I recently purchased some mac eyeshadows and some Makeup Geek Eyeshadows (will review and swatch the MUG shadows in another post) and realised I had quite a good number of shadows of the same size. Would be great to have them all in one place instead of having to open one pot after the other. So, I purchased a Mac Palette from Accessoriesng.com.
So, here's what you'll need:
A Palette (doesn't have to be a Mac Palette)
Mac Eyeshadow(s)
A flat iron
A tool with a sharp point (I used an old pair of eyebrow scissors)
Foil paper
How'd I do it?
Push the sharp point of your tool into the groove between the actual pot and the plastic pan which holds the eyeshadow and wiggle it until it makes a 'click' which means it has been released. Then pop this out.
Take out this plastic insert and place atop some foil paper and heat it up on the flat iron to melt the adhesive used to hold the metal pan in the plastic pan.
Next, pry your sharp pointed tool into the teeny weeny space between the metal pan that holds the shadow and the plastic pan to pull out the meatl pan. This should pop out quite easily as the heat from the flat iron should have melted the adhesive considerably.
Then I just popped the metal pan into one of the wells in the Mac Palette. Voila! :)
Note that I did not use any magnets as I did not feel the need to. The pans fit in perfectly into the palette and I even had a difficult time tryin to take any of them out. The need for magnets might differ probably depending on the type of Mac Palette one purchases.
You are beautiful,
Reni.
