How to Create Your Own Eye Shadow Palette Recipe:

Before you run out there and buy every color of eye shadow known to man to start your pro makeup kit, take a second look at that box/drawer/case of makeup you haven’t touched in months.  You might just have all the shadows you need to start your kit.

If you find you have bunch of eye shadows you don’t use anymore but haven’t thrown away, you can convert them from a bunch of random containers to professional palette to be used in your kit.  Here’s how you do it:

1. Remove as much plastic from the shadow as you can, i.e. lids, bottoms, sides, without breaking the shadow
2. Turn your oven on to 250 degrees.
3. Put a sheet of foil down on a cookie sheet and spread your shadows across the sheet.
4. Place in oven for 10 minutes.
5. After ten minutes, with a hot pad, remove the pan from the oven and with a pair of tweezers see if you can pop the metal pan with the shadow out of the plastic container.  If it won’t remove fairly easily, put back in the oven for a few more minutes.
6. When they are warmed up to the right temperature the adhesive that secures the metal pan into the container will melt and allow the pans to pop out.
7. Once you have de-potted the shadows you can place them into empty magnetic palettes and there you go!  A good empty palette to put your shadows into is the Z Palettes.  You can find these on CameraReadyCosmetics.com

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