My vanity. Or makeup desk. Or whatever you want to call it.
This desk was a gift to me (along with the rest of my bedroom suite) from my parent's when I turned 15. I'm about to be, ahem, 35 so is it an antique yet? :)
It used to be full of stationery items, cell phone accessories, and office type supplies. I never really used the desk, so I felt like it was wasted space. I decided recently to make this a more usable space and turn it into my vanity area. And...I LOVE it. It is my favorite place to play.
Here is the entire thing (please pardon the silk daisies, that has since been removed. I was just playing around with some decor. I didn't like them). On the Memory Board above my vanity, I have family pictures, hair flowers, and just random memorabilia. I change it up a lot. I also put makeup inspiration pictures of looks that I want to try to recreate on there.
Here are my face brushes, eye brushes, a container of my foundations/tinted moisturizers and tissues. I keep my brushes stuck in lentils. They work perfectly and are super cheap. The only drawback is they remind of those little things that used to get stuck to my socks when I was a child, after playing in a field. Remember those? Oh well, they work.
Most of my brushes are from the Studio Line at E.L.F. They are awesome! They are super soft, never shed and wash well. I also have my beloved Sigma F80 Flat Top Kabuki. It's a new staple. My eye brushes are a mixture of Estee Lauder, E.L.F., Sonia Kashuk (who has amazing brushes), and Ulta Professionals.
This is a small 3 drawer organizer (from Target) that I use to hold my mascaras, brow gels and blushes. The blush drawers are kind of empty since I split it all up into 2 drawers. I'm obsessed with blushes at the moment, so I'm sure it will fill up quickly. On the top, I keep my brush cleaner spray, for daily use, a bronzer that won't fit in the drawers, face primer and some Aquaphor for my lips or any dry patches on my face. I also use the little pink container to hold random lipliners and a hair clip for when I'm doing my makeup.
If you can't tell by the next picture, I love E.L.F. brushes! They are like crack to me. $3 a pop and they are beautiful! My favorite is Candid Coral and Pink Passion. They are comparable to NARS blushes. And, I like them so much that I gave a friend the 2 NARS blushes that I had. I know....what was I thinking? But, I don't miss them.
This is the top left drawer, where I keep all of my eyeshadow quads, trios and singles. I also have lipglosses, lipsticks and powders. I got the little containers at the Dollar Tree. They fit perfectly in my drawer.
The drawer below the one above hold all of my eyeshadow palettes, extra makeup brushes, Vaseline, q-tips (to fix mistakes) and all of my fake lashes and lash glue.I love wearing fake lashes!
The top drawer(pictured below)is my favorite! This drawer has (from top left to right/top to bottom):
Concealers
lipglosses (btw, Lorac lipglosses are great)
liquid eyeliner
eyeliner pencils
face highlighters
eyelid primers
eye/face shimmers
bronzers (I'm a bronzer junkie. I'm still on the search for the perfect one, so if you have a favorite, I'd love to hear about it)!
liquid face highlighters
setting powders
liquid/stick bronzers (NARS Org*sm and South Beach)
I hope you've enjoyed the tour of my favorite place! I guess because I have to wear a boyish uniform everyday, I like to make sure that my face and hair look very...girly. I like that I wear a uniform everyday, b/c it saves me thousands on clothes, but it has turned me into a bit of a makeup junkie. As you can probably tell by looking at my collection, I'm mostly a drugstore girl. A high end product has to really, really wow me in order for me to purchase it. The drugstore brands have really stepped up their game lately, so I feel like I can do a good job at finding a cheaper dupe for the $$ products at CVS or Walgreens. The exception to my "drugstore rule" is Chanel Glossimers and MAC Silver Dusk. Those are the shiz and I've not found a decent drug store replacement for them. Yet...
Have a beautiful week!
xoxo
This desk was a gift to me (along with the rest of my bedroom suite) from my parent's when I turned 15. I'm about to be, ahem, 35 so is it an antique yet? :)
It used to be full of stationery items, cell phone accessories, and office type supplies. I never really used the desk, so I felt like it was wasted space. I decided recently to make this a more usable space and turn it into my vanity area. And...I LOVE it. It is my favorite place to play.
Here is the entire thing (please pardon the silk daisies, that has since been removed. I was just playing around with some decor. I didn't like them). On the Memory Board above my vanity, I have family pictures, hair flowers, and just random memorabilia. I change it up a lot. I also put makeup inspiration pictures of looks that I want to try to recreate on there.
Here are my face brushes, eye brushes, a container of my foundations/tinted moisturizers and tissues. I keep my brushes stuck in lentils. They work perfectly and are super cheap. The only drawback is they remind of those little things that used to get stuck to my socks when I was a child, after playing in a field. Remember those? Oh well, they work.
Most of my brushes are from the Studio Line at E.L.F. They are awesome! They are super soft, never shed and wash well. I also have my beloved Sigma F80 Flat Top Kabuki. It's a new staple. My eye brushes are a mixture of Estee Lauder, E.L.F., Sonia Kashuk (who has amazing brushes), and Ulta Professionals.This is a small 3 drawer organizer (from Target) that I use to hold my mascaras, brow gels and blushes. The blush drawers are kind of empty since I split it all up into 2 drawers. I'm obsessed with blushes at the moment, so I'm sure it will fill up quickly. On the top, I keep my brush cleaner spray, for daily use, a bronzer that won't fit in the drawers, face primer and some Aquaphor for my lips or any dry patches on my face. I also use the little pink container to hold random lipliners and a hair clip for when I'm doing my makeup.
If you can't tell by the next picture, I love E.L.F. brushes! They are like crack to me. $3 a pop and they are beautiful! My favorite is Candid Coral and Pink Passion. They are comparable to NARS blushes. And, I like them so much that I gave a friend the 2 NARS blushes that I had. I know....what was I thinking? But, I don't miss them.
This is the top left drawer, where I keep all of my eyeshadow quads, trios and singles. I also have lipglosses, lipsticks and powders. I got the little containers at the Dollar Tree. They fit perfectly in my drawer.
The drawer below the one above hold all of my eyeshadow palettes, extra makeup brushes, Vaseline, q-tips (to fix mistakes) and all of my fake lashes and lash glue.I love wearing fake lashes!
The top drawer(pictured below)is my favorite! This drawer has (from top left to right/top to bottom):Concealers
lipglosses (btw, Lorac lipglosses are great)
liquid eyeliner
eyeliner pencils
face highlighters
eyelid primers
eye/face shimmers
bronzers (I'm a bronzer junkie. I'm still on the search for the perfect one, so if you have a favorite, I'd love to hear about it)!
liquid face highlighters
setting powders
liquid/stick bronzers (NARS Org*sm and South Beach)
I hope you've enjoyed the tour of my favorite place! I guess because I have to wear a boyish uniform everyday, I like to make sure that my face and hair look very...girly. I like that I wear a uniform everyday, b/c it saves me thousands on clothes, but it has turned me into a bit of a makeup junkie. As you can probably tell by looking at my collection, I'm mostly a drugstore girl. A high end product has to really, really wow me in order for me to purchase it. The drugstore brands have really stepped up their game lately, so I feel like I can do a good job at finding a cheaper dupe for the $$ products at CVS or Walgreens. The exception to my "drugstore rule" is Chanel Glossimers and MAC Silver Dusk. Those are the shiz and I've not found a decent drug store replacement for them. Yet...Have a beautiful week!
xoxo
4 comments:
I am in love with your vanity! I hope to one day have a nice one like this that is organized and has a seat. I currently use one drawer in the bathroom for my makeup and one drawer for my hair stuff. Both are not as organized as I'd like, so I need to hurry up and fix that.
Your stuff is too cute and organized! Love it! Come do mine? =)
Love the play ground!
Glad you're back.
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