Organize your makeup

Sometimes the organizing solutions I find are from an excited, creative client! A couple weeks ago I visited a woman to begin work on her disheveled closet. When I arrived, she was anxious to start and very excited about making her closet functional and beautiful.

Her enthusiasm about having an organized bedroom manifested itself while she went shopping for bins and baskets to use in the closet. She kept her eyes open for other items that might help her organize another part of her life and came across a small plastic tote. It was a great answer to her makeup issues! It was portable, see through, had divided sections and allowed you to expand the product if needed. I was hooked!

The product she found was the Medium 3 layer Craft Organizer by Snapware. She put all of her brushes in the top tray, large bulky cosmetics in the second tray and used the bottom divided section to house all her small lipsticks and other cosmetics. She was so excited and felt as though she had found the perfect solution to her former makeup woes.

Unfortunately I have not been able to find the exact product online. It is available in Target stores but I have not successfully located the exact tote on their website. So I am sharing a link I found on Amazon.Com for a very similar tote. The second link is for Target's generic version of the product.

Storage Tote at Amazon.Com.  

Storage Tote at Target.Com.

Try out this great product and think of other areas in your home it can be used!

You mean I can't organize just once?

It is a common assumption that once you put an organizing system in place it will always work and function exactly the way it did in the beginning indefinitely. Even more widespread is the thought that one is a failure if the system does not continue to serve the purpose for which it was intended. Both of the previous outlooks lead to a lot of frustration and and a sense of inability to rise to the task.

The reality is life varies constantly. When your schedule, routine or responsibilities change it is important to recognize that the organizing system supporting you must mold to the new development. Do not beat yourself up if your methods need to modify to fit the new dynamic you are facing.

The best approach is to take stock of what works in your current system. Then identify the changes you must make in your system to make it fit your current needs. For example, if you now take the kids out through the garage instead of the front door it is ok to move the coat and boot storage so it is convenient to your new point of exit and entry. What once worked may not be the best solution anymore.

When your system no longer feels as though it functions properly, take an honest assessment and see if there is a change that needs to be made.