Recycling

Makeup can be heavy and bulky to carry around in your bag for touchups. You can repurpose contact lens containers to hold small amounts of lipstick and eyeshadow powder.

Used lipsticks, foundation bottles and powder compacts can seem totally unsuited to any other purpose, and yet I hate to throw them out because they’re often pretty and handy and it’s always nice to reuse or repurpose old things instead of chucking them in the landfill. This is a collection of suggestions for things you …