My Makeup Collection & Storage In My University Room

It's no secret that I love me a makeup collection and storage video/post. So today I thought I'd take a break from frantically typing away under an essay title asking me to write about the experience of giving birth behind bars in the USA and the UK and bring you some brilliant light hearted make-up fun. Be warned that this is just what I have left with me in my uni room. I'm moving house and won't have that collection ready for a while...it'll come though. Promise. (Prepare for lots of pictures...)

My makeup did live on my massive window sill...until I realised that the sun was melting my lip balm and that it really probably wasn't good to have it all up there. So my little Muji drawers migrated down to live in one corner of my desk with my brushes on top. There's really no real order to my drawers, it's simply just a case of 'let's fit as much in as we can' and that's that!
(Can you spot my 3DS game cases?!)

My brushes are held in a Cath Kidston mug and an Ikea plant pot and are a mixture of (predominantly) Real Techniques and MAC brushes. There are also two Lancome brushes in there, my Denman hairbrush, some Barry M brushes, and a Kim Kardashian pencil from the NYC Dash store that my housemate got for me. And yes, they need a wash.

 Drawer number one houses Benefit's Big Beautiful Eyes, Benefit's Peek-A-Bright Eyes, a Bourjois round pot blush, Maybelline FitMe powder and a spare Bourjois Healthy Balance powder I recently bought as my other one's about to run out.

 Drawer number two houses Nars Albatross, Topshop cream blush in Head Over Heels, Maybelline Eternal Gold and On & On Bronze Colour Tattoo, Benefit Hervana blush, a mini Benefit Stay Don't Stray, Benefit FakeUp, a mini Benefit Porefessinal and my YSL Touche Eclat.

Drawer number 3 is my dedicated MAC blush drawer. I have (clockwise): Supernova, Dainty, Lovejoy and Dollymix with a MSF in Soft & Gentle in the middle. I adore all of these blush colours and you can guarantee I'll be wearing one of them each day.

 Drawer number 4 is a bit of a pot luck drawer. It contains my HD Brows palette underneath Bourjois Healthy Balance powder, a Revlon lipbutter in Pink Lemonade, MAC's Creme Cup, Palmer's Cocoa Butter lip balm, an Elemis moisturiser sample, some hair clips, my Inika black eyeliner, L'Oreal SuperLiner, Maybelline The Rocket mascara and my little spot removal tool.

 Then, above my desk I have a 'beauty shelf'. Again this all used to live on my window sill but it all migrated for the same reason. I keep mostly skincare and perfume up here, clockwise from left: Batiste Blush dry shampoo, Origins Make A Difference + moisturiser, B.Pure Micellare water, Korres Sun Screen, Dove Pomegranate deodorant, Bourjois 1 second nail polish remover, Benefit Facial Rehydrating Mist, Bio Oil, Milk_Shake hair mousse, MAC brush cleanser, Burt's Bees coconut foot lotion, some Boots multi-vitamins, B.Pure day moisturiser, Urban Decay Naked 2 palette, Ralph Lauren Number 2 perfume, Jack Wills  perfume, Marc Jacobs Daisy perfume, Kim Kardashian True Reflection perfume and my Tiffany & Co sunglasses.

Next to my skincare etc I have these super cute white drawers that I found in Tesco as well as my Ted Baker makeup case (currently empty) and my MAC brush case peeking out from behind that. I keep my nail polish in my beautiful Cath Kidston floral makeup case and that lives beside these drawers.

 Drawer 1 houses my makeup pride and joy: my Chanel Fracas nail polish, Illamasqua Speckle nail polish, Chanel Vitalumière Aqua foundation, Chanel Boy lipstick and YSL Rouge Volupte lipstick in shade 7. I also threw in a Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum foundation for good measure (this is new, it doesn't have a permanent home yet).

Drawer 2 contains my two favourite skincare masks, Good Things Five Minute Facial, and Origins Drink-Up Intensive. Lots of love for these two products!

And then this bottom drawer houses my Dr Jart BB Cream, Benefit Hello Flawless foundation, Benefit Watt's Up highlighter and my Carex hand gel.

So there you have it, a whirlwind tour of my makeup collection and storage in my university bedroom.

Seen anything you like?
How do you house your makeup?