So casually six months late I am going to post a wrap up for my pan that palette project from 2015. I am nothing if not a timely woman. I ended up finishing 4 shades out of the palette and although I hit pan on the transforming ribbon it irritated my eyes too much for me to ever want to use it again. I had also used up a fair bit of the single shadow in "Bone" from Ulta.
The offending glitter bomb.
Many of the shades in the palette had a lot of love and little baby dips going in them.
Examples of a few dips in shades that I really did like.
Other shades were clearly less loved and still had the embossing on them. I am accepting that I am not a fun shadow lady. I am a boring lady.
I was just never really very sure of what to do with a navy besides occasionally lining my eyes. And never enough to make even a slight dip.
I tried very hard in the last month to hit pan on Miracle, but unfortunately that never happened. Although I did manage a rather deep dip dug right into the center. This was an odd shade to me, in that it looked very reddish and cranberry-like in the pan, but on my eyes was almost grey.
Overall I was pleased with the progress I had made using the palette almost exclusively for a year, but I was also very much ready to not use it again for awhile. The palette had mostly just transition shades remaining, but they were perfectly fine shadows for the most part and I didn't want to just throw them away. I have seen lots of people depotting shadows and watched many a tutorial out of curiosity, but I didn't have a Z palette and didn't really want to buy one. Plus, I liked the sturdiness and bright holographic packaging of the house they were in. So I embarked on a repressing journey with some Ulta singles, and also took the opportunity to gouge out that irritating glitter and replace it with a more usable shimmer shadow.
I did all of this on a paper towel because I am a giant mess and this made an easy clean up at the end.
I wanted to press in the shades "Bone", "Camel", and "Bermuda Sands" from Ulta singles. This plan also gave me the chance to get these out of their bulky singles packaging and into a palette where I could use them to create a cohesive look more easily.
The first on my list was "Bone", as a palette is useless to me without a cream base color to set my primer and use to blend out. I had been using "Bone" during the project anyway after the original cream shades in the palette were used up.
I crushed up the shadow in its original pan to create a fine powder, the put that powder into the It Cosmetics palette pans. I ended up having enough shadow left to fill two of the pans in the palette, rather than just the one I was expecting.
Then I dumped some isopropyl alcohol on the powder and pressed down gently with a paper towel. This kept me from getting my fingers and all the gunk on them into the new shadow as well as helping to soak up some of the excess alcohol.
As you can see, there was a lot of alcohol for the towel to soak up.
All pressed
Next I crushed up "Camel". I was using a pen cap that I had dipped in alcohol as it was sharp and I didn't care about throwing it away after it became gross from all the shadow. I know a lot of tutorials recommend a butter knife or the like, but I just didn't want to deal with the clean up.
About halfway through breaking up, still too chunky to repress.
Here it is a fine enough powder to use.
I poured enough alcohol on top to make them really wet and pressed them with the paper towel as shown before.
A lot of shadow ended up being pressed outside the pan as well, but ws easy to clean up with a Q-tip after I was all done.
I went through the same steps with "Bermuda Sands" going into the larger pan that previously held the glitter itch disaster of supposedly transforming magic.
Powder pile
Pressed with alcohol
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