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There is no greater beauty disaster than the sound of your favourite (and probably most expensive) makeup compact hitting the bathroom floor and smashing to dust.

But there is salvation, it lies within rubbing alcohol. Remember Isocol? The stuff in the green bottle with the crocodile? That’ll do the trick.

Rubbing alcohol works on any smashed compact: eyeshadow palettes, blush, contour, face and brow powders.

How to fix a broken compact:

The Glow team's favourite blushes

NARS

Stila

By Terry

NARS

Yves Saint Laurent

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