How to: Fix A Broken Shimmering Pressed Powder

I love Tarte Amazonian Clay Shimmering Powder Champagne for its velvety-buttery texture that's melt into my skin without overly shimmery. BUT, its smoother texture also its cons. Yes, it's too damn smooth, so smooth that when I opened my package when it arrives, it already shattered all over the place. Argh!

No biggie, I can always repress this! I think it'll be fine if I just keep it safe in my makeup drawer. I'm not going to bring this in my purse with me, who needs to reapply their highlighting powder anyway? But I might wont travel with this though.

So here it goes...

This is the condition looks like when I received it.

Keep your workplace clean by laying a tissue/paper towel over your table before you start. Sanitize every props that you want to use during the process and of course, clean your hands. And if you have a swatching pants & shirt, that will be awesome, wear those too!

Pour the powder (the whole of it) into a glass/melamine bowl (because of its smoother surface). Mash it until you achieve the smoothest texture you possibly can. We definitely don't want a single crumble.

Pour the rubbing alcohol, a little at a time. Be careful, we don't want to over spill it, we can always add more alcohol if we need to.

Keep stirring with your spatula until it mixed well.

This is what it should looks like, more like a paste and has a little bit viscosity. 

Clean your pan and sanitized it with alcohol.

Pour your mixture back to its pan.

Press with clean tissue/paper towel until you find the right density level. If it too dense/hard, your brush wont pick up the product, but if it not dense enough, your pressed powder will be too smooth and you'll end up with too many products adhere to your brush that leads to cakey/chalkyness on your face (not to mention the product might broke easily, again).

This is what it should looks like, you can stop on this step or you can repress it with wide ribbon for the "hetchmark" pattern while it still a little bit damp.

But... I have OCD, I want need to clean the excess powder. Any tools with pointy ends will do.

Wait until it fully dries (you don't want to rub alcohol on your face, do you?) and voilà... now my Tarte Amazonian Clay Shimmering Powder Champagne is ready to gimme some glow!!!

So, how do you think? I know it's not the most neatly result of repressed broken powder, but as a first timer, I'm quite proud of my self ;)