, there are three different types of eyeliners one being liquids, gels and pencil eyeliners. If the product is tightened properly all three types of eyeliners can lose their touch and won’t apply the same again.
In the case of liquid eyeliners, the eyeliner itself could be coming to an end and that could cause the product to dry out slightly or it could simply be because of the product wasn’t closed properly after the last time it was used.
Liquid eyeliner: When your liquid eyeliner starts to get dry and crumbly the best way to revive it is by applying a few drops of Visine into your liquid eyeliner. Use a tooth pick to and mix the solution into the liquid liner container. Once you have done that then apply the product on with its normal brush and see if the product is giving a smoother line than before.
When it comes to gel eyeliners, they tend to go more hard in texture. This is a good indication that your gel liner has no moisture and has dried out. Just like the liquid liner it’s best to use eye drops to revive this eyeliner as well.
The best way to do this is by adding a few drops of eyedrops into the container in which the gel liner is sitting, then you will need to mix the eyedrops with a tooth-pick. This may seem like your destroying the liner but it would be adding moisture back into the liner. Once the texture seems it has a
How To Revive A Pencil Liner
When it comes to pencil liner it’s a bit more difficult to revive because the moisture in the product has completely dried out leaving the actual pencil liner shrunken.
The best way to revive this type of product is by adding heat to it. The type of heat that would be the safest is by using a blow dryer. By adding direct heat to a dried product such as your eyeliner or lipliner, it does warm up the product to a safe temperature that will help warm and soften the product.
When using the blow dryer run the heat setting for about 10 seconds on the actual dried product, by using this method you will find that lipliners and eyeliner usually work just as well as when you first purchased it. With this method, you would have to continuously reheat the product before every use.
How To Revive Your Lipliner
As mentioned, one method to revive your favorite lipliner would be by placing it under the blow dryer for a few seconds. The heat from the blow drier will soften the lip liner and allow it to apply creamy and soft as when you first purchased it.
Another method that worked well with me when it came to getting my lip liner to work is applying a lip balm or even petroleum jelly on my lips before using my lipliner.
The best way I found this worked was to really make sure that the lips were moisturized well with the lip balm. Once he lip balm had sunk into my lips I applied my lip liner on top and found that the color from the lip balm started to come on to my lips. Adding a lip balm under a dried lip liner hydrates the liner reviving the lip liner. When trying out this method keep in mind the lip liner takes a bit of time to revive and that the lip liner becomes buildable which I don’t mind because it means I can control how much of the lip liner I want on my lips.
How To Revive Your Broken Lipstick
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The following is how to fix a broken lipstick:
Step 1: Take the broken lipstick bullet and place it on a spoon
Step 2: Light a candle under the spoon and melt the lipstick bullet
Step 3: Once the lipstick has become liquid drop the lipstick in the sample container
Step 4: Wait for the lipstick to become a solid.
Although the lipstick is no longer in a bullet form this method helps preserve the lipstick without having to throw out the entire product.
This method works well when the lipstick bullet is broken or half melted off due to extreme heat.
How To Revive A Dried Lipstick
Reviving a dried lipstick is very similar to reviving a broken lipstick, the only difference is your adding an ingredient to the lipstick. I personally found that matte lipsticks tend to dry up a lot faster than cream lipsticks, because the lipstick has lost its moisture, the best way to revive your dried lipstick is by adding a lip balm to it. Adding a lip balm will restore the moisture in the product. I found this method to be effective if you want to help maintain the same sort of matte finish. Sometimes adding other products can make your matte lipstick more into a glossy finish and change the actual formulation to the product.
The following are the steps I take to revive my dried lipsticks:
Step 1: take your dried lipstick place it on a spoon
Step 2: light a tea light candle under the spoon and wait for the lipstick to melt into a liquid
Step 3: take a lip balm and
Step 4: wait for the lipstick and lip balm to harden and turn into a solid (at this point the lipstick can be used with a lip brush to apply or your finger)
If you don’t mind the actual formulation of your lipstick changing, another alternative is using either petroleum jelly or coconut oil instead of lip balm to revive your lipstick.
Coconut oil is a natural moisturizer that helps seal moisture into the lips leaving them soft and helps reduce inflammation. Adding Coconut oil to your lipstick can help revive the product by adding additional moisture. When using coconut oil to your dried lipstick you may find that it may change the formulation of the original formulation of your lipstick. The following is another method used to revive your lipstick with Coconut oil.
Step one: Place your dried lipstick on a clean spoon
Step two: Light a tea light candle under the spoon and wait for the lipstick to melt into a liquid and place into a small container
Step three: On a separate spoon melt ¼ spoon of Coconut oil and place it in the same small container as the melted lipstick
Step four: Mix the two products together and wait until the lipstick solidifies
Step five: Apply the lipstick with a lip brush or your finger.
How Do You Fix Your Dried Mascara
Mascara is a product that many of us use on a daily basis, It’s one of those products bound to dry up over time. Dried mascaras occur because we might be constantly pumping the mascara wand into the tube which pushes air into the mascara tube causing the formulation to dry up. The best way to revive your mascara is by
One of the most common ways to revive dried mascara is by adding eye drops to your mascara tube. By adding eye drops to your mascara tube, it will help loosen up the formulation and hydration to the mascara formulation. The reason why eye drops are better to use in your makeup, is because its more sterile and it’s normally safer to use for the eyes.
Step 1: Add approximately ten drops of eyedrops to the dried mascara tube
Step 2: Shake the mascara tube
Step 3: Apply mascara to your eyelashes like you normally would.
How To Fix Your Dried Mascara With Hot Water
Another tip that you can try to revive your dried mascara is by placing the mascara tube in hot water, the purpose of this trick is to melt any dried mascara which should help warm up the product and soften up the product.
The following is how to revive your dried mascara with hot water:
Step 1: Boil Some water a place it in a cup
Step 2: Place your dried mascara tube in the cup and make sure to remove the mascara wand, let the mascara tube sit in the water for 2-3 mins.
Step 3: Put the mascara wand in the tube and don’t pump the mascara but rather scoop the product on the wand.
Step 4: Apply mascara to the lashes like you normal would.
I personally found that it’s easier to build layers with the mascara after its placed in hot water, because the product is not fully dry nor will it be fully wet. This is the mascara formulation at is best when it comes to building layers.
How To Revive Your Cream Foundation
When your cream foundation is dried out a good way to determine this is by looking at the size of the foundation. The size being a lot smaller, is a good indication that the foundation is drying out and that a lot of the moisture has evaporated.
The best way to revive this type of
Step one: with a small spatula scoop a small amount of the foundation onto makeup plate
Step two: add a small amount of your moisturizer to the dried foundation and mix the foundation and your moisturizer together
Step 3: once you get an even consistency you can apply the foundation to your face again.
How to fix broken makeup (powdered formulations)
The best way to revive powdered foundation especially if your make up has shattered is by using alcohol (99.9 % alcohol) to press the product back together. Using 99.9% rubbing alcohol helps keep the process of repairing the powdered makeup sanitary during the process and it also absorbs faster. In order to fix your shattered makeup product, there are a few steps necessary in order to get it working good as new again.
The following are the steps required in order to fix your makeup:
Step 1: Take your shattered product and grind it into a fine powder
Step 2: With a dropper add a few drops of alcohol to the crushed powder
Step 3: Mix the alcohol and the crushed powder with a mini spatula until the product mixes into a paste and then wait for about an hour
Step 4: After an hour the formulation should’ve settled down. Take a paper towel and press the pigment in, this step should help absorb any alcohol and give the product a bit of a pattern. Use a quarter on top of the paper towel to help press in the pigment into place.
Step 5: let the product dry overnight in order for it to be ready for use.
This way of pressing pigments works well for all powdered products that have been shattered. This technique is also used to make customized eyeshadows, this is one of the most common ways to fix any powdered product.
How to fix broken makeup with rose water
Another way to fix powdered makeup such as blushes, bronzers and powdered foundation is by using rose water. Rose water has benefits for the skin and is used in many makeup products today. Rose water is used as a toner for many and can help restore the skins pH level, It helps with redness to the skin and helps keep the pores clean, so why not use it to fix your makeup!
How to use rose water revive your makeup
The same procedure in fixing you’re your powdered makeup with alcohol would need to be applied the same way.
The following are the steps needed to fix broken makeup with rose water:
Step 1: Take your shattered product and grind it into a fine powder
Step 2: With a dropper add a few drops of alcohol to the crushed powder
Step 3: Mix the rose water and the crushed powder with a mini spatula until the product mixes into a paste and then wait for about an hour
Step 4: After an hour the formulation should’ve settled down. Take a paper towel and press the pigment, in this step it should help absorb any moisture and give the product a bit of a pattern. Use a quarter on top of the paper towel to help press in the pigment into place.
How to revive your Colourpop Eyeshadow
If you own Colourpop Color Shock eyeshadows you know that the formulation is unique. It’s a cream to powder finish, the texture is like a sponge and it’s usually well pigmented. The problem I had with Colour pops eyeshadow is once it dries out the pigmentation is effected and its hard to get a smooth application. The best way is to revive such formulations with a face oil.
The trick with such formulations is to use very little oil based product as possible. Using a face oil to revive a cream based shadow can bring the life back to the eyeshadow because it adds hydration. It’s important to remember to use little amounts of oil. Using a face oil that you used on a daily basis is a great option because you know how the oil reacts to your own skin.
The following is how to revive your Colorpop Eyeshadow with a face oil:
Step 1: Using a dropper, apply half a drop of your face oil on the back of your hand and spread it evenly
Step 2: Take your dried Colourpop eyeshadow and apply it on top of the oil and smooth out the formulation, the vibrant pigmentation should help revive the color of your eyeshadow.
Cream Eyeshadow
Back in the day I used to purchase a lot of eyeshadow shade sticks from MAC but found they would dry up and go hard. The one trick I found to revive the eyeshadow sticks was by warming up the product in my hand by rubbing the product back and forth, the heat from my body usually warms up the product. When this doesn’t seem to work, the best way to warm up the product is with a blow dryer.
The good thing about reviving cream eyeshadows with a blow dryer is that it helps maintain the original formulation of the product. When adding heat to your product
How to preserve your face masks
We all have our favorite face (clay) masks that we use on a weekly basis to help relax us and give our skin a beautiful natural glow. I have found over the years that when I leave my face masks in room temperatures they have a tendency of decaying and drying out faster.
When it comes to preserving face masks I personally found that it has a
How to make my makeup brushes last longer
Makeup brushes are essential when it comes to beauty, there are a few tips and tricks to keep in mind when it comes to saving those makeup brushes. The first thing is to wash them with an appropriate brush cleanser one that is gentle on the bristles, this will help keep the makeup brushes softer and hydrated.
The second thing to remember is when drying the makeup brushes make sure you lay them flat to dry, by laying them flat to dry the water won’t loosen the glue that holds the bristles together. This will defiantly help them keep
Another thing to consider when it comes to helping take care of your makeup brushes is to avoid using alcohol on the brushes. Alcohol is a great sanitizer for makeup brushes, but with consistent use you will find that it does dry out and damage the bristles of your makeup brushes. Try to stick to instant brush cleanses that cleanse the brushes, and sanitize them at the same time, these types of formulations usually hydrate and cleanse the brushes and keep the bristles hydrated and clean.
How to revive a liquid lipstick
Another good way to revive your makeup such as, liquid lipsticks is by adding oil to the liquid lipstick. It’s important to use a thicker oil such as caster oil, because it wont change the formulation of it too much. Caster oil is also an oil that is a natural moisturizer, once you know your liquid lipstick is becoming too dry add a drop of caster oil to your dried liquid lipstick tube, mix the product up by swerving the lip applicator in the container until you find an even consistency. Apply the liquid lipstick like normal and you will find the formulation to go on smoothly.
Sometimes using thinner oils such as coconut oil, where the formulation can change the liquid lipstick formulation. Coconut oil is one of those formulations that change from a solid to a liquid depending on the temperature.
How to revive liquid lipsticks, eyeliners, and eyeshadows another way
Another way that you could try out is by using a mixing medium. Mixing mediums usually help intensify makeup for
Mixing mediums are made to work with pigmentation to help intensify any product that has pigmentation,
Conclusion
There are a few important key factors to keep in mind in order to give your makeup a longer life. It’s important to keep all lids tight so that air doesn’t get in and dry up your product, when using mascara try not to pump your mascara wand into the tube, and try your best to keep the makeup in a cool and dry place so that they don’t melt. A few simple steps like this can help save the formulation of your makeup.
There is something else to keep in mind makeup does have an expire date, and sometimes its not worth saving especially if it starts to have an odor. Once the makeup starts to have a chemical or a crayon smell, it’s time to give up on it. The one thing we want to avoid is having a reaction with products that may cause a skin reaction.