
I decided not to buy labels because I want to move the shadows around and I already know exactly what each eye shadow is on sight. I bought a roll of magnetic tape to cut off pieces to put under the pans. I already had a MAC palette with a lot of space in it (old version) and a quad. So last week was my spring break and I decided to make sure I set aside time to depot my shadows. I didn't let the plastic heat up for long enough. Back in 2013-2014, I made an attempt to depot Quarry and it went awry and broke. I actually was lucky and only had a couple that had a chunk fall out, Plumage and Velvet Moss, and it was just off the top & side of it.not anything big.I accumulated 11 eye shadow singles from MAC that I have been meaning to depot for years. I found the directions here on this site, quite a while back now. I think you probably just had the same problem of being excited to get them out of the pan too soon, like I did when I first was getting the hang of doing it. hurts if it's something you can't easily replace if it ends up being a casualty. I really feel your pain.we love our shadows, and it esp. I've never left it over a flame long enough that anything happened to the shadow itself, and if there was any shadow disturbed you can use a dropper or something (even a drip off the end of a toothpick) to put a drop of alcohol on it and fix it! It comes right out, always with some glue still there so I can press on the square of magnet I have ready and it sticks.


I've always used the candle method, holding it over with a fork (one I didn't need to ever use again!), then placing it on an old towel & bending the edges of the black plastic away from the pan, then prying a tiny screwdriver (like you use to fix glasses or tiny electronics screws) between the black plastic and the metal pan.

The pan's glue on the bottom wouldn't have been heated enough either. When I first did some, the ones I had a problem with were ones I was not patient enough with and tried to pry them out before I'd really heated the plastic enough to try to bend it away to be able to pry the pan.
