Second startpost / Makeup Area

So technically this is not a second post (it´s a third post) but I´ll call it a second start post anyway. I've been trying to get my makeup area in order and now most of it is in it´s place. My goal with a makeup area is to make it look nice and to get it in the style I like. At the same time it has to be smart and all the stuff has to be easy to reach for. I like to organize things and want everything to have a good place in the drawer. Messy is not my style...What is my style?...well I´m a bit old fashioned. I love the 50´s (clothes, music, movies, hairstyles...) And I like things to be pretty. My favorite pattern is polka dots! Just love everything with polka dots!
In the heat of the moment I forgot to take before-and-after-pictures! It's like an unwritten rule when you renovate or redo something. But I realized it when the old drawer was empty. Well well...The new drawer is from IKEA, Alex with six drawers. First I looked att the Alex nine drawer but when I went to the store and saw the six drawer I thought i was much more suitable for makeup. The nine drawer has deeper drawers but I don´t like the idea of stacking the makeup. It should be easy to get an overview. So the six drawer with wider drawers and not as deep felt better. As a beautiful topping to the drawer I got an orchid in a lovely purple color and a cute little candle holder. To that I added one of my jewelry holders that i've painted and decorated myself a few years ago, in the shape of a woman's body. My perfumes stands on a little striped box in black and white (I have three more boxes with the same pattern but different shapes). As a perfect detail and complement to this I placed a book on the drawer as well. It´s called Vogue - Den stora boken om skönhet (The big book about beauty). It´s so charming! Written in the 1980´s so the models and styles is pretty old school but so am I! The beauty tips are pretty much the same as today.
And then it was the light. A lamp that gives a good evenly light. Unfortunately i have a window on the left side which isn't a good thing. But I can´t move the window so I got the same lamp that we have in the in and under the kitchen cabinets. And it worked great!
To organize inside the drawers I found little boxes that you can decorate yourself and decorated the boxes and the lids with white napkins with lite black polka dots on. I also used desk organizers from IKEA. In the two drawers at the bottom I put my jewelry (earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings). To prevent them from sliding around in the drawer I put some of the plastic from the IKEA-packaging in the bottom. I've sorted the makeup after brands and type of makeup. Check it out below =)

The makeup area. The mini drawer on the right is from Panduro (like the polka dot boxes) and i´ve decorated it myself. But i'm thinking about changing the pattern, will see. The desk is from IKEA. I got the mirror at a clearance sale at a store that closed down a few years ago. 

Makeup tissues (Always good to have). My Victoria´s secret bodylotion, hand disinfection, cotton swabs and a Mary Kay pen in one of the other striped boxes, shaped like a heart. The glass is from makeup store, got it at a club members-evening.

Makeup brushes...

These cute little perfume bottles is actually a gift from my dad to my mom but I found them in a bathroom cabinet when I was younger and they've been decorating my makeup areas ever since. The two men's perfumes are my boyfriend´s but he never uses them so they got the seat next to the "ladies"

The little polka dot boxes <3

 

I have some sort of plan to do a video about this as well since it's kind of hard to explain it all in writing. But that´s the next project I guess. One step at a time. I hope you liked it. If you have any other tips or questions let me know.