Hello again.
For a while I have been wanting one of those magnetic palettes for storing your eyeshadows. I have several single shades which I hardly ever bother with as I cant be arsed rummaging around to find them, sadly the prices are out of my budget for now and I’m not gonna drop any not-so-casual comments to the fella as he was kind enough to get me my Naked palette, so I figured I would make my own. How hard can it be right?
The search of little girls bedroom room was pointless, she had nothing I could steal so off we went to town. I saw this in Boyes for 99p. I was tempted to pick up a few but thought I’d better see if it works first. I also bought some magnetic tape while I was in there for £1.49.
I could have left the tin as it was but it looked crap. I found some pretty paper in my little girls room and after cutting it down to size I stuck it on the top and bottom using strips of cellotape. I also had a peice of paper left which fit in the bottom inside perfectly.
Inside the tin was a piece of card, I decided to cut out my favourite eye designs from magazines and make like a collage, again I just stuck them on using celloptape. It fit into the inside top lid perfectly.
Now for the eye shadows, if I had any kind of sense I would have looked for tutorials on how to depot, but no, I went at my shadows with my fella’s snips and winged it. I basically cut off as much as the plastic as possible, (do this under a towel as bits fly everywhere) I then soaked them in a few mls of boiling water for a few seconds to soften he glue.
I then took a very sharp knife and wiggled it under the pan and out popped the shadow. Sadly a few totally broke, these were all cheapy purchases so not the end of the world but I loved the redish “siren” shade so I rescued what I could and set that aside. I then labelled the pans on the underside with a permanant marker and stuck a small piece of magnetic tape on and popped them into the tin. Nrevously I closed the lid and Hey presto! it worked.
I have a few more I need to depot but that can wait for a little while. Now remember the broken shadow I set aside? I remembere reading somewhere about mixing shadows with vaseline to make a lip tint, so that exactly what I did and here is the result. What do you think?
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