Miss Ashley Pants

First, happy belated St. Patrick’s Day, all!

I celebrated by putting my sister’s gift card to use at Viccy’s Secret (silk loungies were the result) and a trip to the salon for more blonde:

Speaking of beauty upkeep – it’s not a deep or introspective entry today – but a quick makeup tip that sprung to mind after my favorite shadow committed Stila suicide off my vanity.

I’d normally say “Men, you can leave now,” except for the fact that this may interest you also, for two reasons:

1. Up there with tampon purchases, a makeup store run sucks for you. I’d imagine it feels like standing in the middle of a foreign country with no map or language dictionary. So, this just might save you a trip to the local beauty store to execute a “honey-do” errand for her when all you want to do is relax after your long work day and commute.

2. If you’re married or in a shared-income relationship, it might even be worse if she goes herself. Women at makeup stores are like kids in candy or toy stores. The chances of her leaving there with only the replacement item she came to get are slim to none. Thus, this tip could potentially penny pinch on your woman’s war paint fund and may save extra makeup expenditures (when you already know she has five buckets of seemingly the same thing in her loo and purse).

Hint: Don’t pitch powdered makeup if it falls and cracks!

This is a simple rescue technique on how to salvage your seemingly trashed compact powders. My white eyeshadow goes the fastest; so when my cream-color shadow crashed in its container today, I was pretty peeved. Luckily, I’d learned this little tip a year or so ago on how to save your powdered products should they try to die.

SUPPLIES

To reanimate your dead goodies, all you need is: Isopropyl (rubbing) Alcohol, a towel, a counter you don’t mind cleaning later, some tissue, and a little time for the “magic” to happen (preferably overnight).

The only thing you might not have on hand is the Isopropyl Alcohol (and no, your emergency Vodka won’t work… I don’t think).

IN DEPTH STEPS
1. Take your crumbly product, open the lid, and try to nudge all the broken pieces back into the main middle area it used to be.

2. Take the alcohol and pour a little into its own cap. Then pour from the cap, bit by bit into your makeup container. Depending on the size of your powder container, repeat until the liquid is covering all the makeup (but do leave some room below the brim – otherwise it’ll displace and gush out in the next step.)

3. Now, mush! Don’t be afraid to get dirty. You can always get a manicure later. Use your finger to squoosh and swirl your crumbly makeup into the alcohol, until it’s uniformly like clay/wet mud in consistency.

4. It’ll be messy, so try to get most of the goo into the container and spread out evenly so that it’s not too lumpy and sticks together.

5. What you can’t save, wipe up with a tissue along the container’s sides.

6. Set it out on the counter and leave the lid open.

7. Go to sleep! If you leave it out overnight, the isopropyl alcohol will evaporate, leaving your powder reformed anew!

Now, much like any dead thing you bring back to life, it’s not going to be Grade A quality. You are indeed dealing with zombie makeup, so it may not be perfect. It might even be a tad clumpy.

However, if it’s the last of your eyeshadow, blush, bronzer, anti-shine, or whatever powder you have to have before work starts tomorrow, at least it’ll be “workable” enough to save you or your honey an emergency trip tonight after the soporific dinner and Merlot you just enjoyed; it should get you through the day… maybe even more if you’re a real pro with artistic finesse 😉

Good luck!

xoxo
<3~A