Make Your Own Eyeshadow Palette WITHOUT Magnets!

I've always wanted to make my own palette, especially for Inglot Freedom System eyeshadows which have insanely expensive palettes to go with them!

Whenever I would look up tutorials on Youtube, the solution was always the same, either you buy some kind of magnetic strip or tape OR you stick your eyeshadows down permanently with super glue or craft glue.

Now I didn't want to stick down my shadows because I like to be able to move them around, I also had problems with the magnetic strip considering it was difficult to find and SUPER EXPENSIVE!

So I decided to use me ol' noggin and what I came up with allows you to easily remove your eyeshadows from the palette anytime you want but also holds them securely in place!

The secret? Blu Tack!

What you need:

• Any long thin box, metal/ plastic, whatever you like. I used an old watercolour tin I had.
• Blu Tack: It's available at stationery stores, if you can't find it try online here. Costs only INR 90!
• Eyeshadows of course!
• Rubbing Alcohol to sanitise the box.

Step 1:

Sanitize your box with a cloth soaked in alcohol. You can use a sanitising spray as well. ^_^ Just get those tiny heebie-jeebies out!

ALL CLEAN!

Step 2:

Tear out a teeny bit of Blu Tack and roll it between your fingers, stick it to the bottom of your eyeshadows like shown below. 

A small piece is more than enough!

Step 3:

Stick on your eyeshadow to the box by gently pushing it on till it feels secure.

That is literally it! That's how you do it. ^_^

Less than 100 spent to make a perfectly modifiable palette without any magnetic forces being used!

If you have a tin like mine, MAC shadows should stick down without Blu Tack thanks to the magnet at the back.

The Blu Tack is like chewing gum but more easy to remove, you can just peel it off and reuse it! ^_^

It won't come off no matter what as long you stick it on well. I've carried mine around in my kit and none of the eyeshadows have ever become loose. ^w^

And this is the end result:

I put some stickers and paper on the lid of mine to make it look more makeup and less stationery like!

So, that's how I make my own eyeshadow palettes! Without the pain of having to find magnets and all under 100 INR.

What do you think? Have you ever tried making a DIY palette? 

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and I hope it helped you! ^_^

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Yes! Another Contest Entry! Reggae Beats

You girls must be so bored of me by now.. Sorry! Sorry! *does Super Junior dance*
Only a few last entries, promise! This entry is for Uzma's contest at Zestful Nails, guess what? Also sponsored by L'Oreal! :D

Here's my look, I call it Reggae Beats. My sister calls it Zimbabwe's flag. -__- LOL!

Products used:

• NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil "Milk" (base and liner)
• Inglot shadows AMC 60 (yellow) Matte 366 (coral)
• Coastal Scents 88 Original Palette (red and green)
• Colossal Kajal
• Colossal Volum' Mascara

Hope you like it!

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VNA Summer Eye Makeup contest Entry 1: Heat wave

I don't know how many of you girls have heard, Vanity No Apologies and L'Oreal have organised an awesome "Summer Eye Makeup" contest. Well, how can I ignore it! I have to take part... Muahaha! I'm going to go nuts with this!

This is my first entry, I wanted to do something bright but sultry that women can wear to a club or party. I did my best to not go OTT with it. ^-^' Plus the only thing I can think about summer right now is "Argh! HOT HOT HOT!" Hence, the warm colours. :/

So here is Heat Wave:

front 

half closed

closed

side view

Products used:

• Faces Magic Eye gel (primer)
• NYX Jumbo Eye pencil "Milk" (base and water line)
• Inglot eyeshadows AMC 60 (yellow) Matte 366 (coral red)
• VOV black eyeshadow (base for crease)
• Faces stackable pigments red from "Frolic" (crease and lower lid)
• Coastal Scents mineral eyeshadow "Champagne" (highlight and inner corner)
• Maybelline Colossal kajal (liner and water line)
• Maybelline Colossal Volum' mascara

Please tell me what you think! Suggestions are welcome! :D I'm excited about what your thoughts are. :)

If you want to enter go HERE. The rules are simple and it'll be lots of fun. :)

Ingot Freedom System Eyeshadow Review: AKA I was bad

So, there was a sale at Major Brands... *sobs* I bought Inglot stuff. *sobs some more* I'm so remorseful..
Actually, okay, I'll cut the drama, I think it was worth it. Even though it wasn't a BIG discount and I was going and proving my blog title a liar, truthfully, it wasn't so bad!

The shadows were INR300 each, not bad but still steep. I got two of them for 500.
The colours I got are AMC 60 (a shimmery bright yellow) and MATTE 366 (a matte coral), both I was eyeing for awhile, since I have no other colours like those. :D

(I'm sorry for my image quality in posts for the next 3 weeks, my sister has my camera and I have to use the BF's and I can't figure it out. :(

AMC 60 and MATTE 366

These are refills, so they come in these plastic moulded packets that have peel-off backs, luckily the packets seal up again and there is a black cardboard box to put them in so they won't get damaged.

Swatches:

natural light (w/out primer on left)

With flash (sorry for the crappy quality, I can't get the hang of my bf's camera. :/)

I loved how saturated these colours are! The yellow is not at all chalky like the one in my Coastal scents palette. And the coral is gorgeous! What I love is that even without primer, these stay on and look just as vibrant!

I did a simple EOTD with both colours and the "base" shade from Maybelline's Chai Latte as highlight. :) I actually blended a lot so the colours are not too in your face. I wanted it to be bright but everyday. :)

I lost control of my liner. LOL!

Overview:
Price: Rs.300 each

Pros:

• Colours are very saturated
• Long lasting with/ without primer
• Good quantity at 2.7gm each
• These are good choices if you like bright colours, otherwise they have a good range of other colours.

Cons:

• Price. :(
• Availability: Only available in Inglot stores or Majorbrands.
• STAIN! I had faint yellow and pink o my lids and arm even after removing. But I guess, it proves the long lasting claim I made. :D

So, overall, I would buy again! But maybe when I have more money to burn. :P

Have you ever bought stuff from Inglot? What did you buy and did you like it? :)

Big Fat Haul from Last Week

So ermm, I went a little nuts last week, look at all the things I got! At least, more things to share with you right? Huh? Huh? Okay, yeah, I need an intervention. -__-

Went to Westside, as you know from the Chai Latte review. Got:

Maybelline Chai Latte quad, Makeup Remover, Vivid and Smooth Liner (grey)
and  Bourjois Clubbing eye pencil (Blue Remix )

The Chai Latte was another elusive Pokemon that I needed to catch, the remover I NEEDED!

Local Beauty Store:

Sunsilk Lusciously Thick and Long (that name is so wrong.. *Hauls mind out of gutter*)
Lux Magical Spell Body wash

ColorBar Velvet Matte Lipstick (Peach Crush), nailpolish (top coat), eyepencil sharpner,
Lotus Matte Gel spf 50 sunscreen

I never liked Sunsilk but I think they've reformulated their products, so I decided to try the pink one and I'm liking it a lot so far. :) My sister got me hooked to Lux bodywashes, I like that they don't leave a greasy film after you're done, great for summer. I have 3 now. >_<

ColorBar Velvet Matte Lipstick (Peach Crush) my first ColorBar lipstick. :D

I fell in love with the lipstick! :D

Online Shopping:
Stylecraze got in some amazing NYX stuff!

NYX girls polish: Enchanted Forest *pretty*

NYX round lippies in Stella and Femme.

I've been wanting Femme forever! Stella was a disappointment colourwise, it has silver glitters. :( Reviews will be up soon. :)

Majorbrands had a Mother's day sale, so I picked up 2 shadows that I was eyeing for awhile but they were too expensive, I have to stick to my blog name, you know! But I gave in.. Paid 150rs less though. :P

My first ever Inglot purchase. :D 

AMC 60 (yellow), Matte 366 (coral)

Reviews for these two are coming up NOW! :D

That's it for last week, I have another order coming though, I ordered the L'oreal 360 Go Clean Face wash, It sounds promising, lets see... Until then: Insolvency. That is all.

What did you haul this week? Did you go overboard? Comment and tell! :D