the belle lumiere

My friend Kimberley (aka Miss Giggly from Pop Couture) and I were recently discussing the issue of makeup and bathroom storage. For the longest time my bathroom was a disaster zone. Makeup and beauty products shoved into drawers and cupboards in disorganised array. (you should know that I absolutely hate clutter, so this was a big deal for me. stressful.) I decided that I’d had enough, and needed to do something about it. My solution? Howard’s Storage World.

It’s a good idea to ‘think outside the box’ when it comes to bathroom storage, because a lot of the options available are just not what you’re looking for. I found my makeup storage containers in the home office section (I preferred the grey/taupe colours) and my bathroom cupboard storage containers are from the laundry section.

I keep my weekly products in a container on the bathroom cabinet (in picture #1) – everything that I’ll be using for the week goes in there. My bathroom cupboard is organised into hair care, body products, skin care & a spare container holds all of my samples/nail products. (picture #2). My makeup is organised into different catagories in two different drawers. The top drawer includes face (primer/foundation/concealer), cheeks (blush, bronzer, highlighter), lips (gloss, balm, lipstick) as in picture #3. The second drawer includes eyes (eyeshadow, liner, mascara) split into two different containers, and a seperate container for all of my brushes. (in picture #4) Speaking of which, I really need to streamline my brush collection. It’s all over the place at the moment!

eta: I should probably point out that as we have 3 bathrooms in our house, this is technically considered ‘my’ bathroom. I haven’t kicked the rest of my family out just to over run the place with my own junk!

How do you organise your bathroom? Do you have storage issues or some interesting solutions?