Depotting Shadows/Quads/Blushes/Blushcremes etc.

[chiq]

sometimes, i feel like i have to hide my makeup purchases from my significant other. when i walk in the house all happy with my clear mac bag he usually rolls his eyes and goes, "more makeup? what's with you and makeup. do you see the bathroom??", and he has this sad 5x5 corner on the side of the sink which i'm slowly moving to under the sink. *sigh*

 

[Pale Moon]

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Originally Posted by VuittonVictim I do it all the time! When I start to doll up for MAC and my mum rushes into the room, she asks: "Where are you goin'?" "To the library mum!" Yes I'm an addict!

hahahaha. laugh my lung out!

 

[darla]

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Originally Posted by jmdulock I come home, throw away the box, and put the e/s into my m/u case. I love feeling like I got away with something...lol

I have a smoke and mirrors trick too. My SO usually comes shopping with me, so what I do is send him to the cafe to get a coffee/soda. Then as soon as he steps away, I make a quick purchase and stick the items inside my purse. When he returns he sees me browsing the counter and commends me on my self control.

 

[kissmypinkstar]

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Originally Posted by Sushi_Flower I hide my addiction from my friends, they just wouldn't understand and i hide it from everyone around here in general as spending money like we do on makeup is unheard of here and people would just think i'm mad and wasting money!

Me too! My friends know that i love make-up but they don't have a clue how much i spend on it! Most of my stash is out of sight so they never get to see the extent of my addiction.

 

[velvet]

i cant bring myself to depot either
though i do love lipsticks
i cant see myself ever buying 15 anyway
due to all my palettes and other kinds of shadows i have

 

[afterglow]

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Originally Posted by 2_pink Yea....no one really understands it with me either, they think im crazy. My dad is constantly bugging me, and telling me that i can get the same stuff at the dollar store ( ...can you believe that?!?) But they do contribute to it, since i got 2 macy's giftcards.

My parents have said that, too! Which is why I'm another who has to sneak makeup in the house!

A few days ago, I was putting clear polish on some new brushes I got. My brother saw me and was like, "what do you need that many brushes for?" And then of course he asked me the price of the brushes, so I very wisely told him my Quo concealer was $13. He was shocked! I didn't have the heart to tell him the cute little 182 kabuki on my counter was $55.

 

[Scrangie]

I depot all permanent items, and keep LE items in pots. Honestly, I can't ever find what I'm looking for rummaging through all the pots and sometimes it makes me late for work. lol. So I'm 50/50!

 

[Isis]

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Originally Posted by ZLoves2Shop Really, you work for EA? Thank You! It was a shimmery pale shade of lavender/purple. It was the old one that fits in the MAC palette.

PM'd you

 

[Gisselle]

quads

Im starting to depot my e/s, but im not sure about the quads. What do u guys do? Keep them as they are or depot them? and why?

 

[Isis]

I prefer to keep them as they are. Just b/c they're already in a palette

All of my singles, including LE colors, are depotted into 15 pan palettes.

 

[shriekingviolet]

I keep mine in the 4 pan palettes, but I'm occasionally tempted to depot them as the rest of my palettes are set up by color and I don't like have "stragglers" in other palettes when they'd fit perfectly in the color range of a certain 15 pan. Plus, when I'm packing my makeup for travel, I usually take one 15 pan with me and arange it so all the colors I'll need are in it. During those times, it irritates me that I can't easily remove one of the e/s from a premade shadow to slip into my 15 pan.


One of these days I'll probably depot them and then replace them as they were with a pair of magnets so I can more easily move them around as needed.

 

[ledonatella]

I keep mine as they are.

 

[glittergoddess27]

I depan those babies,... I started to notice that after I had the Diana quads for a while that I picked up my 15 palettes and used them all the time and the Diana quads werent getting used at all,.. well I paid too much for those things not to use them. So I depanned them and now I use the colors enough to have dents in my Dancemix, Endless Love, and Flipside. I imagine that if I hadn't depanned then they would still be super neglected. Now if you think you might want to trade it off,.. then I wouldn't depan,..But as far as Quads,.. I won't buy one that I dont at least like 3 shadows out of the 4,.. (I usually hate whatever the darkest color they put in there is,...) so that means if I do buy a quad its there to stay.

 

[icaughtfire]

depotting blushes?

i was wondering if its hard to depot powder and blushcremes. are they east to break?

 

[Shawna]

The blushes are harder to depot than e/s because the whole pan is glued down....at least all mine were. If you are patient and make sure the whole bottom of the pan is well heated, you should be ok. If the pan doesn't come up easily, use more heat. As for the blushcreams and ccbs, I've never tried them because I would be worried they would melt during depotting or dry out once in a palette. However I have heard other members here say they have done it. Maybe one of them can tell you how.

 

[Brianne]

I had no problems depotting my powder blushes, in fact, for me they were easier than e/s to depot.

I've never done blushcremes or CCB's.

 

[Dawn]

I've been afraid to try it too.... Good Luck!!!

 

[jenjunsan]

I've never had any trouble depotting powder blushes using the candle method. The first time I tried to depot a CCB, I melted it. After that I figured out you can heat up the end of a screw driver and just push it up and out right through the plastic with no harm to the product.

 

[mel0622]

it was so hard for me! lol. i'm not a patience person. i broke maybe 40% of my duo blush. i tried using the blow dryer method but that didnt work so i had to use the candle to melt of the sides...

it just takes A LOT of patience.

 

[bellaetoile]

i think i stand alone in saying that depotting my blushes was entirely easier than the eyeshadows. i have no clue why, but i breezed through my 6 blushes with my eyeshadows, i think i broke 2 of 60-some, so still not too bad. i was using the candle method.

someone elaborate on this heating a screwdriver thing. i really want to know, cause i really want more blushcreams. i know they're availabe at the freestandings, but i'd rather get the pots and use them for B2M. also, there are a few LE blushcreams that don't come in pan form.