I recently started playing around with making my own make up. I am having a blast, and just yesterday received another package from TKB Trading with more supplies! So far I have made eye shadows and lip glosses. Lip glosses? Yay! Love them...I love make up in general, eye shadows are my biggest weakness, but I loves me some lip gloss!
So I told you already that I have this problem...I think I can do anything! So I decided I could make my own lip gloss. Let me tell you it was fun, but I immediately noticed I was not prepared for this adventure. I mean what do you mix it in, and with? How do you get it out of the bowl once you mix it? And how much of a mess can you make when you try to put it in those little bitty round jars? Hee hee...
Read on for my adventures in lip gloss!
I mentioned TKB Trading. What an awesome company. For those who are interested in starting to make their own, they have sets to make lipsticks, glosses and such. These are a great way to find out if you are truly interested, or just temporarily insane. Me? I never do anything half-assed, and I am permanently insane, so this caused me to jump in feet (lips?) first! I ordered pigments, micas, a base for mixing them with, and a few other things that sounded like a mad scientist would use! I ordered stuff for eye shadows too, but that is another post! I also got the little jars with lids, and I thought I was ready to go!
I began by locating a few Korean soup bowls that I bought at Wal-Mart in South Korea. Nice small bowls, and I had some wooden skewers I thought would be good to mix with. I was wrong. I put some of the base goo in the bowl and then sprinkled the pigments and micas on top, in a quantity I thought would make a nice saturation and a pretty color. I quickly discovered the goo is kinda stiff, and pigments don't really dig that. I ended up using a tiny baby spoon to mix them, and still spilled a lot of the powdered stuff. Not to worry, I eventually got them mixed up and I truly love the final products! I did go straight to the TKB website when I was finished and ordered mixing bowls, a tiny whisk, and a tiny measuring spoon. Next time I will be able to actually make recipes, so I can reproduce my results!
Well, here are the picks! I am gonna get my camera back soon and I will have to retake all these pics for you.
So I told you already that I have this problem...I think I can do anything! So I decided I could make my own lip gloss. Let me tell you it was fun, but I immediately noticed I was not prepared for this adventure. I mean what do you mix it in, and with? How do you get it out of the bowl once you mix it? And how much of a mess can you make when you try to put it in those little bitty round jars? Hee hee...
Read on for my adventures in lip gloss!
I mentioned TKB Trading. What an awesome company. For those who are interested in starting to make their own, they have sets to make lipsticks, glosses and such. These are a great way to find out if you are truly interested, or just temporarily insane. Me? I never do anything half-assed, and I am permanently insane, so this caused me to jump in feet (lips?) first! I ordered pigments, micas, a base for mixing them with, and a few other things that sounded like a mad scientist would use! I ordered stuff for eye shadows too, but that is another post! I also got the little jars with lids, and I thought I was ready to go!
I began by locating a few Korean soup bowls that I bought at Wal-Mart in South Korea. Nice small bowls, and I had some wooden skewers I thought would be good to mix with. I was wrong. I put some of the base goo in the bowl and then sprinkled the pigments and micas on top, in a quantity I thought would make a nice saturation and a pretty color. I quickly discovered the goo is kinda stiff, and pigments don't really dig that. I ended up using a tiny baby spoon to mix them, and still spilled a lot of the powdered stuff. Not to worry, I eventually got them mixed up and I truly love the final products! I did go straight to the TKB website when I was finished and ordered mixing bowls, a tiny whisk, and a tiny measuring spoon. Next time I will be able to actually make recipes, so I can reproduce my results!
Well, here are the picks! I am gonna get my camera back soon and I will have to retake all these pics for you.
Hope you enjoyed them!
Love and Hugs!
Jillie
Looks lovely!I tried to do something similar but you're bang on about the mess!Never tried it again.
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