How TO: MAC Eye shadow Palette Organization AND Swatches GALORE!

        As I have blogged about before, I was planning on having two MAC Pro Palettes; one filled with just colors, the other just neutrals. Since this is quite an expensive goal, I have been purchasing one or two eye shadows every now and then. I'm probably most proud about this part of my makeup collection, then any other part, because not only did it take a significant amount of time and money, it's custom to ME.

Color Eyeshadow SWATCHES with Too Faced Shadow Insurance Applied beforehand.

Color Eyeshadow Swatches. As you can see the colors are not as strong when they don't have a primer below!

        Today, before work I was tossing around the idea of doing some swatches of my MAC shadows and figured most makeup fans/geeks love looking at swatches as if it was pron...drooling over the vast variety of colors, shimmer and pigmentation. Not only are they aesthetically pleasing, swatches serve as a guide to which colors are worth the dough. To me, if a shadow has a good color payoff.. then it's of higher quality then those shadows who are very sheer and have little to no pigmentation at all.

  
 Organization:

        As for organization of my palettes, I broke them up into two separate palettes as you all know.  I took a sheet of lined paper and cut it to fit just inside of  my palette. I drew lines to create 15 boxes ( 3 throws of 5 columns). I wrote the name, type and whether the eyeshadow was part of the permanent collection ( P) or if it was in a collection and if it was, I wrote the name of the collection and the year. I bought a strip of magnets with a stick back so after I depoted the eye shadows out of the containers, I could just stick the sticky side to the eye shadow pan, and the magnetic side would stick to the metal palette. Makes the eye shadows pretty easy to get out, but be careful they're still fragile and fall out a bit easier than you'd think!

     As you can see, these sheets help keep my eye shadows organized and help me remember which year and collection they came from! I just have these taped to the top part of the inside of the palette. Let me know any thoughts, comments, or questions. :]