Adventures in Depotting

Yiiiiiiikes it has been a long time since I made a post. I've totally been crafting I just rarely have the energy to try and take professional looking pictures while I'm about to get covered in glue. (Not like my pics ever look that great, thanks a lot reality.) But I've missed you guys and wanted to do a post before I completely forgot how to blog, finally decided to try depotting.

I personally never use eyeshadow because frankly, I just don't know how. I always end up with something that looks like a black eye; so I stick to eyeliners fat enough a 2 year old's chubby little sausage hands could draw a passable cat eye.

I do however have a treasure trove of eyeshadows thanks to the lovely ladies at Ipsy, Birchbox and the Target clearance section! I hoard them like a vain squirrel in the hopes that one day I'll find the internet tutorial idiot-proof enough to show me how to create the sphinx of the makeup world: the smoky eye.

 Really didn't think I had very much but started to get nervous once I splayed it all out...

So in order to continue the charade that I'm a functioning and organized adult I wanted to get all my little goodies in one spot. Bought the Z Palette from Amazon, I looked around and it seemed to be the cheapest option. It comes with little magnets that stick onto your shadow pots in case they aren't magnetized already. Surprisingly enough, even though they're made of metal, most of them weren't strong enough to stay stuck to the palette.

I put down a towel (this gets messy), warmed up my straightening iron (with aluminum foil around the hot parts, trust me you want this there), put on Futurama and cracked open a Bud Light Lime-A-Rita.

 I thought you wouldn't have to warm up the glue at the bottom of the pots for very long but you definitely do. I ended up just letting them sit on the iron for a few minutes to soften them up.

I suggest starting with the eyeshadows you don't like, J.I.C.

I thought I'd be able to use a cuticle stick to pop these guys out, but I ended up using a giant safety pin because it could more easily get into the holes at the corners of the shadows.

Pop those suckers out, stick on some magnets (I cut mine with a pretty intense pair of serrated scissors because I didn't have enough) and pop em in the palette. I couldn't think of a great way to organize them so tried to group them by color.

Let me know what you think!

 

If I ever do an eye make up tutorial I'll post it here. I doubt I will because it's pretty sad when I attempt it, but I am planning a hair dye adventure soon so I'll put that up in the next few weeks! Thanks for stopping in!