Can’t afford a make-up splurge right now but your favorite lip-stick is almost gone? This is a great tip from Domino on how to save your favorite lipsticks when they are down to the bottom of the tube.

What You Will Need:

• empty palette
• small pitcher or beaker (something with a lip)
• lip brush
• microwave
• all those lipsticks you don’t know what to do with

The Process:

1. Smash a lipstick into the pitcher, then scoop out the bottom (it makes up about a third of the bullet.)
2. Microwave on high for one minute and check if lipstick is melted. Continue nuking for 30 seconds at a time until it is completely liquid.
3. Quickly pour the molten lipstick into the palette scraping the bottom with a lip brush to get everything out. It’ll harden in seconds, so haul ass.
4. Repeat with each lipstick until you have a full palette. The prettiest palette: start with your nudes and pale pinks and end with your deepest reds and purples.
5. Tempted to just nuke the whole palette at once? Lipsticks melt at different rates and also expand when they’re hot so they can spill into neighboring pans. Melt each bullet individually and you’ll avoid a Jackson Pollock disaster.
6. Mix new shades in manner of backstage pro.

 

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