Hey guys, it's Mi-Anne,
and this is Beauty With Mi.
Last month, I took my bathroom
from green, dimly lit hell-scape
to what is as close to
a spa as I could possibly get it.
And after seeing all of your comments,
I decided to finally take a stab
at my at-home beauty
collection, which lives in a room
in my apartment that has essentially
become a giant closet.
This video, though, is a little bit
different for Beauty With Mi.
It's a two-parter,
so this video I'm gonna show you guys
my entire beauty collection,
organizing it, getting
it into a better situation.
And then next week for part two,
I'm gonna turn this space into
a functional room where
I can edit, film my videos,
have my beauty collection.
Before we get started, though,
please make sure you are subscribed
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My Instagram handle is @mianne.chan.
Okay so before we get started,
let me show you what my stash
currently looks like.
So, I have an Ikea Alex Drawer,
it's a nine-unit drawer,
it holds a ton of stuff, it's
very sleek.
So, on the top lives my giant
Simplehuman mirror.
And then resting on top of the
Alex drawer
there is a small acrylic tray
that has all of my
daily skincare.
The first drawer has
what was supposed to be my daily go-tos.
It's essentially become a
dumping ground.
Below is my drawer full of highlighters,
bronzers, and blushes, loosely edited,
it definitely could
be in better shape.
The next two drawers are dedicated
to my eye products.
So that's my eyeshadow palettes,
my single shadows, my creams,
my eyeliners, my liquids,
all that stuff.
As you can see, it's kind of
a mess right now.
My goal is to get it to a place
where it's organized by category.
Next up is lipsticks and base products,
which is kind of organized.
It's basically separated by two sections:
foundations on the right, lipsticks on the
left.
The next two drawers are dedicated
to my extras, so this is stuff
that I love, love, love, love,
but I'm currently using stuff,
so I don't wanna put it
onto my daily skincare
shelf quite yet.
It's also a place for me to keep
all of the stuff that I want to
try in the coming
months.
The second to last drawer has my
travel makeup cases in it,
all of my little sample size
travel products that I keep
for when I go on like trips.
And then the last drawer has all of my
face wipes and all of my
tools that I use when
I clean my brushes.
Alright now that you've seen everything,
let's move on to step one,
which is cleaning.
So, after removing all of the products
from the drawers onto the floor,
I took some wipes
and wiped out the entire Alex unit
including the trays that were inside it.
I was surprised at how gross this was,
I've had the unit for what a year.
There was a lot of like dust and gunk,
skincare products had kind of like leaked,
eyeshadows
that had exploded in my drawer,
so it was nice to get a good once-over
before organizing
it and putting it back in.
Then it was time for step two,
decluttering.
So, I enlisted the help
of my producer, Meghal.
Yay!
Meghal's here for moral guidance.
We sat on the floor and organized like
everything on the floor into
little sections so that
I could clearly see what I had in
my stash so that we could start
organizing it.
We kind of split up the products
into three sections, so
stuff that I was keeping, stuff
that I had to throw away
for whatever reason, I don't know,
some of them were expired,
some of them were just straight-up broken.
Ah!
It broke.
And then the last section was stuff
that I'm gonna be giving away
to my friends and family.
Once everything was sorted
into those categories, it was time to move
on to step three: organizing.
So, I got these cute little acrylic
trays from Amazon.
These acrylic organizers that I got,
there are a couple different sizes:
this large size,
this kind of like medium like pencil size,
and then two kind of smaller sizes that I
think will be good for like little
knick knacks and then
things like lip balms, nail polishes.
Boo Boo come here.
So, I kind of changed up
the order of my drawers this time.
The top of my unit is gonna be the same.
It's gonna have my skincare,
my mirror, my brushes.
The first drawer, instead of being
like this random drawer full of
my go-to stuff, 'm
dedicating it all to foundations,
concealers, and powders.
The second drawer has the bronzers,
the highlighters, and the blushes.
The next drawer is where my
eyeshadow palettes and then my
cream and glitter eyeshadow pots
live.
Then the next drawer is more eye product,
also single eyeshadows and eyeliners,
but more of the stuff that comes in
crayons or in tubes that have
doe foots, like organized
that way.
And next up is an
entire drawer dedicated to lip product.
So, as you saw in my last set-up,
I basically just had one tray full of lipstick.
Now there are like little sections
dedicated to different finishes and colors,
which is
a lot easier.
The next two drawers are kind of
dedicated to stuff that I'm holding
onto like for
my mom or my sister, like extra storage.
Not every drawer has like a bunch of
stuff in it.
That really was the goal,
trying to get it to a place where
I could still have more stuff
coming in, but hopefully I'm
still editing it out.
Then I have an entire drawer
dedicated to all my skincare
and my haircare extras like stuff
that I wanna try down the line,
stuff that I love that I wanna keep
for when I finish
up what I'm currently using.
And the last drawer is dedicated to
my wipes, my travel skincare and makeup,
and my brush
cleaning kits.
Beside the Alex unit,
I actually went to Ikea,
got a couple of baskets.
Before all of this, I was keeping
my giveaway stuff and my empties
in like plastic and paper
bags on the floor, and it looked hideous.
So, I took the baskets,
I put the bags full of the empties
and the giveaway stuff into
the baskets so it doesn't look
like I just have trash on the ground.
I think it looks a lot better.
Okay so that is it,
my entire beauty storage situation.
I, personally, really like it.
I've been using it for a couple of weeks.
I think it's much more organized,
I feel like I have a lot more mental space
to think
about what I wanna do with my looks
because my stash is more organized,
and I'm not
like sifting through stuff
just to find like one color of eyeliner.
So, I hope that you guys enjoyed
this video.
Stay tuned for next week
when we show the entire transformation
of the room.
I'm gonna paint the walls,
I'm gonna get a desk,
Its gonna be a whole thing.
Please let me know in the comments
below what your
favorite organizational hacks are.
I am not a very organized person,
so I need all the help I can get.
See you guys next week!
Bye!
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