Hey beauties!

I’m in the midst of cleaning, unpacking and putting furniture together (ok, that last one is not true…my husband is putting the furniture together,  I’m just watching him…). However, I did find the time to be cool and depot my MAC eye shadows like a real make up artist! !

That’s right, I depotted some of my eye shadows! For those who don’t know what depotting is: it’s removing the metal pan from the black MAC ‘pot’, so that each shade is in a single metal pan. Then, placing all of the eye shadows on a magnetic board or in a MAC Pro palette.

I depotting 8 shadows and put them in two E.L.F. magnetic quads (or custom compacts, as they call it), which are only 1 dollar each! Granted, they would look a lot better in a larger palette, but for me this is fine. For me it makes it a lot easier to use my eye shadows. They’re easy accessible: you don’t need to go through a lot of stuff to find the colors you want and you save a lot of room in your vanity.

I used the technique with heat. You can also depot your shadows without heat, but honestly I don’t have the time or patience for that, so I used my straightener. I haven’t been using my straightener lately anyway (it’s too humid here in Ohio!), so the thing finally served a purpose again.


There are a lot of tutorials online showing you how to depot your MAC eye shadows (or blushes). This video shows you how I did it. Thanks, MakeupGeek!

Handy, right?