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I just made this, which you may not think looks very exciting or even attractive. It's supposed to contribute to attractiveness though.
It's made out of the leftover contents of these:
via a hot water bath and these messy objects:
These were all favourite lipsticks* used up as far as they were designed to be used. One had also been left in the sun, another had been closed without properly retracting the stick, sigh. So I scraped the remaining contents into that little stainless steel pot, melted and mixed over a water bath and poured/scraped into a dispensing pot. I've retrieved nearly a whole lipstick worth. I'll see if I am happy applying it with a finger, if not, i shall aquire another lip brush(thought I had one). If I do it again, I'll either find a smaller melting pot, or try to melt in situ in the receiving vessel. the lippie solidifies really fast once off the heat so there was more scraping than pouring in the transfer post melting. It would be even better if I could figure a good and neat way to form it up into lipstick shape again.
I don't wear much makeup except I rarely leave the house without lipstick on. I'll buy secondhand clothes, furniture and bric a brac, even make some things myself for little to nothing, but I do insist on quality lippie. So this little project is worth about $30, and a deal of amusement, and took only a few minutes of fiddling.
*of very similar colours, except of course the chap stick which wasn't coloured at all.
It's made out of the leftover contents of these:
via a hot water bath and these messy objects:
These were all favourite lipsticks* used up as far as they were designed to be used. One had also been left in the sun, another had been closed without properly retracting the stick, sigh. So I scraped the remaining contents into that little stainless steel pot, melted and mixed over a water bath and poured/scraped into a dispensing pot. I've retrieved nearly a whole lipstick worth. I'll see if I am happy applying it with a finger, if not, i shall aquire another lip brush(thought I had one). If I do it again, I'll either find a smaller melting pot, or try to melt in situ in the receiving vessel. the lippie solidifies really fast once off the heat so there was more scraping than pouring in the transfer post melting. It would be even better if I could figure a good and neat way to form it up into lipstick shape again.
I don't wear much makeup except I rarely leave the house without lipstick on. I'll buy secondhand clothes, furniture and bric a brac, even make some things myself for little to nothing, but I do insist on quality lippie. So this little project is worth about $30, and a deal of amusement, and took only a few minutes of fiddling.
*of very similar colours, except of course the chap stick which wasn't coloured at all.