Updated Makeup Storage

Updated Makeup Storage 

A couple of posts ago I showed a quick picture of my newly organised makeup storage in a Today in Pictures post. And a couple of people commented on it so I thought that today I would share with you a detailed post on my makeup storage with some more pictures and how I organiser everything. 

Firstly I just want to say that I am not trying to show of about how much makeup I have, I do realise I have a lot more than is necessary. But everything that is here is bought with my own money (or birthday presents). 

So here you can see how my whole makeup storage looks. I have it on my window sill by my desk so that I can access it easily. And in the other corner I have a round magnifying mirror which I move down to my desk when I do my makeup. I dream that one day I will have a beautiful white dressing table for all of my makeup and beauty bits! But right now this is the best storage solution that I have found. 

As well as my Muji storage I also have this clear makeup storage I think from TK Maxx. I used this to display some of my most used and prettiest makeup. And I love how this looks with the rest of my bedroom. 

For my main storage I have three lots of the wide double Muji drawers. Going from the top to the bottom I have everything in the order that I would put my makeup on. Basically base and face products, to eye products to lips. So now I will just briefly go through each of the drawers starting from the top. 

In the top drawer I store all of my base and face products, as after moisturiser and suncream this is what I reach of first. I have a couple of primers, my liquid and powder foundations, my concealer and a powder. I also keep my eyebrow kit in this draw and that is my next step and I think it fits well here. 

The next draw is a bit of a mismatched one. It was meant to be bronzer, blushers and contour however I also have two larger MUA eyeshadow palettes and my eyelash curlers here and they just fit. 

The next drawer that I have is eyeliners and mascaras however I'm just thinking about it and I always do my eyeshadow first so I should probably swap these two drawers around. From left to right I have my liquid eyeliners, crayons/shadow sticks, pencil eyeliners and then mascaras. 

This is probably my favourite drawer with all of my different eyeshadows, it just looks so pretty! I have my creme eyeshadows on the right and then other eyeshadows grouped together in brands. As you can probably tell I am very into all my natural brown and bronze colours!

The bottom two drawers are both dedicated to lip products. I have lip crayons on the right of the top draw and then the rest vaguely group with brand. But to be honest these move around quite a lot depending on which are my favourites at the time. And this is hardly ever full like this I had to go and find about three all in different handbags and makeup bags!

Finally I store all f my makeup brushes in this pretty candle holder. I just used boiling water to get all of the wax out. And I love how simple and clean this looks with all of the white in my room. 

Hope you liked this post and maybe it gave you some storage ideas. If you have done a blogpost of your own makeup storage then leave the link in the comments below and I'd love to go and have a read. Speak soon xx

Updated Makeup Storage

Updated Makeup Storage 

A couple of posts ago I showed a quick picture of my newly organised makeup storage in a Today in Pictures post. And a couple of people commented on it so I thought that today I would share with you a detailed post on my makeup storage with some more pictures and how I organiser everything. 

Firstly I just want to say that I am not trying to show of about how much makeup I have, I do realise I have a lot more than is necessary. But everything that is here is bought with my own money (or birthday presents). 

So here you can see how my whole makeup storage looks. I have it on my window sill by my desk so that I can access it easily. And in the other corner I have a round magnifying mirror which I move down to my desk when I do my makeup. I dream that one day I will have a beautiful white dressing table for all of my makeup and beauty bits! But right now this is the best storage solution that I have found. 

As well as my Muji storage I also have this clear makeup storage I think from TK Maxx. I used this to display some of my most used and prettiest makeup. And I love how this looks with the rest of my bedroom. 

For my main storage I have three lots of the wide double Muji drawers. Going from the top to the bottom I have everything in the order that I would put my makeup on. Basically base and face products, to eye products to lips. So now I will just briefly go through each of the drawers starting from the top. 

In the top drawer I store all of my base and face products, as after moisturiser and suncream this is what I reach of first. I have a couple of primers, my liquid and powder foundations, my concealer and a powder. I also keep my eyebrow kit in this draw and that is my next step and I think it fits well here. 

The next draw is a bit of a mismatched one. It was meant to be bronzer, blushers and contour however I also have two larger MUA eyeshadow palettes and my eyelash curlers here and they just fit. 

The next drawer that I have is eyeliners and mascaras however I'm just thinking about it and I always do my eyeshadow first so I should probably swap these two drawers around. From left to right I have my liquid eyeliners, crayons/shadow sticks, pencil eyeliners and then mascaras. 

This is probably my favourite drawer with all of my different eyeshadows, it just looks so pretty! I have my creme eyeshadows on the right and then other eyeshadows grouped together in brands. As you can probably tell I am very into all my natural brown and bronze colours!

The bottom two drawers are both dedicated to lip products. I have lip crayons on the right of the top draw and then the rest vaguely group with brand. But to be honest these move around quite a lot depending on which are my favourites at the time. And this is hardly ever full like this I had to go and find about three all in different handbags and makeup bags!

Finally I store all f my makeup brushes in this pretty candle holder. I just used boiling water to get all of the wax out. And I love how simple and clean this looks with all of the white in my room. 

Hope you liked this post and maybe it gave you some storage ideas. If you have done a blogpost of your own makeup storage then leave the link in the comments below and I'd love to go and have a read. Speak soon xx

My Real Techniques Brushes

My Real Techniques Brushes 

I know that there are so many reviews of these brushes all over the internet but I really wanted to talk about what I like to use each of these brushes for. I was lucky enough to receive all of these brushes for my birthday this year after wanted them for over a year. And I was definitely not disappointed. These are really amazing brushes, especially for the price and I honestly do not know what I used before these!

The Buffing Brush - I think this is my favourite brush of all. It just applies foundation or BB cream so beautifully and evenly. Before this I just used to use my fingers and it was so much harder to really blend the makeup in so it looked natural. Can't live without this one now!

The Pointed Foundation Brush - This is probably my least used out of all the brushes. But sometimes I like to use it to really blend in my concealer, particularly around my eyes. If you have any other uses for this brush though then I would love to hear about them in the comments.

The Foundation Brush - I don't think that I have ever actually used this for foundation, but to me this is the perfect bronzer/contour brush. I use this with my Bourjois chocolate bronzer to really define my cheek bones and then I like to bring it up a bit on my forehead and down under my chin to create a shadow of a more defined jaw line. Personally I think that this brush is perfect for bronzer. 

The Detailer Brush - I don't use this one all the time but I do find it comes in very useful for when I am doing a smokey eye look. I like to use my Sephora black eye liner to outline my eyes and then I use this brush to smudge everything out and make it look more smokey. The brush isn't overly soft which makes it perfect for blending thicker more pigmented eye liners/ gels or cream eyeshadows. 

The Expert Face Brush - this is the other one that I like to use for foundation and BB cream. I think I prefer the buffing brush as it is slightly softer so I think blends more naturally but this is still a really good one, way better than fingers! 

The Contour Brush - Again I don't really use this one for contour. For me this is the perfect little blusher brush that's quite nice and small you you can really focus the colour where you want it on the cheeks. 

Hope that maybe this helps you find some new ways you can use you real techniques brushes. They are really amazing brushes, some of the best on the high street. And if you use any of these brushes in a different way then let me know in the comments :) xx

My Real Techniques Brushes

My Real Techniques Brushes 

I know that there are so many reviews of these brushes all over the internet but I really wanted to talk about what I like to use each of these brushes for. I was lucky enough to receive all of these brushes for my birthday this year after wanted them for over a year. And I was definitely not disappointed. These are really amazing brushes, especially for the price and I honestly do not know what I used before these!

The Buffing Brush - I think this is my favourite brush of all. It just applies foundation or BB cream so beautifully and evenly. Before this I just used to use my fingers and it was so much harder to really blend the makeup in so it looked natural. Can't live without this one now!

The Pointed Foundation Brush - This is probably my least used out of all the brushes. But sometimes I like to use it to really blend in my concealer, particularly around my eyes. If you have any other uses for this brush though then I would love to hear about them in the comments.

The Foundation Brush - I don't think that I have ever actually used this for foundation, but to me this is the perfect bronzer/contour brush. I use this with my Bourjois chocolate bronzer to really define my cheek bones and then I like to bring it up a bit on my forehead and down under my chin to create a shadow of a more defined jaw line. Personally I think that this brush is perfect for bronzer. 

The Detailer Brush - I don't use this one all the time but I do find it comes in very useful for when I am doing a smokey eye look. I like to use my Sephora black eye liner to outline my eyes and then I use this brush to smudge everything out and make it look more smokey. The brush isn't overly soft which makes it perfect for blending thicker more pigmented eye liners/ gels or cream eyeshadows. 

The Expert Face Brush - this is the other one that I like to use for foundation and BB cream. I think I prefer the buffing brush as it is slightly softer so I think blends more naturally but this is still a really good one, way better than fingers! 

The Contour Brush - Again I don't really use this one for contour. For me this is the perfect little blusher brush that's quite nice and small you you can really focus the colour where you want it on the cheeks. 

Hope that maybe this helps you find some new ways you can use you real techniques brushes. They are really amazing brushes, some of the best on the high street. And if you use any of these brushes in a different way then let me know in the comments :) xx

Which Is The Best £3 Eyeshadow Brush

Which Is The Best £3 Eyeshadow Brush

I always seem to not have enough eyeshadow brushes (or they are just all dirty!) so recently I have been looking for a cheap but good brush. Naturally the first place that I went was to Superdrug where I picked up the black brush on the left for £2.99 which I thought was such a bargain. Only when I finally got it home and started to test out the brush I was a little disappointed. Its not an awful brush it is just quite stiff and not very fluffy meaning that it is not very good for blending. I also find application of eyeshadow with this brush quite difficult and hard to make even. However one thing that I have found I can use this brush for is the Maybelline colour tattoos as it can handle the thicker product and pack on the colour. 

Then while I was in H&M (a shop that has probably featured in my last 3 posts!) I saw some makeup brushes. I already have one other makeup brush from H&M which I use for putting eyeshadow on my crease which I think is amazing. So when I saw the eyeshadow brush on the left for again £2.99 I had to try it. And this time I got it home and I was so impressed. The brush is thick and soft and because it is really fluffy it makes eyeshadow application and blending so easy. I am actually quite tempted to buy a couple more of these brushes so I will have to wash them even less often, but I think that's just really lazy! 

So instead of heading to Superdrug to get your makeup brushes go and check out what H&M have to offer. They don't do loads of different ones but the ones that they do are very good and are such a bargain!

Which Is The Best £3 Eyeshadow Brush

Which Is The Best £3 Eyeshadow Brush

I always seem to not have enough eyeshadow brushes (or they are just all dirty!) so recently I have been looking for a cheap but good brush. Naturally the first place that I went was to Superdrug where I picked up the black brush on the left for £2.99 which I thought was such a bargain. Only when I finally got it home and started to test out the brush I was a little disappointed. Its not an awful brush it is just quite stiff and not very fluffy meaning that it is not very good for blending. I also find application of eyeshadow with this brush quite difficult and hard to make even. However one thing that I have found I can use this brush for is the Maybelline colour tattoos as it can handle the thicker product and pack on the colour. 

Then while I was in H&M (a shop that has probably featured in my last 3 posts!) I saw some makeup brushes. I already have one other makeup brush from H&M which I use for putting eyeshadow on my crease which I think is amazing. So when I saw the eyeshadow brush on the left for again £2.99 I had to try it. And this time I got it home and I was so impressed. The brush is thick and soft and because it is really fluffy it makes eyeshadow application and blending so easy. I am actually quite tempted to buy a couple more of these brushes so I will have to wash them even less often, but I think that's just really lazy! 

So instead of heading to Superdrug to get your makeup brushes go and check out what H&M have to offer. They don't do loads of different ones but the ones that they do are very good and are such a bargain!