I am not a crafty person. I don’t like DIY projects, I could think of nothing worse than making a scrapbook and I hate de-potting my individual eyeshadows into palettes. I love the idea of being this organised and having everything in a neat colour-coordinated system but I don’t have the patience to actually do it. If I was a little bit more industrious though, I would depot my (fairly extensive) lipstick collection using one of these methods:
Jessica’s Method
Finding this tutorial on Beautezine is actually what inspired me to research the topic a bit more and put this post together. This extremely pleasing palette of Maybelline lipsticks is made by melting down the product over a flame and decanting it into a MAC Pro palette:
Sharon’s Method
By now you will know that Sharon Farrell is one of my favourite beauty YouTubers and, as a professional makeup artist, she came up with a clever and cost effective way to store her lipstick kit. She melts the bullets very gently in the oven and stores them in clear, stackable, plastic pots:
Alice’s Method
This is the way I would do it if I ever had the inclination because all you need to do is zap the lipsticks in the microwave once they’ve been depotted. Alice from Super Gorgeous stores the lipsticks in a Muji pillbox and I’m sure you could find something similar locally – try Mambos or Pax3D:
Shop online
Here are some empty palettes I found online from sites that ship to SA. I can’t find the MAC Cosmetics one online but they should sell it at the Pro store in the V&A Waterfront (you need to buy the insert separately):