How many teaspoons are in a jar of MAC pigment?
One topic that regularly comes up in MAC forums is making/buying/selling pigment samples. More specifically, there are often questions about measuring these samples and the volume of pigment in a full-size jar. Pigments are sold by weight (measured in grams), and samples are usually measured by volume (in teaspoons). This means that a single jar of pigment does not contain a standard number of teaspoons. Some jars actually contain different weights (the frosts are mostly 7.5g, and mattes and metals are usually 2.5g), and the “fullness” of the jar varies between shades and handling. Some of the mattes are half-full, so clearly they produce fewer teaspoons than a packed-to-the-top frost shade. Some shades only seem to make about eight 1/4 tsp samples… others can make over twice that many! There is no straightforward conversion between grams and teaspoons. You’d have to know the density of the pigment to figure that out, and the density varies greatly between pigment textures and how yo
