DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING WITH YOUR FINGERS AT THIS POINT as the metal will still be very hot.

The glue used to stick the shadow to the plastic pot will have melted and may be stringy – try to avoid it (fig. 4), turn the shadow over and still gripping one edge firmly with the tweezers, use the blunted tip of a letter opener to push the shadow out of the plastic sleeve (fig. Once underside of the plastic pot has melted sufficiently (fig.Turn it over often to check the progress – the entire process takes less than a minute. Remember that the purpose is for the bottom of the plastic to soften/melt enough, so that you can pop the eyeshadow out of its plastic “sleeve” – that being said, be aware that IT WILL GET VERY HOT. 3) and place it over your candle, staying approximately 2-3 inches above the heat source. With the tweezers, firmly grip one edge of the eyeshadow (fig.Remember to keep the knife pointed away from you. 1) and add some pressure by twisting the knife slightly until the eyeshadow in its plastic “sleeve” pops out of the larger container (fig. After laying down some paper towels on your work surface, begin by inserting the tip of your small sharp knife into the seam found on the eyeshadow pot (fig.Sharpie (I used red ultra-fine white, silver or gold would be even better).To de-pot +/- 65 single eyeshadows into 5 palettes *Note that some of the photos are grainy and/or a touch blurry – they were taken in a rush with my phone. Having never attempted this before, I scoured Youtube videos for how-to methods, and found one that worked for me (I don’t remember which video it was now … sorry!) It came to the point where I didn’t even know what colours I had anymore, and decided to “de-pot” them all it helped that MAC dropped the price of their palettes (CAD $10.00) and inserts (CAD $2.00), which made this project so much easier on the wallet. So what did I do? I divided them up into colour groups of 15 shadows (the size of the large MAC palettes), and placed them in baggies to await their new home. I hadn’t realized how many MAC single eyeshadows I owned, until one day they threatened to overflow the container I kept them in.

Depotting mac eyeshadow