To Organise: Makeup

I honestly don't wear make up very much. But I have too much of it and not enough space for all of it.

I have wanted an organiser for a long time and found one at Target for $45. I personally think that is a ridiculous price so I looked around and found one at ikea.

The Godmorgon box only cost me $19.99 and has so many compartments that I could organise all my mascara's, eyeliners and makeup brushes together.
Not only is everything looking as good as it is supposed to when I apply it to my face, but it is also so easy to find when it is all organised neatly.

I seriously advise that anyone looking to organise their makeup drawer get in the car and rush to ikea to buy yourself the Godmorgon box with compartments!! You won't regret it

 

To Beautify: The Package

Ok, so this blog is supposed to contain bits and pieces about art, craft, scrapbooking bits and pieces..
but I just got a knock on my door and I am so excited that I felt the need to share that I just got an amazing parcel!

About a week and a half ago, I caved into my online shopping addiction (that I have been managing fairly well recently by NOT activating my new credit card and only going online to shop when I have spare money).

Make Me Cool Collection Travel Edition -
Left to Right: Pencil E30; Tapered Blending
E40; Foundation F60;Small Angle E65; Large
Powder F30; Eye Shading E55; Large Angled
Contour F40

Ages ago I subscribed to the Sigma Beauty website and I get regular emails from them and I just couldn't resist these adorable travel makeup brush kits! They're in the "Make Me" series and I just loved the Teal-ish colour of the "Make Me Cool" travel kit. 

There's a brush in there for pretty much everything!

They say to clean them with a mild shampoo or brush cleanser before you use them. I don't have a brush cleaner specific from Sigma or anything, but I do have my Napoleon Perdis brush cleaner and it works pretty well. I use it on all of my NP brushes.

I bought it from the chemist for $40 but I've used hardly any of it so far and I've had it for 6 months. You just need to spray a little bit on a tissue/paper towel and wipe or dab the brush back and forth until the product comes off.

The travel kit I just got came with plastic covers for the large brushes which help to keep the brush in shape. You'll notice if you wash a big puffy brush, it will often dry funny, so these should help prevent that. (Hopefully!)


I have wanted the Bare eyeshadow pallete for a while too and I thought, hey, why not kill two birds with one stone (so to speak, I have three budgies and they hate it when I use that saying!) and save on Delivery charges?!


Bare Eyeshadow Pallete - Left to Right: Shine; Control;
Snoop; Hitch; Act; Command; Elope; Approach

So I bought them both and I expected delivery time of about 3 weeks because US to Australia tends to take a while but here we are a week and a half later!

This eyeshadow pallete is quite cool - there's a little magnetised claspy doo-dad so that when you shut the lid it shuts tight. It comes with a double ended brush which I think will be super handy. It's the E30 Pencil Brush on one side and the E25 Blending Brush on the other.
I love the adorable little names too (see caption)


I also got this little complimentary E25 Blending Brush - quite cute!

I'll probably get super excited when I get a better chance to actually test out my eyeshadows and brushes and I'll do another blog on how I liked them but I have high hopes!!