How to Make Lipstick with Leftover Eyeshadow

             Children tend to be creative and to do everything for fun. As children, they want to use their parents’ things. Sometimes they also want to look like an adult and if they are girls, they wish to grow up quickly to use things like their mother. I can say that because my sister and I used to take our mother’s things to play with and have fun, such as shoes, clothes, and makeup. But our mother did not like that behavior, mainly when we took her makeup. My sister and I used to take our mother’s lipstick and it made her angry. However it was funny. We were children and taking our mother’s makeup was a way to have fun. We believed that if we used her lipstick it would make ourselves older and gorgeous. Once, when she got tired of losing her lipstick to us, she decided to teach us a fun and useful way to know how to make our own lipstick.

            Many times you do not know what to do with leftover eyeshadow. But now, thanks to my mother, you can know how to make a lipstick from leftover eyeshadow. It is an easy and quick recipe.

To make your homemade lipstick you should follow these simple steps. First of all, you will need some ingredients. You can buy them in a supermarket or in a grocery. You will need three teaspoons of Vaseline or bee’s wax, one and half teaspoon of honey, three drops of oil and at last a little bit of eyeshadow.  It is relevant to know that the amount of eyeshadow depends on the intensity of color that you want. So if you want the color darker, you must add more eyeshadow

The next step is how to make the lipstick with those ingredients. First, you have to put the Vaseline with the honey and eyeshadow in a microwave, and melt then together. You must to do it in spans of thirty seconds until it melts completely. This recipe’s part is very important, so you should to do it carefully. Second, you must to mix the other ingredients until it smoothes. Finally, put the final mix into small containers and let it cool until the Vaseline reaches the desired consistency.  If you want, you can buy small containers to your lipstick with various shapes, such as star, heart, circle, animals, flowers and others.

A nice tip to this recipe is that you can add essence of chocolate or strawberry to give it a good smell.  You can also add glitter if you want lipstick with gloss. You can even make this same recipe with food dyes instead of eyeshadow.

As you can see, this is an easily way to make lipstick. It is also a way to reuse your eyeshadow. If you follow correctly those steps you will have a nice homemade lipstick. Anyone can make it, from adults to children.

 I thank my mommy for that. I had such a good childhood. Finally, my mother’s makeup took a rest after she taught that recipe to my sister and me. Try that one. I am sure that you can do it. It is cheap and you will love the final result.

 Camila Duarte