Hey all! Thank you for all the love on these past couple of videos. I am glad you're enjoying this series! I just wanted to pin a comment to address a few of the points people have brought up in the comments. This is just one technique that people recommended when I looked into it. I chose it because it looked like it worked, and also it was a pretty quick technique to do. It takes a long time to depot 126 eyeshadows and I am honestly on a deadline since I only get a few uninterrupted hours a week to film while my kid is out with his grandparents, so I often have to compromise for time. This series is about salvaging some eyeshadows that I otherwise would have decluttered, so whatever outcome I have is a win in my books. If I love a palette (like Sultry), I won't risk depotting because there is always risk of breaking eyeshadows. If you wanted to depot your ABH eyeshadows and you wanted to minimise risk, you can do a few other things that may be a lot more effective at reducing breaking, but also a lot more time consuming. The first is to break apart the palettes to get better access to the pans. Secondly, you can also use a heat source to warm the glue instead of trying to loosen it with alcohol. Some techniques are hair dryer (which I have demonstrated in past videos), hair straightener, candle, induction stove, oven etc etc. All techniques have their pros and cons, but I recommend doing some research and seeing which suits you and the items you have access to (there is no point buying equipment just to depot one or two eyeshadow palettes). Lastly, take a lot more time and care! Again, this wasn't a luxury I had (or cared enough to do) so I did what I could, but the longer you take to pry out the pans (which may include reapplying the alcohol or reheating the pan) the less cracks when you remove the shades. Also depotting one eyeshadow palette at a time would help you maintain that level of care, doing 9 in one sitting gets very tedious and you are more likely to rush the process. Lastly if you do break a pan that you really love, you can definitely repress the shadow. This could involve just adding a lot of pressure and pressing it dry, or adding a small amount of isopropyl alcohol and pressing it while it is damp. Either way, repressing an eyeshadow does often weaken or dry out the formula slightly (from the alcohol) and I didn't want to bother with it since in my experience these types of dry crumbly matte shadows will eventually break again and cause a lot of mess that future Kat doesn't want to deal with. Hope that helps, and explains a few reasons why I wasn't too fussed about cracking shadows and what you can do differently if you are a lot more invested than I was in the shadows you are depotting 😆
That was great. You ended up creating my dream basic B* palette. The best method for depotting ABH palettes I found was to tear apart the entire palette until I have only a plastic tray with pans. It is very easy to just blast the back of the plastic tray with a dryer. The glue is very weak. No accidental jamming of Shadows with anything sharp or cracking. Shadows just come out so easily with no damage. Anything other than eyeshadows is a massacre though🙈
I was going to say this. Lauren Mae depots every palette. She will toss then in a same magnetic palette. I love that Natasha Denona and Colourpop have magnetic palettes and I depot all of my ND and CP but for the ND Love palette which I will not depot. I love all the shades and I ordered the Circo Loco by Natasha D so I can leave alone too. LOL
@@moriganna67ify I really really love how Natasha Denona and Colourpop sell singles of eyeshadow shades that are also in their palettes. I appreciate it so much when I don't have to buy a whole new palette when I run out of my favorite shades. The fact that those very brands also make it easy to pop out the pans in their palettes so you can put them in a Z Palette is a bonus for me
@@hippiebippie8870 for me as well. I went from 15, 9 pan eye palettes to 3. It saves so much room and I hate the plastic things. They are often warped and cheapens it. The quality is amazing and affordable. I just can't do it with my Natasha Denona Circo Loco because it is so beautiful. I did switch out 2 shades. LOL I thought it was a Midi size then got it a n d it was a larger, and fell in love. Hahaha. I need more magnetic palettes. I use the smaller ones to put colours I choose. It definitely gets more use now.
Just another option. I have depotted my ABH. No breakage or crumbling. Here is my technique. It’s pretty quick also. 1) flat iron at 350-375 fahrenheit. Set it so that it’s flat and open. Not on its side. 2) parchment (not wax) paper on the upward facing plate. 3) Remove the cover/back from the abh palettes using a sharp xacto type knife. You will be left with a plastic tray of pans 4) Set the tray on the parchment for 3 min. Check to see if they release using the xacto knife. If not, two more min and check again. Start on a shade you don’t care about. 5) Remove 4-6 shades and then reheat for 2 min and do the next 6-8. 6) Set the shades on parchment until cooled. 7) Use a pink pearl eraser to scrub the glue off carefully. Voila! This took me 15 min per palette or less.
I like how you included the bit of regret at the end. It happens 😅 You’ve inspired me to take my Nabla palettes apart and I’m happy with the outcome. Minimal casualties btw.
oh my once the pans are arranged in similar colors, its looks so beautiful, personally i find ABH's color story not very attractive for me. but for the newly depotted and rearranged pans is really impressive
If I depot any ABH palettes in the future, I will do that, but this method apparently worked so I was happy to try it. The broken shadows really didn’t bother me to be honest. I would have liked to save one or two purples but I’m not losing sleep over it. If I didn’t save these 59 shades, I would have thrown out these palettes so I wasn’t too invested in saving them all 😊
@@KitschSnitch The broken ones are so easy to repair. Just spray the alcohol on the top to make them damp, then use kitchen paper to press it back into shape. Keep doing it till it's to your liking, It doesn't look as nice but it fixes them well. I hope you didn't throw them straight into the bin and I'm in time for you to save those gorgeous purples!
FOR ANYONE TRYING THIS: I did this with all my ABH palettes too! I put all my favorites into the modern Renaissance palette and now I call it my Modified Renaissance lol. But DO NOT try to lift these pans from the corners, thats why they buckled and cracked. Lift with a pointed tool from a flat side and the pans will hold their integrity MUCH much better. I only had 2 pans crack that way.
I have some experience with depotting and one tip I have. If you are not keeping the packaging is to open the palette and pull the layers of cardboard off. It will make it so you don't have to dig down to get to the pans. It will look like pans glued to a flat surface and then there are less casualties. There are some videos on TH-cam about this method. And then you can apply the alcohol without worry of staining any matte shadows too.
It’s a balance of getting results in the time that I have to film. I saw this method that apparently worked well so I thought I would try it. I didn’t think the extra hour of pulling apart palettes to save a few extra pans was really worth it for me personally… especially since most are being thrown out
@@KitschSnitch if the palettes were made of cardboard it is actually a quicker way to depot. They strip away easily and the pans come up quickly. But someone else said the ABH palettes are made of plastic 🤔 so it wouldn't work the same way.
I had a similar experience when deporting my ABH shadows. I found that not only were the matte shadows themselves fragile, but also the pans themselves were very fragile, easily bent . . . So there were quite a few casualties.
For anyone interested..Another method of depotting these types of palettes is using a (hair)flat iron. I just strip the cardboard palette away as much as possible. I then lay them (one section or pan area at a time) on top of the (very hot) flat iron plate. I put a small piece of waxed paper between the iron & the shadows so no glue can get on my iron. Let it sit about a minute then the glue is soft enough to just lift the pan out with the metal spatula. You can later clean any glue that might remain with the alcohol. I’ve ruined a lot of shadows and I don’t have any tears left to cry so this method is the most failsafe. If you don’t have a flat iron I’ve seen some use a candle flame but try at your own risk.
So satisfying how they fit in that Clionadh palette and it looks beautiful! I have a few ABH palettes and I might do this one day if I can get over my qualms about destroying the palettes.
This is a REALLY good illustration why collecting all the palettes from a brand is a waste. @11:51 is the shot that has all of the shades grouped and shows you just how redundant these palettes can be. Brands get us with packaging changes and collaborations, but it's the same thing over and over for the most part. I want to see someone do this with the big Norvina palettes.
I agree and disagree. There is major redundancy but many are shades you need to complete looks. So overall there is crazy redundancy but if I needed to open 5 palettes to get all the shades I want to complete a look, I would hate every one.
@@KitschSnitch I suppose that's true. We'd be looking more at singles. And really, that's just for makeup enthusiasts. Everyday people have one or two palettes. I remember my sister-in-law thinking the Tartelette in bloom palette was too many eyeshadows 🤣
I LIVE for this !! (also makes me feel better about depotting my first ABH palette, Modern Renaissance, for the 4 shades I actually use). Subculture is still intact (for fear of it going sideways). Only regret is not getting the Jackie Aina palette but no regrets otherwise ! Thank you for your video !
I love watching content like this. It gives me motivation to depot more of my palettes. I am looking for the best empty magnetic palettes to use to do it. Hoping either Adept or Give Me Glow will have a good sale and I can pick up like 4 empty magnetic palettes from them and get going on depotting all of my Bh Cosmetics & Glamlite first... I may also consolidate my Colourpop palettes too.
You've inspired me to depot the Smashbox ultraviolet palette, which has literally 3 usable shimmer shades I like. It annoys me every time I open it and see the shitty, patchy mattes which look so pretty in the pan.
Great video! I depotted nearly all of my eyeshadows, ABH included. For those palette packages that I didn't care to keep I just broke the package apart, all the way down to the single layer of cardboard that the pans were glued to. That's when I used a combo of alcohol and/or heat to loosen the glue in order to get the pans off. It caused less damage to pry the cardboard off the pans vs prying the pans off the cardboard or palette.
Easiest way to depot imo is to put the palette/item into the oven on the lowest temp for like 15-20 mins. Softens the glue and makes it pliable all at once.
This was a great video. I butchered my ABH palettes in 2020. I used a knife and got cut the cardboard apart. Less casualties. I kept my JA and Sultry intact.
Love love these. Dying to see how you do it . When I depotted my soft glam it had to be completely destroyed( heated on straightening iron) and yes the pans Are magnetic so that’s good. Going to buy nice personalized magnetic palette from Etsy to move them all in there so they look nice. I completely failed at the floss method so had dismantle the packaging 😟. Ooooh didn’t know about isopropyl alcohol. Will try that with other palettes. Will need that pottery needle! Yep Ordinary needles and safety pins are too weak.
Hi! I am not an English speaker, so I apologize in advance for mistakes.🌺 I have 2 shadow palettes (Jackie Aina and Carly Bybel) and in each there were shades that did not suit my type of appearance at all. I was afraid to extract shadows just by tweezers. Heating with a hairdryer also did not improve the situation (one matte shade still broke). So, I peeled off the bottom of the palette and drilled holes with a nail drill and then inserted a thin tweezer into these holes, holding the shadows on the other side and simply squeezed out the shadows from below. This is a more time-consuming process, but all the matte shadows remained intact. Thanks for the video!🤗
I think it’s going to be a long term declutter that I do gradually. There’s no way I can test 59 shades to refine this palette before I move onto the next month of testing palettes 😊
Cracked shadow saving hack, soak the eye shadow with alcohol and re-press it in gently with a flat end of a spatial or spoon. Let it completely dry and done!
Don't regret for the purple ones: let's remember you surely have beautiful purples in other palette the Eyemageddon serie is far from end, who knows! No big magnetic palette for me: only small ones, sometime even duos or quads (in these cases I ripped apart the cardboard packaging around the pans) or used the original palettes and re-arranged it as you've done with the Too Faced ones. exciting project, I'm curious to see the next chapters!
I don’t have similar purples but I also rarely use purples so it’s not that big of a loss. I would also prefer to find the shade in a liner formula if possible. I honestly prefer smaller palettes too, but I didn’t have any smaller palettes to put these in, so this will do for now 😊
@@KitschSnitch as a tin box collector sometimes I buy magnet sheets, cut and put them inside the tiny tin boxes and voilà, a small rearrangeable palette. when I get tired I take everything apart, don't even need glue because magnets sticks both sides, and the tin is like new :) if I could I would rearrange my furniture too every few months, I'm a never ending work in progress ahahah
What a treat! I love depotting videos! Depotting doesn’t really work for me as I tend to lose interest in the palettes when they are out of their packaging ( I know it’s vain) but so glad I could watch your process
I completely feel you! I do too! Which is why I never liked doing this in the past, but I’m trying to get rid of clutter I don’t use. If I didn’t save these shades I would have decluttered them, so I see this as just a bonus palette. It’s not something I can ever use on camera because I can’t tell people what palette I’m wearing, so it’s more just something for my everyday makeup stash
Pre having a baby I probably would have asked why not change the method after Subculture, but now I get it. When you're on a time crunch, saving makeup just isn't that important. I wish I had gotten the Jackie Aina palette.
Im glad someone gets it haha! I would have changed things if I had time, but when I have an finite window to get it done and stopping half way through and leaving shadows out is not an option, you just gotta do what you gotta do. I know the risk of breaking shadows, so I wont do this with palettes I’m precious about (ie Sultry) but I honestly would have decluttered the rest anyway so I wasn’t too concerned with doing a perfect job
I would not have thought of getting alcohol in from the top. The one tough palette I depotted, I did by disassembling the packaging from the bottom until I had a grid of cardboard with pans in the openings.
Thought this needed to be said twice ... The broken ones are so easy to repair. Just spray the alcohol on the top to make them damp, then use kitchen paper to press it back into shape. Keep doing it till it's to your liking, It doesn't look as nice in the end but it fixes them well. I hope you didn't throw them straight into the bin and I'm in time for you to save those gorgeous purples! I know you've learned this already but yeh - you have to be way more careful with mattes.
The easiest way to depot these is to place them over the lid of the stove and put parchment paper underneath the palette., on very low heat. It heats up the glue quicker than a hair dryer. That is if you want to keep the packaging intact, if not you could have just ripped it apart to get the tray out. I do like the final palette, I like that you can break it down into quads, but I definitely think you could have kept some of the more colored shades as pops of colour.
I would have liked to keep maybe one or two purples, but I haven't used them in years because I'm realistically not much of a pop of colour person. So I could have been a lot more careful but I wasn't too invested. I did just pin a comment explaining things in a bit more detail :)
I appreciate the regrette part because I'm a purple lover and I was suffering in seeing you not keeping any of those shades. You've learned the lessons for next time but in terms of time it was probably faster to destroy the all packaging to take them out easily, BUT at the end of the day" It's just make-up" and this was a very fummt video to watch!
There is some regret because the palette would have benefited from a couple of purples, but I know they were some of the most crumbly shades and realistically I haven’t used them in years… so there’s not too much regret 😆
Speaking of fragile matte eyeshadow NOMAD cosmetics have one , and last month I've Depotted my Tokyo Harajuku Palette with 100% success & intact mattes , also Juvia's place shadows, in the past I've Depotted them dry & I lost all of them except the shimmers , this time I've heated the palettes with my hair dryer & it worked flawlessly! I've Depotted over 8 palettes in my time & they are fine with heating method!
Hmm, I wonder if the hairdryer method you used when doing this with too faced would have worked better for these? Absolutely love these mass depotting videos of yours as part of eyemageddon series. I did this with my too faced ones after seeing your video and have 2 x palettes now packed full of shades I really love, rather than 5 I feel "meh" about
i haven't tried it on anastasia palettes (only got the jackie aina one and that is not getting demolished) but with cardboard palettes just cutting them up and getting rid of the layers upon layers of paper really helps
Also, in the future, If you crack a matte shade just use isopropyl alcohol and remix the powder till it’s malleable and press on the top with a paper towel and something hard (like a quarter for round pans) to repress the powder
Tomorrow (well, in some hours) I' m having my yearly medical check and that means needle and blood😰😖😣😭. Depotting all my ABH palettes will be my self reward, definitely. It will help me not to focus on THE area because priorities: breaking my fav eyeshadows is way more painful so, thanks for the idea. 🧛🏻♀️🖤
It does suck you weren't able to save the purples. But having less bulk around is great. I ended up taking apart my colour pop palettes (much easier to do) and it is so much nicer this way!
I depotted sultry, norvina & soft glam last year, I removed the plastic palette from the base & heated up the bottom over a candle, it was a lot of work, but nothing broke. What I learned from that experience overall was that it's wiser to invest in several really stunning singles rather than spending money on a palette that is going to have repetitive shades
It’s funny because I have some high quality singles in palettes and I never wear them! It’s also way more expensive making one palette vs buying a couple of pre-made palettes. So it’s hard thing to predict what you’ll use most until you try many options. I personally find I use duos or quads the most 🤷♀️
@@KitschSnitch I’m at the point in my make up using life where I like reaching for singles to build my own pallets and decide on my own color stories. I have so many gorgeous singles that I’d rather use those on a regular basis than spend money on a pre-arranged palette. I feel like I have so much more freedom & I’m barely tempted to buy new makeup because I love what I already own.
The other thing I have started doing is making franken shades ie mixing shades together. Even shimmer and mattes. I love my franken shadows more than pre mixed ones 😛 agree I won’t be deporting my Jackie Aina because it’s perfect how it is
If I had used my Jackie palette more I totally would have kept it, but it’s been sitting there for nearly 2 years untouched so it was on the chopping block 😆
I had to use Goof Off to get the glue residue off the back of the pans of the palettes I depotted. Sorry you didn't get any of the purples out of the endeavor :( But it's great that now you will get more use & enjoyment out of a formula you really like :)
I should have done this with my Juvia's Place instead of decluttering. There were some kick ass shimmers sacrificed because I didn't want to keep whole palettes for one or two shades.
I like this! I have a question: what is your take on "Orisis". Is it a purplish black? I've tried to find dupes. Thanks! I enjoyed the video and have subscribed today. Sorry about the tinge of regret, I love purple.
This was a great video. If you are depotting a palette, it comes with the risk. Don't worry about the regret. Like you said, shit happens. Enjoy the shades you did keep and you will find the purples elsewhere. Kisses
The Alyssa Edwards, Subculture, and Prism palette had pressed pigments rather than shadows, right? I wonder if that contributed to how fragile they were. Great video! So satisfying!!!
That’s just a way to classify them in America so that they can use a vegan red pigment that isn’t FDA approved for the eye area. Otherwise they are all very similar shadows. In general bright mattes tend to be drier in consistency, but just as many browns cracked too 🤷♀️
I have heated eyeshadows in the past and it might work better, but from my experience dry crumbly eyeshadows (especially old dry crumbly shadows) are going to break no matter what. I could have been a lot more careful, but I didn’t care too much about them tbh 😆
They seemed way too crumbly. Repressing dries things out even more so they likely will break in the future. I didn’t want to deal with the headache of cleaning shattered purple shades out of my palette 😆
Hey all! Thank you for all the love on these past couple of videos. I am glad you're enjoying this series! I just wanted to pin a comment to address a few of the points people have brought up in the comments.
This is just one technique that people recommended when I looked into it. I chose it because it looked like it worked, and also it was a pretty quick technique to do. It takes a long time to depot 126 eyeshadows and I am honestly on a deadline since I only get a few uninterrupted hours a week to film while my kid is out with his grandparents, so I often have to compromise for time. This series is about salvaging some eyeshadows that I otherwise would have decluttered, so whatever outcome I have is a win in my books. If I love a palette (like Sultry), I won't risk depotting because there is always risk of breaking eyeshadows.
If you wanted to depot your ABH eyeshadows and you wanted to minimise risk, you can do a few other things that may be a lot more effective at reducing breaking, but also a lot more time consuming. The first is to break apart the palettes to get better access to the pans. Secondly, you can also use a heat source to warm the glue instead of trying to loosen it with alcohol. Some techniques are hair dryer (which I have demonstrated in past videos), hair straightener, candle, induction stove, oven etc etc. All techniques have their pros and cons, but I recommend doing some research and seeing which suits you and the items you have access to (there is no point buying equipment just to depot one or two eyeshadow palettes). Lastly, take a lot more time and care! Again, this wasn't a luxury I had (or cared enough to do) so I did what I could, but the longer you take to pry out the pans (which may include reapplying the alcohol or reheating the pan) the less cracks when you remove the shades. Also depotting one eyeshadow palette at a time would help you maintain that level of care, doing 9 in one sitting gets very tedious and you are more likely to rush the process.
Lastly if you do break a pan that you really love, you can definitely repress the shadow. This could involve just adding a lot of pressure and pressing it dry, or adding a small amount of isopropyl alcohol and pressing it while it is damp. Either way, repressing an eyeshadow does often weaken or dry out the formula slightly (from the alcohol) and I didn't want to bother with it since in my experience these types of dry crumbly matte shadows will eventually break again and cause a lot of mess that future Kat doesn't want to deal with.
Hope that helps, and explains a few reasons why I wasn't too fussed about cracking shadows and what you can do differently if you are a lot more invested than I was in the shadows you are depotting 😆
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That was great. You ended up creating my dream basic B* palette. The best method for depotting ABH palettes I found was to tear apart the entire palette until I have only a plastic tray with pans. It is very easy to just blast the back of the plastic tray with a dryer. The glue is very weak. No accidental jamming of Shadows with anything sharp or cracking. Shadows just come out so easily with no damage. Anything other than eyeshadows is a massacre though🙈
I agree with just ripping the cardboard apart it was so easy to get the shadows out like that.
100% agree. Gotta Exact-O knife that cardboard off
I was going to say this. Lauren Mae depots every palette. She will toss then in a same magnetic palette. I love that Natasha Denona and Colourpop have magnetic palettes and I depot all of my ND and CP but for the ND Love palette which I will not depot. I love all the shades and I ordered the Circo Loco by Natasha D so I can leave alone too. LOL
@@moriganna67ify I really really love how Natasha Denona and Colourpop sell singles of eyeshadow shades that are also in their palettes. I appreciate it so much when I don't have to buy a whole new palette when I run out of my favorite shades. The fact that those very brands also make it easy to pop out the pans in their palettes so you can put them in a Z Palette is a bonus for me
@@hippiebippie8870 for me as well. I went from 15, 9 pan eye palettes to 3. It saves so much room and I hate the plastic things. They are often warped and cheapens it. The quality is amazing and affordable. I just can't do it with my Natasha Denona Circo Loco because it is so beautiful. I did switch out 2 shades. LOL I thought it was a Midi size then got it a n d it was a larger, and fell in love. Hahaha. I need more magnetic palettes. I use the smaller ones to put colours I choose. It definitely gets more use now.
Just another option. I have depotted my ABH. No breakage or crumbling. Here is my technique. It’s pretty quick also.
1) flat iron at 350-375 fahrenheit. Set it so that it’s flat and open. Not on its side.
2) parchment (not wax) paper on the upward facing plate.
3) Remove the cover/back from the abh palettes using a sharp xacto type knife. You will be left with a plastic tray of pans
4) Set the tray on the parchment for 3 min. Check to see if they release using the xacto knife. If not, two more min and check again. Start on a shade you don’t care about.
5) Remove 4-6 shades and then reheat for 2 min and do the next 6-8.
6) Set the shades on parchment until cooled.
7) Use a pink pearl eraser to scrub the glue off carefully.
Voila! This took me 15 min per palette or less.
I like how you included the bit of regret at the end. It happens 😅
You’ve inspired me to take my Nabla palettes apart and I’m happy with the outcome. Minimal casualties btw.
Watching your journey re-discovering treasures in your collection is so much fun. Will be sad when your apoloclypse type series are finished!
Ooh the thumbnail is so satisfying! You did such a good job!!
Thank you!! 😊
oh my once the pans are arranged in similar colors, its looks so beautiful, personally i find ABH's color story not very attractive for me. but for the newly depotted and rearranged pans is really impressive
In my experience, with ABH you really have to strip down the packaging to get at the eyeshadows without demolishing some of them.
If I depot any ABH palettes in the future, I will do that, but this method apparently worked so I was happy to try it. The broken shadows really didn’t bother me to be honest. I would have liked to save one or two purples but I’m not losing sleep over it. If I didn’t save these 59 shades, I would have thrown out these palettes so I wasn’t too invested in saving them all 😊
@@KitschSnitch The broken ones are so easy to repair. Just spray the alcohol on the top to make them damp, then use kitchen paper to press it back into shape. Keep doing it till it's to your liking, It doesn't look as nice but it fixes them well.
I hope you didn't throw them straight into the bin and I'm in time for you to save those gorgeous purples!
FOR ANYONE TRYING THIS: I did this with all my ABH palettes too! I put all my favorites into the modern Renaissance palette and now I call it my Modified Renaissance lol. But DO NOT try to lift these pans from the corners, thats why they buckled and cracked. Lift with a pointed tool from a flat side and the pans will hold their integrity MUCH much better. I only had 2 pans crack that way.
I have some experience with depotting and one tip I have. If you are not keeping the packaging is to open the palette and pull the layers of cardboard off. It will make it so you don't have to dig down to get to the pans. It will look like pans glued to a flat surface and then there are less casualties. There are some videos on TH-cam about this method. And then you can apply the alcohol without worry of staining any matte shadows too.
ABH palettes are plastic and can't be torn apart that way, unfortunately.
It’s a balance of getting results in the time that I have to film. I saw this method that apparently worked well so I thought I would try it. I didn’t think the extra hour of pulling apart palettes to save a few extra pans was really worth it for me personally… especially since most are being thrown out
@@enni_p ohhh I didn't realize that. Thought the whole component would be cardboard because the outside looks it. Wonder why they go with plastic?
@@KitschSnitch if the palettes were made of cardboard it is actually a quicker way to depot. They strip away easily and the pans come up quickly. But someone else said the ABH palettes are made of plastic 🤔 so it wouldn't work the same way.
@@charmedbymeghan I thought they were cardboard because of the cardboard lid, but it is glued on a plastic case.
Having coffe, doing my nails, alone at home, your video came at perfect timing 🥳 greetings from Croatia
Također! :)
I had a similar experience when deporting my ABH shadows. I found that not only were the matte shadows themselves fragile, but also the pans themselves were very fragile, easily bent . . . So there were quite a few casualties.
For anyone interested..Another method of depotting these types of palettes is using a (hair)flat iron. I just strip the cardboard palette away as much as possible. I then lay them (one section or pan area at a time) on top of the (very hot) flat iron plate. I put a small piece of waxed paper between the iron & the shadows so no glue can get on my iron. Let it sit about a minute then the glue is soft enough to just lift the pan out with the metal spatula. You can later clean any glue that might remain with the alcohol. I’ve ruined a lot of shadows and I don’t have any tears left to cry so this method is the most failsafe.
If you don’t have a flat iron I’ve seen some use a candle flame but try at your own risk.
I've loved watching you depot your shadows throughout this series. It's inspiring me to do similar things. Thanks for sharing this journey with us.
Keep us posted on what this palette looks like down the road when you edit down more! Thanks for sharing! It was fun!
I love the result! It is so nice to see them all together! A neutral dream ❤️
So satisfying how they fit in that Clionadh palette and it looks beautiful! I have a few ABH palettes and I might do this one day if I can get over my qualms about destroying the palettes.
This is a REALLY good illustration why collecting all the palettes from a brand is a waste. @11:51 is the shot that has all of the shades grouped and shows you just how redundant these palettes can be. Brands get us with packaging changes and collaborations, but it's the same thing over and over for the most part.
I want to see someone do this with the big Norvina palettes.
I love the tin packaging on the larger palettes I can't imagine destroying it all. Unless you could rearrange them in the tin perhaps.
I agree and disagree. There is major redundancy but many are shades you need to complete looks. So overall there is crazy redundancy but if I needed to open 5 palettes to get all the shades I want to complete a look, I would hate every one.
@@KitschSnitch I suppose that's true. We'd be looking more at singles. And really, that's just for makeup enthusiasts. Everyday people have one or two palettes. I remember my sister-in-law thinking the Tartelette in bloom palette was too many eyeshadows 🤣
I LIVE for this !! (also makes me feel better about depotting my first ABH palette, Modern Renaissance, for the 4 shades I actually use). Subculture is still intact (for fear of it going sideways). Only regret is not getting the Jackie Aina palette but no regrets otherwise ! Thank you for your video !
This style of video reminds me of the make-up break-up. Thanks for bringing it back in a new form. 😍
I find these depotting and combining videos very satisfying. Thanks 🙂
I have been looking forward to this one !!! I watched the eyemageddon but think I forgot to say hello :) ... but I knew this was coming :)
I love watching content like this. It gives me motivation to depot more of my palettes. I am looking for the best empty magnetic palettes to use to do it. Hoping either Adept or Give Me Glow will have a good sale and I can pick up like 4 empty magnetic palettes from them and get going on depotting all of my Bh Cosmetics & Glamlite first... I may also consolidate my Colourpop palettes too.
My heart hurts for those bright mattes and purples :/// I hope you can find similar shades in your other palettes :))))
You've inspired me to depot the Smashbox ultraviolet palette, which has literally 3 usable shimmer shades I like. It annoys me every time I open it and see the shitty, patchy mattes which look so pretty in the pan.
What a stunning palette - "ABH Greatest Hits". Eye candy for the soul!
Great video! I depotted nearly all of my eyeshadows, ABH included. For those palette packages that I didn't care to keep I just broke the package apart, all the way down to the single layer of cardboard that the pans were glued to. That's when I used a combo of alcohol and/or heat to loosen the glue in order to get the pans off. It caused less damage to pry the cardboard off the pans vs prying the pans off the cardboard or palette.
So excited i loovee these videos🤩
wow .. I am shocked at how crumbly they were !!! Bummer about the purples but you got a great outcome overall :) love youse xx
the thumbnail literally made me feel like a kid in a candy store
im so excited to watch this!!!
Yesss! So excited for this!
Easiest way to depot imo is to put the palette/item into the oven on the lowest temp for like 15-20 mins. Softens the glue and makes it pliable all at once.
That lip color is stunning on you! 💜
Love these destroying videos!! Kinds reminds me of the makeup breakup 😂
I don’t know why, but it was so satisfying to watch this video - and I like your voice, so guess what, I just subscribed to your channel ✌️
Welcome! xo
This was a great video.
I butchered my ABH palettes in 2020. I used a knife and got cut the cardboard apart. Less casualties.
I kept my JA and Sultry intact.
Omg I’ve been moving towards singles and the only palette I have that isn’t magnetic is sultry! Perfect timing 🤩🤩
Love love these. Dying to see how you do it . When I depotted my soft glam it had to be completely destroyed( heated on straightening iron) and yes the pans Are magnetic so that’s good. Going to buy nice personalized magnetic palette from Etsy to move them all in there so they look nice. I completely failed at the floss method so had dismantle the packaging 😟. Ooooh didn’t know about isopropyl alcohol. Will try that with other palettes. Will need that pottery needle! Yep Ordinary needles and safety pins are too weak.
YES! Love this content!
That palette is so beautiful and satisfying, damn.
Hi! I am not an English speaker, so I apologize in advance for mistakes.🌺
I have 2 shadow palettes (Jackie Aina and Carly Bybel) and in each there were shades that did not suit my type of appearance at all. I was afraid to extract shadows just by tweezers. Heating with a hairdryer also did not improve the situation (one matte shade still broke). So, I peeled off the bottom of the palette and drilled holes with a nail drill and then inserted a thin tweezer into these holes, holding the shadows on the other side and simply squeezed out the shadows from below. This is a more time-consuming process, but all the matte shadows remained intact. Thanks for the video!🤗
Love that you do this.
Well done. I'd love to see a little update on your next eyemagedeon video to see which ones you decided could go from this final stage.
I think it’s going to be a long term declutter that I do gradually. There’s no way I can test 59 shades to refine this palette before I move onto the next month of testing palettes 😊
this is so much fun to watch :)
Cracked shadow saving hack, soak the eye shadow with alcohol and re-press it in gently with a flat end of a spatial or spoon. Let it completely dry and done!
Don't regret for the purple ones: let's remember you surely have beautiful purples in other palette the Eyemageddon serie is far from end, who knows!
No big magnetic palette for me: only small ones, sometime even duos or quads (in these cases I ripped apart the cardboard packaging around the pans) or used the original palettes and re-arranged it as you've done with the Too Faced ones.
exciting project, I'm curious to see the next chapters!
I don’t have similar purples but I also rarely use purples so it’s not that big of a loss. I would also prefer to find the shade in a liner formula if possible. I honestly prefer smaller palettes too, but I didn’t have any smaller palettes to put these in, so this will do for now 😊
@@KitschSnitch as a tin box collector sometimes I buy magnet sheets, cut and put them inside the tiny tin boxes and voilà, a small rearrangeable palette. when I get tired I take everything apart, don't even need glue because magnets sticks both sides, and the tin is like new :) if I could I would rearrange my furniture too every few months, I'm a never ending work in progress ahahah
What a treat! I love depotting videos! Depotting doesn’t really work for me as I tend to lose interest in the palettes when they are out of their packaging ( I know it’s vain) but so glad I could watch your process
I completely feel you! I do too! Which is why I never liked doing this in the past, but I’m trying to get rid of clutter I don’t use. If I didn’t save these shades I would have decluttered them, so I see this as just a bonus palette. It’s not something I can ever use on camera because I can’t tell people what palette I’m wearing, so it’s more just something for my everyday makeup stash
I was surprised at just how many shimmery grey-lilacs there were when you laid them all out together!
Love the palette you created!
I just find ripping apart the layers of card a d then putting alcohol at the base gets them out the easiest without breaking any shadows
You did an amazing job on such a tedious task!
I'm in awe of your depotting skills. The amount of cracked shades I ended up with after depotting Modern Renaissance 🤦
I love your custom palette!
this was beyond satisfying and now i kinda wanna rip apart all of my abh palettes 😂😂
It is fun! Miss you!
I really liked how you arranged the depotted shadows in the end! For some reason it reminds me of the NARS Bijoux palette?
Pre having a baby I probably would have asked why not change the method after Subculture, but now I get it. When you're on a time crunch, saving makeup just isn't that important. I wish I had gotten the Jackie Aina palette.
Im glad someone gets it haha! I would have changed things if I had time, but when I have an finite window to get it done and stopping half way through and leaving shadows out is not an option, you just gotta do what you gotta do. I know the risk of breaking shadows, so I wont do this with palettes I’m precious about (ie Sultry) but I honestly would have decluttered the rest anyway so I wasn’t too concerned with doing a perfect job
I started turning my oven on warm pop in for a few minutes and they come out pretty good
I would not have thought of getting alcohol in from the top. The one tough palette I depotted, I did by disassembling the packaging from the bottom until I had a grid of cardboard with pans in the openings.
Thought this needed to be said twice ...
The broken ones are so easy to repair. Just spray the alcohol on the top to make them damp, then use kitchen paper to press it back into shape. Keep doing it till it's to your liking, It doesn't look as nice in the end but it fixes them well.
I hope you didn't throw them straight into the bin and I'm in time for you to save those gorgeous purples!
I know you've learned this already but yeh - you have to be way more careful with mattes.
These videos are really great.
The easiest way to depot these is to place them over the lid of the stove and put parchment paper underneath the palette., on very low heat. It heats up the glue quicker than a hair dryer. That is if you want to keep the packaging intact, if not you could have just ripped it apart to get the tray out.
I do like the final palette, I like that you can break it down into quads, but I definitely think you could have kept some of the more colored shades as pops of colour.
I would have liked to keep maybe one or two purples, but I haven't used them in years because I'm realistically not much of a pop of colour person. So I could have been a lot more careful but I wasn't too invested. I did just pin a comment explaining things in a bit more detail :)
I appreciate the regrette part because I'm a purple lover and I was suffering in seeing you not keeping any of those shades. You've learned the lessons for next time but in terms of time it was probably faster to destroy the all packaging to take them out easily, BUT at the end of the day" It's just make-up" and this was a very fummt video to watch!
There is some regret because the palette would have benefited from a couple of purples, but I know they were some of the most crumbly shades and realistically I haven’t used them in years… so there’s not too much regret 😆
@@KitschSnitch And I'm sure you have many other purple in your collection🤣🤣🤣
I'm gutted over the purples! Think I will get that Jackie palette and keep it intact.
Speaking of fragile matte eyeshadow NOMAD cosmetics have one , and last month I've Depotted my Tokyo Harajuku Palette with 100% success & intact mattes , also Juvia's place shadows, in the past I've Depotted them dry & I lost all of them except the shimmers , this time I've heated the palettes with my hair dryer & it worked flawlessly!
I've Depotted over 8 palettes in my time & they are fine with heating method!
Hmm, I wonder if the hairdryer method you used when doing this with too faced would have worked better for these?
Absolutely love these mass depotting videos of yours as part of eyemageddon series.
I did this with my too faced ones after seeing your video and have 2 x palettes now packed full of shades I really love, rather than 5 I feel "meh" about
i haven't tried it on anastasia palettes (only got the jackie aina one and that is not getting demolished) but with cardboard palettes just cutting them up and getting rid of the layers upon layers of paper really helps
Also, in the future, If you crack a matte shade just use isopropyl alcohol and remix the powder till it’s malleable and press on the top with a paper towel and something hard (like a quarter for round pans) to repress the powder
I think your choices to keep were excellent, all great shades.
Thank you!
Can you please do the similar video with lime crime eyeshadow palette’s 😍
Tomorrow (well, in some hours) I' m having my yearly medical check and that means needle and blood😰😖😣😭. Depotting all my ABH palettes will be my self reward, definitely. It will help me not to focus on THE area because priorities: breaking my fav eyeshadows is way more painful so, thanks for the idea. 🧛🏻♀️🖤
Love these videos
It does suck you weren't able to save the purples. But having less bulk around is great. I ended up taking apart my colour pop palettes (much easier to do) and it is so much nicer this way!
I like the purple lipstick
I depotted sultry, norvina & soft glam last year, I removed the plastic palette from the base & heated up the bottom over a candle, it was a lot of work, but nothing broke. What I learned from that experience overall was that it's wiser to invest in several really stunning singles rather than spending money on a palette that is going to have repetitive shades
It’s funny because I have some high quality singles in palettes and I never wear them! It’s also way more expensive making one palette vs buying a couple of pre-made palettes. So it’s hard thing to predict what you’ll use most until you try many options. I personally find I use duos or quads the most 🤷♀️
@@KitschSnitch I’m at the point in my make up using life where I like reaching for singles to build my own pallets and decide on my own color stories. I have so many gorgeous singles that I’d rather use those on a regular basis than spend money on a pre-arranged palette. I feel like I have so much more freedom & I’m barely tempted to buy new makeup because I love what I already own.
The other thing I have started doing is making franken shades ie mixing shades together. Even shimmer and mattes. I love my franken shadows more than pre mixed ones 😛 agree I won’t be deporting my Jackie Aina because it’s perfect how it is
If I had used my Jackie palette more I totally would have kept it, but it’s been sitting there for nearly 2 years untouched so it was on the chopping block 😆
Love this video
Yep.
I had to use Goof Off to get the glue residue off the back of the pans of the palettes I depotted. Sorry you didn't get any of the purples out of the endeavor :( But it's great that now you will get more use & enjoyment out of a formula you really like :)
love the thumbnail
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I couldn’t do it. You are brave.
Love this video. I really wanna combine some of my palettes but I’m scared this is gonna happen to me.
You can be a lot more careful than I was. Read my pinned comment for a few more tips to avoid broken shadows :)
What are your thoughts on the Alyssa edwards palette? I wish I could buy it because I love Alyssa!!
I honestly didn't try it enough to have any solid thoughts on it, but I knew it wasn't a palette I would reach for too often.
@@KitschSnitch that’s so valid!! Thanks for the reply :)
I should have done this with my Juvia's Place instead of decluttering. There were some kick ass shimmers sacrificed because I didn't want to keep whole palettes for one or two shades.
I need to do this to mine! But I'm soooo scared I'll screw it all up.
I like this!
I have a question: what is your take on "Orisis". Is it a purplish black? I've tried to find dupes.
Thanks! I enjoyed the video and have subscribed today.
Sorry about the tinge of regret, I love purple.
To be honest, I never wore it! Dark shimmery shadows aren’t something I reach for but I would call it a blackened purple
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Is carli bybel and Anastasia pattel Is still for sale for the moment?
And from where i can buy it?
Pleaseeee answer me
It was limited edition and was released in 2019, so I don’t think it’s still around sorry to say
This was a great video. If you are depotting a palette, it comes with the risk. Don't worry about the regret. Like you said, shit happens. Enjoy the shades you did keep and you will find the purples elsewhere. Kisses
I just depotted all my ABH eyeshadow palettes - It was a great decision.
The Alyssa Edwards, Subculture, and Prism palette had pressed pigments rather than shadows, right? I wonder if that contributed to how fragile they were. Great video! So satisfying!!!
That’s just a way to classify them in America so that they can use a vegan red pigment that isn’t FDA approved for the eye area. Otherwise they are all very similar shadows. In general bright mattes tend to be drier in consistency, but just as many browns cracked too 🤷♀️
I wanted to do this because ABH Are my go to eyeshadow palettes for my clients but I don’t want to break them. Maybe with a Zpotter?
You really don't need a zpotter do depot with heat, you can simply use your hair straightener/flat iron and it will do the same thing!
great video
What is that GLORIOUS cool toned purple lipstick you are wearing? Is it a MAC one? 💜
It’s ABH matte lipstick in rage 💜
Could the mattes have been repressed? Like full on crushed and pressed back in?
Yes but they very likely will break in the future and isn’t worth the headache 😊
@@KitschSnitch boooo. Sorry you lost them! Hope you find something similar soon. Suva Beauty maybe?
What is that pottery tool called? I depot a lot and I think I need something like that!
If you search pottery needle tool you should find it online 😊
Thank you!
It gets easier if you heat it!!! Just in case you need the next time, I did it with mines some time ago
I have heated eyeshadows in the past and it might work better, but from my experience dry crumbly eyeshadows (especially old dry crumbly shadows) are going to break no matter what. I could have been a lot more careful, but I didn’t care too much about them tbh 😆
@@KitschSnitch It ended up looking amazing, truly!!
If you still have the purples, you can use rubbing alcohol to repress them....
They were too dry to keep. Alcohol would have just dried them out more and they’d likely crumble soon enough, so I didn’t think it was worth it 😊
In my head I kept screaming “Keep the Jackie Aina!!!!!!” 😂 but it’s all good still a nice palette
I would have if I had used it in the past 2 years. Since I’ve never reached for it, I thought it was worth saying bye to 😆
Any chance you could re press the purples? I know you know how to so I won't insult your intelligence saying how, but it seems a shame to lose them.
They seemed way too crumbly. Repressing dries things out even more so they likely will break in the future. I didn’t want to deal with the headache of cleaning shattered purple shades out of my palette 😆
@@KitschSnitch Damn that's a shame
I don’t think this is a good depotting method. The only thing that works, in my personal experience, is heat. I always use a flat iron.