My New Setup!

I posted earlier that I was in the process of changing rooms and reorganizing everything - and I wanted to share with you today my new vanity setup.

Looking back, nothing really has changed from my old setup - except for adding a few new elements - but I thought I'd share anyways.




On top of my vanity, I just have my palettes, brushes, NARS blushes, lipglosses, make-up wipes, MAC Charged Water, eye & lip pencils, alcohol (to sanitize), homemade brush cleanser, moisturizers and contact lens solution.

I repainted my vanity because it had gotten really dirty due to all the eyeshadow fall out and random make-up related stains. When I initially painted it the first time, I hadn't added a top coat/sealant to make it easier to clean. When I repainted it the second time, I had decided to go out and purchase a sealant to prevent it from grabbing on to stains as easily and to make it easy to just wipe down and clean.

My mom, on the other hand, had a different idea. She went out and bought a bit of clear plastic sheet (the kind you put on top of your table cloth on your dining table to make it easier to clean) and we glued that on the table top - you can see in some of the pictures the top is shiny.

I think that's a wayyyyyy better idea than my sealant topcoat, because it's an actual barrier. If that makes sense.



I had purchased these brackets and shelves from Ikea and my mom and I decided to put them up above my vanity for extra space. They don't hold anything make-up related, just random stuff.

And here's a look in the drawers:


Lipsticks and lipglosses, blushes and extra make-up wipes and eye make-up remover.

Mascaras, false eyelashes, lip balm, eyelash curlers, tweezers, brow trimmers, contact cases, eyebrow stuff, liquid and glitter liners, bobby pins & hair ties, and all my eyeshadows.

Primers and bases, face stuff, random eyeshadows, MAC pigments & samples, paintpots, fluidline, MSF & MSFN.

That's basically it! If you want a closer look at anything let me know.

I leave you with a picture featuring my sister that she wanted me to put up:


Till later!

Where The Magic Happens..

For the longest time, I've been looking for a nice vanity or table that I could do my makeup on and store my collection. If you recall here, I did my make-up on the floor infront of a full length mirror. I felt like I looked everywhere for something nice, simple, vintage-y and inexpensive, but to my avail found nothing - until one day..

I was rummaging through this old table my mom had in her bedroom, and it suddenly hit me. I stepped back, looked at the table, and realized that it was exactly what I was looking for in a vanity.


It was a table that the previous owners in my old house had left behind when they moved out, and my mom had just kept it in a closet to store random nick nacks and stuff. When we moved out, my mom took the table with her and kept it in her room kind of as a vanity.

So I talked to my mom about painting it and making it as my vanity, and she agreed. And this is what I ended up with..








Unfortunately, it's already gotten dusty and has stains from eyeshadow fallout and stuff like that, but I think during the summer I'm just going to repaint it, and add a sealant or something, so that it's easy to wipe down and clean, because I didn't do that the first time.

I'm not too happy with the area where my vanity is, because the lighting sucks sometimes, because it shines right on the side of my face (you can see in the pictures that there's a window to my right)

I can't put the vanity right against the window horizontally because there's heaters at the base of that wall, so it can't go right up against the window - there would be a gap, and I don't like that.
I think I'm going to rearrange my room again, and put my vanity somewhere else away from the window, and buy some good lighting sources or something.

I just wanted to show you guys that you can easily change the look of something to suit your needs without spending a fortune. Honestly, it cost me next to nothing to spruce this table up. My dad had extra white paint lying around, and I went to the dollar store and picked up some cheap paint brushes.

I'm definitely recommend looking at garage sales, or checking up on Craiglist for cheap or free furniture that people are giving away - because even if it's not in good shape, or it doesn't suit your needs, you have the option to give it a fresh coat of paint, or buying new hardware, or adding on to it to spruce it up.

I think I'm also going to ask my dad to make a hutch for me to put on top for extra space.

Just wanted the share this with you guys!

My Small Makeup Collection

Here's just a quick post about my make-up collection. I don't have much, and I don't really buy much either (well I'm trying not to, haha), but it's slowly growing. My mom & I are on the look for a vanity, and we haven't found anything yet, until then, I do my make-up on the floor infront of a full length mirror. On to the pictures:

You can click on the pictures to make them bigger.

Where I do my make-up, I have my own bathroom, but I don't like doing my make-up there because of the lighting. If I do my make-up in my bathroom lighting, it'll look good in the bathroom, but wack in normal light.

My little plastic 2 drawer organizer with plastic organizers on top, small mirror, brushes.

Closer look at my mirror and brushes. Yessssss, that's a paper cup I hold my brushes in, haha, I haven't gotten around to looking for a glass jar yet.

Palette's (my 88 matte & satin, 88 shimmer and Urban Decay Deluxe Shadow Box), face stuff in a smaller container (foundation - which I never use, translucent powder, sponges, oil-blotting sheets - don't use these either, I bought it at the dollar store to see how they work, lol.) and cotton pads & q-tips in a smaller container which I stack ontop of the face stuff container.

Containers on top of my plastic drawer organizer. Eyeliners on the left, blushes on the top right, and lip products on the bottom left.

Eyeshadows, Annabelle pigment dusts, and small palettes in the first drawer.

Mascara's, fluidline, primers & bases and eyelash curlers in the second drawer.

And finally, lotions, moisturizers, sunscreen, contact lens solution, contact case, vaseline, brush cleaner & floss in a container infront of the mirror.

That's basically it! Haha, I don't have much, but I try to utilize what I do have.

Anyways, about that "investigation" thing I wanted to do (how lame does that sound? :/), I went on Monday to this place, but it was closed cause there was a civic holiday, I'll probably go today once I get off my lazy butt and get ready and what not. What I'm "investigating" is actually pretty interesting, it is beauty related, and I think most of you would be like, "what the hell?" I'll defintely go today cause I really want you guys to know about this! Haha.