Make Your Own Erasers: Part 2

Thursday, 10 September 2015

Make Your Own Erasers: Part 2

Hello Lovelies! Here's a second tutorial about making your own erasers, but this time we'll be making them look like lipstick and lip balms! If you're anything like me and have a horrible tendency to lose or misplace your erasers, then these are a great idea for you! Seriously, with an eraser this cute you'll make sure to never lose it!

What you're going to need:

Eraser putty,

An empty lipstick container

An empty EOS Lipbalm

An Xacto Knife

And some super glue

For the lipstick you'll need a large section of the red putty and two small pieces of the pink and black to achieve the colour I made. However, if you want to make your own colour, go for it!

Now mix them all together and roll the mixture into a sausage shape.

It's time to make sure that the eraser will fit into the lipstick tube so try placing it in place and wind the lipstick down.

If there's any excess just use the knife and carefully cut it off.

What I did next to make it look even more like a lipstick was to cut the erase at an angle to create a point.

Then, once the eraser is cooled, put a tiny bit of glue into the bottom of the lipstick case and place the eraser inside.

It should end up looking something like this:

I've seen a couple of these EOS erasers, but I thought I'd try and put a little twist on it. So take three colours of your choice, or however many colours you want.

Mix them all together into a ball until you get a pattern like in the picture bellow. If you want to get a similar effect as mine, be careful not to mix the putty too much because the colours will start to blend together. 

Next, place the putty in the lid of the EOS container

Then, take the grid, which pops out of the base of the container quite easily. Just look for the thin line and pry it out using something like a thin nail file. I used my xacto knife, but that was a tad on the dangerous side so I wouldn't recommend that.

Press the grid into the putty, don't twist it though, it could ruin the pattern.

Remove the grid and the putty from the lid of the container and take the putty off the grid and boil or bake it.

Now take the super glue and glue the grid so that when you use the eraser it doesn't fall out or move about.

Then pop the grid back into the base. It's really simple to do, trust me! And there you have it, a pretty cool eraser! 

And there you have it, your own lipstick or EOS lipbalm eraser! Aren't they pretty?

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial, let me know what you think!