Cosmetic Storage Solution

This is one area where I have my cosmetic items displayed/stored on these pegboards attached to the wall next to my desk. I came up with this idea when I picked up some home and decorating magazine at the book store a couple years ago and inside I found an article that showed different ways to organize items using these peg boards like in a home office for supplies or in a garage to organize tools, nails, screws etc. So I figured I would try them out for storing  and organizing my makeup items and I ended up loving them.

Currently the left pegboard consists of trays and a cup to hold my nail polish accessories like files, nail tools, etc. At the moment the top tray holds a couple Lush dusting powders, nail stamping plates and tools, the second one hold more random items like hair ties, tattoo creams, mini Zoya polish remover and back up of Seche Vite, the third holds several different face creams, primers, etc, and the fourth holds some of my smaller bottles of perfumes, and random items I use regularly.

While I really like the trays they can be a bit annoying since they all tend to lean forward instead of straight and flat so items can easily fall over, the only solution I think that could possibly fix this issue would be to place a thin piece of cardboard between the hook that attaches the tray to the pegboard.

The second pegboard holds two lipstick trays and two different styles of cup displays. Currently one of the lipstick trays hold most of my MAC lipsticks, glosses and some of the Urban Decay Cream Shadows, and the top cup display holds all my liners, and lip liners, the bottom cup display holds all my brushes on the top row and the bottom row holds several NYX double ended liners, Urban Decay 24/7 Shadow Pencils, MAC shadesticks, and brow items.

I really prefer the cup displays to the trays since they sit better on the pegboards, but other than that I absolutely love these pegboards and having them right next to my desk makes it easy to grab items like certain makeup brushes, lipstick or eye liner instead of having to search for them inside a drawer amongst other items.

Availability: azardisplays.com

They sell the pegboard wall panels in different sizes, for reference mine are the 16” x 20” which I think is the perfect size and they also come in multiple colors too!  And there are a ton of different types of bins, trays, cup displays to choose from.  

Nail Polish Collection/Storage

My current collection consists of three polish racks that hold approximately 90 polishes each, I purchased these racks from transdesign.com and while I absolutely love them as you can clearly see I’ve run out of room for my polish, I do have some additional stranglers currently stored in some plastic Sterilite containers; like the ones you can get from office depot, Wal-Mart, etc.

So I’m currently exploring different avenues in which to store them all since I really love my polish racks but I simply can’t justify having more than three polish racks on the wall, haha. I prefer the look and organization of polish racks since I can see them better and easily get to the polish I’m looking for and I really hate using the Sterilite storage containers since the organization looks messy to me so the plan I’ve come up with is to either buy or make some sort of wooden cabinet that a nail polish rack would fit in upright and on its side and to somehow attach the polish rack to some sort of sturdy track so I could easily pull the polish rack out and roll in back into the cabinet, this way I could possibly fit multiple racks inside the cabinet, now just to get the boy to build it for me, lol.

I think for the most part nail polish junkies seem to organize their polish by color, but I prefer organizing by brand and then collection since this way all the bottle shapes and sizes match up and appear more uniformed.

The first polish rack holds some Sally Hansen Chrome polishes, several drugstore brands, Color Club, excess China Glaze, Zoya, and a few Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes.

The second polish rack holds nothing but China Glaze.

The third holds OPI, Orly, Essie, Mac polishes and my Mac pigments and a few other random polishes as well as top coats/bases.