Hey guys, it's Mi-Anne, and this is Beauty With Mi.
I have been working at Refinery29 for almost three years now, and I have accumulated
a lot of stuff on my desk.
I can barely put my feet under the desk.
I'll just end up kicking bags under it.
But, I'm actually moving desks, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to declutter,
reorganize it, and also kind of create a really streamlined makeup storage for me.
I think that even if you don't have a job like mine, the setup I'm about to show you
could actually be really useful if you're looking for ideas on how to organize your
makeup or if you want some sort of desk vanity situation.
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And I guess I have to show you my desk now.
My desk is – was in a pretty bad place.
I had bags of stuff under my desk; things that I was keeping for random reasons.
Shirts, scarves, umbrellas, a couple pairs of shoes, some Dayquil...
So here are my drawers...
I have three, and I have random things like candles in them.
Oooh, a little cat!
I went through all of that stuff, and that takes us to step one.
Step one: if you don't love it, let it go.
I went through every single thing, and I put all my product and all my things into different sections.
Office supplies...
Pens, papers.
Product that I'm going to put into my daily use sections...
My every day foundation, the eczema cream that I use every day, my hand creams, my lip balms.
Then, there's a section that I want to put into my future little beauty cubby...
Things that I need to keep on hand for videos, lipsticks that I love but I don't necessarily
use every single day.
The trash section of product that's just like, old, expired, broken...
There were a few products that were just leaking.
I'm going to be bringing these two bins back up to my desk.
That's going on the giveaway section of our office.
And then, this stuff I'm bringing home because I should have brought them back home
a long time ago.
There was like six bins of stuff just on my one desk.
I whittled that all down to two...
I mean, I'm pretty proud of myself.
I did bring a lot of my like, decor stuff, because I love having friendly things around
my desk,
and then we started organizing,
and that brings us to step two: reorganize.
Alright, guys, so this is my new desk.
I didn't want to just take my stuff and put it under my desk and into my drawers and end
up in the same situation in three or four months.
Oh, another shirt.
So, I found items that I could use to organize and keep things together – make sure that
every item that I have has a place on my desk.
Poppin was nice enough to send over some desk organization supplies for me.
The first of which was this really nice monitor stand.
It kind of creates a cubby that I can put my computer under, I can put my lip balms
and everyday things on it, my camera on it, and then any little cords, like my phone charger,
underneath it as well.
It also elevates my computer.
Poppin also sent over little cups and trays, a stapler, and a tape dispenser.
They also sent me a really cool like, file organizer.
I'm going to use the back two for some of my favorite eyeshadow palettes.
So, I have my Natasha Denona palettes in there, and I'll probably add a few more palettes
in there as well.
Then, I also got some stuff from Muji.
They sent me this really cool like, two-tier shelf unit.
So, I wanted to have an actual designated area on my desk that I'm seeing every single
day of things that I want to try and make a point to try.
So, I use the first level of the shelf for all the things that are on my list to try,
and the second level I put all of my brushes and my perfumes there.
Muji also sent me scissors.
I know, scissors are so boring.
But, Muji has these scissors...
They're like, resistant to tape or something.
Like, I do a lot of like, opening of packages and they always have tape on them and tape
gets on my scissors, so hopefully these won't do that.
So that brings me to my drawers.
So, I have three drawers.
In the bottom drawer, I organized my feminine hygiene products down there, as well as my
computer charger, phone chargers, lightning cable, etc.
And then I got a little bin dedicated to my snacks.
Now, in my old desk...
I had a drawer that basically just became my dump drawer of random snacks that I would get.
Now I have a basket that I'm going to keep contained just with my snacks.
Then I have, in the second drawer, all my office supplies.
So, extra business cards.
I actually put a few of my business cards into this really cute business card holder
that Poppin gave me.
I have random little knickknacks, paper clips, that sort of thing, my extra notebooks, and
my stationary,
and then in the first drawer is just like, my everyday stuff that I don't want to display
on my desk,
and then that brings me to the main event...
The makeup organization unit.
It's done!
I only messed up one time and had to redo it.
And it fits perfectly under my desk.
Boom!
Meghal, my producer, had a brilliant idea, that instead of keeping random bags full of
sh*t under my desk, we could have a little filing system.
So, we found one online.
Some of the reviews were like, "This is great for Legos!" and stuff like that, but I'm using
it for makeup.
And I divided that into...
Foundations and bases.
Bronzer, blush, highlighter.
Eye products.
Lip products.
Nail and hair little bits.
And then the extra, so that's just like things that are on my list to try but they're not
as pressing.
Like, extra product that I wanna use down the line.
TBD on what's gonna go in here.
Honestly, there's a lot of room in here to do other things with, so I'll probably like,
adapt this as I go.
So, that is my filing system.
I actually think it would be a great, great, great system for anyone who has like, a desk
at home but you also want to turn it into a desk/vanity.
And I'm really, really happy with it.
But step three is keep it that way.
I really need to hold myself accountable to keeping my desk in a good space.
I think that I'm really glad that I really went through all of my stuff and purged.
It's really embarrassing how many like, broken and expired things I had.
What I like about the system that we did is that everything has its place, but that there's
still extra space as I get more stuff throughout the year.
I'm very, very, very happy with it.
I hope that this video was helpful for you guys...
It definitely was helpful for me.
Let me know if you guys have any organization or storage hacks in the comments.
My apartment is a completely different story.
So, share the wisdom, please, and I hope you guys enjoyed this video, and I will catch
you guys next week.
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