Saturday, December 22, 2012

makeup collection and storage & updated unii/z palettes

hi everyone! i'm all about organizing stuff, so i figured this would be interesting--as i am interested in seeing how others store their stuff. hope you like it! this is how i store my stuff in a 600-sqft apartment! hopefully by the next time i make an organization update--in the very distant future, we will be finally settled in a house; this apartment is way too small for me and my stuff...and paul's. lol! ~Lin-chan ^.~

  • caboodles clear cosmetics counter tray from target
  • makeup brush cup from sephora -- a similar one
  • sterilite 4-drawer cart (#2822) from amazon
  • small 3 drawer desk organizer from walmart
  • unii palettes, z palettes -- see my review post/where to buy
  • mesh bin drawer organizer from bbb
the bathroom:
top: so here's everything i've been grabbing for lately. i really like this container for the counter. it does take up a decent amount of space, but it's easy to see and reach everything. the heart pot was from an edible arrangement that teh paul got me a few years ago. i've been putting my dirty brushes into it to remind me to wash them, along with a few brush guards in the bottom. the black cup on the right is from sephora--but they don't sell them anymore... and i've got my current mascaras and some taller eyeliners in it. that green tube, chillin with the cotton balls: yeah, i got that in 7th grade. how long ago was that?! i wish they still made it, it's the clinique nighttime treatment gel. it was about $20-30 for 1.7oz, compared to .5oz $16 spot healing gel....hmm! yeah it still works great, but it's time is almost up: it's almost gone!
left: we don't have a lot of space in the bathroom nor is there a medicine cabinet..so i bought a two pack of these and the other is below..
middle: this thing. lol, i bought this shortly after i moved into my first apartment. i've been putting manicure stuff and hair accessories into it for the longest time. it's the perfect size to keep these things--outside of a cabinet drawer.
right: cabinet drawer. this has all of my larger items that i use daily and all of my face primer samples that i'm slowly going through.. on the right, i have a single organizer bin with samples etc. going on in there.... anyway.... and some powders and concealers to try out... @_@
unii palettes: white: face powder and bronzers, blue: boi-ing concealer (it's almost gone! TT_TT), blushes, lumiere from paris palette

bedroom/closet:
top: dresser top. my aunt's mom gave me this huge vase (left) at my bridal shower and i'd been struggling to figure out what to use it for. then, i saw one of my youtube gurus using a similar vase with some rocks or sand or something at the bottom. so voila~! instant brush holder. so this one has my most-used/most-liked brushes, the other two have my less liked, spare brushes. the one toward the middle has my current lip glosses. then there's my crystal ring holder and box--awesome for keeping track of your frequently-worn jewelry! and finally, a little jewelry box i'd gotten from a cousin a few years ago. i mostly have a few costume jewelry pieces in there that i frequently wear. my "good" jewelry is hidden, out of sight, out of mind. and in the foreground, redwood woodwick candle and my naked palettes. and two somethings that will remain unnamed until a certain person gets their xmas present. if you're wondering about the random blue towel under my frame on the right; my dresser is too big for the wall it's against and our bedroom door swings right there; so it's to make sure we don't scratch it...and the closet door is just on the other side of the dresser. ....hmm that should be my next project: making this apartment in sims3.
bottom: closet. here's the other sterilite drawer cart! and some snapware containers and my train case from sephora! on top of my cart: harajuku lovers wicked style baby perfume, bbw forever red perfume, givenchy play perfume, a crapton of mascaras, and a box with some products that i don't want and haven't decided what to do with yet.

  
so here's the inside of the drawer cart. the top drawer is not very interesting; it's got lint rollers and other things of the like in it.
the second drawer: left: lip glosses and balms, middle-left: cheek tints, lipsticks, and (temporarily) loreal eyeshadow duo. middle-right: travel sized eyeliners, shadow pencils, cake eyeliner, and some clear nail polish bottles. right: more mascaras, full-sized eyeliners. front: nail files, aveda translucent powder, a lip balm, lip stick, lip gloss, lash curler, clear nail polish, and a pen. along the side: a spare nyx brow shaper, new loreal onesweep natural for brown eyes shadow, and too faced bb cream.
third drawer: has my dry and shape; the shoulder strap and extra dividers from the train case (below), false lashes that i have yet to use..., nail wheels, extra brushes that i don't like nor frequently use, extra bottles of stila foundation and tt pearl glow primer, mufe sens'eyes. and inside my ud urban bride box is extra lip and eye products that i'll get around to eventually, or doubles.
fourth drawer: lush stuff!!! the front-ish has soaps, middle-ish has bath melts and bubble bars, and the back-ish has bath bombs. then a few lush times along the side.

left: here are my snapware containers.
  • top: mini snapware container.
    • top: spare primers and lip products, spare tubes of clinique super city block--which are usually free at dillards at certain times of the year with like no minimum purchase, they'll mail you a card.
    • middle: face powders, blushes, highlighters, luminizers, eyeshadow, foundations, eye primers, ...floss..? lol.
    • bottom: nail polish that i'm currently into or that i want to try out sometime soon
  • left: my extra, random makeup junk. top: some konad stuff, brush roll, travel bliss set, small bathroom cups for future water marbling, spare clear nail polishes or treatments that are meh. bottom: extra brushes or other accessories, sample perfume "collection". extra ud body powder that i bought for no reason when i never use the small one from urban bride set......... tokidoki compact mirror that is too heavy for my purse..but it's cute..
  • right: nail polish collection of course! the taller bottles (lower bin) are in the top bin, as the lid gives some extra space compared to stacking a bin on top, and the shorter bottles are in the upper bin/bottom of the stack. the bottles in the lower bin with the blue nail polish on top are to remind me that those are the shatter polishes before i grab for any of them. DO NOT grab this container by the handles. it is heavy and it will give out and create a huge mess.
right: travel makeup bag. this is kinda out of place in this post but whatever, my travel bag is on top of my train case, cut off in a photo a few pictures above, and there's a unii palette in it so yeah. what's in my [travel] makeup bag! this is the ud 15th anniversary bag. it's sparkly! >w< anyway! brushes: concealer, powder, blush, angled contour, shadow. (i should probably throw in a couple more eyeshadow brushes >.> ...) philosophy grace powder, too faced eye and face primers, nyx brow shaper, locally-made lip balm (fleur de bees), lipstick, mini de slick spray, ulta shadow duo, avon 8-in-1 neutrals palette, grind house sharpener, loreal onesweep eyeshadow in playful for brown eyes. unii palette: random pressed powder, benefit sexbomb, random concealer, clinique blush in posy. blotting paper and tweezers in the zipper compartment; and i usually throw in some eyeliners and mascara from my counter.

so here's the inside of my train case, and photos of it the contents outside of it. ...and updated z palette photos. if you're not observant, between photos, i switched out the small zebra z palette for the striped palette.
  • right-left-top photo:
    • the pro zebra is all blushes and bronzers from benefit, tokidoki, sigma, and clinique.
    • the black is ud eyeshadows, theBalm nude'tude palette, and 2 sephora shadows.
    • the striped palette has the sigma paris palette shadows, mini free sigma shadow, and stila kitten. the leopard palette has tokidoki, too faced, clinique, and lorac eyeshadows.
    • the little black palette toward the top right corner is the lorac femme fatale palette from hautelook.
    • 2 maybelline quads, a loreal quad, and 3 too faced glamour to go palettes
  • right-right-top photo is too faced leopard love set, tokidoki bronzer and luminizer, benefit prrrowl, ud primer in eden, mini mufe sens'eyes, a few mini setting powders, some maybelline color tattoos, lorac 3d liquid lustre's, sephora eyeliner, ud walk of shame, eyeliners, highlighters, and mascaras. 
  • right-right-middle: too faced 2 glamour to go palettes, candlelight, and candlelight glow; black jars: depotted ud eye primer potions (original, greed, sin), ud 6-pan build your own palette, stila foundation, tt pearl glow primer
  • right-right-bottom: some loreal lip butters, spare boi-ing, lip products, pencil sharpener, destroyed pink leopards in a jar, more color tattoos

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