MAKEUP STORAGE & COLLECTION

Hello Everyone and Happy Friday! Today's blog post has been a long time coming, as i have been so hesitant to share it with you all. The main reason i have waited for so long is that i personally wanted to be happy with the way everything looked/mainly was stored and that took a hot minute. Just a little disclaimer no one should have to have this much makeup, but saying that collecting makeup is my passion/hobby/job. As another side note recently i had a huge clear out whilst re-organizing everything and any unwanted makeup got given away to people i know...

So this is my makeup vanity/where i sit and do my makeup every single day. The desk/storage, chair and vanity mirror are all from Ikea. 

On my table top itself i like to keep my NO7 light up mirror, which i use every single time i'm doing my makeup. Then i have four of these white plant pots also from Ikea, which i use to store my brushes/tools in three of them and then also eyeliners/lip liners in the other one.

In the center of my desk i keep my Muji acrylic storage, which i did a post on a few month's ago. Not much since i posted that has changed except for the bottom drawer, which now houses my favourite cream eyeshadow's and pigments also. The drawer above is where i keep my most used foundations and a couple of larger packaged products, that don't fit anywhere else.

Check out my Muji dressing table storage post here:

http://katiebeautyshake.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/dressing-table-storage.html

So lets get into what is inside my drawers/desk. On the right hand side of my vanity there is a smaller drawer then a cupboard with three shelves inside. Inside of the drawer itself i keep all of my skincare products, along side a couple of different back up products.

Getting into what i store on the three shelves, first up on the top shelve i keep cotton buds in another one of those Ikea plant pots (a small one) and second of all in this drawer insert i keep the rest of my lipstick/gloss's what i don't tend to reach for all the time. The rest are stored in my muji storage. Looking at the amount in this insert looks so bare to me now, as lip products were the thing i cleared out the most of, i am such a lip product junkie. Moving on quickly to the middle shelve which i won't get into as we would be here all day, as it is in fact where i store all of my eyeshadow/blush/contour palette's and there is a ton, the shelve is almost full of them piled up. Although if you would like to see a makeup palette collection post let me know.

On the bottom shelve i basically store all of my nail polishes, along with nail polish removers and face/cotton pads (i always get the Primark cotton pads now, as they are amazing and super cheap i definitely recommend them). In this drawer insert i keep my most used/favourite nail colours and then ones that i reach for less further at the back of the shelve in another storage box.

Finally moving onto the most exciting part of the post, the core of my collection and the main drawer in my desk/vanity. So i basically have this drawer divided into different categories for storing different products, which makes looking for items a lot easier.

So on the far left hand side i store eyeshadow quads/slimmer palettes as they just fit perfectly down that side. Then we have the three drawer inserts placed in the middle starting with where i store my concealers, primers, illuminators and some other random bits like lashes/glue etc.

On the far right i keep all of my single KIKO eyeshadows, along with some smaller quads by Maybelline. Next to that in the drawer insert i keep all of my brow/lash products and then behind that i have a mixture of highlighters and some larger blushes/bronzers with bigger packaging. 

 Last but not least probably my favourite section of all, the blush section and where all the beautiful pinks/colour is. At the back behind of all the blushes i also keep a selection of single eyeshadows such as ones from L'Oreal, Essence and NYX along side a couple of MAC ones that aren't in a pro palette. Ironically these drawer inserts are also from Ikea and they are definitely the bargain of the show at only 80p each, which is crazy as they are really well made.

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