I started depotting my MAC shadows last night (finally) after years of contemplating whether to do it or not.
I did all of my blues (surprisingly only 15?) and my purples (22?) and quit for the night. The smell of rubbing alcohol ended up giving me a migraine. The whoopsie was the fact I forgot to buy magnets before deciding to do the depotting adventure so they're currently sitting in the palettes in a drawer not being moved so they don't move around, lol.
I also only broke 3, all of which were repairable so that's good. Prussian, Signed Sealed and Sketch. I think the first two were because of the Matte2 formula, it's so buttery soft it just cracks at the slightest movement which wasn't helped as I didn't use any heat so was prying quite a bit. All good though, they're fixed - I didn't lose anything from Signed Sealed, it just had a major crack so I re-pressed it just to be sure as it's one of the best shadows ever.
I have to admit though, I was super nervous about depotting anything LE, but I did it in the end -- even the cute packaging, because I just can't find anything anymore. I know WHAT I want to use, but when I have to dig through layers of shadows because I can't find what I'm looking for it becomes a bit tedious. On the bright side -- once I'm done depotting everything I'll have enough empties for 20 free lipsticks. Crazy! Can empty wipes be used as an empty or no?