(the title of this errs on being an oxymoron doesn't it?)
Oh and I don't think I've mentioned it here but my source for pressing materials, TKB Trading, has gotten rid of their order minimum. It used to be $13.00 which was a bit of a turn off but now that there's no minimum, you're free to purchase the bare minimum of whatever you need to start pressing.
Anyway, for the pictures, I tried to organize them alphabetically for the pictures but you'll notice that I didn't do as great of a job as I thought I did. It was 12am, I'll blame it on that. If you're wondering, these are 26x26mm pans and 15mm round pans.
Here's the left half of the palette.
First row: Aromaleigh Cupid, Aromaleigh Chocolat, (the two Aromaleigh mattes pressed beautifully because they're sericite mica based, not colorant based) BFTE Cosmetics Ruby Slippers (sorry it looks crumbly, I measured a little wrong so it's a shallow layer)
Second row: Fyrinnae Newcastle, Fyrinnae Gilded Wings/Medieval Haunting duo (yes you can press two colors together!), and Fyrinnae Sacred
Third row: Silica spheres, Aromaleigh Dark Matter, Aromaleigh Fiddlesticks, Aromaleigh Tunnel Vision, Darling Girl Dark Ember
Here's the next half!
First row: Darling Girl Curious, Darling Girl Clusterfluff, Darling Girl Smoking Gun, Darling Girl Jeweled Taupe
Second row: Sugarpill Goldilux x 2 (I pressed them twice to test my formulas), Sugarpill Darling
Third row: Darling Girl Emerald City, Fyrinnae Arcane Magic: Velvet Vampire (this looks like crap in the picture, it's so much prettier in real life), MAC Coco, Silk Naturals Vogue
Have you been bitten by the pressing bug? If you have, what eyeshadows of yours have you pressed?
I daren't try press my pigments, the one time I tried to repress a broken blush it just crumbled again :(
ReplyDeleteI have to find some places here that actually have the proper ingredients to press my pigments.. at not so outrageous prices. But i shall let you know if i ever get to it ^^ your collection looks very nice!! very pro :D
ReplyDeleteI have a question for you. I am inspired by your posts and have been considering pressing some of my loose shadows, but what size pan does the typical Aromaleigh shadow need? Also, have you tried pressing blushes yet? I have some lovely blushes, but I always manage to make a mess when trying to use them as a loose powder.
ReplyDeleteI measured out my jar of Aromaleigh and it was about 3/4 tsp, I'd say the 26mm round or 26x26mm square pans would fit both! I've had 3/4 tsp fit with room to spare in the 26x26mm square pans so I'd say it'd fit just right in the 26mm round pans.
DeleteI've tried pressing one blush but I am a little worried about wetting them and having them bleed and change colors (that's what happened to the one blush I tried it with. I think the colorants are a little different with the dyes so it's more prone to that)
Ah, thanks for the information and the warning about the blushes! I think I will go ahead and start pressing. For one thing, it would be nice to be able to see all my shadows of one color together at once, and organization would be easier, I think.
DeleteThe two colours together look phenomenal!
ReplyDeleteIt really frees up tons of space in my stash!
DeleteHi Mai- I saw your post in the blogher feed.
ReplyDeleteI love all of the colors. You could pair any of them up on just about any skin color too. Why don't you do an application and share pics?