Removing sifters from jars?

[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. )

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[Xarata]

i use a slim butter knife.

[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.

[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.

[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! 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!

[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.