How should i arrange my eye shadow?

[pumpkincat210]

I'm about to depot like 40 shadows and put them in the 15 palettes. How do you arrange yours? buy color or by finish or favorite colors? i hope i don't break any.

 

[jenjunsan]

I have 15 pan palettes like this: 1. pinks, 2. neutrals, 3. peaches,4. warm browns and 5. plum/purples. Then I have 4 pan palettes for my blues and greens since I wear those less. And they are all full! Picking up more 15 pan palettes this weekend!

 

[Hikaru-chan]

I agree you should sort them by color and take your time with depotting and you shouldn't brake any.

 

[Dawn]

Agree here also! That is how I have them. Then I within each palette I have them kinda light to dark. Hope this helps, Dawn

 

[Renee]

I have mine arranged by colors in 15 pan pallettes and have typed a listing of colors on paper and attached it to the inside of the pallette. I marked the outside of the pallette with a silver sharpie marker to let me see which pallette is which at a glance.
It works great!

 

[jenjunsan]

Renee, I like the idea of listing the colors inside the palette! I always seem to knick mine when I try to lift them out for whatever reason....I think I am going to steal that idea from you. I use a label maker to label the outside of mine, that way if I decide to change it up, I can just replace the label.

 

[Lo-Fi_Thriller]

all my 9 palettes are damn near close to the colour spectrum

 

[professionaltart]

i organize them according to color spectrum which kinda sucks sometims cause i have to reach into one palette for one color and another for lik 2 colors

 

[vicuna1]

I have mine kind of different, I think. I like to place the shades in combos of threes (vertically) that I like to wear. To look at one of my palettes, the top row is all highlight type shades, the middle brights, the bottom row crease colors (or darks). Saves me tons of time in the morning. And that doesn't prevent me from mixing it up, which is what I do most days, but it works great on those days when I'm blocked for ideas.

 

[CaliKris]

Like most of the other gals here, mine are by color.

 

[Eemaan]

Just wanting to bump up this wthread as my palettes are a royal pain in the ass.

everytime i get a new colour, the whole lot ends up getting rearranged and its driving me up the wall- no longer a pleasure to play with- agh im on my 4th palette now. help!

 

[n_j_t]

Mine are by color too, although I only have 4-pan palettes.

 

[user2]

I have a warm and a cool palette!

 

[M]

This is the only reason I like the 4 pan because with those I can arrange by look. With my 15 pan I did it by color, but it does stink to have to open mulitple palettes for one look.

 

[ledonatella]

I do ine by warms and cools and then the rows of 3 going down, each row is a new "look". If I did it by pink, then blue, or whatever then when I wanted an ivory to go with my blue and a pink accent or somthing I'd have to pull out 3 different 15 pans, whereas this way I only need one! But that's just easier for me, everybody has there own way that works for them.

 

[bluegrassbabe]

I guess I'm the oddball here. I have 3 palettes. 1 is all regular colors and arranged light to dark. The other 2 are all LE colors and arranged by the order of the collections release.
I remove the label and place them each on the inside of the palette. On the bottom of each palette is a little pic of all the contents, so that I can reconize them easily without opening everything.

 

[Krista]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jenjunsan Renee, I like the idea of listing the colors inside the palette! I always seem to knick mine when I try to lift them out for whatever reason....I think I am going to steal that idea from you. I use a label maker to label the outside of mine, that way if I decide to change it up, I can just replace the label.

This is what I do to mine

 

[Eemaan]

i know what you mean, but everytime a new collecgtion comes out i feel the urge to reorganise. im an organisation freak, yah i have issues

 

[rouquinne]

i only have one 15 pan and i put them in alphabetically!

even if i had lots of them, i'd probably do the same!

 

[maandusa]

i can't seem to decide how i want to arrange mine. i have one pallette seperate for limited editions and pro colors -- although eventually, i want all the pro shadows, so that will be one pallette. i had the rest separated into a warm pallette and a cool pallete, but the i bought a couple new colors and had to reorganize. it's difficult, because i could fill an entire 15-pan pallette with just neutrals! oh, and i label mine with one of the old-fashioned labelmakers...