Depotting Shadows/Quads/Blushes/Blushcremes etc.

[lizard260]

To depot or not to depot...

I'm trying to decide whether to depot my blushes.
I'm not worried about ease of depotting. I just don't know whether I would like my blushes in palette form.
I have all of my shadows in palettes, but I feel there's a difference between shadow and blush palettes because shadows are picked up with little brushes and blush is picked up with larger brushes. How close are the pans to each other in a blush palette and do you have a problem picking up just one?
Please persuade me one way or the other.

 

[Shawna]

I don't have the blush palette, but I sure wish I did just for space saving. My blushes sit at the bottom of my traincase and I have to move everything out of the way to get at them. I would depot in a heartbeat if I had a palette. I don't think you'd have to worry about getting the blushes all over one another, the blush pans are pretty big themselves and should accomodate your brush without you hitting other blushes in the palette.

 

[AlliSwan]

I depotted all of my blushes and while it saves on space, I find I don't get as much color picking up blush from the palette than I did when they were potted. I can't really "swirl" the brush like I used to, and I find the 15 palette/blush palette size to be unwieldy, hence why I prefer 4-pans. But I seem to be in the minority, and you will get empties for B2M!

 

[mac_obsession]

I depot all. Everything and anything. I think its crazy not to, since you get free stuff for doing it

I havent had any problems with any of my blushes when depotting, even my blush doubles.
They're far enough away to seperate.

 

[Turbokittykat]

I've depotted some of my eye shadows and I regret it. The pots are so cute, and the palettes are a pain to try and dig out from the bottom of my train case.

 

[Jessica]

I say depot!!! I love all of my palettes. It seems to make life easier then rummaging through tons of little pots. besides think of all of you B2M goodies :roll:

 

[lola336]

I guess it all depends on personal preference..but if you have more than 2 blushes...i definitely recommend depotting. You get to carry 6 blushes at once....u get the free b2m...and i dont find using the blush in the palette any different. There's enough space b/w them also. I also love to see things so organized in their pallette due to my ocd..lol.

 

[mspixieears]

If you can do it and not ruin that which you plan to depot, then go for it. I personally avoid it as I take meds that make me shake awfully but miss the days when I had surgeon's hands. Too bad I wasn't into makeup then!

But the empties for B2MAC and space-saving element would make me want to do so.

 

[caffn8me]

I have currently memorized my collection (but that's easy as I have only one pallette at the moment!) but when I've got some more labelling tape (white text on black) I'll be using a Brother Label Printer like the PT-1180. If you get one that takes "TZ" tapes they are laminated after printing so are wipe clean and resist things like water, oil and alcohol and mechanical abrasion. The lettering simply won't rub off. The labels look very professional too.

 

[mac_obsession]

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Originally Posted by Holstrom4 Thanks for all the ideas! I keep moving them around and adding more palettes everytime I get new colors, so I think I need to learn how to use Excel! That sounds like the easiest way to keep track of them. I have 7 palettes and don't know all of the colors by sight. Dawn

heh I move mine around every time I get a new shadow :\ Its ocd at its finest. Excel is a really simple program to use you just open a new worksheet and then your columns are already there. You just take whatever data and arrange it however you like. If you want I can send you a copy of my .xml file and you can use that or base yours on that, or see how easy it is to lay it out with it

pm me if youd like me to send...

caffin8me, if you move your shadows around a lot its gonna end up costing you an arm and leg for the refills for the ptouchs...I have one trust me :X

 

[scrapbookromance]

I have 11 e/s in 3 pallettes and I know all the names by sight. sometimes I do my color combos by the name alone, actually I did that yesterday - bittER, coppERing, noctURnelle - ha sometimes it turns out interesting and ugly ha

 

[mac_obsession]

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Originally Posted by scrapbookromance I have 11 e/s in 3 pallettes and I know all the names by sight. sometimes I do my color combos by the name alone, actually I did that yesterday - bittER, coppERing, noctURnelle - ha sometimes it turns out interesting and ugly ha

I remeber when I could tell a shadow by sight...I still can with most colors, but I have 10 palettes full...and more to be depotted...so needless to say Im kinda at a loss without my printouts :X

 

[caffn8me]

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Originally Posted by mac_obsession caffin8me, if you move your shadows around a lot its gonna end up costing you an arm and leg for the refills for the ptouchs...I have one trust me :X

I've got no plans to move shadows around, just buy more pallettes

- I've had a P-Touch for about 8 years and love it. You don't need much tape to label each shadow with so it won't cost too much. Thanks for your concern

Sarah W

 

[mac_obsession]

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Originally Posted by caffn8me I've got no plans to move shadows around, just buy more pallettes - I've had a P-Touch for about 8 years and love it. You don't need much tape to label each shadow with so it won't cost too much. Thanks for your concern Sarah W

hehe I said that too...then I said you cant have a purple next to a green and they had to have their own palettes
Im a tard. dont mind me

 

[caffn8me]

LOL! I suspect I'll end up with several pallettes sorted by function rather than colour (e.g. "Bridal", "Evening" "C/NC/NW skintone" etc.) - this will involve some duplication of shadows in several pallettes but shouldn't involve any moving around.

 

[Dawn]

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Originally Posted by mac_obsession hehe I said that too...then I said you cant have a purple next to a green and they had to have their own palettes Im a tard. dont mind me

LOL!!! Gosh, that sounds like me, everytime I de-pot some more, I open all 7 of the palettes I have and set them out and try and figure which one the new e/s should go in, then move the one I took out and figure where that should go and so on and so on. I need an empty palette for the orphans! Dawn

 

[sigwing]

I just used a PrintShop program using the address label setting, with a sheet of address labels but set to only print one of them, and in editing I put a table on it with the 15 slots, typed in the names, printed my label & stuck inside the lid. I used it on all 5 of my palettes, and then a few quads that I just then cut the address label so it was little squares I stuck on the back of those.

 

[mymymai]

I print out a sheet with 15 pan sized circles, label them and swatch them on top, that way I always know what shade and finish I want even before I open the palatte. It saves me so much time!

 

[FemmeNoir]

Wow, that is a great idea! I will try that. Does the shadow smear at all?

 

[mymymai]

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Originally Posted by FemmeNoir Wow, that is a great idea! I will try that. Does the shadow smear at all?

I spray it with fixative so it doesn't smudge. You can even use hairspray if you don't have fixative.