How to Organize a Makeup Table

Keeping makeup organized can simplify the daily beautification ritual and reduce overall time spent in application. By sorting through old, outdated or expired makeup, you can create a makeup cache that only includes the essentials. With a few creative containers and logical groupings, you can create an organized makeup table that looks pleasing and functions better. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions

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Purge unwanted or expired makeup. Toss out any makeup that is over 2 years old. Throw out impulse buys and free samples to lower your overall makeup cache.

2

Sort the remaining makeup. Organize by type, separating brushes, foundations, blushes, lipsticks and eyeshadows into groups. Take a second pass through each group and organize by color.

3

Organize makeup brushes. Fill a shallow, square vase midway with glass gems from a craft store. Wedge your brushes, handles down, into the vase to create an aesthetically pleasing, easily grabbed arrangement.

4

Create a pencil holder. Take an office pencil holder or clean, empty soup can and use a hot glue gun and beads to embellish the outside of the container. Place all eye, lip and brow pencils in the container.

5

Place single eye shadows, arranged by color, into a clear ice cube tray for easy access.

6

Arrange lipsticks by color in a shoebox. Use scissors to cut the excess height off the box. Decorate the box with beads or ribbons using a hot glue gun. Store the lipsticks in it, arranged by shade, upside down, so their labels can be easily read.

7

Outfit a tackle box. Place large items such as moisturizers in the open bottom space. Organize smaller items such as single blushes, tweezers and facial highlighters in the upper compartments. Decorate the outside of the tackle box to your liking.

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Attach easily lost items, such as lip balms or glosses, onto a small magnetic board. Cut and adhere magnetic tape to items you tend to lose and place them on the metal sheet upon your makeup table.

9

Store full makeup palettes in mini CD towers. Slide an eyeshadow or blush palette into the space for a single CD, to keep all your palettes in one place.

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Place longer or plentiful items in a silverware tray or small basket. Arrange makeup removers or sunblocks neatly in a small basket. Use the natural divisions to separate cotton balls from sponges and foundation bottles.