More new storage!

After recently revamping my nail varnish storage, I decided I needed something new to house my ever expanding make-up. For the past few years my make-up has been happily living in these drawers that I got from WH Smiths. They weren't particularly nice looking, but they did the trick and sat nicely on my dressing table. I had a drawer for single eye shadows, one for mascaras, eyeliners and lip products, one the housed my every day stuff, then the large bottom drawer had everything else kind of thrown in. This worked for a while, but as you can see as I acquired more make up, this became less effective!

My trusty make up drawers, and how they ended up looking!

The three smaller drawers were quite shallow, and I kept getting things caught so the drawer wouldn't open properly, and the bottom drawer was a bit too deep, and things tended to get lost, and it just really became a nightmare trying to do my make-up on a morning. And also it had nowhere to store my palettes.

After browsing various blogs and other websites, I found the perfect solution for my delimma. So yet again off I went to good ol' WH Smiths and picked up this little beauty. Well, maybe not so little as it was a pain to carry around, but it's a beauty all the same! They were reduced from £19.99 to a mere £9.99 which is probably what I paid for my old drawers. So many bloggers appear to have done the same thing lately, I can't help but wonder if WH Smiths are aware of our use for what I'm guessing was designed for stationary/office items!

It's fairly large, a little bigger than A4, and as you can see it has three different sized drawers. I'm using the larger one to store my palettes. Next we have single eye shadows, and then a mix of blushers, highlighters, powders and bronzers. The smaller drawers at the top hold foundations/concealers/primers, mascaras and eye liners, then finally lipsticks and lipglosses. Everything is that bit more organised, and hopefully I'll find it easier to grab what I'm looking for, and hopefully things that were stuck at the back of my old drawers will see the light of day and get some use!

There were a few different designs available, including a really cute cup-cake one, but I went for this from their 'Blossom' range as I loved the colour. And my make-shift nail varnish holder has a similar blue/green colour in it so it kind of works quite well. Admittedly the drawers are already quite full so I really should hold off buying too much more make up in the near future. I'm also a little concerned about keeping them clean as they're made from (strong!) cardboard, but for the time being I'm very pleased with my new purchase, thanks to all the bloggers out there for the tip! ;)

Apologies for the unmade bed in the reflection!

Sarah Xx