How-to Tuesday: Organizing Your Makeup Stash for $25 or Less

One of my most popular posts to date has been my Keurig K-Cup Storage tutorial from 2012. It has been awhile since I have put one together, and I found another great use for Sterilite plastic drawer sets - organizing makeup! This is crazy simple, and can be expanded (as mine is) or toned down (to a mini version) to meet your needs. For someone who looked at the prices of Kardashian-style acrylic organizers, but still had a need, these drawers are a lifesaver.

So, what do you need? I have a Sterilite drawer set like this one (the large one in the above photo), which I found on Amazon. I picked mine up at Target, for around $13. If you have a large collection like mine, you can pick up a smaller one for under $10. All that I did here is figure out the best way to organize each part, and was off to the races from there. I keep my brushes in drinking glasses set on top of the organizers on my bathroom counter.

In the large drawer set, I have, from top to bottom: foundation, blushes, BB creams, and other skincare items. In the second drawer, I have loose eyeshadows, eyeliners, and brow products. The two inserts are $3 organizer drawers I picked up in the bathroom decorating aisles at Target, and I use them to hold eyeliners, brow products, and mascara. The bottom drawer is for eyeshadow palettes. Just enough space.

I no longer have to worry about eyeshadow palettes everywhere, and have a much, much easier time keeping everything organized.


In the small chest of drawers, I have lip products (lipstick, gloss, etc.), skincare and toiletry items like toothpaste, and skincare items like face masks.

Like I said, if your collection is not as big as mine, you don't need to worry about the second chest of drawers, but I thought it would come in handy if I ever needed to stack them together.

There you have it! A quick and easy way to organize your cosmetics on a budget - and all it takes is a trip to your local Target store (or Amazon.com shopping cart)!

Book Club Monday: One Kick by Chelsea Cain

When I went into reading One Kick, I was excited. I have loved all of the Heartkiller series books by Chelsea Cain, and I was interested in reading some new characters and a fresh story. At least, I hoped it would be.

It took a bit for me to get excited about One Kick. The story really ramped up towards the middle, but overall it left sort of a strange taste in my mouth. The story followed Kick Lannigan, a trained fighter, archer, and markswoman. As the story unfolds, you find out that Kick used to be Beth, who was abducted at a young age and had some truly terrible things happen to her (if you are not good with suggestions of child abuse, this is definitely not the book for you). She takes it upon herself, along with a mysterious detective named John Bishop, to find children who have been abducted, as she has a sneaking suspicion her abductor has something to do with it.

Without giving too much away, I will say that the book was still moderately exciting, except it felt like an offshoot and too similar a storyline to the Gretchen and Archie storyline from the Heartkiller books. I was not at all disappointed in it and didn't feel like it was a waste of my time completely, but would have much rather it hadn't felt like a transplant of new characters in the oh-so-familiar story. As the first book in a new series, the flat, sudden ending also made it difficult to see a sequel, or series, coming out of it. I am not giving up hope completely, but also hope that the next installment can be refreshing and not so similar to the Heartkiller saga.