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Tutorial: Depotting Smashbox Shadows

Heather — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:58:57 +0000

Yay! My second youtube video! Thanks to you all who subscribed to my youtube channel! So sweet of you, and I do hope to do some actual video makeup tutotials in the future. Now that the editing and posting part doesn’t scare me anymore, I think I can do it now. This was only the second Smashbox shadow I’ve ever depotted, and I really hate lighters and fire, but it’s totally worth it to me to have it in my palette. The screw-on top bugs me :-P Anyway, without further ado, here it is! Let me know what you think!

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Tutorial: Depotting MAC Shadows

Heather — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:35:42 +0000

I depot my MAC shadows using a regular clothes iron and some parchment paper. It works well, and I never have any casualties. I’m sorta afraid of fire, so I try to avoid having to use it if possible. But later, I’ll post another tutorial to show how I depotted my Smashbox shadows also. It’s my very first video tutorial, so be nice :-) But let me know what you think! Toward the end I did a mini-review of one of the new ZPalettes I got. I will do a full review of them very soon, so stay tuned!

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Tutorial: Navy & Lighter Shades Look

Heather — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:40:08 +0000

Yay my very first tutorial! I wore this look two days in a row, and figured that the second time, I’d turn it into a pictorial step-by-step. Well, it’s not a video, but maybe this’ll give you some idea of how this look is put together. Please let me know if this is helpful at all or give me some feedback as to how I can make it better, and I’ll try to do more if you’d like :-) Thanks for looking!

For this look I used:

Eyes: UDPPS (primer), Bare Study PP (base), Bright Side (inner & middle lid), marbled side of Polar Opposite (outer lid & crease), navy blue side of Inter-View (outer crease), light pink side of Word-of-Mouth (highlight), Bobbi Brown Sapphire Shimmer Ink (upper & lower lashline), Chanel Exceptionnel mascara.
Cheeks: Enough Said BPB
Lips: YSL Rouge Pur #132

Get step-by-step instructions with pictures along the way for how to get this look.

Start with your naked eye.

Apply UDPP Sin from lashline to brow.

Using the 242, apply Bare Study PP to the lid to just above the crease.

With the 217 brush, pick up a navy blue color (I used the marbled side of Polar Opposites MES) and starting from the outer crease, use a windshield wiper motion to bring color to the center crease. Keep going back and forth until blended.

This is what you should have.

This is another shot of what it should look like.

Next, using the 213 brush, pick up a neutral color (I used Bright Side MES) and apply it all over the central lid area, blending from the inner corner out. Use a tapping motion to blend more.

This is what you should have.

Here I used a Lorac brush (skinnier less dense version of the 213) to apply a highlight color (I used the light pink side of Word of Mouth MES). Sweep the color lightly under the brow bone and blend in the crease color.

Use the 226 to swirl in some dark navy blue or black (I used the navy side of Inter-view MES) and put it right in the outer corner of the crease. It only goes about 1/3 of the way in and should be slightly more defined.

This is where that dark color should stop.

And this is what you should have.

Using an angled liner brush, apply Bobbi Brown Sapphire Shimmer Ink to the upper lashline. I do it in small strokes, working from the middle first, then outer lid, then inner lid blended usually.

Line the lower lashline the same way stopping about 2/3 of the way in. Fill in your brows with your choice (I use Bare Escentuals Brunette color brow powder and a brow brush).

This is what you should have.

Apply black mascara…and Voila!

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Tutorial: Depotting UDPP

Heather — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:02:14 +0000

If you have UDPP (Urban Decay Primer Potion) in original or Sin, and you haven’t “depotted” it, then you must follow these steps! You’re missing out on at least, AT LEAST half of the product inside if you chuck it after nothing else comes off the wand. The whole process takes about 10 minutes. Good luck!

See step-by-step pictures and directions! Start out with your UDPP, a steak knife, a pot to put the product in (I use the clear MAC ones) and possibly a spatula to scrape out the excess with (the wand from the UDPP could be used instead), and a cutting board.

Cut into the bottle at the thickest part (the bulbus (hehe funny word!)). It takes some elbow grease! You don’t need to cut all the way through – rotate it a little and make sure you leave a little attached because it’s easier to manuver.

Bend the top back. Look at all that product!!!

Scoop out as much as you can and scrape it into the empty pots.

After you’ve scooped out as much as possible, cut off the bottom part.

Still even more product!!!

Scrape out everything you can into the jar!

Look, it’s full!!! Amaaaaazing! :-)

…and the leftovers

Look at how empty it is!

Voila! Let me know if you have any questions! :-)

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