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Some Storage Photos

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A little Bank Holiday (picture heavy) fun for you. Several people have been asking me recently to post some photos of my storage system(s), so here you have it. And now, whenever I whinge that I can’t buy any more cosmetics, you can see why. There’s no room. Time for a bigger house, I feel.

First up, the nail varnish.

This is the bookshelf in the spare room. It does still contain books. And fourteen -litre storage boxes £5 each from Staples). The ones reaching up to the ceiling are the “trieds”, sorted by brand, and the ones on the shelf are the “untrieds”, also sorted by brand. I used to have them organised by colour but then it all just got out of hand.  The cream box holds my jewellery. The beige bag contains treatments etc and the blue box on the top shelf contains stuff like backup bottles, fake nails (in case of emergencies) and so on. Oh, and the eagle-eyed among you will have spotted the bag containing fascinators and other wedding / special occasion paraphernalia.

And I might as well show you the boxes in a bit more detail:

Tried OPIs

More tried OPIs

Tried "anything that comes in a box", plus Barry M and other bits

Tried Models Own & Nubar

Tried GOSH and assorted items received from swaps

Tried Zoya & Bourjois and some untried OPI mini sets

Konad, decals and other sadly neglected nail art items

Tried Nails Inc, BB Couture & China Glaze

Untried Zoya, flakies, Leighton Denny & Diamond Cosmetics

The box that needs attention! Untried China Glaze, untried swap items and other one-offs

Untried Models Own, GOSH and Nubar

Untried "anything that comes in a box", Color Club, Barry M, Eyeko & H&M

Untried OPI

More untried OPI

And, although you mainly know me for my love of nail varnish, I also have a huge weakness for all things make-up. I had so much lying around the house that recently I re-invented my storage system and bought three of these drawer sets from Staples. I think they were about £13 each, and stand at a foot high.

Many lip glosses, mainly the same colour. Feel ashamed of quite how many there are.

Bronzers, blushers and highlighers

False eyelashes. Several of.

Illamasqua eyeshadows, plus a MAC lip palette that sometimes lives in my handbag

Loose / Mineral eyeshadows

Random assortment of eye products

Sleek & Illamasqua palettes

Stuff that gets used most frequently – NARS, Benefit, Victoria's Secret

Essential daily stuff – brushes, mirror, mascara, primer, eyeliners etc
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14 responses to “Some Storage Photos”

  1. London Beauty Queen avatar

    You are mental! I thought I was bad enough having just gone out and purchased a new storage system for my ‘extras’, but your nail varnish collection more than triples my whole beauty range! At least it’s well organised and you know where everything is… and it’s true what they say: a girl does need 3000 nail varnishes! xx

  2. Charlie avatar

    Oh look at that Nfu Oh sat on the top there. I am desperate to get these!

  3. Ms.wedgie avatar

    Oh my goodness!!! I’m in nail varnish heaven!! Do you want to adopt me?? I’m 30, very clean and tidy and have some cooking and cocktail making skills!! 🙂

    Out of curiosity…if you wore a different nail varnish everyday, then how many months would your collection last before you went all the way through them and back to the beginning?

    xxx

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  5. Sarah-Iheartcosmetics avatar

    Your collection is like my mums, everything in arranged used or unused lol, all of mine live in the box they came in until they are used, then if I like them I keep them, my mum has lovely long nails though, mine are crap 🙁 xxx

  6. LeanneOCD avatar

    OMG!!!!!! What an AMAZING collection. Have looked back over this post about 3 times in awe.
    x

  7. Nicole avatar

    Oh, now I want to reorganize my whole stash back to by brand! I’ve been kind of wanting to do that anyway but it’s gotten out of hand.
    I have two big Sterlite containers for my makeup as well – probably about three feet each, then two shorter ones that are about two feet. O_o Out of control! I love looking at makeup collections too 🙂 You have some fun stuff in yours!

  8. Sheenie avatar

    You’re crazy, woman! And I love it. There’s a Staples store near me so I may pop in and get those triple drawer things for all my make-up. I seriously didn’t realise you had THIS many nail polishes.

  9. Andrea avatar

    That’s a lot of untried OPI’s! I can’t wait to see them all!

  10. admin avatar

    LBQ – I am mental. But hey, like we said, it’s for “work” purposes! It’s not quite at the 6,000 mark though…now that IS something to aspire to!

    Charlie – I won this one in a contest. There is a UK distributor but I haven’t had the chance to check it out since it launched.

    MsWedgie – Cocktails, you say? OK then! Well, if I wore an untried every day (presuming I bought no more) then I would have enough to last me around a year. If I went back to the start again (as is my plan eventually, to get better photos) then there’s enough there for…a while.

    Sarah – Are you still recovering from the acrylic damage? 🙁

    Leanne – Ha! Thankyou!

    Nicole – I think brand is the way to do it as I often think about what I havent reviewed for a while and head for that box rather than specifically fancying a colour.

    Sheenie – Shhhh! It’s an optical illusion.

    Andrea – Yes it is. And I know what you mean – I can’t wait to wear them all!

  11. Liz avatar

    Mad woman!!!

    Given that make up as a use by date do you find you toss a lot of stuff out?

  12. Lucy avatar

    Nice collection! I like those containters. I can’t imagine how many years it would take to use all my untrieds! I have 2 plastic 6 drawer stacks that are full. Plus I have 4 containers like yours and 4 ex-large containers. I’m also filling up another one. This is insane. I have been getting a bunch at the Dollar Store. There’s still the majority that I pay full price. Am I the only crazy person with that many polishes? I have never counted them. I think I’m too scared.

  13. Kirstie avatar

    I wondered about the products that go to waste too: I’ve had nail polishes in the past which I’ve unearthed from under or something after a year or two and it’s gone all gloopy and unusable – Do you not lose any of your polishes to age Helen? 😕

  14. Modesty Brown avatar

    Amazing storage and collection. I love the make up storage in particular. I must take a look in Staples as I’d love some drawers like that.
    MB x

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