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I face an ironic dilemma. I struggle to find time to put on makeup in the morning, yet I obsessively buy new beauty products. This predicament leads to a bathroom full of 3/4 filled products and a giant mess. Because I would like to actually use some of my purchases, I spent the other day organizing my bathroom. Now, my bathroom looks gorgeous and so do I.
Here are some of my tips to get your beauty products organized and in tip top shape.
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- Clean out your products. Before you can even start organizing, you need to throw everything away that has expired, you haven’t used in six months or is empty. Be brutal. If you can’t part with that eye cream from 2008, enlist a friend to give you some tough love.
When you go through the process of throwing out all your expired beauty products, you’ll likely realize that you’ve been buying more makeup and skincare products than you really need.
You may want to start focusing on quality over quantity when you’re buying skincare and makeup. It’s smarter to purchase several higher quality, safer products that don’t use harmful chemicals than it is to buy lots of items that could be damaging your health.
Check out these Beautycounter reviews to get a headstart on some smart skincare choices.
- Use a labeling system. When you buy a new product, put a small label on it noting the date. There won’t be any question when the product expires and needs to be thrown away.
- Downsize. Choose up to five products that you cannot live without and keep them in the corner of your sink or on a shelf in your medicine cabinet. Get rid of or store everything else. You can buy a cute tray for your sink to display your products so it is both decorative and practical.
- Have two make-up bags. Sounds counterintuitive, right? Hear me out. If you fill one bag with your daily make-up essentials and one with your more fun make-up, you won’t be rooting through a giant bag filled with glitter eyeliner when all you need is your mascara. I keep my tinted moisturizer, concealer, bronzer, an eyelash curler and mascara in my essentials bag.
- Store like things together. Group all of your products like hair care, skin care and styling tools together and then store each in separate bin under your sink. This way, when you go to buy that 100th bottle of moisturizer, you can look under the sink and realize you don’t need it. This system also helps wrangle cords from hair dryers, curling irons and flat irons so you don’t have a tangled mess under your sink.
And that’s it! With a little discipline, you can have your beauty products organized in no time!
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Written by Jamie Lieberman of businessese.com. We originally published this post on Jul 19, 2013.
Thanks Jamie for such a useful tips. I am trying these at home and these tips make my life more easier than before.
Great tips! thanks for sharing 🙂
Having two make-up bags… That’s the solution! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you! This was very helpful to me. I am one of those that digs through 12 glitter shadows (which I’ve yet to use!) to find an eye liner that I need. I thought I had organized it nicely with my hanging mesh organizer. Well, not nicely, but it was at least contained. I am definitely doing the two makeup bag thing, that will come in so handy!
Downsizing is my favorite tip. I think if people saw our bathroom they would be amazed how little we use.
thanks for the great tips i totally need to downsize before i attempt to organize my stuff
Sound advice; I like the two make-up bag thing especially. I have (humm) more Like 3 but I need to throw some stuff away.
Some great tips, I particulary like the two makeup bag one. Makes sense. Thanks for sharing
Have been trying to do this and this was a great reminder, thanks!
Great tips! I recently went through my beauty products and now I am going to double check to see if I missed any of these ideas.
Nice tips and ideas , I showed this to my significant other
Great tips they will come in handy when I go back to work next month
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I keep it all in a shoe box.
Super tips. I don’t use a bunch so it makes it simple to keep them organized. I do need to work on throwing out expired products.
Good tips! I’m bad about hoarding beauty products myself. I just haven’t been able to come up with a storage/organization system that works for me so they usually end up being shoved in my vanity drawers.
Those are all great ideas! I’m a terrible pack-rat – as I’m purging and packing for our big move next month, I discovered I have way too many beauty products ‘stashed’ that need to go. If I had them organized, I wouldn’t have that problem! 🙂
With 2 kids both under the age of 5 I can use all the organizing help I can get! Thank you!
I should really do this…I’ve got an incredibly messy make-up collection
Wonderful tips!!! Book marking this to remember
Great tips. In the summer I usually don’t wear anything but water-proof mascara. I sweat to much for anything else.
I really don’t know how I accumulate so much stuff, I am always down sizing.
Thanks for the tips…makeup is taking over my vanity. I really like the two bag one, and will give that a try.
That one shaved off at least five minutes from my morning routine. It really works!
I needed to read these tips ,ive got to go thru an dispose of a lot that I dont use anymore
I know the feeling! Just writing them helped me get more organized!
The tip I follow most is #3. Less stuff, less fuss!
These are some good ideas! Thanks for the tips and suggestions.
Simplify your items… don’t use so much store bought items and save your budget too!
I especially love the tip of having 2 makeup bags… Janice does that and I have in the past. At the moment mine have merged into one big mess. Must organize!
Great tips! I like being organized too so I’m always trying to find a better way to stash things in my bathroom. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
I love these tips!
Thank you! So glad you liked them!