Bathroom Storage, Organization & Post Purge!

EDIT: This post was scheduled to go up while I was in Vegas, and for some reason, it didn't. Turns out to be a very good think I cleaned and purged so much as I have a TON of new stuff to put away now!!

I am SO proud of myself. I have spent the last few weeks really cleaning up and purging all my beauty products. Makeup AND the rest. And my bathroom is organized! Which is such a huge relief hen I step foot in my teeny tiny bathroom!

And just to show its not all just stuffed in my shower, here is my shower:

Now my hair care is all in two baskets on the shelf with my towels. These are my backups, new ones and basically everything I am not currently using. Dry shampoos and conditioners for the most part are in the pink basket and everything else in the orange.

Then I have one tiny shelf over my toilet which for the most part is all the hair stuffs I am currently using, along with my toothbrush, toothpaste, clarisonic, and facial spray.

There are lots of products in use, but I really do use them. The elnett I use as an all over hairspray when my hair is don, and the Phillip B hairspray I use more when I am doing an up do and I need it to keep my hair completely up. Also a few samples that are currently in the mix, and to be fair, I have no idea why the purple Catwalk bottle is there. Think its a root bosster but pretty sure Ive used it once and only once.

Now the handwash (by Rocky Mountain Soap) is the ONLY foaming hand wash I can find from any brand that fits on the sink and still allows me to open the medicine cabinet. And my glade sense and spray. The face wipes just need to be put back away in the cabinet.

This basket that stays under my sink is where I put all my empties as I use them up.

And inside the ginourmous medicine cabinet (or closet as it more closely resembles):

Tampons (only have so many because they had the promo with the Revlon lip pencils a little bit ago if you recall). Behind them is my cotton pads, and q tips. Depending on the time of the month determines if the tampons are in front or if the cotton pads and such are. Then my monkey bandaids, hair stuff, and shaving stuff.

Next shelf is body stuff and shower caps and such, started and in use beauty products and then teeth stuff and face wipes.

Bath and shower shelf full of shower gels, bubble bath and scrubs.

And then is all my face masks, my skin stuff to try, and my backups and doubles of my go to products (my toner, makeup remover, after sun lotion etc.

Face masks:

Skin stuff to try:

Backups/Doubles:

As much as this is, I really did purge almost half of my stuff. Nothing is falling out or jumping out at me anymore, and I really do know what I have and where it all is. And it works for me! How do you store all YOUR beauty products? Would love to hear!

Goodbye HELMER.... RIP!

For many in the polish world, a Helmer is a must. Its not something I have ever purchased nor is it something I was planning on buying. It always felt flimsy to me. I have two ALEX units now and love them. I would however like to replace one of my 5 drawer units with a 9 drawer unit. But for those of you who have and love the HELMERS, this might be information you want. This came in direct response to an email query about when one would be restocked. 

"As it turns out, the HELMER series has been discontinued by IKEA and is no longer being manufactured by our suppliers. IKEA products are not discontinued based on sales of consumer demand, but by product availability. This process allows IKEA to open space to introduce new products to the range.

Once an item or series is discontinued our store locations sell all remaining stock with no additional deliveries. Once such items have sold out they are no longer able to be purchased."

So this is not a post telling you all to run out and buy them. It is however a post telling you IF you want one, run out and buy it before its long gone.

My Polish Stash - 3 Melmers OVER FULL! Post Purge!

So I recently did a BIG purge and clean up and realized (ok, I didn't realize. I have been told. OVER and OVER and OVER again) that its been two years since showing my stash! So here we go, short and sweet, took 3 hours just to photograph it all!

Chanel:

Dior:

Deborah Lippmann:

KOH:

Essie & Lise Watier:

Cult Nails (and a SYN Cosmetics):

Illamasqua:

Cheeky Monkey:

Le Metier De Beaute:

MAC:

Lancome, Estee Lauder, RGB & YSL:

NARS:

Formula X:

Ceramic Glaze:

Marc Jacobs & Pantone Universe:

Butter London (yes, I do have all the tops, but for storage purposes, its easier to see each colour without the square caps on!):

STRANGEBEAUTIFUL:

Clarins, Givenchy, Bobbi Brown, Orlane, Laura Mercier, Manglaze, Ozotics, Glittergal, BB, Tarina Tarantino & A England:

OPI:

Ciate:

Zoya:

China Glaze:

Gosh:

Rococo Nail, W.I.C & Leighton Denny:

Catrice:

Nails Inc:

Models Own:

And the drawer that makes me sick to my stomach when I open .Its SUCH a mess. BAH!

Nailtini:

Lynderella:

More:

More:

F4, Girly Bits, Nerd Lacquer and a few other odd indies:

Dance Legends & Catherine Arley:

Essence, Australis, Nivia & P2:

Orly & Quo:

And my Juleps (minus about 50 not yet logged in my list):