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How to put your favourite lipstick into a palette
The beauty of making your own lipstick palette is that you will be able to carry around ALL of your favourite lipsticks, in just one small palette! Here's how to do it.Step 1: Buy a lipstick palette, like the ones Bobbi Brown, MAC, etc, have. You can also use pill boxess (the ones labeled Mon-Fri), or use a water colors palette.
Step 2: Gather your favorite lipsticks
Step 3: Take floss, cut off the tip of the lipstick. You can take off more and more gradually, but I suggest you start with a small amount first, because you can always add more later.
Step 4: There are a lot of ways to get the lipstick into the palettes here are some:
a. Put lipstick in a paper cup,
microwave on high power for approx. 15-45 seconds. Pour into
container/palette. Let cool until firm (you can speed this up, by
sticking the palette in your freezer for a few minutes).
b. Put lipstick on a spoon, melt over
candle, pour into palette. Let cool until firm (you can speed this up,
by sticking the palette in your freezer for a few minutes).
c. Put the lipsticks (still solid) into
the palette, take the palette and put it in the oven, at lowest
temperature, checking every 2 minutes or so, until lipsticks are melted
into palette. Let cool until firm (you can speed this up, by sticking
the palette in your freezer for a few minutes). *CAUTION* Palettes that
are plastic, might melt. Metal palettes, or palettes containing metal
might start a fire/get very hot.
d. "Smush" the lipstick into palette. I
find this hard, and not very easy to do it. (I had to warm the
lipsticks up a little to actually be able to "smush" them in with the
back of a spoon.) It didn't look as nice as when I had melted the
lipstick, and a lot of it ended up on the back of my spoon. However
this is a good way to get your lipsticks in the palette without using
heat.
e. Some people used more creative
approaches. By putting the lipstick in the palette then blow drying it,
or leaving it on the dash board of their car during the day to melt the
lipsticks.
NOTE: I find that melting the
lipsticks does not change the consistency, color or taste. I figure
that they were melted originally into the lipstick mold, so melting it
again won't do anything. TIP: If you prefer a more moisturizing base for your lipsticks, melt a tiny bit of lipbalm and mix it into the melted lipstick with a toothpickfirst.
Happy DIY-ing! :)
Guide created: 19/10/05 (updated 13/10/09)
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