Nail Polish Storage

(Sorry about the poor photo quality the lighting's terrible in the flat!)

A little while ago I was moaning to my lovely fiance that I didn't have any storage for my nail polish collection, they were just chucked in a bag which I had to rummage in to find anything I fancied, I couldn't see all my polishes to decide what I wanted to wear and this resulted in always wearing the same polishes and neglecting the rest of my collection.

He took pity on me and built this little shelving unit (I say little it's about a metre sqaure!)

I love it!

I can now see all my bottles of joy lined up in brand order

And I now use all of my neglected polishes on a regular basis too

Unfortunately the way I had them stored before had led to leaks and smashes so a few of my bottles are covered in nail varnish, and it takes forever to get off the bottles

I use the shelves to store my hand and foot creams too...I have quite a few s&g heel genius lined up on the bottom! It always seems to be included in their gift sets and I never get through them...

How do you store your nail polish collection?

Love

Belle

xoxo



Make up storage

I have become obsessed with all things interior based. I'm constantly on websites eying up millions of pounds worth of goodies which I can only dream of buying. I want to try and get into the car booting/charity shopping so many fellow bloggers seem to be so inept at. Any tips just leave them in the comment section lol! 

My ideas for my bedroom mainly revolve around white, sleek furniture, lots of roses, some subtle little lights wrapped around a mirror...everything girly. Not quite the shabby chic look as the boy isn't too keen on it but halfway there. 

We're in the process of redecorating the living room so photos of that will be up in due course, I'm rather excited to be honest...

Anyway this post is about my make up storage system, adapted from before since stealing a set of drawers from my Mother (once the Ikea Helmer is mine she can have it back of course)

                                                 

So these are the drawers, from Hobbycraft I think

The bright colours are nice but I'd rather have just the white translucent set

Or even the white Helmer (*cough* hint *cough*)

On the top I keep various jewellery and bits 

One of my favourite drawers

Full of my lip balms (I'm hooked I admit) and various sample sizes of other bits and bobs

It's great having a cousin in the beauty industry she always lets me try out new products

Must start a regular reviewing regime

This drawer is home to all my pallets 

Left hand side are the two urban decay nakeds, two MUA pro pallets and three sleek 

The top velvet pouch is my Chanel travel compact, then a No7 compact mum bought me for christmas

My MAC pallet is hidden underneath these

At the bottom are my two larger urban decay pallets, Alice in Wonderland and NYC2 

A few lose face products too, the new Benefit foundation which I must review as I love it! And No7 BB cream which is my usual choice for work 

The body drawer...

I keep the majority of body moisturisers in the bathroom

I have a habit of collecting these without realising I must work my way through them before buying more! 

Three of my favourites are in here, Lush Dream Cream, The body shop Lychee body butter this smells divine! I love lychees and this makes me want to lick myself. And the Korres jasmine body lotion I won at my Aunt's hen night, only Korres product I own and I'm impressed, may have to purchase some more.

I never really bother with my hair, just some detangler and heat protection before straightening and I'm out the door.

I'm trying to make a conscientious effort to take care of my unruly mane so this is the starts of my 'hair' drawer

Current face product drawer

Just a few bits and pieces I'm using on my mug at the moment

Kiehls moisturiser, clinique moisturiser, Neals yard moisturiser, clarins toners and other bits

Top of the drawers.... 

These little drawers still house the majority of my make up

Top two drawers blushers to the left and other face products to the right

I looooove the blusher drawer

Lipsticks and lipglosses to the left and more face products to the right

Loose eyeshadows to the left and odds and sods to the left

I have to share a little bit of space with the boy so he gets half a shelf for his aftershave and deodrant :) That's it though!

Two shelves for perfume and a coffee pot for mascaras

These items are all things in my dream bedroom...I'm now saving my pennies for these beauts. Anyone with a spare two grand feel free to chuck it my way!!! 

 I have huge plans for this baby. Gavin has hinted at a birthday present

One happy Belle if he comes through on that one!

Hope everyone's all hunky dory :) 
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Love
Belle
xoxo

Weekend Project

After pondering on buying some drawers to organise my make-up form WH Smith I asked what Gavin thought...

He said it was £20 I didn't need to spend so I just re-organised some of my make-up so I could access my favourite bits easier whilst being kind of down hearted

So I popped round to see my Mum and she produced these

My Aunt bought these for me as a Christmas present years ago and had painted them in blue and purple

Mum had dug them out thought I could bring them back to their former glory as I'd put glitter paint and other stuff on them

And so my weekend project was born....

 Before Pictures

 I had to sand them down and paint two coats of undercoat before I could get creative

I rummaged around and found some left over paint form the bedroom

So the main body is 'Almost Oyster', the outside of the drawers are 'Dusted Fondant' (I hadn't done that bit yet here) and the inside of the drawers are 'Duck Egg' 

 The finish article

I love them

And even more because I put all the work into restoring them

I'd never used an electric sander and was shocked that Gavin let me use his!

 So my Saturday night was spent home alone with a sander, paint brushes, paint, trashy TV and plenty of wine

Actually quite lovely

 The bottom left drawer has all my loose eyeshadows and mini mascaras in, the right hand drawer is odds and ends

 The middle left drawer is all my lipsticks/glosses and the right drawer is some of my face make-up

 And the top left drawer is home to all my blushes and the right is the rest of my face make-up

 With all this organisation on the top of my chest of drawers my top drawer is so much easier to manoeuvre. My hair dryer is no longer jammed in and I know exactly what's in each bag

I keep my eyeshadow palettes on top of the drawers with my two favourite perfumes

I love how organised and accessible all my make-up is now and know I'm going to be able to experiment so much more! Organisation is love for me :) 

So I've had a productive weekend

Hope everyone's well

Love 

Belle 

xxx