Organization/Storage Tip: Makeup

(My First post without crappy cell phone pictures. YAY!)


For today's post I am going to share with you guys how I store my makeup and makeup brushes. This is just what works for me. Hopefully it will give some you guys some ideas on how to store your makeup products also. 

The photo above is what the top of my desk looks like. The leopard print box was a jewelry box. I took all the drawers out and laid it down. That way there are 6 openings for me to put things in. I store all my everyday makeup in this. I really like it because everything is just right there. The little openings are organized into categories; Lips, Concealer, Foundation/Face Primer, Powders, Eyes, Eyebrows. I keep my e.l.f. lip exfoliator on the left corner and my Maybelline Vivids in Pink Pop on the right corner (because I think the packaging is cute!). 

I purchased these little "containers" at the dollar store. They were each $1. My eye brushes are in the square ones along with my lip glosses. I purchased silver sand filler(it honestly looks like tiny rocks, not sure why it was called sand) at Walmart for around $4 to fill the "containers" with to keep my eye brushes in place for a Sephora inspired brush holder. I keep my face brushes in the round "container". 

My desk is not an even surface. The right side is higher up (printer ideal desks). On this side I keep my skincare, my makeup mirror and this plastic organizer. I purchased this at Target 3 years ago when I was buying things for my dorm room freshman year of college. This just holds the rest of my makeup. In the back section I have my e.l.f. brush shampoo and daily brush cleaner along with some face masks and extra foundation and liquid liners. 

This is the section the lifts open. I store all my lipsticks in here. There are 16 in there. That's all that fits in there. I really want to get a lipstick holder so that I can display all my lipstick. 

This is the first drawer. I keep all my eyeliners, jumbo eyeshadow pencils, lip liners and my color tattoo in here. 

This is the second drawer. I keep all my bronzers and blushes in here. I own a lot of e.l.f. bronzers and blushes. My favorite bronzer is the N.Y.C bronzer in Sunny. That is not in this drawer because I wear it everyday. 

The last drawer is where I keep all my eyeshadows. I have a ton of the Wet N' Wild color icon trios. I really like them. The color pay off is great! I also have a good bit of e.l.f. shadows in there also. 

That is how I store my makeup. I really like my storage system. It works really well for me and the size of my collection. 

How do you store your makeup?

'Til next post!

Organization/Storage Tip: Scarves!

For today's post I am going to share with you how I store my scarves. I used to keep them in a drawer but they were just taking up too much room and I had other things that need to be put in the drawer. As I was browsing the Dollar General I saw that they had over the door hangers. I purchased one in purple for only $2!

There are 2 large hooks. One on each side. There is also 8 smaller hooks. Since I took this picture I have added 3 more scarves to the rack. On each large hook, I have 2 scarves. I have 1 scarf on each small hook and the bottom row and have recently added 2 more scarves to the top row. This rack hangs on the door of my bedroom. I love this for scarf storage. It is simple and it displays all my scarves so that I don't have to go searching around a drawer for the scarf that I want! There is currently 9 scarves on the rack. 

How do you store your scarves?

Til next post!

P.S. Next week I will share how I store and organize my makeup! Keep an eye out for that post!

Jewelry Organization/Storage!

Hello Jewelry Tree! 
So recently I purchased this jewelry tree organizer for $7.49! I thought it was a cute way to display my jewelry rather than keeping it all in drawers. I absolutely love it! It is great for my jewelry collection because my collection is not that large so it fits everything perfectly! (If you have a larger collection you may not be able to use it as your only means of storage/organization like I mostly did).

There are 2 holes on each leaf, so that you can hang your earrings from them. With some of my earrings I was able to hang both earrings in one hole, making more space, however with the studs you have to have one earring per hole. There are long branches and short branches that do not have leaves on them. On these I keep my rings, my bracelets and some of my shorter necklaces. A majority of my necklaces are sitting in the bottom part of the tree. As you see in the picture I keep my 4 chunky bracelets sitting in front of the tree. I do have some necklaces that do not fit on/in this jewelry tree. Those necklaces are "tacked" to a cork board or the wall over my desk/vanity. 

All in all I definitely love this jewelry tree! It does exactly what I need it to do and works great with my relatively small collection!

How do you store your jewelry?

Til next post!