When cream eye shadows and bases dry out, the normal reaction is to chuck them. HOLD ON! Before you do that, try this simple way to help revive the driest of cream shadows. This trick may save you a couple bucks.
Before and After:
Would you believe that all you need to save your cream shadows is some witch hazel and a toothpick? It’s that easy.
-Pour a small amount of witch hazel into the jar.
-Take your toothpick and swirl it around, making sure all the witch hazel is combined with the product.
-With your finger, smooth out the product.
-There will be excess witch hazel so now is the time to dump it out.
Good as new!
How the cream shadow applied/applies:
Top swatch: dried out, Bottom swatch: like new again
If you can’t see the difference in the picture above, let me tell you about its texture. The first swatch was difficult to pick up and dragged along my skin, whereas the second swatch had even less product on my finger and more of a smooth, pigmented color pay off. And to think I was going to throw this in the garbage?
Last year, I’ve tried this witch hazel method on MAC paint pots as well. This has saved my Soft Ochre paint pot, which I still use it to this day.
Let me know if you have any makeup saving hacks in the comments! I’d love to try them out.
I think you know this. Putting alcohol to your broken eyeshadow, face powder.
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You’ve reminded me that I should do that. It is so weird but two powders have cracked in the same day. I was like, Really?!
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For no apparent reason? Maybe the weather? I’m your friendly reminder of sorts. 😀
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You really are! 😄
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sO USEFUL!
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Great! I’m so glad 🙂
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Witch hazel! Great tip, thank you! 😀 Now I have an excuse to go buy a nice bottle of that fancy rose petal witch hazel.
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That does sound fancy!
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WOW! Great post! I have Anastasia’s Dip Brow and I added a touch of baby oil to it when it started to dry up…
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Thank you so much! Awesome tip 🙂
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This is fantastic!!! I have a few that I’m going to do this to now! Thank you so much for sharing and saving me $$$!
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Of course! I’m so glad that this post helped you. Once I found out about it last year, I went cream shadow saving crazy 😅
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Hmm first time I’ve read about this “hack” using witch hazel, I’ve heard of using glycerin, mixing medium etc. I’ve not tried ANY of them because I feel like they would affect the performance of the product. The only method I’m willing to try is maybe zapping them in the microwave for a few seconds and stirring, which I’ve read online that it works. Alas, we don’t own a microwave anymore so…
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I used this method a year ago and still use the paint pot! It saved me actually.
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This is fantastic. Will definitely try when the occasion arises! Never thought to use witch hazel!
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It’s awesome. When I couldn’t use witch hazel for my face, I found that this is how I could use up my huge bottle from now on.
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Seriously such a great idea!!!!!!!!
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Thank you! 😄
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Hi Joy! I’ve nominated you for the Liebster award! https://bambinotions.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/liebster-award-3/
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Thank you!
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This is a great trick! I’ll definitely use this with my Benefit cream eye shadow in Birthday Suit, thanks 🙂
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We have the same one! FYI it works really well on it 🙂 I still use it to this day and it applies beautifully.
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Shoot, if this will extend the life of my Paint Pots from M.A.C., then I’m all for it. Thanks for sharing!
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Of course! I’ve used this method on Soft Ochre last year and I still use that as a base. Used it yesterday 🙂
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I wish I had some witch hazel right now! My Bad to the Bronze cream shadow needs new life!
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And that’s such a good color too!
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