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Removing sifters from jars?

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:07 pm
by Ladybug914
Does anyone have any tips on how to remove sifters from the jars? I need to refill my Oil Control Blur, and I am struggling to get the sifter out. (I was using tweezers to try and pry up the edge and ended up stabbing my other hand. :oops: )

Re: Removing sifters from jars?

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:18 pm
by JenW
Once you get it losened a little, you can keep going around and losening a little more with each round. The sifters in the 20g and 30g jars are pretty flexible, where the lids on the 3g, 5g, and 10g are more ridgid.

Re: Removing sifters from jars?

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:50 pm
by Ladybug914
Thanks! So, I was right in the approach I was taking; I just didn't keep going far enough around. I also need to not use my good tweezers!

Re: Removing sifters from jars?

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:10 am
by saitoyf
I use my eyebrow tweezer to take out & is so easy.All you have to do is slowly pull out here & there,don't one time take out as the powder will spill.

Re: Removing sifters from jars?

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:19 am
by emmy2410
I will just use my nails and thumb to keep pulling all around the sifter and its out....I really didnt think abt tweezers..next time i shld try.

Re: Removing sifters from jars?

Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:18 pm
by Xarata
i use a slim butter knife.

Re: Removing sifters from jars?

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 12:08 am
by missyjean
I used a steak knife.Um,I would try a butter knife though.Don't want any injuries lol.Then just keep going around and around until it comes off.

Once you've done this a few times,it seems like it comes off more easily.

Re: Removing sifters from jars?

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 12:30 am
by WendyD
I use tweezers and go all the way around - I've always found the sifter on the foundation jar really hard to remove though.

Re: Removing sifters from jars?

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:39 am
by superwahz
In the same vein as the thin butter knife Xarata uses, I use either that, or one of those fake credit cards that comes in the mail! :P I had a tiny makeup spatula (the kind you scrape cream products from a jar with) for a while and used it, it was thin enough to wiggle right in between the jar lip and sifter edge.

Also, I open them with the jar on a micro-fiber cloth, that way when the sifter finally gives any loose powder lands on the cloth...and with the skid resistant surface in place, I'm less likely to drop/spill the jar! :D

Re: Removing sifters from jars?

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:41 am
by Ladybug914
Thanks, ladies! I have been successful before with tweezers, but I was really struggling with this particular jar. Part of it was, I think, that the tweezers were too sharp (hence the small puncture wound in my other hand) and I actually took a couple chunks out of the sifter edge, rather than lifting/loosening it. When I grabbed my older tweezers, which aren't sharp at all, I had better luck. :)