How to Finally Organize Your Beauty Products

No one’s going to force you to chop off your lipsticks and put them in a pillbox to keep track of them. (How does that even work for touchups? Guess what, it doesn’t. Please don’t follow that Pinterest advice.) But we can get behind some simple, clever ways to find your favorite shimmer stick at the speed of light when you’re trying to get out the door. You’re welcome.
Invest in cheap plastic containers for drawer storage
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These little dollar-store finds will do wonders for corralling loose items. Keep lip stuff in one, eye stuff in another, and the like. Tracking down a lip liner that goes with your coral lipstick will entail turning over the lip-stuff container, instead of your whole drawer, in your manhunt!
Guard drawers with liners
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Keep the inside of your drawers looking like new with a roll of budget liner. It’ll wipe clean with a wet paper tower after any nightmarish powdered blush spills.
Organize countertops with clear drawers
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If you prefer to keep everything in sight, consider a set of clear acrylic drawers. Two or three drawers alone will do wonders for putting the stuff you use the most within sight.
Store items with the labels visible