Thank you! 💕 I actually bought these tiny pans because I had my Make it or Buy it video series idea first and then realized wait I could actually create single shadows of all my eyeshadows without depotting the palettes. After the muerte video I did my "perfect palette" video testing out the sampling technique with my favourite shades and then I have the video sampling all 140 eyesbadows. At some point I also want to do "duping the vibes" videos where I can just use these singles :D I hope you enjoy playing with this technique in your collection too!
Congrats on submitting your first paper! This is always so cool to watch, definitely looking forward to more of this from you. Lowkey wanna try this too, might have to buy some eyeshadow pans lol. Still kind of mind blown, this idea seems so simple and practical and yet so brilliant mashallah.
Hi :) For the first purple matte shade? I used the shades shown from the Smashbox "Sultry" palette, this was a holiday release a couple years ago. Though if you're really interested in this colourstory (greys and purples/mauves) some palettes available are Colourpop stone cold fox or Scott Barnes Glamazon Palette. Or if you want to try making those specific purple shades, take a brighter purple in your collection and try mixing it with a tiny bit of black or a dark grey and red to make a more muted plum purple.
Thank you so much! That's a great question. At some point I want to make a video about all the things I've learned mixing and pressing eyeshadows but what it comes down to is for all formulas I think dry pressing is far better than the traditional method of pressing it when its wet with alcohol. So when I was testing out pressing, before I sampled all the eyeshadows from my collection and pressed them into tiny pans, I found out that when I added alcohol to a neutral brown shimmer shade and pressed it, afterwards that shade was sliiiightly warmer in colour than what it was originally... now maybe some people wouldn't mind much but I liked that shadow because it wasn't warm toned. So to me I don't want to press any shimmers wet because I want the shade to stay the exact same. Also most people find that while pressing shimmers with alcohol usually works (it doesn't break apart), doing that for mattes is often more of a challenge and the shade ends up "cracking". So I actually found out about the dry pressing technique because of FacesByGina's video on dry pressing mattes. And since that was working great for my mattes I tried it for the shimmers too and it works just as good! Shimmers I think dry press even better than mattes in the sense that because they often have some oils in them they compress well and so when I go in for a swatch there isn't much kickup. For the mattes that are dry pressed I find no matter how hard I press they're still quite soft so i would never swirl my brush in a dry pressed matte I only lightly dip in (think of it like abh eyeshadows). I haven't noticed any difference in dry pressed shimmer and matte application on the eye compared to the original eyeshadow. Sorry for the novel, hope that helped haha I just like to give as much info as I can!
That’s awesome, thanks for the thorough explanation. I’ve also found the mattes to be super soft afterwards so it wasn’t my favorite (detest abh mattes lol) and prevents me from depotting things I normally would. I wonder if a light mist of setting spray or alcohol before the press would help it keep it together…
@@alliauyeung3004 I'm okay with it but completely understandable if you don't like that. Hmm I will try it out! (the light misting with alcohol), I think a setting spray might not be a good idea it could cause hard pan and because they usually have water you'd have to be careful spraying onto a tin pan or it could rust. Another thing if you're interested you can look into is a watch pressing machine. Awhile ago I watched a video about this but apparently there are these pressers made to fix watches and they were quite affordable so someone found out that you could easily press eyeshadows in them with the force of traditional presses (so its not too soft).
@@alliauyeung3004 Here's the link to that video actually: ua-cam.com/video/7Y0dJ95gtRI/v-deo.html&feature=emb_title. On amazon its like ~20 bucks for a bunch of different circular sizes.... I think 18 mm is the smallest though and my pans are 15 mm :/ but they have the traditional 26 mm size most people use for single eyeshadows.
Genius idea with how you sampled all your eyeshadows so building palettes is easier. I actually may need to snag this idea for my own collection
Thank you! 💕 I actually bought these tiny pans because I had my Make it or Buy it video series idea first and then realized wait I could actually create single shadows of all my eyeshadows without depotting the palettes. After the muerte video I did my "perfect palette" video testing out the sampling technique with my favourite shades and then I have the video sampling all 140 eyesbadows. At some point I also want to do "duping the vibes" videos where I can just use these singles :D I hope you enjoy playing with this technique in your collection too!
Congrats on submitting your first paper! This is always so cool to watch, definitely looking forward to more of this from you. Lowkey wanna try this too, might have to buy some eyeshadow pans lol. Still kind of mind blown, this idea seems so simple and practical and yet so brilliant mashallah.
Thank you so much!! So glad you enjoy watching these
I've been waiting so patiently for your next video! I'm so glad it's here. I just love all of them, thanks.
You're the best Lynn!! Thank you for being patient, it always makes me happy reading your comments, glad you love the videos! 💕
I like this idea. I hope you do more of them, new subscriber
Thank you! Definitely will, this is one of my fav series to film :D
Hi, what palette/shades did you use to make the first purple shade you made? Thanks!
Hi :) For the first purple matte shade? I used the shades shown from the Smashbox "Sultry" palette, this was a holiday release a couple years ago. Though if you're really interested in this colourstory (greys and purples/mauves) some palettes available are Colourpop stone cold fox or Scott Barnes Glamazon Palette. Or if you want to try making those specific purple shades, take a brighter purple in your collection and try mixing it with a tiny bit of black or a dark grey and red to make a more muted plum purple.
Love this idea and you did a fabulous job making the shades! Do you find that the formula changes or goes on different when you dry press?
Thank you so much! That's a great question. At some point I want to make a video about all the things I've learned mixing and pressing eyeshadows but what it comes down to is for all formulas I think dry pressing is far better than the traditional method of pressing it when its wet with alcohol. So when I was testing out pressing, before I sampled all the eyeshadows from my collection and pressed them into tiny pans, I found out that when I added alcohol to a neutral brown shimmer shade and pressed it, afterwards that shade was sliiiightly warmer in colour than what it was originally... now maybe some people wouldn't mind much but I liked that shadow because it wasn't warm toned. So to me I don't want to press any shimmers wet because I want the shade to stay the exact same. Also most people find that while pressing shimmers with alcohol usually works (it doesn't break apart), doing that for mattes is often more of a challenge and the shade ends up "cracking". So I actually found out about the dry pressing technique because of FacesByGina's video on dry pressing mattes. And since that was working great for my mattes I tried it for the shimmers too and it works just as good! Shimmers I think dry press even better than mattes in the sense that because they often have some oils in them they compress well and so when I go in for a swatch there isn't much kickup. For the mattes that are dry pressed I find no matter how hard I press they're still quite soft so i would never swirl my brush in a dry pressed matte I only lightly dip in (think of it like abh eyeshadows). I haven't noticed any difference in dry pressed shimmer and matte application on the eye compared to the original eyeshadow. Sorry for the novel, hope that helped haha I just like to give as much info as I can!
That’s awesome, thanks for the thorough explanation. I’ve also found the mattes to be super soft afterwards so it wasn’t my favorite (detest abh mattes lol) and prevents me from depotting things I normally would. I wonder if a light mist of setting spray or alcohol before the press would help it keep it together…
@@alliauyeung3004 I'm okay with it but completely understandable if you don't like that. Hmm I will try it out! (the light misting with alcohol), I think a setting spray might not be a good idea it could cause hard pan and because they usually have water you'd have to be careful spraying onto a tin pan or it could rust. Another thing if you're interested you can look into is a watch pressing machine. Awhile ago I watched a video about this but apparently there are these pressers made to fix watches and they were quite affordable so someone found out that you could easily press eyeshadows in them with the force of traditional presses (so its not too soft).
@@alliauyeung3004 Here's the link to that video actually: ua-cam.com/video/7Y0dJ95gtRI/v-deo.html&feature=emb_title. On amazon its like ~20 bucks for a bunch of different circular sizes.... I think 18 mm is the smallest though and my pans are 15 mm :/ but they have the traditional 26 mm size most people use for single eyeshadows.