Sunday, 10 November 2013

Organising my make up - Eyeshadows

A good way to organise your make up is to put them in groups, and palettes make everything easier.
A few days ago I decided to depot my individual MAC eyeshadows and put them together in my big palettes.

If you google 'how to depot MAC eyeshadows', there'll be lots and lots of websites and blogs showing different ways of doing it. You just have to choose the method that is easier for you.
I chose this one:

http://www.wikihow.com/Depot-MAC-Eyeshadow

Here are some pictures showing the process and explaining very briefly what I did.

You will need:
A knife
A pair of scissors
Magnetic tape (that you can find in hardware stores)
Labels
A flat iron
Parchment paper or aluminium foil
This is what the magnetic tape looks like:
The first thing you have to do is to take out the plastic insert from the pot like this:

The plastic inserts look like this underneath:
The next step is to get a piece of parchment paper or aluminium foil (it's probably better to use parchment paper, but as I didn't have it, I had to use the aluminium foil - that works anyway) and cover the bottom part of your flat iron like this:
Turn on the flat iron and place the plastic insert on top of the aluminium foil. To know when it's time to take out the metal pan from the plastic insert you'll have to keep checking the bottom of it. When the plastic is slightly melted it's a sign that the glue inside the insert is melted too. It should look like this:
You have to be very careful because the pan will be hot. Hold the plastic insert and turn it upside down. Use the tip of a knife to pull out the pan from the insert. I suggest you place another piece of parchment paper on top of a kitchen counter and do it there.
There will be melting glue on the back of the pan. Wait until you can touch the pan without burning your fingers and stick the magnetic tape (that you have cut and prepared beforehand) on the back of it.
Stick the label on the magnetic tape. The end result is this:
It's not perfect but it doesn't matter because no one will see it, only you, and only if you need to look at the name of the eyeshadow. 



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