Ebay nail polish rack

 So today I bring you my new acrylic nail polish stand! I've been dying for some sort of nail stand/rack but everyone I came across seemed ridiculously priced. This is from Ebay and cost me £10.99 including P+P, you can buy it here. I currently have 31 nail polishes sitting on this, a decent amount! I think I'll probably buy another along the way at some point, can't beat a nice polish display in your room! I must say I have gone off Barry M nail varnishes so much now. I hate how they're still not properly dry and easily smudged after an hours wear, whereas OPI dries in like, 10 minutes! A bit of a pain really when they're so affordable and with such a wide range of colours! Where do you keep your nail polish? Holly x

Moving & Storing my nail polishes

I was having a massive clean up of my room yesterday and was also trying de-clutter ( Is this a word?! haha. ) and I decided that one thing that had to be moved were my Barry M nail polishes from along the top of my dressing table mirror. They're pretty to look at but I'm trying to make sure everything has a place where it belongs so it doesn't end up lying around!

I decided to make use of my Laura Ashley storage boxes and move all of my nail related products in to the larger so far unused box that I had. I used some sticky labels I bought from I think either the Range or Staples to swatch my nail varnishes and stick them on top of the bottles making it easier for me to see them. Yes, it isn't the nicest thing to look at but sometimes I think convenience wins over presentation!

Speaking of storage, I think I'm finally going to give in to the Muji drawers! They always look so clean cut and neat, and I'm fast running out of places to put all the makeup products I have!

Holly x

Laura Ashley storage

I've always eyed up these pretty storage boxes in Laura Ashley, but it's always been the pricing in there thats stopped me from buying them. £38 for 3 boxes in my opinion is way too much for something you could probably find similar and cheaper somewhere else. Last year my mam bought me lots of Laura Ashley things for my room for birthday and Christmas from the same range so it all matched, so I was pleasantly surprised to see she had bought me these for Christmas this year!

Luckily right now, they're on sale for £26.60, which is still pretty expensive for a couple of boxes but if you love Laura Ashley and you're willing to spend on it, nows your chance to grab a bargain. There's also a couple more different patterened boxes on the website which you can go to here.





If you're in to storage and organising things (especially your beauty products!) Then these really are something you may want to consider picking up. Currently I'm using the smallest box to home a few of my more loved nail varnishes (and because I'm lacking anywhere else to put them!) and the middle box is housing all the lovely bath stuff I've had lying around, or that I received as lovely gifts for Christmas. I havn't found a use for the bottom box yet, I just quickly threw some xmas presents in there to move them out of the way but ended up liking the way they stored! I'm sure I'll find something to put in it very soon.






I would also love to know if anyone knows of any cheaper alternatives to this style of storage, maybe from Ikea or something?! It would be really helpful to list them below here for people who want something like this but don't want to spend a ton of money on it. I know I wouldn't, I was just lucky enough to be bought them for Christmas!

I hope everybody has had a wonderful Christmas, I'm having so much fun looking through what everyone else has been lucky enough to get, I'll be posting reviews and thoughts on a couple of things I got very soon!

Love, Hol xxx

Making the most of my Mac palettes

I've finally persuaded myself to destroy one of my precious little mac palettes (by destroy i mean take out the divider) to make the most of the space and fit all of my eyeshadows in to one. I've been fancying getting myself some of those Z palettes but since i bought my mac palettes for my mac eyeshadows i may aswell use them for the mac shadows since i spent money on them.

Some of the eyeshadows i bought from Mac a while back were in the pots before i fitted them in to my palettes so unfortunately they didn't have magents on the bottom of them, so i went out to Staples to get some. They're a little thick so some of my eyeshadows sit up higher than the other ones but until i can find some thin ones they'll do for now.

Also taking out the divider was more difficult than i thought, i was trying not to snap it at all incase i wanted to put it back in in the future but i managed to chip a little bit off it at the corner! Perhaps theres a more efficient way than hacking away with tweezers that i don't know about haha. Never mind, this is just so much more convenient now, i can fit all my eyeshadows i currently own from Mac in once palette.






To see my origional Mac palettes post and which colours i have, click here.

I would love to know what everyone thinks about this way of storing your Mac eyeshadows in the palettes, can you break away from your perfectly organised neutrals palette to mix em all up?!
Love, Hol xxx

Vanity/Desk/Where i do my makeup!

This is another one of those nosey sort of posts i really love to read on other peoples blogs! Its not really a makeup storage video really, just a bit of an overview of where i actually do my makeup, ive seen a few of these now, it always interests me to see what kind of set up people have! I had my bedroom done out about a year ago now and my mam was so good to me and bought me lots of lovely furniture from Laura Ashley, and i was sure to pick out a pretty vanity!





Overall view, its pretty cluttered i cant keep things clean!





I hope this has been helpful to anybody who is going to be moving their makeup on to a proper desk, or even if youve noticed anything that you would like to try out! If you want to know where i got anything from, just leave me a comment and ill get back to you!

Love, Hol xxx