However my Benefit Sugarbomb box o'powder broke a couple of weeks ago and my heart lurched... I'd never even hit pan! Eventually I got brave and just went for it, would you believe it's actually shockingly easy? I rapidly got braver and decided that my new found skills could also be used to make some nice but slightly difficult products a teensy bit more user friendly. Enter: Physician's Formula Mineral Wear Talc-Free Mineral Correcting Pebbles (mouthful). These are little pebbles of pink, green and yellow designed to work like a pressed powder and for the most part they do! However some of mine were a little crushed around the edges from the start and just a little too messy to use for my liking, so I figured I'd make it into a pressed powder for real!
So you'll need:
- Any clear alcohol, medical or otherwise as long as its around 37-40%
- A spoon to crush your pebbles/chunks of powder
- Thin fabric cloth/ sturdy paper towel
- Something heavy to press you powder, preferably just smaller than the container.
- Your broken make up/ beads
So first I emptied the beads into a little bowl and crushed them down to the finest powder I could manage, started with a cuticle stick but graduated to a spoon when I realised it was gonna take a million years.Then i brushed down the inside of the container to collect any excess, you'd be surprised how much product gets left behind!
Then when its all fine you add in a a small amount of alcohol, a really small, teeny, tiny amount. You want just enough to make a pretty thick paste out of all the particles. Start small, you can always add more but if you do add to much its no big deal, you just need to wait for the booze to evaporate enough so you have your thick paste again.
Then scrape the paste into your container, smooth until the surface is a bit even ad then lay your cloth over the top. The compact I had was pretty big so I employed my surprisingly heavy Nuxe Reve De Miel Lip Balm to compress it. Pro Tip: press hard but not too hard if you're using something smaller than your container cause some of the product did end up gouged out the first few times I tried. Steady even pressure spread across the whole surface is what you're after. If you're using something like an eye shadow pot you'll be fine, coins, coins are the way forward here and you can just squeeze the bells out of the and you're good to go.
The finishes result: all you need to do is let it dry.
Mine took a few hours to dry but since then it's been perfect and much easier to use. I'd heard you can't fix mineral make up this way but so far I've had good results! I quite like the idea of mixing different powder products this way to make your own unique colours, have you ever played around with make up this way?
