Japonesque Lip Palette: The Evening I Killed My Lipsticks

For a few days now, my Japonesque 35-well PRO Lipstick Palette has been sitting on my desk, waiting for me to let it fulfill its destiny.  I bought it from Digital Traincase so I can transfer some lipstick tubes that have met an untimely death - one application too strong, a sad case of melting by way of heatstroke - and therefore extend their use. 

J is out playing video games with his High School friends and so while waiting for my laundry cycle to finish, I decided to buckle down and get the job done.

Broken lippies' new home
Re: background tub of lipsticks - yes, I have a problem (better this than drugs)!

Tools: alcohol spray, scalpel like thing from my nail kit,
copious amounts of tissue (not in picture)

Some women painstakingly melt their lipsticks in a spoon over a candle to get a smoother finish and a cleaner palette.  To be honest, I'm feeling lazy now (and I have to hang clothes up to dry, ha!) and don't want to be bothered by worrying if I'll overheat the lipstick chunk, or alter the lipstick consistency/color (which defeats the whole purpose, right?).  My method of choice: some good old chopping action.

A part of me was all "Ack! Chopping up lipstick! Waaah!"
Another part: "YES MU-HAHAHAHA!"

I haven't finished the other side with 14 wells but am happy for successfully transferring 21 (!!!) tubes into the palette, and with very minimal mess! Huzzah!

One last chop job! It looks disturbingly like a finger.

This will be great for travel and will beat lugging around 21 individual lipstick bullets (said the girl with 6 tubes of lipstick in her bag at any given time)!  

Happy weekend!

Extra Nuggets, Please:

- Had a Feetish Foot Spa earlier this evening and sat beside a woman who was watching her sleeping baby (and the yaya) on her iPad.  Technology for the modern family!

- I finished downloading The Secret Life of Arrietty and am excited to watch it with J...maybe tomorrow.

- Heard about one of our couple friends getting engaged - yay!

- I am definitely getting sapphires tomorrow.