DIY Lip Palette with ELF Lip Encyclopedia Re-Panning

A little while back I bought the ELF Lip Encyclopedia but really was just not a fan of the packaging. A cardboard book with instructions of doing what? No thank you. Impulsively I decided to take the lip pans out of the book and I placed them in a make-shift palette also known as an empty CD case. After a while having the CD case with the pans grew annoying to my eyes. It was just not aesthetically pleasing at all. Thus, I decided to improve upon the empty CD palette idea. You can see my DIY Eyeshadow palette tutorial kinda thing here.

On the case is the quote "Waking up to kissies in the morning" which is a very important quote to me pertaining to Jeff. I won't get sappy in this post, don't worry. Anyway, this is the new palette that I made myself.

Here is the inside of the palette! As you can see I lined all of the ELF Encyclopedia pans inside. If you haven't caught on yet, these are not the original pans which are actually a square shape.

Using a dental pick to scrape the lip color out of the old pans and into the new round ones, then using a source of heat (my hair straightener) I was able to get it all even and smooth. This was extremely EXTREMELY messy. How I stuck the pans onto the back was with eyelash glue. I've noticed with regular glue, craft glue, Crazy Glue, it can effect the pans sometimes, causing it to shatter. This has happened to me with a black eyeshadow of mine... wooo... Buttt, I haven't had an issue with eyelash glue.

Et voila! This is a before and an after picture but a little inverted. Anywho. Hope you enjoyed my little arts & crafts project! Bye!

This is pretty much how I did it and how I also learned how too!

** This can be a bit dangerous, and there is a risk of you ruining your hair straightener, so be warned!

DIY: Palette Using a CD Case

So I was at the art supply store today and I thought I'd be a little creative. With $5 at hand and knowing I had a bunch of depotted eyeshadows I figured why not have some fun! Sooo with an empty CD case, some thread, pretty paper I bought as well as some stickers, I made something that I'm extremely happy about!

I used two types of paper on the front cover slip. One was a floral designed plastic film and the other was the same thick paper I used on the inside which you will see later. To keep them together and in place, I wasn't sure what to do. The two pieces together were still not thick enough and so together they kept moving around and sliding out every time I opened it. So I decided to explore the house a little for some glue and I found some of my mother's thread and a needle instead. I got to work and ended up sewing them together. The thread helped with it not sliding out because it latched onto the sides really well. To decorate it a little more I added one stanza of lyrics to one of my favorite songs ever.

And when the
brokenhearted
people living
in the world
agree there will
be an answer
{let it be}

Inside I put 12 depotted eyeshadows from my Flirt LE 40 Eyeshadow Palette (if you have seen it, you'll know why I depotted it.) I only put those in to show what it could look like if you did this yourself.

I have two 15-Pan Empty Palettes (they can hold MAC eyeshadows too. All eyeshadows that are 26mm) on the way that I bought off of eBay so I'll probably be using those instead for these eyeshadows. I'll probably be placing my ELF Lip Encyclopedia Pans inside instead.

Hope you enjoyed my little arts & crafts project! I had so much fun making it and if you decide to do the same then I hope you too!