How to revive your dried out Creme eyeliner

You all know how much I love the cream eyeliners, and I have been on my same pot of L’Oreal HiP cream liner since I retired my dried out MAC fluidline early last year. Unfortunately my HiP is on its last leg and has began to dry out also. While I wait for another BOGO sale I am cream liner-less, and the liquid and pencil just doesn’t do it for me anymore, so I set out to find a way to revive my cream liner.

In my quest, I found a lot of suggestions, including a recommendation to microwave for 10sec. I don’t recommend that BTW, the thought of all the multiplying bacteria is not worth losing an eye.

The best method I came upon involved mixing in some Visine, which I have posted below. Simple and safe enough, and since I had nothing to loose if it didn’t work I decided to give it a try. It worked! I wish I had known about this when my fluidline ran out, but then again I probably would have never tried HiP and would still be paying more, so it all worked out.

Here is what you will need:

1. The eye liner pot that needs to be resuscitated

2.Visine eye drops or a similar product. Note: DON’T use contact solution – it doesn’t work as well

3. A brush to mix. I used the eye liner brush I use to apply the liner because that’s all I had with me, but you can also use a toothpick. If you do use a brush, I recommend one that has a bigger brush than this one. You’ll see why later

4. Hand sanitizer if you are using a brush like I did

5. Q-tips

STEP 1: Apply 2-3 drops to the dried eyeliner pot. I put a little more by mistake (about 5 drops instead of 3), and if you do too, don’t worry. I’ll show you how to fix that in the end.

STEP 2: Since I’m using my makeup brush, I washed it first and sanitized the pointy end (opposite from the end with the bristles) with a hand sanitizer. I then used this end to stir the eye drops with the eye liner.

STEP 3: After mixing it thoroughly, I then turned the brush around to pat it down.

By the way, this is why I think a brush that is a tad bigger would be more useful than the one I used, since it can be used to pat down the contents better. This is all I had on me at the moment though!

STEP 4: Since at this point, you might also find the rim of the pot a little messy, I used one end of a Q-tip to clean it up. I then used the other to pat it down to a smoother finish. The Q-tip also absorbs any excess liquid if you added too much of the eye drops at the beginning.

Use one end of the Q-tip to clean around the rim of the container; use the other to pat and smooth down further

And voilà! Your eye liner is good as new

 Thanks again to Beauty and the Feast for sharing.

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