I bought a large Z palette to house my new shiny Makeup Geek foiled eyeshadows, and they looked pretty lonely in there all on their own. So I decided to de-pot a number of my favourite neutral eyeshadows and stick them into the Z palette too.
Doing the actual de-potting was a mixed bag - some shadows, like Makeup Forever's large circular pans, were meant for arranging in palettes like this, so de-potting them was as simple as poking a pin through a hole in the back of the compact. That's because they're already held in with magnets rather than glue. Pro brands are often this easy to depot - but high end brands like Clarins, Laura Mercier, and Burberry are pretty dependent on glue, meaning that I had to prise the pans out of the compacts with a knife. Most of the time that worked just fine, albeit with some warping - you can see that the long, thin, rectangular Clarins pan got warped pretty badly. In some cases though, the eyeshadows were damaged - like the wine coloured Burberry pan in the bottom right - or completely destroyed, as happened with my Estee Lauder Raisins duo. They were too soft to be depotted, and they shattered. Boo.
Anyway, inept knife handling aside, the process of depotting and rearranging my shadows was a lot of fun. The large Z palette comes with a set of sticky-back magnets so non-magnetic pans can be put safely into it, which worked really well for most of the bottom right hand corner. I've still got a few left for future de-potting adventures too. At £14.95, I'm really pleased with my large Z palette - some of my buried treasures are getting use for the first time in ages.
Disclosure: Z palette bought by me. Depotted eyeshadows a mixure of ones I bought myself, and PR samples.
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