So recently I picked up the infamous Alex 9 drawers from IKEA to store my makeup in, and I thought I would show you how I organised them because despite pretty much all beauty gurus having these drawers they're actually quite hard to store makeup in. The drawers don't pull out all the way so you have a lot of wasted space at the back of the drawers and nothing seems to fit perfectly its just not very aesthetically pleasing, unless you have like £50 acrylic inserts to divide the drawers which in my opinion sort of defeats the point of getting the drawers in the first place because 9 drawers for £95 is a steal. But I tried my best and here is what my makeup collection currently looks like...
So on top of my drawers I have a beauty bay box in the back, with a mirror and three plant pots, all from Ikea (pretty much everything is from Ikea) to put my brushes in, the pot on the left has my face brushes in, the middle one has my eye brushes and the pot on the right has my Go-To brushes.
First drawer, we have foundations, they're in the top cause I reach for them the most and its just easiest to see what ones I have when I lay them down like this.
Next drawer, we have tube foundations and BB creams as well as concealers on the top tray but underneath the top tray you can take it out and that is where I keep my lesser used foundations and tinted moisturizers.
Next drawer is setting powders to the left, with lip balms behind that and in the right hand compartment we have bronzers, both powder and liquids.
Next we have setting sprays and primers (prep and set) to the left of the drawers and on the right we have blushes and highlighter with a mix of powders, creams, liquids.
Under that we have the eyes and eyebrow drawer, in the top tray we have all this to do with eyebrows with pomades, powders, pencils, gels and tints. And under the tray insert you can take it out and you have mascaras and lashes and liquid eye shadows and single eye shadows.
Next drawer is for my pallets, in the right hand box closest to you when you open the draw you have face pallets because I use them the most and in the pot closest to the back you have eye shadow palettes. Down the side and underneath is where I keep my palettes that are too wide to fit in the tubs and underneath are palettes that are too tall to stand up.
Last but not least we have lips, using the same insert as the eyebrow stuff is where I keep my small selection of liners, lipsticks, glosses, liquid lipsticks and lash glue and underneath is where I keep my standard lipsticks.
In the drawers I didn't show is where I'm keeping my current makeup bag that I haven't packed away yet because I'll need it for a trip in a few days so I'm just keeping it packed up in there,
Another thing about the Alex 9 drawers that is important to mention is that although the same design they do not fit the same as the Alex 5 drawers! The 5 drawers are much longer so you can fit more in, so bare that in mind when you're ordering inserts for your drawers.
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