DIY Eye Shadow Palette
Hello Lovelies! Sorry for such a long break between posts, but I've been moving houses and it's all been a bit hectic! But I'm back with a fun new tutorial for you all: how to make your very own, personalised eye shadow palette. This is completely customisable for you, you can make a palette full of nude colours, neon colours, blues, pinks, you get the idea. Also, another fun perk is that you can mix up your own colours with this, and make new, exciting eye shadow shades! It's also a great way to de-clutter and minimise the amount of palettes you have lying around by recycling your old ones. What you'll need is:
Rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle
Vegetable Glycerine
Eye shadows / Eye shadow pigments
Empty Eye Shadow palettes with removable pans
A coin the same size as the pans
Some fabric
Toothpicks
Scissors
Exacto Knife or similar
And some small, clear bags
These are the palettes I'll be using today. As you can see there are a lot of similar colours in both of them, and there are also colours I just don't use and probably never will, unless I tweaked them slightly, like that yellow which I ended up combining with a more neutral shadow to get a more wearable shade.
First thing's first: take your exacto knife and, VERY CAREFULLY (you don't want to slip and hurt yourself) use it to pry the eye shadows out of their palette.
Then, use a toothpick to break up the shadows into a fine powder.
Now turn back the edges of your bag to make the next few steps easier. Pour your chosen eye shadows into the bag and add a drop of the vegetable glycerine. The glycerine is not only really good for your skin, but it also acts as a binder, making sure that when the alcohol completely evaporates the eye shadow won't crack and fall apart. Just be careful not to put too much in otherwise the shadow won't dry completely and it'll be more of a cream than a powder.
Next add a couple of sprays of the rubbing alcohol and use a clean toothpick to mix everything together. It should be a creamy consistency that's not too watery. This way you'll be able to get more pigment into the pans and it'll just be easier to manage in general.
It should look something like this:
Now cut a tiny hole in one of the corners of the bag and pipe the mixture into the pan.
If you're left with an uneven, bubbly mess like in the picture below, don't worry!
Just pick up the pan and very carefully drop it onto a flat, hard surface. This'll help to get rid of any bubbles in your mixture and also even out the product.
Once you've done this it's time to set them aside and let them dry for a couple of hours. Once they're all ready they'll look something like this:
Now take your coin and wrap it in the fabric nice and tightly, making sure there aren't any wrinkles in the fabric.
Put the coin in the pan and press down. Hard. This'll compress your pigments and make them really compact in your pan. Keep pressing for about 10 to 20 seconds.
Make sure that you move the coin around in the fabric and always use a clean section when pressing a different eye shadow.
In the end they'll look like this:
All you have to do now is pop the pans back into the palette and there you have it! Your very own eye shadow palette!
Here are a couple of swatches of the colours I made:
Let me know what you think!
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