When customers return six MAC primary packaging containers to one of the brand's counters, stores or online for recycling, they'll receive a free MAC lipstick of their choice. For more info, visit. There’s an extra tier to Back to MAC, available exclusively to members of the MAC Select rewards program. It’s called Back to MAC Expanded, and it comes with a few added perks. When MAC Select customers return six empty containers, they can choose a lipstick, lip gloss, or single eye shadow of their choice, worth up to $18.50.

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Lately, I have once again become obsessed with depotting.

Depotting is the process of getting eyeshadows out of their pot packaging/cases and placing the metal pans on a magnetic board/palette to create your very own customized palette. It has been a common practice among makeup artists for years and is fairly simple and fun. So why do it?
* Pan eyeshadows are more travel-friendly. With the slim MAC 4-pan and 15-pan pro palettes, you can fit so many more eyeshadows into your bag.
* By depotting, you get to create your very own color combinations as supposed to a fixed set of colors that you get in a pre-customized palette.
* The depotted pot is eligible for the Back2MAC recycling program. All you have to do is take 6 empty pots and plastic inserts back to a MAC freestanding store and you will receive a free lipstick, lipglass or eyeshadow of your choice. Please note MAC counters will only allow you to trade in 6 Back2MAC empties for a free lipstick.

How Many Mac Empties For A Free Lipstick Before And After

* Pan eyeshadows are cheaper in the long run. A regular pot eyeshadow retails $14.50 and a pan retails $11. If you do the math, you only pay $177.50 for 15 pan shadows in a pro palette vs $217.50 for 15 pot shadows.
Extra Tips On Depotting
* Be careful not to leave the eyeshadow in the heat for too long or you risk changing its texture.
* Besides MAC, here are other brands of eyeshadows that would fit in the 4-pan and 15-pan pro palettes:
Jane Eyezing Eyeshadow
Milani Eyeshadow
Red Earth Eyeshadow
Urban Decay Eyeshadow
Trade Secret Eyeshadow
Studio Makeup/ Studio, Gear
MMU Shadow Petites
La Femme “Ultra Pearl” Eyeshadow
Elizabeth Arden Eye Shadow Refill

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Face Stockholm Pearl Eyeshadow
Bonne Bell Powder Pack Eye Shadow Pan
Origins Eyeshadow
Jordana Eyeshadow
Revlon Streetwear Cream Eyeshadow
Paula’s Select Soft Matte Eyeshadow
Clinique Touch Base Cream Eyeshadow
Bath & Body Works Eyeshadow
Prescriptives Pick Two Eyeshadow
* I highly recommend depotting ONLY the limited edition colors for the Back2MAC program since they only come in the pot form. You can buy all permanent colors in pan form to save yourself some extra money and the trouble of depotting.
* To learn how to depot eyeshadows, Makeup Geek has a great tutorial on her page. I also used the same way to depot my eyeshadows.

How Many Mac Empties For A Free Lipstick Color

* Since the MAC 15-pan pro palettes are not transparent, feel free to add in some bling bling like I did below to decorate the cover and to help differentiate the different palettes.

How Many Mac Empties For A Free Lipstick Removal

Hello, Hello! Today I am going to do a quick post about MAC’s recycling program- Back-To-MAC. It’s actually pretty great. I feel like its not very well known so I thought it would be worth posting about! I personally love a lot of MAC’s products and have accumulated quite a few over the years.

What you needis 6 empty containers of MAC products. It doesn’t matter which kinds of products, it can be their cream, or blush or an empty lipstick. And of course they do not need to be empty if it’s an item that you got as a gift and rarely used or an item that you no longer like and want to turn it in, that works too!

You take your 6 empty containers to any MAC store or counter near you and you get a FREE- yes you read that correctly- a FREE lipstick from one of the classic ones. That means basically any of the black tube lipstick that MAC normally sells. You can pick out what color you want and you receive it for FREE right then and there. You don’t have to pay the tax on it or anything.

What is that you say? You say you don’t live anywhere near a MAC store or counter. Don’t fret, you can also mail your empty containers to the address below after filling in the online form picking 3 colors of lipstick that you would like in order of preference. Once MAC receives your empty containers then they will send you the lipstick to your address. Read all the details here.

Now on the website they have a specific list of products that qualify, however if you are turning the products back into a store I believe the range is much more vast.

International readers

I believe you can send these into one of the addresses below as well and the same applies. Though you do have to pay for the shipping to send your empties in. However, if you go into the MAC site for your country I think they may have an in country address that you can send these to, to avoid paying for international shipping. With the prices of MAC products, and I do love their products, I think it’s absolutely worth it.

I just turned in 6 empties (2 lipsticks, a black track gel liner, lip-gloss, blush) and got my free Crème Cup lipstick and I am in love! I wanted a pinky nude lipstick and was about to buy one when I remembered that I just finished my freckle tone MAC lipstick and now had 6 empty containers lying around.

Recycle its good for the planet and MAC says thank you with a new lipstick!

Address for shipping:

US Residents Mail to:

7603 Trade Port Drive

Louisville, KY 40258

Canadian Residents Mail to:

Attention: Customer Service

550 Petrolia Road

Toronto, Ontario M3J 2W3

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