Homemade Lotion with Shimmer
Get a warm, subtle glow with this homemade lotion with shimmer. All that’s needed is your favorite lotion, eye shadow, or shimmer powder and a pretty jar.
Yield: 2 ounces
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Small bowl
- Jar or travel bottle
Materials
- ¼ cup body lotion, your favorite (I use Aveeno.)
- 2 teaspoons mineral eyeshadow (or loose shimmer powder)
Instructions
- Put your lotion in a jar and sprinkle in the powder. If you are using eye shadow, you can scrape with a knife. Start small with about a ¼ teaspoon and add more as needed. A little goes a long way!
- Stir until the color is uniform.
Notes
- Make sure that whatever powder you use is already well broken up before adding to the lotion—if it’s still in big clumps, it’s going to stay in big clumps when you mix it in the lotion. It won’t evenly distribute, and you’ll be left looking patchy if you try to put it on your skin without blending it properly.
- This is also a great way to use up a broken powder highlighter. We’ve all accidentally dropped our fave highlighters before, right? Sometimes you get lucky, and it’s totally fine (phew). But other times, we’re not so lucky and the whole thing has shattered. RIP, highlighter! If you’ve got a highlighter that you’ve been putting off re-pressing, this is the perfect way to give it new life.
- I added some sparkly white eye shadow just to see what it would do since I was worried it would make me look ashy. But combined with the warmer color of the mineral shimmer powder, it just added some extra sparkle!