How To Make A Makeup Pallet

How to Make Your Own Custom Makeup Palette

If I've ever applied your makeup, you volition have seen that I go on all of my pressed eyeshadows and blushes for your tone in a magnetic palette, that looks something like this:

These palettes allow me to collect products that work for each tone together for piece of cake use, rather than having to open multiple compacts or choice out shadows from a palette which contains colours from multiple tones.

In this mail service I want to give yous the information you need so you can create a custom makeup palette for yourself (though information technology needn't exist equally big equally mine, of grade – it's specifically for you).

I'm going to explicate why I adopt them, how to choose (and where to buy) your palette and the products to put in information technology, and how to put it all together to create your perfect palette.

Pre-made palette vs customisable palette

The palettes that yous're likely already familiar with are pre-made. The colours in them have been called past the brand, and are almost always in pans that have been glued into the palette, and then they tin't be removed or replaced. What y'all see is what you get.

Pre-made eyeshadow palette (photo by ignatov) — Pre-made eyeshadow palette (photograph by ignatov)

Custom palettes are those you create yourself by putting products in metal pans into a magnetic palette. The colours are up to you, as is the arrangement, and you can remove and replace them at will.

Custom makeup palette containing eyeshadows and blushes in Soft Autumn colours — Custom makeup palette containing eyeshadows and blushes in Soft Fall colours

Any pressed powder in a pan can be put into your palette. And so you lot might cull to create an eyeshadow palette, or a blush palette, or a combination, and you can also become pans of bronzers, highlighters, powder foundations, setting powders and more. (Y'all can also purchase cream products in pans, but mixing powder and cream products in the aforementioned palette is a recipe for disaster).

If you have all the powders you use together in one palette, information technology's not simply a much more than efficient apply of space, it'll likewise be quicker and easier to practise your makeup.

The main reward of pre-fabricated palettes is that they're cheaper, often a lot cheaper. Notwithstanding that's simply relevant if you're actually going to use all the products in the palette.

In my experience with eyeshadow palettes, there'll exist one or ii colours that I apply a lot, and the rest I use much less or hardly at all. One time those i or two get used up, the rest of the palette becomes useless to me, considering yous can't supercede them. Information technology's wasteful, and not good value for money.

The other advantage oftentimes cited for pre-made palettes is that the choices are made for you. I notice this a major disadvantage, since they're rarely made to harmonise with a specific tone, but I recognise that choosing colours tin exist overwhelming if you don't know what y'all're doing.

But if you've had a personal colour analysis and know your tone, you practice know what yous're doing.

You know the colours that will work for you lot better than any makeup make.

Where to buy makeup for your custom palette

Products sold in pans (rather than in compacts or in pre-made palettes) are available from many brands. I've listed some below, but this is by no means an exhaustive list.

The pans themselves can exist round, square or rectangular, and come up in a range of sizes. The most common are 26mm and 37mm round pans.

26mm

This is the standard eyeshadow pan size. These eyeshadows all come in 26mm pans:

Anastasia Beverly Hills

Australis

Coastal Scents

Colour Popular

Coloured Raine

MAC (won't stick to magnetic palettes)

Makeup Geek

Nyx

Rouge Bunny Rouge (matte / shimmer)

Sydney Grace

theBalm

37mm

This pan size is almost oftentimes used for blushes, but also sometimes for eyeshadows and face powders. Pans from dissimilar brands can vary a bit from 36–37mm, only all of these products will fit in a 37mm well:

Australis blushes, bronzers, contours and highlighters

Ben Nye matte and shimmer eyeshadows, blushes, and setting powders

Chantecaille eyeshadows

Coastal Scents blushes and bronzers

Graftobian eyeshadows and powder foundations

La Femme blushes and eyeshadows

Sugarpill eyeshadows

Yaby highlighters and bronzers, powder foundations and setting powder

Other sizes

Colour Pop blushes, bronzers and highlighters (44mm circular)

Inglot (rectangular, size varies past product)

MAC blushes (44mm round; won't stick to magnetic palettes)

Makeup Forever eyeshadows and blushes, highlighters and contours (rectangular, size varies by product)

Makeup Geek blushes (44mm round)

Nabla eyeshadows (30mm round)

Yaby eyeshadows (15mm round) and blushes (30mm round)

Most of these products are in tin pans, which will stick to a magnetic palette perfectly.

Even so, MAC pans are aluminium (much cheaper than tin), which are not attracted to magnets. They become around this by sticking a magnet on the dorsum of each pan, and putting a ferrous metallic in the palette instead.

The upshot of this is that MAC pans stick to MAC palettes, everyone else's stick to magnetic palettes. Yous can still use MAC pans in a magnetic palette, you just demand to accept the magnet off the bottom of the pan and replace information technology with a metallic sticker, which you lot can purchase from eBay or Amazon.

Conversely, to put anything other than MAC pans into a MAC palette, you will have to stick magnets on the bottom of the pans, which you can also buy from eBay or Amazon.

Magnetic palettes themselves are available from many brands, in many sizes, and in freestyle and welled versions.

Freestyle magnetic palettes

A freestyle palette has no wells, and is only an open up space to put your pans (similar my Bright Leap palette at the top of this post).

As a result, you lot can fit pans of any size or shape into a freestyle palette, and more of them than into a welled palette of similar dimensions.

Notwithstanding, they tend to get a little messier than a welled palette, and if you're putting pans right next to each other, you can get some cross-contamination of colours.

Here are some of the many bachelor:

I've noted the number of standard eyeshadows (26mm round pans) that will fit in each palette for like shooting fish in a barrel comparison, but of class you lot can put pans in them of any size and shape.

Freestyle palettes are besides bachelor in a range of sizes and styles from eBay and Amazon.

Welled magnetic palettes

Welled palettes have slots (wells) in them where you lot place your makeup pans (like the Soft Autumn palette pictured before).

They have the advantage of keeping your makeup neatly organised, and also keeping the pans separated so cross-contamination of colours is less likely.

However, they do limit y'all on the size and shape of pans you tin can keep in them.

The palettes listed beneath have wells for 26mm or 37mm round pans, and some have a combination of both.

In my own kit, nigh every pressed powder I have is in a 26mm or 37mm pan, and those are the products I'll exist recommending in my upcoming makeup kit posts for each tone, so they'll fit perfectly in these palettes.

26mm well palettes

37mm well palettes

26 & 37mm well palettes

For simplicity, I refer below to these two sizes of pans every bit "small" and "large", though of form smaller and larger pans exist.

Putting your palette together

You can, of course, buy any colours you like and put them together even so your heart desires!

But for those of you lot who prefer a niggling guidance, hither are a few suggestions:

a palette with a mirror tin can exist helpful if you lot do makeup on the go
a palette with a clear lid is useful if you have multiple palettes, and then yous tin can see what's in each
choose a range of eyeshadow depths from light to dark (inside the value range of your tone) if y'all want to create dimension or drama
similarly, cull some matte eyeshadows, since information technology'southward very difficult to create dimension with shimmer shadows alone
don't put light colours right next to night ones in your palette, if possible, as they tin get contaminated and muddy
an eyeshadow in a taupe (grayness-brown) from your tone is my favourite multitasker, great for shading the socket of the heart, filling in the brows, and even contouring the face
an eyeshadow in a nighttime colour from your tone can double as a liner

I hope this data helps you in creating a makeup palette that is truly customised and perfect just for yous.

In the coming weeks I'll be posting articles almost my makeup kit for each tone, along with suggested palettes and eyeshadow looks, to make it even easier.

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