*My Birthday Present To Me*

A vanity!!!! Well it's an early birthday present. I still have 15 days. :) But my makeup hoard was overtaking my extra small, shared by 3 people, bathroom. So I needed something! Some place to store all this wonderful goodness that is makeup and beauty supplies. ALSO for when we are all trying to get ready to go wherever it is kind of hard to all three fit in the bathroom. So yeah. I needed a vanity and I needed it now! I decided to put it in our bedroom. We had a huge dresser with a huge mirror that had cabinets and lit up. Yes it was very huge in our semi small bedroom. Well the room isn't small small but we have a California King bed and a huge headboard and foot board making it hard to move around when you have a huge dresser too. I had like 8 inches in between the bed and dresser to get to my side. Although It's an awesome vanity, it doesn't have a ton of storage so I am still on the lookout for more storage ideas. Ok I'll stop rambling and post the pics. :)

I love cats. All types. :) Thus the 2 dolls. I have another monster high one but she isn't here. I don't know. I realize I am 30 (almost) but I really liked these dolls. The clear organizer has my foundations and concealers and lipsticks. I think it was $4 at walmart. The thing holding my brushes was like $6 at walmart. It was neat though my very few owned bracelets added a neat look to it. It has 4 little cylinders that hold different size brushes or products. 

This is my drawers on the right side of the desk. The black container things are from Walmart I think for like $5 you get 3 of the long skinny ones, 2 larger ones and the 3 little ones. They interlock with each other. They were in the office organization area. And as I am writing this I realize I am a ditz and I forgot there was another drawer. You know one of those pencil drawers in the center. Ugg. I will fill it now. I was complaining that I needed more room but I have it. *facepalm*

 

The left picture is of the drawer on the left side of the desk. It has 2 really deep sections which is perfect. It fits my Conair vanity mirror perfect so I do not have to keep it on the desk the whole time :) The right picture is of what is in that silver basket that I paid $.25 for at a Hospice shop. It has 2 Eos glosses, my elf primers, a mineral foundation, a big hair clay sample and a elf cream foundation. Underneath it is a Elf Marble palette and the ELF Geometric palette. 

I saw someone do this on pinterest or youtube...one of those. They took 2 of these little 3 drawer organizers (I had these on hand) and put a board across the top for extra storage. I found this board, already painted - laminated white, at walmart for $6. This is the drawers on the right side. Top is lipsticks, the middle and bottom are lip glosses and treatments. 

These are the drawers on the left side. Top is mascaras, the bottom 2 are blushes and face products. The bottom one has some eye shadows and powders in it. That bottle of Elf HD liquid blush is like REALLY bright. I take a toothpick and dip it in it and that is still way too much. So that bottle will last me a long long time. 

This is the stuff under that shelf on the top of the desk. This is where I keep my extra tools, primers, cleaning wipes (mostly for swatches)  The blue basket has my eye cream, deodorant and my brush. 

This is some of my extra storage. The left pic is a (What do you call these!!!???) umm Picture/note holder? anyways I use it to hold all my glasses/sunglasses. The middle pic is of three little metal shelves I bought at a thrift store for $4. They hold my Soho Disney bags and my Elf Look Books. The third picture is a makeup travel organizer ($6 at a thrift store) I use it to hold my nail files, the middle holds my cotton balls and wedge applicators, the bottom has my hair clips and elastics. 

Yes I am ashamed to say this is all my nail colors. I have more coming in the mail but these are all the ones that made the "Keep" cut. :) Right pic is of 3 of my many many bags/purses. They were the only ones not being used so that is why there are only 3 there. These all came from a thrift store for $2 each. 

My on the floor storage. The bin has some of my extra makeup bags that I use to carry stuff with me. The right picture is of one of those larger 3 drawer organizer. This is the bottom drawer, the  other 2 just have samples and randomness. :) 

I hope you enjoyed my vanity pictures! And as always please come back soon. I should have another order come in this week sometime. I will definitely do a post. Comment and follow to keep updated when I post blog posts. :) And let me know what you want to see. I can do almost anything. :) Thanks!