Organizing + Decluttering My Single Shadow Collection + Swatches!! | Lauren Mae Beauty

Hey guys!! I have been needing to reorganize and also do a little decluttering in my single shadow collection and I thought I would take you along! I swatched everything as I went in case you wanted to see the colors, although there might be a ton that are discontinued or no longer available. Also, I am so sorry about the in and out focus!! I will make sure to be more aware in my future videos like this!! Thanks so much for watching!!
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[@HannahLouisePoston]

oooh I'm inspired, I want to do this asap

[@katlovessquirrels]

Lauren you really have hit a stride! You have been coming out with amazing video after amazing video! You've easily surpassed every other KZbinr I watch at this point and I can truly say I look forward to your videos every day. Please don't stop, you really bring the creativity and fun that was missing here on KZbin.

[@audreytheginger]

Oh my gosh all of these Make Up Geek shadows are giving me such nostalgia. They still make up the majority of my single eyeshadow collection, but to hear them talked about on camera gives me throwback feelings! Coco Bear is still my favorite matte eyeshadow of all time.

[@kimberlysh88]

I decluttered with you and got rid of 5 singles. More importantly though, I fell back in LOVE with my singles collection. I have some EXTRAORDINARY gems in there 😍 Thanks for the inspo, Lauren!

[@Sandra-Renea]

I’m gonna hold on to this for when I make my next MUG order!

[@BreeFranchini]

This came at the perfect time! Just last night i pulled my singles out from the back of my drawer and reorganized/ decluttered. I went down memory lane to when makeup geek ran the KZbin game and singles were everything. Reorganizing them made me excited to reach for them again!

[@jennym007]

Hi Lauren, you may have already disposed of your unwanted shadows. But I thought I would say that Colourpop ‘Kill Switch’ 20:08 is a great shade for a one-shadow brown Smokey eye. I’m like you, where I don’t usually like glitter in matte shades, but this is my exception. It’s worth trying. It’s that good. LOVING this video. My all-time favourite type of video because I only buy single shadows now. And it’s wonderful to hear your opinions. Cheers 🥂 🍾 💖

[@ash-is-napping]

I remember when this video first came out. Was just rewatching all your single shadow videos after singles week. Orange soda still going strong 💪 🍊 🥤

[@jslilimauve]

Love single shadows. My fave are from Sydney Grace. I also like Anastasia's ones too.

[@katjones4840]

That’s the only single shadow decluttering I’ve ever seen! 😳 it was awesome 💄💋

[@adoptdontshop6283]

She films multiple videos a day, that is smart actually. Get alot more done quickly that way....

[@katjones4840]

adopt dontshop 🤣🤣🤣 wow I shouldn’t do voice to text. - it’s supposed to say it’s the only *single shadow decluttering I’ve ever seen. It was so good!! 😖 embarrassing! I never care what a creators is wearing - i come for the make up 💄💋

[@Tattedgoddess747]

People are going to think I’m crazy but I have depotted almost all of my pallets. I have arranged them all by color family and I love it!!!!!!!!! I am so inspired to use my makeup now after being in a rut for so long.

[@paulas2218]

We’re any of them Sigma? I’ve been wanting to depot mine real bad. If so, how did it go?

[@morgangrace3699]

Glass bull is one of my favourites also.

[@nikkimorris]

I try to pick a shade every couple of months to use that I haven't in a while or one i want to use up. It helps too. Loved your collection!

[@hcmint4heart]

I think that you should do a video of you pulling more shades for palettes you wanna dupe, I LOVE those videos!

[@ariaaa_g]

ahhh that’s the type of content i love the most 😌

[@undergroundrougesociety7383]

I love single shadows :D And declutters! So this is perfect while I procastinate haha

[@cindyromero584]

Underground Rouge Society a lot of the shades are soooo pretty !!!! Goes to show u that we can buy affordable shadows and build our own rather than buying these pallets that keep coming out and don’t need

[@tinah3009]

@@cindyromero584 it can be so great because you just get the ones you want but let's say an Anastasia Beverly Hills palette only has 4 shades I like and I can get them individually, that costs almost as much as the whole palette. Buying 14 colourpop single shadows is $63 and a whole high end palette is around $50. It's worth it to make a whole z palette of just shades you like but shadows plus the empty palette is $83 and that's cheap colourpop shadows. At $6 a pop it would be a $104 palette of only 14 shades. Outrageous.

[@AFFTFOMSICHTS]

Tina H but buying a bunch of palettes to get the shades you want is just as expensive if not way more. Ppl have 50+ palettes with a bunch of filler shades they don’t like or use

[@emysupernova]

@@tinah3009 Actually Colourpop does BYOP so you get to pick 24 shadows for 45$ and you get a free magnetic palette. Great deal

[@Mccarthykatie9]

I put all of my Morphe palettes in z palettes and honestly its changed my life

[@shadowsmoked88]

That is such a good idea

[@colombiasara4346]

Same here so much better!!! Just wish they were magnetic

[@tinacahoon9819]

Which of the Morphe palettes do you have? Did ya get rid of many of the shades?

[@Mccarthykatie9]

Tina Cahoon I did 2 of the Jaclyn hill vaults, the purple and the darker one, the Jaclyn Hill palette and the James Charles palette. There were only a few of the same shades like browns and black but it’s nice to have all of them in one palette so you know what you have. It’s also nice to kinda compare the similar shades and pick which ones you like or to keep as back ups.

[@AmyLSchulte]

You totally inspired me!! I sorted to color (I’ve always had a thing about keeping brands together but you helped me break it) and kept them all. Then I went back the next day and really went color by color and compared. I thought I wouldn’t get rid of any MUG but a lot of them were off, like yours. I emptied 2 z-palettes and 2 small ones. Thank you!!

[@chillytoes1]

this is how i found you lauren, years ago when you were doing you declutters and that you had too much makeup, i think you were the first one (i saw) who talked about having too much.

[@EiLpigreco]

I love this kind of videos :) I'd love to see you put together different palettes using your singles following a certain idea or color story you have in your mind 😍

[@corvetteshrell]

I was totally looking for a declutter video and you posted right on time! ❤

[@wdj3698]

Just what I needed to relax a declutter!!

[@Kimbyroseh]

I’ve been having fun bringing out and using my single shadows, too, lately!

[@AriMermaid]

Lovely video. It was nice seeing your hand get colourful with swatches and it was interesting seeing all the shades and hearing your thoughts.

[@danniellee9811]

thanks for reminding me how old my OG makeup geek shadows are... maaaan! couldnt you let me live in denial?! damn. lol

[@juliepatterson5800]

Would you consider doing a 4 looks 1 palette for these? Would love to see how you’re using them after the declutter!

[@BelleStreetBoyz]

LOVE THIS! Single shadow videos are my absolute favorite. 💙💚💜 This has me feeling so inspired. Going to go make some custom palettes now. 😁✌

[@ckurnath]

I’m in the same boat all my makeup geek shadows are like 6 years old 😬 Marlena said she will be launching a rebrand of MUG soon tho so maybe I can restock!

[@effieboo9275]

When I did my single shadows I put them all in a shoebox lid so they were less precarious -- granted I live with 2 dogs who are curious, my 2 yo nephew, my mom, 2 brothers and my sister in law soooo I needed to be able to quickly move it off the table if I needed to.

[@brianaalexandra7302]

Yaaaaas I love declutters! Especially single shadow ones because I’m curious to see how other people organize their singles😂❤️

[@JadeyChi]

I didnt see DUperstar by looxi. Next time you pick something up from them, see if you can snag it. Its so gorgeous, a purpley pink-blue duochrome bright

[@OTEllieMae]

Made a colourpop order while I watched! 😂 Thanks!

[@tessabean4085]

I honestly was just thinking about depoting some of my morphe pallets and going back to singles this morning.... it's a sign lol

[@justynawisniewska1213]

Could be an awesome idea. You could also have a few small magnetic palettes and put together your own custom palettes to use for a week or something. Or when you like some new palette coming out trying to dupe the color scheme with the singles. Just so many possibilities with single shadows. IMO that's way better than having those huuuge morphe palettes.

[@tessabean4085]

@@justynawisniewska1213 right? I think having smaller pallets that you can customize at will to work from are just easier... I have a few shades in some of my morphe pallets that I just adore and then the rest are just meh so at this point why let them take up space?

[@justynawisniewska1213]

@@tessabean4085 Yes you're so right, I wish I could do that to some of my palettes that I feel meh about but they are not magnetic and the pans bend really easily when I try depotting :/. I'd do that to almost everything otherwise. I love customizing, optimizing and organizing my stuff so much lmao.

[@Alicesbeautymadness]

I just did this yesterday! But I skipped going through my MUG collection because it's a collector's item by now..I have almost all their shadows 🙈

[@jaynnnewell4722]

You mentioned having hard pan-have you ever tried using tape to lift it off?

[@paolafrias]

I don’t know what it is but I could watch people arrange shadows all day

[@Yessica990]

I loved watching this 😍😍😍 it was so satisfying

[@tdsollog]

What a great project!

[@phouse1964]

Loved this video! I love going thru my singles and creating my own palettes.

[@keodi1]

I enjoyed watching this video!

[@ksenijas1783]

That luxy/i brand really stands out wow

[@jossalyn5632]

I've had to recently get rid of a lot of makeup geek shadows. They turned bad and the worst one was one called pillow talk. It was a metallic but when I swatched it the texture and color was so off it actually scared me. I had not ever seen a shadow that bad before. I washed it off my hand very quickly. It was like thick and chalky and the color was awful.

[@samplerstitcher]

I have tons of shadows older than those MG ones, and have never had a shadow go crumbly like that...

[@lisadippity]

I have so many old MAC shadows like years older than MG and my MAC ones are still ten times better than my makeup geek ones. I’ve had nearly all my MG singles go bad other than the foiled shadows. They are patchy, dry, crumbly and the colors were off.

[@cstillings]

I love Looxi shadows! I just placed an order and included a few of the new mattes so hopefully they're nice. Have you tried Sydney Grace?

[@CKotaGo7]

I recently decluttered my single shadows. Now I have a huge, double sided palette and two single layer palettes. I have always kept the shadows according to color. I like not having to go from palette to palette looking for the "right" purple, etc. The only palette I have that's a brand palette holds my Lethal shadows, because I can't put square pans in with round (I just CAN'T).

[@doubleestevens]

Loved this video! Wondering why you didn’t show the blue/green palette though

[@GoldStarWork]

Same my heart desires the lilac palette too. I don’t think I need it either.

[@elisecccccccc]

Hey Lauren! So I know that the rule of thumb is that if a powder product has changed texture is probably time for it to go. However, is this a preference thing or does it create a health risk for your eyes? Just curious! I know smell would be a very obvious sign that there could be nasty bacteria, but texture doesn’t seem quite as obvious

[@elisecccccccc]

Marie N gotcha, thanks!

[@effieboo9275]

So a change in texture and smell especially signals a change in the formula--likely bacteria,old or something in the formula has expired/gone off. Unless the color has changed drastically it can be from the sun fading the pigments but most of us aren't leaving a palette with a clear lid or a palette open in the sun to cause this.

[@marinasolt6232]

I have my single shadows arranged the exact same way in the exact same palettes (except I don’t have the Clionadh shadows.) I’ve got a neutrals and warms palette, a greens and blues palette, and a mauves and purples palette. I just don’t have any empty slots in any of them... I think that means that I don’t need anymore single shadows. 😉

[@peachtea1890]

Getting major happy Gilmore vibes in this video "Look at her she too old. It's just too old!" Haha❤

[@taylorhoward8896]

So many of those makeup geek shadows remind me of Jaclyn Hill.

[@susanstetson3435]

So fun!

[@cinemaocd1752]

I didn't buy the MG foiled shadows when they came out because they were just too expensive. Now I'm kind of glad I didn't get them, even though they were beautiful. I did buy the original bundle of power pigments and those have started to get very gritty feeling. They still work, but it's disappointing given the price point. I noticed they started selling the power pigments for like a third less than their original price and that's about right I think.

[@shamelesssheamis545]

Did u have your Makeup Geek singles longer than the rest? Or is their shelf life just not very long?

[@chiya9480]

Thank you for the Clionadh video, I'm really looking forward to it!! I'm waiting for the restock and I'm trying to decide which one I can live without basically, to save my wallet just a bit (maybe) 😂

[@wiredayan9719]

Old (expired) eyeshadow are great for drawing and painting...!

[@meganhw-muse]

God I want to know what that bright yellow shade is. It's killing me, Lauren!

[@user-up2gn8hv9c]

What I've learned from this video - MUG shadows are a bad investment :D

[@kellywolfe5930]

Great video 💜💛♥️💙💗💚

[@FeoshiaHDavis]

Hey girl hey!

[@michellestratford9753]

Thanks so much! I love single shadows. I took a bunch of notes, but there were 2 called Faded and Kid that you didn't say where they were from? I'd like to order them, if you could point me in the right direction? Thank you so much again!💙💗

[@AlcideIzMine]

Could Kid be from Mac? It's a really light brown.

[@michellestratford9753]

@@AlcideIzMine great! Thank you!!

[@AlcideIzMine]

@@michellestratford9753 your welcome! I just bought a 9 pan custom palette from Mac so I had looked through all the shades & they're still fresh in my mind lol

[@paulas2218]

I wanted to clean those empty palettes with a damp paper towel so bad! 😂 Just my OCD kicking in.

[@sincerelyalex28]

At 15:25 what shade was that?

[@AngieRival]

I have 8 single shadows... I might shuffle them around my one palette just for fun :-)

[@BabyCakeBetty]

I have some singles from MAC that are HELLA EXPIRED from like 5-8years. Obviously, I don't use them... But it also breaks my heart to trash them 💔 I already trashed the ones that crumpled. Im still hanging on to the ones that look/feel good.

[@effieboo9275]

I would spray them with rubbing alcohol just to help disinfect them/ to make sure it is the actual ingredients in the formula that are just getting old vs bacteria and such in the pan.

[@MIOLAZARUS]

Hannah would love that puke yellow/green !

[@PaigeKoren]

EARLY😊

[@LaurenMaeBeauty]

❤️❤️❤️

[@helenagoodwin7343]

Save the pans and send them to nisipisa!

[@Unique007]

n___n |✧O✧) Lauren uploads excitement doubles Lauren I♥️ u xoxoxo 💋😘

[@penthehuman]

does anyone know a dupe for MUG flamethrower?

[@MShaiqable]

Bummer that most of the swatches are out of focus :(

[@inactiveaccount8105]

Aw heck. I have two makeup geek shades: grandstand and steampunk. Grandstand is foiled, so it might go like that eventually. To be honest, I couldn't really care less about that one. But if my beautiful steampunk turns gross and crumbly before I do, I'm gonna smack a bitch lmao