I adore posts that allow me to take a sneaky peek into the makeup drawers of others, and since my ‘daily tray’ has now expanded to take up an entire drawer I thought it was time for me to share it. I used to store my most reached for products in a Muji-style open top container on my desk but found that the overspill was becoming unsightly and looked messy, so I rearranged my desk drawers to allow myself the freedom of a whole top drawer for my most loved/most reached for/most awesome beauty goodies.
I use white plastic baskets to separate and add order to the
jumble of products within the drawer, though I am contemplating removing the
long basket that currently holds brushes as it isn’t the easiest thing to find
the brush you need when they are laid out flat like this. The drawer at the
front holds some of my most used base products, including my Smashbox primer
sample, BB creams and tinted moisturisers. The next drawer over is a bit of a
mix, holding my daily mascara and eyeliners as well as my MAC Painterly Paint
Pot and EOS lip balm.
I’m not sure where I’m going to put my aforementioned Muji
style containers so for now I have one inside of the drawer housing my fuller
coverage face options – Illamasqua Skin Base, Maybelline Dream Wonder
foundation and my Clarins concealer. It also holds my two Maybelline tinted
brow gels and my setting sprays (MAC Fix+ and Skindinavia Finishing Spray) I’ve
sat my current favourite Revlon Colorstay Whipped Foundation next to this along
with some perfumes and the products I’m trying to use up at the moment – full post
on this new challenge to come soon!
On the far side of the drawer I have some larger palettes as
well as an old Glossybox box which holds my current go-to blushes (Chanel JC's and some Thailand purchases) as well as
products I want to play around with or have just purchased. All of my Bite
Beauty products are here because they are too beautiful to be slipped into the
regular old lip drawer, is that a bit sad or what? I like having my babies
close, what can I say!?
Ultimately I think that this style of makeup storage is
working for me – I can slide it shut to conceal mess and can sit on my comfy
desk chair when I want to rotate products in and out of my routine as it is
within easy reach. I still find myself lusting over an Ikea Alex 9 Drawer to
store the bulk of my collection but at least I’ve found contentment with my
every day products. As an aside, if you’ve spotted something you’d like a
review of don’t hesitate to mention it in the comments – I’ll take any blogging
inspiration I can get at the moment!
How do you store your daily products?
Do you have any makeup storage tips I should know about?
Emma x
