I recently read something about mixing your own makeup, and for the life of me I can’t remember where I found it.

If you know, let me know and I’ll link to it.

Anyway, it inspired me to try mixing some of my own colors, so this morning I poured a little Key West Palm shadow, and way too much tootsie shadow (from the now defunct Twisted Fayte) into my trust buff palette.

The Key West Palm is a “gorgeous blue-green shade with gold undertones and a shimmer finish,” while Tootsie looks white with a lot of pink and green iridescence in the sample baggie, but goes on sheer with a pink iridescence.

I wasn’t really sure what I was expecting - I just wanted to lighten the Key West Palm a little because it’s a pretty bold color.

After dumping the excess Tootsie back into the bag it came from, I mixed the two colors together with my MAC 239 brush.

I ended up with a paler version of Key West Palm with a pretty pink iridescence.

The new color looks green on my eyes, but it looks blue in the swatch - unless the light hits it just right - then it looks pink.

My first experiment went pretty well - except for pouring too much shadow from the bag into my palette, but overall I’m excited, and I’ll probably be mixing a few more colors in the future.

Have you ever mixed your makeup to create another color?

What happened?