Organising your 15 palettes by colour

[fash10nista]

I have my palettes organized and labeled by color as follows:

Pinks
Browns
Aquas/Teals
Highlights/Neutrals
Smokey (silvers/grays/black/any dark colors really)
Purples

Miscellaneous (not labeled, e/s that I don't have enough of one color spectrum to warrant a full palette)

I use a labelmaker to label my palettes...Brother P-Touch

 

[erine1881]

i use a label maker too! i label the outside and stick labels on the bottom of each pan (on the magnet).

 

[HeavenLeiBlu]

My original plan has gone bust because I've run out of space.


It is:

Palette 1:Oranges/Corals/Coppers/Browns/Neutral

Palette 2: Blues/Teals/Greens ( dumb idea because blue is my favorite color, and green has surprisingly overtaken over the blues in my MAC pans and other brands that I cant fit into the palettes).

Palette 3: Pinks/Purples



Luckily, other than the two browns and Woodwinked in the first palette, I don't really have any MAC neutrals that I use, they're all other brands or in quads or palettes.


I'm gonna have to move the purples and greens into their own palettes, because I have a few shadows on standby because they wont fit into the homes I'd planned for them, LOL.


I will also have to consider making a new palette for yellows and moving the oranges/corals in there. We'll see. I'm still very small potatoes at this point.

 

[shadowaddict]

Thanks for the labeling help. I am ready to start my depotting. Well that is as soon as my husband goes back to work. He took a few vacation days and is driving me nuts. I've got 6 of the 15 palettes to start off with. I think I will leave all my special package ones in their cute little pots because.... well I like them that way. I'm really hoping this isn't a mistake and I screw up my e/s, but space is a big issue at this point, just not practical.

 

[GlamQueen21]

^I'm the same way. I don't depot special packaging eyeshadows since I love it the way it is unless I get the same e/s in that packaging and I can depot it with no problem.

 

[Sonya Adams]

I have a bunch (eyeshadow whore for the most part) and they're all organized by color... in order where they're at right now:

Black/Grey/Silver/White
Light Neutral/Nude
Medium Neutral/Tan
Dark Neutral/Brown
Orange/Peach
Pink
Purple
Plum/Eggplant
Blue
Teal/Aqua
Green
Yellow/Gold
Misc/Unsorted new items

followed by my Blush Palettes:
Matte (neutral on left, peach/gold in middle, pink/plum on right)
Shimmer (same)

followed by my LE palette (Holiday 2001/The Bay)

followed by my lipstick palettes (I pan all of my lipsticks)
Currently the lipsticks are somewhat unsorted other than rows. I've gotten lazy.

 

[erinmosh]

i have mine as follows:
1) neutrals/highlights
2) yellows/oranges/golds
3) pinks
4) greens
5) blues
6) purples
7) greys/darks/etc.
8) browns

i have more than 15 of each color now, so i decided to take the inserts out of my palettes. i'm obsessed with keeping eyeshadows of the same color family together, so i had to do it! there's nothing like going for purples and having to open up two palettes. grrrr. it was the best decision though, now i can fit 26 in each!

 

[celestia]

If i had an extensive collection for some ungodly reason (even then it would be condensed)- it would most likely be:

1. Reds/Pinks/Purples
2. Greens/Teals/Blues
3. Highlights [warm] (Warm Neutrals/Golds/Peaches/Apricots/Browns would go here under the 'yellow/orange' umbrella too)
4. Greyscale [cool] (Cold Neutrals/Silvers and colours with a very strong, solid, grey base included)

I would arrange each colour in each colour family like so (within the palette): The more solid, vibrant colours would take up the top corner, the more pale shades would take up the middle, descending in gradient and shade intensity with the most pale in center. The more darker variations would huddle at the end corner. Everything would follow their respective gradient, hue and tone.

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The reality of my situation is, I really only see myself having one x15 palette. I'm far too 'lazy' to open multiple palettes for the shades I'm after I usually relapse into sorting 'favourites' into one palette. Then there's the instinctual begging to BALANCE the colour families I decide on.

I don't do well with harsh yellows or vibrant purples because I have warm toned, asian skin and in conjunction with said colours, that ends up making me look too sallow. I don't usually wear cool shades quite well and some colours I like to have an abundance of..while others, one or two shades suffice. As such, my dilemma does not lie within 'which palette to place it' (because I'd really only have one palette)...but rather, where to arrange it within the one x15 palette I intend to own. Although it's only a dilemma because I have not solidified my selection and that makes it really hard to determine which colour and where on the palette it 'belongs'.

At the moment I face the task of arranging every colour family into one x15 pro palette. It changes the whole playing field by a lot because there really isn't a whole lot of methodically aesthetic options- it ends up beggin some sort of abstract art.

So far, it's to do with categorising what colours blend seamlessly with what other colour, but it changes with the colours I decide on. At one point, I had them organised like an adaptive RGB spectrum. I currently have 4 Reds/Pinks/Purples, 6 Greens/Teals/Blues, 5 warm neutrals/golds and a separate x4 greyscale palette. So for the moment, it looks closer to a whole MS hexagonal colour palette; rotated and flipped a few.

I have some singles on reserve... because sometimes I don't like colours getting it on with other colours in the pan. 8D

 

[Prototype83]

My palettes are as follows:

Purples
Yellows/Oranges
Blues
Greens
Pinks/Coral
Neutrals (mostly browns, but I have Blacktied in it)
Miscellaneous - This contains my run-overs from the other palettes and LE
...and I need to get another ASAP. Those new Starflash e/s come out soon!

I also have a smokey eye quad that has Carbon, White Frost (?), Pandemonium, and Print in it.

I organize each palette with the colors going from light to dark and I label them with a silver Sharpie, which fades after time. I may have to just invest in a label maker...or steal my little brother's LOL

 

[Prototype83]

Funny....I used to look at some eyeshadow collections and say "How in the hell do they have so many palettes?!! That's CRAZY...I would never have that many!"

Just realized I'm one of those "crazy" ladies

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[OfficerJenny]

Neutrals: Highlighters, everyday neutral shadows for a quick look, most of my browns are here
Blues: Carbon is here
Pinks and Purples
Greens and Purple: Bitter
Golds, Yellows, Reds, Oranges: Chrome Yellow, Coppering, Orange
Random pallette with neutral pinks, blues, greens, and purples.

 

[Dayjoy]

Neutrals--containing browns and highlights--Satin Taupe here
Pinks and Purples
Reds and Oranges and Golds
Greens
Blues and Whites/Grays/Silvers/Black

On the outside I use the 3/4" circle stickers with the color families on them written in that color ink (one per palette). Inside, I have a liner I trimmed from clear plastic sheet with the same circles in place over each shadow with the name written on it. It's in place when I open the palette and I move it up when I use the shadows and can see what color I am using by looking at the label sheet.

 

[shadowaddict]

Quote:

Originally Posted by tremorviolet For the outside label, I use a P-Touch labeler. I like how neat it makes everything look & it's easy to print a new label when I reorganize.

OK, so I did a search for the P-toch labeler and now I'm really confused. There are a bunch of different ones. Which one do you guys recommend for this purpose as this would be mostly what I use it for? Thanks

 

[shy_gal_jojo65]

1. Neutrals
2. Pinks
3. Purples
4. Blues
5. Greens
6. White, Black, Silver
7. Gold, Orange, Yellow

I still need to label the outside of the palettes. Still don't know which palette is which. GrRr...

 

[nullified]

My palettes are arranged by colour, for the most part and are kinda squished together as I have 14 palettes total and they are full :/ Once I get more palettes (when my store gets more in) they will be more oganized. But for now:

1. Reds/Oranges
2. Yellows/Golds (but also houses random odd colours like Club)
3. Greens
4. Blue-Greens
5. Blues
6. Purples
7. Purples/Pinks
8. Pinks
9. Blacks/Whites
10. Browns
11. Highlights
12. Misc/New shadows
13. Urban Decay (I depot everything and put them in MAC palettes, for storage/asthetic reasons)
14. Large Shadows (MUFE, Ben Nye, Manic Panic, etc)

 

[Mac2Perfection]

My palettes consist of

1. Blues, aquas, and teals ( 11 spaces left)
2. Oranges and yellows (6 spaces left)
3. Browns (3 spaces left)
4. Pinks (2 spaces left)
5. Purples ( full) I also need a home for vibrant grape so until then I keep it in it's special packaging
6. Greens (4 spaces left)
7. Silvers and grays with carbon in there as well (3 spaces left)
8. Highlights and neutrals (3 spaces left)

I have one empty palette just for ones I collect along the way for example my vibrant grape doesn't have a home so I have to stick in there for now
I've been collecting since June 09 and I still don't have enough so hopefully when I get my income tax check I'll get some more e/s also saving room for the spring forecast collection

 

[iadorepretty]

I arrange my palettes by color as well:

15 Palettes
1. Neutrals (browns & highlights)
2. Neutrals (browns, yellow, orange, gold)
3. Greens
4. Blues/Teals
5. Purples/Darks (shale, carbon are in here)
6. Pinks
7. Miscellaneous - this one I keep so i have a place for the new e/s i get & have no space for in
existing palettes (like my pinks or my purple/darks palettes)


I have 1 quad for my crease colors: Soba, Texture, Saddle & Brown Script


Blush palettes:
1. Brights (colors like Azalea & Devil)
2. Peaches/Bronzes
3. Pinks/Plums

 

[themaczealot]

Quote:

Originally Posted by PurpleOrchid Lol, I was so stressed over this when I got my 15 pan palette too. Ultimately what I found was best for me was organizing them in trios (that is, vertically grouping three shadows I wear in combination with one another). So in one 15 pan palette, I have 5 sets of three trios...

When I depot my shadows I plan to do just that!
Just saving to get the remaining shadows to fill 3
and waiting for time for a depotting marathon

palette1
Metallic/Pink/Orange/Neutrals/Yellow

palette2
Green/Teal/Blue/Purple/Brown/

palette3
Greys/Blacks/Whites/Hi-Lites/Extra

 

[foxykita143]

You could try grouping them in the order they have the colors on the MAC website. Personally I have mine in vertical rows of three, and in each row is the three eyeshadows that I would most likely pair together like light blue, blue, dark blue, and the next row light purple, purple, dark purple, light pink, pink, dark pink, and so on. I do the same for each of my palettes but when I get enough colors I going to try grouping them in the "MAC order" and see how it looks.

 

[ThePowderPuff]

I really have problems with this at the moment. I'm in between palettes I guess you could say.

Before I had a coloured palette and a brown/neutral palette. But I have too many eyeshadows now. So I kept my coloured palette but that's full now, so when I buy my next coloured eyeshadow, I will have a problem. I have put my neutrals in one palette and my browns in another, but I don't have that many neutrals.... Really don't know what to do!