Makeup Storage 101

For me, the way I store my makeup affects every single day. There is not really a day that goes by that I don't use my makeup. If you know me though, you know I love to sleep, which means that I usually don't have a lot of time to get ready in the mornings or to put things away.

When we first got married, I did my makeup in our room on the floor using the mirror on the door. I stored my makeup in this:

It worked decently well, until I started collecting more makeup. It would take me 10 minutes to put my makeup away because it was like putting a puzzle together. So, a lot of times I wouldn't have time and it would end up all over the bedroom floor. My husband was not a fan of this. So, then I started doing it in the bathroom, using this container still. Well, then my makeup just ended up all over the bathroom! Not good.

Until...

I found this beauty.

It is perfect for storing makeup!

The drawers are very shallow, so you can see everything perfectly.

There are enough drawers that you can divide everything up by category.

It looks a lot cleaner and sleek so I am fine with storing it on my bathroom counter.

It takes 2 seconds to put everything away and my husband is pretty happy with that. :)

If you are lucky enough to have a makeup drawer, I would recommend a drawer divider that fits the dimensions of the drawer and is shallow enough that you can lay out all of your makeup and not have to double things up.

One like this would be perfect:

One downside to this storage container is that the drawers are too shallow for a couple of my products. So, I just put them in a small bin in the medicine cabinet right above it.

Here's how mine looks:

On the shelf above my makeup, I store brush cleaner, setting sprays, primers, and then other makeup that won't fit in the drawers.

Top drawer: Face and eye brushes.

Second Drawer: All my face makeup- concealer, foundation, powder, blush, bronzer.

Third drawer: I store my eyelid primer, eyeliners, brow liners and gels, mascaras.

Fourth Drawer: All of my eyeshadow.



Last drawer: All lip products (Probably the most fun drawer. Yes, I really really like Revlon lipsticks!)

Please forgive all of the finger prints and smudges, I tried to clean them off, but they are kind of inevitable. I think the flash on the camera just makes them look worse! What can ya do?!

So, there ya have it. How I store my makeup. Oh, and I also store some random makeup, that I don't use very often but can't part with, under the sink in a bin!

How do you store your makeup??

P.S. Happy Labor Day! I hope everyone is having a great long weekend!!

To see how I organize my bathroom cabinets, go here.

To see how I organize my medicine cabinet, go here.



Medicine Cabinet Redo

Although we don't have any drawers in our bathroom, we are fortunate to have a large medicine cabinet over our sinks that stores so many things!

I love having a medicine cabinet to store our bathroom products because they are shallow and you can see everything really well.

We use them to store our everyday, most-used products. To see how we store the rest of our bathroom products, see our bathroom cabinet post!

 

I took these "before" pictures a few months ago, so the products we have may be different in the "after" pictures. Here is the process I went through to accomplish the end result.

 

1. I took everything out of the cabinet, section by section and cleaned thoroughly with a warm damp cloth.

2. I made a plan of where to put each thing that would make the most sense.

3. I put the organizers where they should go and put all of the products back in, with the labels in the front and made sure I could see everything.

 

It all works like a charm now!

 

 

On his side:

I added a larger medicine-cabinet-clear-acrylic-storage-container (wow! That's a mouth full!) from Target to store his everyday products and rearranged a few of his products.

 

 

In the middle section:

I used one of the smaller clear dividers we had (I found those at Ross a while back for $1.99 each!) to store our toothpaste and other "mouth products."

Then, I moved the white plastic container from my side to this section to hold my makeup primers, setting sprays, and other makeup that would not fit in my makeup holder (a makeup storage post is coming soon!). I store my makeup brush cleaners next to those (did you know baby shampoo works well to clean your brushes?! So much cheaper than the cleaners made for that!) 

 

 

On my side:

I used the other clear storage container to hold my tweezers, little scissors, and contact stuff.

The middle shelf holds all of my skincare products. Yes, I am a skincare product junkie.

The bottom shelf holds all of my hair products and my deoderant.

 

 

I love how it turned out! It is so much easier for me to put things away after I use them when I know that they have a place and that it looks so much better!

 

If we had this medicine cabinet in a more permanent home that we owned, I would definitely add some fun patterned paper to the back walls and maybe even a little chalk board paint to the back of the doors! :)

 

And there ya have it, my non-medicine medicine cabinet makeover!!

 

Does anyone actually use medicine cabinets for medicine anymore??

I know my grandparents did, but I can't imagine wasting prime bathroom storage space on medicine! Maybe if we had a bigger bathroom...

 

Let me know what you guys think and as always, if you have any requests!

 

 

 

 

 



Day 3: Bathroom Cabinets Before & After

I am not going to lie, this was not a quick project. I have been working all day on this, but I am so excited to post about it! I used a couple of pinterest ideas I have been wanting to try. They were cheap, but NOT quick. I had to take not 1, but 2 trips to Lowes today. I hate going to Lowes. I always feel like a fish out of water there. I should not have worn my pink pants today. I'll just leave it at that.

 

Our bathroom has been so hard for me to organize for several reasons:
1. We only have cabinets. No drawers. Drawers are easier to use to organize small things like makeup, face products, hair stuff, etc.
2. I am obsessed with all things beauty. Makeup, skincare, hair, nails, etc. Therefore, I have TOO much of all of it.
3. Using the vertical space in the cabinets has been a challenge.
4. I have just kept putting it off!

I think I finally have a system that works now!

I used this and this from pinterest on the doors on my side of the sink to store bobby pins and my most used curling irons (yes, I have 3 most used ones... I know I have problems).

 I used command strips to attach everything so it will not leave holes or marks. By the way, if you are going to attempt this, BEG the guy at Lowes to cut the PVC pipes for you. I am still sore. The guy told me they were only allowed to make one cut per pipe and to buy a cheap hacksaw and that it would cut like "butter." LIES. ALL LIES. It was really hard. Clay even helped me and it was hard to get the cuts straight, so mine are very imperfect, but they get the job done. Here's the aftermath in our living room:

I bought a cute wire basket at TJ Maxx for $7 to hold extra rolls of toilet paper and then used my favorite labels to label the bins on Clay's side of the sink (even though it's basically all my stuff, don't worry he has his stuff in the medicine cabinet, which I will post in another post!)

For "my side," I got 3 little bins from Wal-mart to hold hair accessories, used a "lazy susan" my parents gave me a while ago for lotions and a basket I already had for brushes, velcro rollers, my straightener, combs, and my hair dryer.

This was A LOT of work. I'm exhausted. I'm ready to eat some dinner, cuddle with my husband and watch some Desperate Housewives. I'll be back tomorrow with my Fridge organization.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!