MAKEUP DE-CLUTTER/HOW I ORGANISE MY MAKEUP #2

Hello everyone! So a couple of weeks ago i shared the first instalment of my makeup de-clutter/how i organise my makeup process/series, which was all about my two main makeup drawers that contains products such as single shadows, bronzers, blush, brow products etc. For this instalment i thought i would share how i de-cluttered/organise the type of product i had the most of, which happens to be lip products.

So when it comes down to lip products i am such a sucker for buying nude after nude, which i am not even ashamed by anymore because if that's what you like it's what you like. Before de-cluttering i stored half of my lip products into four muji acrylic drawers and then the other half was stored on a shelf in two of the billinger drawer inserts like i have in my main drawers. Because they were out of eye view i never reached for them anymore, so i went through the same process of emptying everything out onto the floor, throwing away anything old/what i didn't like, the only lip products i gave away was the ones that were new/un-used.

Now that i have de-cluttered my lip product collection, i can pretty much fit all of my most used lip products into the muji wide two drawers and the muji narrow two drawers with room still to stack if i ever need to. Kicking things off with the wide two drawers, i like to keep my nyx lingerie liquid lipsticks, some l'oréal glosses and a selection of nude lipsticks i reach for often like the tanya burr ones and a few random nude glosses. In the next wide drawer i like to keep my sleek matte me liquid lipsticks, one of my favourites the nyx soft matte lip creams (the nudes only) and my three most used mac lipsticks, which are creme d'nude, honey love and viva glam ii (the rest are in separate storage). Then towards the back i just keep some other liquid lipsticks, as well as a couple of the rimmel kate nude lipsticks which i love.

Moving on to the two narrow drawers i like to keep my favourite brand of liquid lipsticks from la splash, the shades angel cake and innocent vixen are my favourites. Then i also have two of my favourite jouer lip products which are the ever so famous skinny dip lip topper and the lip creme in the shade papaye, i also have my mariah carey x mac cosmetics lipstick in the shade dahhlinggg! which i barely use because first of all it is limited edition and second of all it's just so pretty. In the final narrow drawer i keep my anastasia beverly hills lip glosses, i also keep my two bareMinerals gen nude products that i can't put down. From the whole drawer i would say my two favourites definitely have to be the bareMinerals far out gloss and the anastasia beverly hills gilded gloss, they are just stunning glosses to add on top of any nude lip combination.

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MAKEUP DE-CLUTTER/HOW I ORGANISE MY MAKEUP #1

Hello everyone! For a while now whenever i look at my makeup collection (more so my main drawers of storage) i have been thinking to myself, i need to do a serious de-clutter/re-organise because things were seriously getting out of control and i was struggling to even close the drawers. Last weekend i decided enough was enough, i just had to tackle the situation and i thought why not share with you in instalments how i de-cluttered/re-organised my makeup, kicking things off with my main two makeup drawers.

So it has been a little over a year since i shared my makeup collection post and i would say since that post my collection had more than doubled in size, which fyi i know is crazy and nobody needs that much makeup but anyone who loves makeup/blogs understands. Moving on-to how i de-cluttered my collection, i started off by emptying everything out onto the floor from both of my drawers, before organising everything into sections (so blush in one pile, bronzers in another etc.). After that i went through each pile, keeping what i wanted to keep, throwing away what wasn't any good/of use anymore and then the rest into a giveaway bag. Once i had in front of me what i was keeping, i placed them in my drawer organisers by category. 

Starting with the two larger back sections where i like to keep more compact style products, on the left houses all of my individual blushes as well as a couple of spare cream highlighters that wouldn't fit anywhere else. On the right is probably my favourite section of the whole drawer, as it houses all of my individual bronzers/highlighters which i like to stack up. Stacking them up like so allows you to fit a lot more in than if they were laying down, as well being easy accessible/being able to see what product is where. Moving onto the two smaller front sections, where i like to keep more tube-like products. On the left i keep all of my current brow/lash products, as well as a couple of mac glitters that wouldn't fit where my others are kept. On the right houses all of my concealers, which is still a ton even after throwing out so many (confessions of a concealer-holic).

Moving onto the left hand side of my main large drawer, this is where i like to keep more eye type products such as cream shadows/individual shadows in the drawer insert, as well as a couple of miscellaneous items that just wouldn't go anywhere else. During my de-clutter individual shadows is what i threw the most of out/gave away because i very rarely reach for them, as i am more of a palette person these days for convenience purposes. As a forth drawer insert wouldn't fit into my main drawer, i just like to keep some smaller palettes/eyeshadow quads down the sides, such as some empty/full mac quads, my z-palettes and my small morphe palettes.  

To the right of my main drawer i have a smaller drawer, where i keep one of the drawer inserts which houses my liquid illuminators/primers in the smaller section and then in the larger section i keep all of my current/favourite foundations. Foundations was another thing that i threw a lot of away because i either didn't like it or i hadn't reached for it in a while. Then finally down the side of the drawer i like to keep my favourite setting powders/pressed powders, then at the back is a few back-up compact products that i have.

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MAKEUP COLLECTION AND STORAGE

The only chore i enjoy doing is organizing and tidying up my makeup collection, so whilst i was doing this i thought i would take some pictures and show you my collection. I have quiet a lot of makeup and in no way am i bragging about the amount i own, also compared to some other peoples collections i think mine is actually quiet small. So here it is...

 I store my makeup in one drawer separated into different sections: face products then eyes and lips.

In this stripey box i like to keep all of my base and face products (primers, foundations, powders and concealers) as the box is quiet deep and spacious. I keep my less used products at the bottom and then the products i use more on top for easy access. 

In the middle section at the front i keep all of my mascaras, eye liners, some loose pigments, brow products and some random lip liners which i use on a frequent basis.

In the right hand section of my drawer i keep all my lip products, lipsticks to the back and then lip glosses and pencil form lip products. Also to the right i just keep two of my urban decay palettes because they fit just right there. At the back of my makeup drawer i just keep my single pressed eye shadows, loose eye shadows, cream eye shadows and then some of my smaller sized palettes.

I like to store my makeup brushes on top of the set of drawers in this vase which i am obsessed with. I also like to just keep some random products on there also like my makeup remover, hand gel and toner. 

I am thinking about doing a beauty product collection post some time soon, which is the drawer above my makeup drawer. I keep all my skincare/body products and also my large makeup palettes.

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend...

Katie♥