IndieAna- In Search of the HolyGrail

I loved the result of my past attempt at pressing minerals . It was fun and rewarding, knowing that I had created my own palette. I can only imagine what it must feel to create your own makeup! Anyway, I made another pressed minerals palette. That's a terrible photo, it was too dark to take without flash, but you get the idea :) I thought that Day To Night was a fitting name, due to the light neutrals and darker colours, for that more dramatic look. These were swatched with my finger, no primer. I'm so happy with the pigmentation! I am already sorting through my loose mineral stash to create another palette :)

I have so many lipsticks in my collection that I have run out of room to store them. Now, I could just stop buying lipsticks (gasp!) which I have truly tried, and have succeeded to lessen the amount of purchases, but there's always some new lip products released, or a colour that catches my eye that I just have to own. Well, I have stumbled upon a solution. Turning my lipsticks into a lip palette! It's not a new idea, there are plenty of tutorials on youtube, but I just had to give it a go. I know there are more glamorous ways to melt lipstick, but I went a simple route. I placed lipstick in a tea spoon, scraping inside the tube with the plastic tip of a floss stick to ensure that I wasn't wasting too much product. I then melted it over a tea light candle and very carefully poured into a section of my chosen palette. This being a container meant for nail crystals. With a lid for each section, I thought this container would be ideal to be used as a lip palette. I didn...