So I love my EDM Swimming Pool blusher. It’s just… who really has time to deal with a loose powder blush at seven in the morning?
Still during summer vacation, I found time to press it. (Lord knows I don’t have time for much of that right now!) And I’m finally getting around to posting it!!
Start with your materials.
- Rubbing alcohol – I used 85%-ish, and it went well. *note: this can be switched for pressing medium!
- Your loose blush, face colour, etc
- Something to press it in
- A spoon, stick, whatever
- A paper towel… two if you’re messy :P
- A coin or something similarly shaped
I didn’t have a pan to press it in… so I filled in the holes of the lid with hot glue and used that!!
Dole in small scoopfulls of your powder, and drop in tiny bits of alcohol. Use an eyedropper if you have one, but I just poured a tiny tiny tiny bit on my spoon and let the drop fall into the pan.
You end up with this:
Let it dry until it’s just barely moist to the touch. Put on your paper towel, then the coin. Press down hard!!
Let it dry overnight, just in case.
At this point, you’re done!! But because I only pressed half my blusher, I was left with this:
So, you know me – I popped the pressed blusher in and now I have a pressed layered on top of its powder counterpart!! I love it, because that means if I for some reason want some loose blusher, it’s right there. Not to mention, it looks v. cool.
I will be ordering a full-size or medium-size to press, soon! The mini is so, so tiny, and you can layer with any container that has both a sifter and space underneath.
Note: I find that when I use this, it crumbles a lot. After a ton of googling, this is what I can tell you: a lot of minerals, unlike pigments from places like MAC, don’t have the right composition to bond together well. If you want something more solid, try switching your alcohol for a pressing medium!
