Boudoir conclusion
Monday, August 6, 2012 at 10:21AM Okay so remember my attempt at organizing my dresser? I thought it was okay to have everything generally grouped together and lying around in no particular order. Like I said, I'm not the kind of person who puts things back in place everytime they're used. But after living with my "organizing" efforts for a few days, I realized that it's a failure! I didn't know where my things were half the time. I forget the stuff that I actually have since a lot were buried underneath the ones I've been picking up of late.
Upon your suggestion, I decided to hit the mall for some cases and here's what I found:
These are stackable containers from the Mall of Asia department store. I'm sure they can also be found in places like Saizen, and, well, pretty much everywhere else. They're only P99 each so I got four. And now, my dresser, which looked like this:
Now looks like this!
Ta-dah!
I am rather proud of this achievement. :P It took me a couple of hours to weed out stuff that I won't use often so that everything will fit, then I arranged everything in place.
Here's how I did it!
On the first row I placed my foundations, powders, and concealers. My face base is the first step in my routine so it's the most visible.
After my base, I put on eyeshadow. I separated the colorful eyeshadows from the neutrals.
Then, blush! No, I'm not OC enough to organize everything by shade category. :P
The case under the blushes are lip balms and primers. Hmm, I should probably take out those primers and put them where they're more visible.
Here are my mascaras (container to the left), eyeliners (in cream and pencil form), and brow products.
On the side are my makeup brushes. I separated my brushes into those for face and eyes.
I placed my lipsticks-of-the-moment in the small basket. I try to rotate everything as much as possible.
The shelves hold my skincare and hair care stuff.
While the drawer has my big eyeshadow palettes, hair brushes, and random stuff I don't want to lose.
And that's it! I'm pretty happy with how I arranged everything. :D What do you think?
Reader Comments (13)
Congrats Ms.Liz! You finally made it! Hehe kung malapit lang po ako sa inyo ako na ang gumawa nyan! I love organizing things! Specially kung ganyan karami! Hehe si Snap nakita ko sa picture ang cute! Well done Ms.Liz! Keep safe and dry! Mwah!
that's what I use on some of my stuff too! :)
it also took me 2-3 hours to arrange my vanity table and every time I do my routine, it always ends up being put in a wrong arrangement. no matter what kind of arrangements i do, it just ends up to be 100% failure.. :)) .
Kudos to your organization skills! though i'd rather find something cheaper regarding the container. =p
hurrah! i love all things tidy! <3
It's so nice to look at. :)
Nicely done :) Now I'm pressured to arrange my stuff hahaha Maybe you could let us take a peek of how you arrange your accessories next time? hehe
P.S. Snaps looks so snug in the corner. What a cutie!
Well done! :) It looks so nice and very organized.
wow ang dame nyong make ups :) looks more organized and neat than before :)
Wow! Congrats Ms. Liz! Maganda talaga pag everything is in place and organized. Ganda tignan. I love organizing stuff too, I do it for some of my friends. If I can only volunteer to do that for you I would be glad to do so. You have tons of stuff! Love it! :)
You can also have those in SM Department Stores, ung drawers na transparent just in case you want avoid dust on your things. I think it's around 500-600 for 4 drawers in one.
organizing my make up has been a huge problem for me. I tried putting them in drawers but since I dont usually put things back where they should be, nakalimutan ko na kung nasaan sila. Hangang sa nagulo na lahat. Hhehe. So I will definitly try this. Thank u!
Halong!
I love the collection! I have organized my stuff too few weeks ago already but I'd love to have those dividers/containers for it to become much "organized" and that I can easily identify which to use and pick on a daily basis. I was eagerly looking for acrylic containers recently but they're not available in our SM department store..I might look at Ace Hardware then if they have those more spacious containers like yours. :)
Apparently, my post didn't get posted because I forgot to click submit. :p
Wow! You have sooo many make-up! I am amazed you were able to keep them all in one table! :O But how do you do your make-up? In a separate table? Have you ever counter how many of each kind you have? :P I remember you have this huge stash of lipstick, but I don't see it there?
Ms. Liz, I am very curious with the brushes you use. :) I hope you'd create a separate post on that. :P
Hey Liz
I´m a little bit jealous. XP You´re collection is amazing!
I have all my make-up in the little boxes. One for the make-up i´m using nearly every day, one for my not so special make-up, which one i never or rarely use and one for my special make-up. Especially the things i bought in japan. ^^
Greetings from germany