I did a bit of research in various methods of depotting, and decided that, for that sake of not smelling burnt plastic throughout my home as well as the desire to not cut my fingers open with an Xacto knife or pliers, I would use the hairdryer method.
All I did was place the hairdryer on blast for about 60 seconds for every three eyeshadows, and then I pried up the shadows one-by-one.
To better explain, I took the opportunity to make for you some really "high quality" iPhone videos. :P I felt like I could better speak about it than write it out.
Part I highlights how the hairdryer method worked for me, and Part II goes over some of the tools that helped.
Here are some pics of my final product.
The "freestyle palette" here is a tin I had purchased full of art supplies for my students. I got it from Michael's, I believe, a while ago. I just took out all the supplies, and for some reason kept this tin at home. Usually, I don't keep things like this, but I did, and I am glad I did. The tin is about 8 in x 12 in. and about an inch and a half high.
Also, I included some stragglers because the palette is so big. Some other depots I'd done and some shadows without homes. This includes my crazy Inglot shades (or, the ones I don't feel comfortable wearing to work!), NYX, KvD, Stila, and Benefit.
Bonus! By depotting my Wet n' Wild eyeshadows, I recycled 2 pounds of plastic!
Anyone else doing any depotting lately? How did it go? Link to your depot posts in the comments below!
You may have just motivate me to go do some more depotting! I really haven't done much, but I think it would be great to get my WnW ones in a single palette like you did! Thanks so much for sharing with us!
ReplyDeleteI've been wanting to do this too. I'm just so scared of breaking the ones that were limited edition. Great job! You inspired me to try.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your depotting observations. I have a couple of smaller tins that I bought at Michael's for freestyle palettes. I would love to have one as large as yours. I haven't done a whole lot of depotting yet, but I did depot a few Physician's formula items because I hated how bulky the packaging was.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty cool!
ReplyDeleteI should do this! Thanks for the inspiration :D
ReplyDeleteMan, yours looks so neat and pretty *___* I didn't have many casualties when I went on a depotting frenzy recently, but I did have a couple and they were awful. I've used the hair straightener method in the past with my MAC shadows, but this time I just used a candle for all my Wet n Wild and random palettes. I got used to the smell of burning plastic, though it wasn't until after that I worried about the health effects >__>
ReplyDelete2 pounds of plastic?! Wow! That makes me want to depot!
ReplyDelete@Peach: Definitely give it a go! It scared me a bit at first, but well worth it in the end.
ReplyDelete@Sandi: I was scared of breaking LEs too. Fortunately, nothing terrible happened!
@beautybabbler: I need to depot my PF stuff, too. It IS bulky! I hope you can find something to fit your stuff. Maybe Hobby Lobby?
@Kimberly: Thanks!
@eight: Try it! :)
@SS: It sucked my one casualty was the shade I use the most, but overall nothing too messy. I just couldn't do the candle, though! :P
@Wendy: It was surprising to me that it was that much, but I'm excited to be rid of all that plastic.
This is impressive! I don't have that many shadows to depot (most of the shadows I own are in plastic jars), but I'm certainly going to keep this method in mind if/when my collection accumulates. =)
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