Makeup Table, Storage, and Collection

This is my makeup table as many of you may already know since I could not find the style of makeup table I wanted to match our house i decided to make my own makeup table so that it would match the rest of our furniture style. I also choose to add tiffany blue as accent colors to some of my makeup table pieces so that the color scheme would fit in with the house. For the makeup table I took a sofa table that matched our furniture, found a bench that matched the furniture than added a nice mirror. I'd say my makeup table is now 99% complete.There are just a few blue accents I want to add, and mainly that's just paint the box shelves tiffany blue and maybe the jewelry box tiffany blue, or accent it some how with tiffany blue so there is a bit more blue and less black. Overall I'm very pleased with how my makeup table turned out. As for some of the photos my camera flash washed parts of some of the photos out so I'm sorry for that but you still get the idea.

Since my Naked palettes was too large for my palette display box and I wanted a more predominate place to put them since they are my favorite palettes, I found this letter holder at a dollar store to keep them in on top of my Jewelry Box. As for the Jewelry Box, there isn't anything in it yet and I doubt I use it as a jewelry box, probably will put something makeup related in it when i figure out what I want to go in it. These brushes here are ELF, Sephora and Urban Decay. The other brush set displayed on my table (not shown in this photo) is just drugstore brands, nothing wonderful.

I found this nice little mirrored perfume try at a local store so my husband picked it up for me as one of my Christmas gifts. I really like it it just fits my big perfume bottles. I also have a Marc Jacobs Daisy rollerball in behind some of the bottles. The bigger bottles of perfume are; Burberry Summer, Juicy Couture Viva La juicy, Vera Wang Lovestruck, Juicy Couture the original scent, and Versace Bright Crystal.

I found these wall box shelves one day when I was out doing some shopping and I decided to pick them up for my makeup table. At the time I had no idea what to do with them but after working with them a bit I found out they make wonderful palette holders and displays. So I took all my palettes that would fit and lined them up. I also took my Flowerbomb hair mist box and displayed it in the smallest box and I put a few more palettes on top that didn't fit into the palette box. I think I might paint the outsides of these boxes tiffany blue when it gets warm enough out to do some painting. Palettes include: Stila, Sephora, Urban Decay, Kat Von D, Lorac, and too Faced

This box just contains some smaller perfumes I bought recently, my Flowerbomb hair mist and a extra container for brushes.

This is my Orchid I decided to pick up the other day while I was out. I had been wanting a 30$ Blue orchid but when i went to get it they had sold out of them and took the display case out. Figuring they wouldn't get any more blue orchids in I went to a different place in search of a orchid and ran into this beauty for only 7 bucks. So this pretty little thing sits on top of my makeup storage stand along with a white candle.

This is my makeup storage stand type thing. My husband does not want any plastic in our home (granted I did talk him into two acrylic pieces that he hates and to be honest I'm not that fond of) so he found me this nice wooden storage stand. It used to be pink as some of you may know but he painted it tiffany blue for me and it works wonderfully for makeup storage.

In this area of my makeup storage tower there isn't much just my huge Too Faced palette that wouldn't fit anywhere else. Three small palettes from Sephora, Too Faced and Stila. Than in the white basket there is several eye primers which include Urban Decay, Too Faced, Benefit, and Lorac.

In this area of the makeup tower these are all of my single eyeshadows, eye liners, and mascaras. As far as my single eyeshadows go I have MAC, Sephora, Stila,  Bare Essentials, some NYX ones on the bottom and a few other various brands. My mascaras are Benefit, and YSL. My eyeliners are Sephora, Urban Decay, Bare Essentials, Stila and I think I might have a couple of other brands in there as well.

This is my blush, bronzer and highlight area. To the left is my bronzer area and those include Benefit, Lorac, NARS, ELF, Physicians Formula, and 1 Rimmel. Next to those on top I have my Benefit boxed powders. Next to those in the blue box is my highlighters, as you can see those are NARS, Benefit and 1 Hard Candy. In the long green box are my higher end blushes. Those are MAC, NARS, Tarte, Cargo, The Balm and 1 Too Faced Pink Leopard which for me is really a highlight so it shouldn't even be there, not sure why it is. In the bottom green box are my drugstore blushes which I don't have any of and those include physicians formula, nyx, ulta, Maybelline, and Neutrogena. and directly to the left of that is a bottle of benefit posietint.

This is my face area where my primers, foundations, powders, and concealers go. Primers are in a white basket to the top left, they include Smashbox, Korres, Benefit, Sephora, and makeup forever mist & fix. Drugstore foundations are in the green basket and those are just from ulta. Next to that is my benefit confessions of a concealaholic. Down from that is Urban Decay De Slick and a Silta brightening powder. In the blue basket is more drugstore foundations and those include Maybelline, L'Oreal, and Max Factor. and finally my powders are to the left on the bottom and those are all drugstore and those include Maybelline, Ulta, Rimmel, and ELF

This is my lip area of my makeup storage tower. I have a little bit of everything in here. I have the Buxom rockstar lip set which is the red box. Chapsticks and lip balm are next to that. The two plastic green bins on the bottom that are side by side have my higher end lipglosses and lipsticks which include Stila, Smashbox, Sephora, NARS, Tarte, Lorac, Buxom, and so on. The two top bins that are side by side on is blue the other green hold drugstore lipglosses and lipsticks the green basket holds nothing but NYX lipglosses, the blue holds several different brands that include NYX, ULTA, and others.

There are candles that sit on top of my beauty bookcase. They used to be silver but my husband painted them tiffany blue so now they are more for looks than burning but whatever.

This is my beauty bookcase

The first shelf has nothing but body sprays on it and there are tons of them and all from either Bath & Body Works or Victoria's Secret

Second shelf on the left is the only acrylic storage thing that i actually display and to be honest I don't care that much for it I don't like how it limits what can go where. Any way in the acrylic storage is a large palette from Sephora, tons of samples, kabuki brushes, small lotions, tools, and tissues. In front of it is 3 small CLEAN perfumes. Next to that is a container of blushish rocks holding my empty MAC containers until I have enough to B2M. Next to that is 1 lotion and 2 deorderants and than some small body sprays from B&BW and V.S.

This self is pretty mcuh empty...sorry for the bad photo the flash messed it up. So i have 2 baskets, a empty perfume bottle, a ton of antibacs and a extra brush holder.

a better photo of some of the previous items

My nail polish collection is on the fourth shelf and there is a little bit of everything here. Orly, China Galze, OPI for Sephora, NARS, Sally Hansen, ESSIE, Pure ICE, ELF, and Nails INC as well as others.

And last on the bottom self are all my tanning products which is mostly from Hawaiian Tropic, my lotions, shower gels, hair supplies, and eye care. Lotions are mostly Bath & Body Works and Victoria's Secret. Everything else is just a jumble of brands.

That is all of my makeup storage, collection and my complete makeup table to this point. If you all have any questions or want some storage ideas feel free to leave a comment and let me know and i'll do my best to help.

My Makeup & Beauty Collection

I just wanted to post some updated photos of my makeup table, storage and collection, in case there are some of you who want to know what is in my collection or want some ideas for storage. My collection has grown a lot since my last blog post of this type. My collection is pretty much outgrowing my tiffany blue makeup tower, but if i rearrange some items I wont have to stack items and I'll have more room for new purchases. My makeup table isn't exactly a finished project, I still need to purchase a big mirror as well as a nice chair or bench to go with it. Along with my makeup table I also have what I call my beauty bookcase, which before I got my makeup table and tower, was where I stored all of my makeup and beauty products. Now my beauty bookshelf is about half full but odds are i'll fill it back up eventually. Now I mainly use the beauty bookcase to store my nailpolish and bath and body items.

my makeup table which is where i keep my perfumes, big palettes, samples, liners, makeup brushes, and various other makeup items that I want to have here.

my makeup storage tower

The random item drawer in my makeup storeage tower. This is where items go that don't fit in the other drawers. There are blushes, eyeshadows, foundation, samples, and so on. Basically anything and everything gets put in here.

This is my eyeshadow drawer, i use this drawer for all of my single eyeshadows.

This is the blush drawer

here is the face drawer, it holds my powders, foundations, bronzers and anything else for the face.

finally here is my lipgloss / lipstick / chapstick drawer

now on to my beauty bookcase, here is my body spray shelf, the rows go three deep.

here is a random half enpty shelf with a few things on it.

this shelf is where my nailpolish stays

and last but not least this shelf has my hair products, lotions, tanning products and a few various other items stored on it.

There is a fifth shelf on my bookcase but i don't have anything on it at the moment so I decided not to show it.

Makeup Storage and Makeup Table - Updated

There is a whole new updated post on my blog at this link if you are curious about what my makeup table, storage and collection looks like currently.
http://glamorous-addiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/makeup-table-storage-and-collection.html

Well after trying to go with a pink and black theme for my makeup area, that did not work out. Seeing as how our overall theme is beachy, classy, blues, greens, brown, tan, and gold....pink and black for my makeup area wasn't getting it at all! Plus to me after I started working with it, the pink theme didn't feel very grown up to me, even though I love pink i hate to say it but I've grown past it. So after contemplating taking my makeup storage area back, since it was the awful pink and black color, my husband came up with the idea of painting it for me, so finally i agreed to let him paint the drawers (and now that I've seen it painted I've been thinking about painting the outside shell of it brown). So my husband took me to several local stores and let me pick whatever theme color and things that i wanted for my makeup area, and i decided to go with Tiffany blue, which blends wonderfully with our overall theme and looks a heck of a lot better than what it looked like when i first started my makeup area project. My husband reluctantly gave in and did let me purchase a few acrylic organizers which turned out nicely, which he cringed at the plastic but given that it was just 2 tiny pieces, has learned to live with it. I'm still not finished with my makeup table seeing as how I need a mirror or two, a bench / stool, maybe some brown paint and some various other little odds and ends that I have planned however I would say my makeup storage, beauty bookcase, and makeup table are 75% done.

what my makeup storage area looked like before (I did not paint it pink and black when we bought it, it only came in pink and black)

Painting Day!

After!

My makeup table with a new theme

My New Makeup Table

So after using a bookshelf for about a year to store all of my makeup and beauty supplies, i finally outgrew it. My makeup and beauty stash no longer fits on a 5 shelf bookcase, so i have to have more storage space. After looking for makeup tables and not finding any in our local area that suited me, i moved on to something else. At first i looked at a desk to turn into a makeup table, but that idea didn't work out. Than i happened to bump into something else that i loved. After thinking it over for a night i decided to purchase it and turn it into a makeup table. This lovely piece of furniture is actually a cherry wood sofa table. However for me it's perfect to turn into a makeup table. It's long, wide enough, tall enough, i can easily buy a mirror to hang and use one of our kitchen chairs with it or buy a nice looking stool to use with it. The bottom part can either be used as storage for the stool or i can buy can baskets to place along to bottom and store various beauty items in them. The only bad thing with buying a non conventional makeup table is that with this i have to be a little more careful than normal or it will get scratched so i either have to buy some felt and cut it to size of everything i sit on it, or i came up with the idea of using placemats, which i think will work well to protect the wood and finish. As for what i plan to put makeup, nail polish and brushes in, well for the makeup I'm probably going to buy some acrylic storage containers, for nail polish as a lot of you know I'll be using an acrylic nail polish rack if i can ever find one to buy from a reputable business, and for makeup brushes I've picked out some glass containers and filler that i plan on buying when i can for all of my brushes. I'm not sure how many acrylic makeup storage containers to buy, I'll probably buy two to begin with and see how it holds everything.

my new cherry wood makeup table, this picture makes it look darker than it really is.

the detail on my makeup table