Supplies
Heat Resistant Container or Beaker
Stirring Utensil
Small Sauté Pan or Microwave
Lipstick Mold (I got mine from TKB Trading)
TKB Trading Lipstick Base
TKB Trading Lip Liquid Sampler (best if you're testing multiple colors)
Lipstick Tubes (Here are the tubes I bought)
Small Rubberbands
Lightweight Oil
Cotton Swab
Ingredients (per lipstick)
Pink Lipstick
3g Lipstick Base
0.5g Yummy Pink Lip Liquid
0.3g Sakura Mica (Mad Micas)
2 drops flavor oil (optional)
Red Lipstick
3g Lipstick Base
0.3g True Red Mica (Mad Micas)
0.7g Perky Pink Lip Liquid
Burgundy Lipstick
3g Lipstick Base
0.3g Coming Up Roses Lip Liquid
0.2g Red Oxide (Mad Micas)
0.1g Roasted Chestnut Lip Liquid
Directions
Prepare a water bath by bringing 1 inch of water to a simmer on medium-low heat in a sauté pan.
Dip a cotton swab in a small amount of lightweight carrier oil (I used fractionated coconut oil). Pull apart the lipstick mold and wipe all cavities with the oil dipped cotton swab. Be sure to not add too much oil to the mold, as the oil can collect at the bottom of the mold causing the final product to be greasy. The oil is only added so that the lipstick may slip out of the mold easier. After the oil has been applied to both pieces, put the pieces back together and wrap with the rubberbands (to keep the two pieces together).
Add the lipstick base and colorant/mica/lip liquid to a heat safe container or beaker. Add the container to the water bath.
Once the lipstick base is completely melted, stir the mixture until the colorant is mixed in thoroughly.
Immediately pour the lipstick into the mold and carefully place in the freezer.
After at least 30 minutes, remove the mold from the freezer, take the rubberbands off and carefully pull top of the mold off.
Be sure that your lipstick tube is twisted all of the way up then put the tube over the exposed lipstick and pull it out of the mold. If the lipstick will not come out of the mold, pop the mold back in the freezer for a few minutes then try the process again.
Notes
You can also melt the base in the microwave in 20 second bursts then add the colorant after the base is melted. This should be done in a microwave safe container.
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