Organizing My Mineral Makeup

Maybe some of you are wondering how I store all my makeup. I have an 8-drawer (I'd thought all along there were 10) hardwood dresser that DH bought for me to store my makeup. I wasn't exactly jumping for joy when he bought it, because it meant that I had to store my makeup in the bedroom and not the bathroom, and I was enjoying applying makeup in the bathroom because natural light floods through easily because one wall is entirely made of glass. However, DH had the gift of foresight, I admit, because with my makeup collection as it is today, there is no way it would have fit inside our bathroom.


Two years ago, here is what the countertop looked like. I only had three of those small sterilite drawers, and those were the only brushes I had. Now I have seven of those drawers on top of the dresser. I miss how small my makeup collection was then - it looked so easy to maintain.

Anyways, I'd accumulated a lot of little mineral shadow jars and mineral samples that I had to devise a way to store all of them. I have this magnetic photo album that I slap the little baggies on and cover them with the provided plastic. I arrange them according to colors and it's great that you can see all the colors in one go so you can choose eyeshadow or blush combinations easily.



As my sample collection grew, I slowly ran out of space in my magnetic photo album. Also, on some days, I find the album cumbersome as on busy days, I don't have time to flip through the pages to choose my colors.



I discovered this stackable plastic craft containers with handles at Target that have those little compartments, and I think it works best for me because I get to organize the products into those little squares and segregate them according to use - I separate glows, blushes, shadows and foundations and place them into the little squares according to kind. Then when it's time to do makeup, I just flip the container open and sort them out by compartment.



These are the two tiers of plastic squares in my craft box. They can be stacked one over the other and flipped shut. It has a handle so you can tote it wherever you want to go.



For full-size jars, I found this neat craft box from Target that has two tiers of trays as well, and the trays on the top tier are removable. I bought a lot of these craft boxes and I arrange my jars according to brand/kind.


The upper and bottom tiers when the top trays are removed.


I then store these boxes in my dresser. The plastic squares where I store my sample baggies is the craft box on the bottom right. The craft boxes for full size jars are the top ones - I can hold ten of these in one drawer - eight stored upright and two on their sides.

There you have it - my mineral makeup storage system. This works best for me because I want to fully utilize my dresser, and I can work efficiently with this kind of system.