Depotting Shadows/Quads/Blushes/Blushcremes etc.

[Edie]

Re: The Pros and Cons of Depotting

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Originally Posted by MsCuppyCakes I love depotting, I use my iron and can depot 6-8 in five minutes. I don't depot LE.

Can you come to Australia and do mine! haha. Im so bad with things like this...the more I try to do it perfectly the more I stuff it up! haha

 

[Edie]

Re: The Pros and Cons of Depotting

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Originally Posted by COBI I love depotting. It saves so much room and makes colors so much easier to find IMHO. (I stole someone's idea from here and added round labels to the inside of my pallette covers with the names of the colors like you see on the top of some chocolate boxes.) I also have a couple of empty 4-pan pallettes that I can just put a couple of colors in for travel. I do not miss flipping through all of my pots to find the colors that I want. Plus I can switch around how I have them sorted in the pallettes based on my current whims.

Yeah that is why I thought I MIGHT do it because it took me about 10 minutes to find which 'light' colour I would use! haha

 

[lara]

Depotting all the way. I save up until I have ten to fifteen pots, then fire the iron and depot all of them in about ten minutes. Never had a chip, ding or crumbling disaster yet!

 

[MsCuppyCakes]

Re: The Pros and Cons of Depotting

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Originally Posted by Edie Can you come to Australia and do mine! haha. Im so bad with things like this...the more I try to do it perfectly the more I stuff it up! haha

Haha, I'm on my way.

 

[DeeVine1217]

I've depotted in the past. I used the non-heat method that EnKore Makeup on Youtube shows. Basically he uses alcohol to dissolve the glue. It's a really good method, so I'd definately check it out. I'm sure it works for blushes too!

 

[kristakamikaze]

i cant wait to get more e/s and a pallete, i was wonderin if the pallettes would also fit the H.i.p duos by l'oreal?

 

[redambition]

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Originally Posted by DeeVine1217 I've depotted in the past. I used the non-heat method that EnKore Makeup on Youtube shows. Basically he uses alcohol to dissolve the glue. It's a really good method, so I'd definately check it out. I'm sure it works for blushes too!

it most certainly works for blushes!

I got a blush palette (to try and conserve room in my make up case) and used Enkore's method to depot my blushes. it was super easy, and also great to use as it was a really hot day. i couldn't face using the iron to depot anything.

i also used 64% alcohol (isocol) and it worked fine, so you don't need the 91% that he uses.

a couple of points to note: be careful with the wire cutters when you're bending the piece you've cut back away from the pan. i took a small chunk out of a blush because i placed the wire cutters incorrectly.

secondly - be careful with how much alcohol you put in between the pan and the plastic - too much and it comes out the other end and gets on your product!

 

[prettygirl]

Dang it. I should have read this before I depotted just a few minutes ago. HAhah.. so it's 3 in the morning.. and I just got home from my bff's house.. and she got me a blush palette, blush, and 2 e/s for Christmas <3. Hehe.. So being impatient.. I wanted to put my other blush into the palette too. It was quite a struggle to pop it out of the container.. but I got it out.. with ONE little boo boo.. oh well! And it took quite a few tries.. but I finally pried it from the holder.. using the flat iron method. I also depotted a e/s.. PIECE OF CAKE!! As I was washing my hands though.. I find THREE small cuts on my fingers!! Never realized how darn sharp those e/s pans are! Hehe.. so be careful ladies!!

 

[Meryl]

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Originally Posted by ash10spro i depot everything but my mattes and matte2 e/s. i ended up chipping my beloved passionate e/s, so i decided that mattes are staying in their pots. XD

I depot everything, including the mattes and matte2... never had a problem. They all depot the same...

 

[xxsgtigressxx]

I have figured out an easier method to depotting eyeshadows if anyone is interested. Its without heat. Originally I looked at Enkore videos on youtube to find out how, and after looking at his method, I made it a little easier and safer hahaha. In his video, he uses a pearing knife and a wire cutter. Out of shear laziness and being terrified of using a knife (i can be really clumsly) I came up with a method using tweezers (preferably tweezerman cuz they are nice and sharp) and a nail clipper (the bigger ones, i guess toenail clippers) What you do is after you pop out the eyeshadow in the plastic from the bigger casing (I wedge one side of a tweezer in between and pop it out) you take the nail clipper and clip both sides of the LARGER indented side, and then use the nail clipper to grab the entire area between the two clips and tear down the plastic till the metal pan is exposed. Then i dip my tweezer in alcohol, let it drip down underneath the pan to loosen the glue. then i stick one side of the tweezer underneath the metal pan and slowly wiggle it. you'll hear the glue separating. And there ya go! plus, you may not need a magnet this way as the pan will still have some tacky glue on the bottom. This wont permanently glue the pan to the pallete, its almost like thumb tack haha. Im sure none of this made sense, but as soon as i grab my digital camera from my sisters house ill make a tutorial of it.

its so much easier than it sounds and it takes like 2 minutes.

 

[*Star Violet*]

The first time I tried depotting it was a bit of a disaster because I didn't wait too long for the glue to melt but I just depotted 3 e/s in 5 minutes. I tried it with a hair straightner and a small knife. What I do is, I first heat up the straightner and put a tissue under the pan/plastic part...while I'm waiting, I kind of bend the plastic part alittle and put it back under the straightner...when the glue starts to melt, the pan part comes up alittle, that's when I use my small knife to pop it out...I guess I'll have to use pictures aswell to explain it better...

 

[Leila_Lei]

I'm thinking of depotting my Metal-X e/s' and put them in my blush palette!

Does anybody have experience with depotting these?

 

[mac_aiken]

I have always been scared to depot because I am klutzy and don't want to use a heat method. I am an accident waiting to happen. LOL

I watched EnKores video and successfully depotted 18 shadows this weekend. Then I decided to depot 3 blushes. Let's just say it was less than successful. I totally destroyed my Dame blush and did minor surface damage to my Desirous and Fab blushes. They are so much harder to get out. I can get the insert out of the pan but it seems the blushes are harder to pop out of the inserts. Suggestions?

 

[NatalieMT]

I just depotted two eyeshadows for the first time. It was relatively easy - I just popped the pan and plastic out using a knife as usual, cut a little bit out of the plastic to expose where the glue and metal were and popped a bit of alcohol down there to dissolve the glue and it worked great.

I then used hair straightener to melt the glue between the name label and pot and glued the label onto the back of my new depotted eyeshadow.

I did get superglue in my hair at that point and had to take a shower, but other than that everything was fine.

 

[zabbazooey]

I made my first 15 palette...and i chipped 5 of them because i didn't heat it long enough....Plumage is now down by 25% lol.

Oh well, live and learn. They are still usable

 

[lalunia]

To depot or not to depot?!?

Hi Ladies! I was wondering if you depot your LE shadow pots or if you leave them in the pots? I have a bunch of le shadows in regular packaging and then palletes for my perm shadows. I'm soo tempted to depot them (only ones in reg. packaging) and b2m to get even more goodies but I kind of like the pots.

What do you do? And if you depot, what method do you use?

Thanks and sorry if there is a similar thread, I did not find it

 

[FiestyFemme]

Re: To depot or not to depot?!?

I still have a few LE's that need depotting.
I think I'm going to keep the ones that have special packaging in their pots, and depot the rest.
I like the pretty LE packaging too much to depot them! I've been using the flat iron method to depot, and that works very well for me.
No casualties yet!

 

[kristakamikaze]

I depotted 7 shadows today
with no booboo's
im suprised

I just used a lighter and a metal nail file lolz

 

[purplerinne]

Re: To depot or not to depot?!?

I've been debating this too...glad someone's in the same boat as me....

 

[Shaquille]

Re: To depot or not to depot?!?

I depotted my FAFI quad so I can have a 4-well quad that I can fill in with any kind of e/s I want.

I have Alex McQueen e/s that I haven't depotted because I like the packaging (nothing special, just a text, I know, lol). So my suggestion is not to depot it unless you have more than one LE packagings.

Also the way I think is, I have lots of e/s & lipsticks that I don't need a new one yet, so I save my b2m packagings for way later when I really need a new one, or when I get to go to a pro store where I can get pro lipsticks/shadows