A couple of years ago I purchased a second hand white dressing table from eBay. It was everything I was looking for in a dressing table... It was not too deep (small bedroom = lack of space), it had the shabby chic style I had lusted over in so many magazines, not to mention two extra drawers to over fill with cosmetics and all manner of things that I can never seem to throw away. (is that just me?)
Fast forward 2 years later and I realise that having my make up rolling around everywhere each time I opened those darned drawers was becoming tiresome, to say the least! "Enough is enough", I told my cat, who was sat on my bed at the time. He glanced over at me with a look of boredom. On a side note, I'm not sure he is bothered in the slightest about my drawer nightmare, he only really cares about being fed, chasing cats and getting treats. Some would say that is a selfish way to live your cat life. So, the search for a new way of storing my main make up was started in earnest.
During one of my days of catching up on a bit of beauty blog reading, for research of course, I saw the Muji stacking wide drawers time and time again. They seemed the ideal solution. Not only could they make my make up so much more visibly appealing, but I could add more drawers as my make up collection increased. After eyeing up a 10% off code (MUJIBEAUTY - valid until 13th February) on Lily Pebbles' blog I decided this was the perfect time to get me a Muji fix. I opted for the two sets of the Acrylic 2 Drawers Wide and one Acrylic 2 Drawers Wide with Flip Top Lid. They arrived 4 or 5 days later and were really well packaged. Seriously, I mean really, really well! They must have used a whole roll of bubble wrap on my single delivery.
Oh, I may have accidentally ordered their log fire candle at the same time. This wasn't planned, but after reading VDM's comments on it being a dupe for Diptyque's Feu de Bois, and with it being a mere £3.50, I just couldn't resist. I figured my husband Chris would probably not mind another candle purchase, what with it being a much more masculine smell compared to my usual candle scents.
After the friendly delivery driver handed me my parcel, I raced upstairs (OK, I first spent 20 minutes popping the bubble wrap) and it was Operation Clear Out Messy Drawers. I actually ended up throwing out quite a lot of make up. I figured if I couldn't remember when I had actually bought it, and if it was looking a bit BLEUGH then it was probably time to say goodbye.
Half an hour later I then had a work of modern art on my chest of drawers and two empty dressing table drawers. WINNER! By the way, apologies for the photo quality.. My camera battery died so I used my iPhone. So it's probably about time that I go and buy more stuff to put in them right? I can sense a haul blog post appearing in the near future. How do you store your make up?
Everytime I read a review of the MUJI storage it makes me want them even more!! They seem to be so practical and look great too. Nice to hear that they come well packaged too, especially if it means you can play with the bubble wrap!! haha :)
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If you ever have a few pennies spare I would wholeheartedly suggest taking the MUJI plunge! I have not regretted it, and find it so much easier to keep things organised. I've not popped bubble wrap since... perhaps it's time I made another sneaky purchase... purely for the bubble wrap, of course! :)
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