Tour: My Vanity!

Good Morning, everyone! Since I graduated from college I have been without a place to properly put on my makeup. In college I turned my desk into a vanity all 4 years because I hate doing my makeup out of a makeup bag and I like to be able to sit down while applying it. I wanted a place then, and now, to lay out all of my products and organize them in the order that I put them on my face.

After continuous searching, I finally made up my mind that this is the vanity that I wanted. It's the MALM Dressing Table from Ikea in white. I love it in white, I think it makes it even more feminine looking. I also like that it has a long drawer for storage.

As you can see, these are closer pictures of what I have on the top of the vanity. I try to keep it minimal and un-cluttered. I was really surprised when I went to the Dollar Store a few weeks ago and I even did a post on some storage containers I found (check it out here). While I was there, I found the glass containers which is exactly what I was looking for. I think look so nice and the glass is really thick for a dollar!

The clear storage cube has the products that I've been reaching for the most lately. I have it organized by the order that I put the products on my face and I can do my entire routine solely from these drawers if I wanted to.

I'm not going to talk about each product, because even though I don't have THAT much stuff, it would take forever!

In this section, I used a divider tray that I already had and in the back left corner I have some powder puffs and sharpeners. Next to that, I have products that I don't use often, like eyeshadow palettes, gel liners, etc. In the middle section I have a couple of powders, foundation, concealers and a couple of Benefit highlighters that had no other home!
 Up front I have a few disposable sponges, a hand sanitizer, a couple of sample packets and Q-tips, which I use pretty much every day when I do my eye-makeup. Lastly, I have a section that I put extra mascaras and eyeliners in.

I got these white trays from Walmart for super inexpensive and they work perfectly. Here you can see I have a tray of different types of bronzers (except for my Soap & Glory powder) and next to that is a tray of blushes.

And finally on this end, I have a tray of lipglosses, lipsticks and lipliners to finish off my makeup.
I also have some regular headbands and some fabric headbands at the end here because I was planning on also bringing my hair tools in here and doing my hair and makeup sitting at the vanity, but I haven't done that yet, so for now these are here. If I take the hair accessories out, though, it's nice to know that I have some room to grow with my makeup if I wanted to.

So that is the tour of my vanity. As you can see, I have more makeup than your average girl probably does but no where near the amount that you see some of the Youtube beauty gurus have in their collections. I like how I have this organized and the fact that everything is laying flat and nothing is really on top of each other so I can see everything I have. Of course, if I expand my "collection" I could stack products and still have room in the drawer for more products.

I still have a few changes to make that will happen eventually such as getting a new mirror (the light bulb burned out and is useless now), but luckily I'm in front of two windows so the lighting hasn't been an issue yet, and I don't have a chair to match. I've just been using a desk chair.

Hopefully this was helpful in some way. I know I like to see how other people have their things organized. Let me know your setup and if you have any comments or suggestions for me!