Has anyone ever repotted/depotted Limited Edition Palettes

[ambicion6]

Such as the trip palettes?
I have 3 of these (warm, cool and bronze eye/face) and while I love the fact that they are all nice and orderly in their own container, I'm a little OCD and like all of my e/s in my 15-palettes.
Has anyone ever attempted to scrape out the e/s from these and repot in a round tin (using the alcohol method I assume)
or should I just leave well enough alone?

 

[TISH1124]

I have never done it and I personally would not attempt it...But if you do let us know what the outcome was

 

[GGBlu]

I'm with Tish on this one. I'm OCD about my shadows too, but would never attempt to pulverize then "reassemble" panned shadows. I know people have used the alcohol method to put broken shadows back together before, but that was more out of necessity than anything.

Plus, I know I'm so OCD that if they didn't come out perfectly, I'd be really bothered.

 

[ambicion6]

yeah i don't think I am going to do it bc what if something goes horribly wrong!!! i just need to put those palettes by my 15palettes so i see them and remind myself to use them more often!

 

[Almond_Eyed]

I wouldn't risk it, but you could test it out with a colour that you don't really use. That way if it doesn't work then you didn't ruin your favourite shadow.

 

[xxManBeaterxx]

I have done it and it works, its easy but very tedious. I actually have a syringe with a thin metal tip (like a needle), i work in a lab so it was easy for me to get. Then i apply alcohol in the syringe and place the alcohol in the little cracks between the pan and the palette, wait 30 minutes so the glue becomes loose and then i remove the pan with a metal nail cleaner.

I did it with my manish aurora, dress camp, and hello kitty palettes.

 

[xxManBeaterxx]

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Originally Posted by Almond_Eyed I wouldn't risk it, but you could test it out with a colour that you don't really use. That way if it doesn't work then you didn't ruin your favourite shadow.

I thought my eye shadows would of been ruined by the alcohol, but i learned that people press pigments using it. So when accidentally got alcohol on my eyeshadow when trying to depot my palettes i just waited until the eyeshadow dried up before using it. there was no change in the shadows color or texture, but there might be a ring stain from the alcohol (doesnt affect the eyeshadow)

 

[aziajs]

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Originally Posted by xxManBeaterxx I thought my eye shadows would of been ruined by the alcohol, but i learned that people press pigments using it. So when accidentally got alcohol on my eyeshadow when trying to depot my palettes i just waited until the eyeshadow dried up before using it. there was no change in the shadows color or texture, but there might be a ring stain from the alcohol (doesnt affect the eyeshadow)

Totally unrelated but is your avatar a fusion of David Beckham and Johnny Depp?

 

[User38]

I just depot product that has the old black casing -- I love the LE packaging!

 

[xxManBeaterxx]

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Originally Posted by aziajs Totally unrelated but is your avatar a fusion of David Beckham and Johnny Depp?

yess!! how did you know?? ..your good

 

[sarah.p]

I've never done it.

 

[ambicion6]

so i finally got around to doing this. I did it with the warm travel palette (lots of pinks and purples like Cassette, Parfait Amour, Leisuretime...). and it worked just fine! although, i do have a fair amount of e/s in powder form leftover that I put into a small gram jar.
I couldn't fit it into the pan because it would overflow, although now that its dried, and been pressed, there is room for more e/s at the top, but i'm going to leave it alone as is and keep the extra/leftover e/s for future usage whenever I hit the pan in the current depotted e/s (which may be many many yrs into the future lol)

 

[panda0410]

Nice job! I did this with some of my NARS shadows and the result was perfect, good as originally panned