Hello everyone, apologies for the second palette post in a row but I wanted to share another way to make your own custom palette and although it was a bit of a faff it’s been so worth it! I LOVE Sleek eyeshadow palettes, they are some of the best on the market and worth a lot more than the £7.99 price tag. The Ultra Mattes palette was the first ever eyeshadow palette I got from my 17th birthday and since then my collection has rapidly grown, including a few beautiful limited edition palettes. The only problem I have with them is they all look the same from the outside, so when stored away and stacked neatly its hard to distinguish one from the other - meaning that unless its a special occasion I rarely reach for them. They just weren’t getting enough love, so when I saw that my lovely fellow ethical blogger (and talented MUA) Tamanna had made her own custom Z palette I couldn’t help but be inspired to do the same!
The issue with Sleek palettes is that the pans are not magnetic, meaning you’ll have to stick a bit of magnet sticker onto each pan. A long and slightly annoying process to say the least but the Z palettes come with plenty of magnetic stickers making it worth the price. (I ended up cutting the stickers in halves, making things even more tedious but I got there in the end). I won’t be explaining how I went about depotting the eyeshadows, as you can read how to in Tamanna’s post here which is very useful ^_^
However I’ll offer you two bits of advice:
1. Be patient, especially when trying to get the black packaging off it takes ages and can be a little painful too ._.
2. It’s a messy process, so wear old clothes and cover surfaces well.
You have to be really really careful when trying to depot and it’s almost unavoidable to smash a couple of shadows in the process. I ended up fixing a couple with surgical spirit (an alternative to rubbing alcohol) but also I chucked out duplicates, as most sleek palettes come with a black shadow and I only needed one. Although the fixed shadows don't look as good, like that beautiful purple/maroon shade on the right, they still work just as well. I also have in the top right corner a bronzer sample from Birchbox, which luckily is already in a magnetic pan. That shade is a brilliant transition colour for the crease (Lord and Berry - Sunny).
Since making this palette, I have used the shadows over and over again. It’s so useful having a couple of palettes combined together and being able to order the shades in their colour families. Sleek eyeshadows are very pigmented and blend together easily. A little goes a long way and having so many shades in one place means I really do use them a tonne more! In this palette I have at (most of the shadows from) the Au Natural Palette, the Oh So Special Palette - reviewed here, the Vintage Romance Palette and a few of the shadows from the Ultra Mattes 2 palette.
Have you got a Z
palette?
Thank-you for reading ♥
