I keep about five shades in my vanity, which are more go-to shades (easy to wear, go with a lot of looks), while the rest is stored by brand and then by formula. I have my MAC lipsticks and glosses arranged by letter (As, Bs, etc.).
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Right now they’re all thrown in a drawer. No organization whatsoever smh.
I use a four-sided, acrylic, spinning lipstick organizer.
Side 1: MAC daytime shades (pinks, nudes, mauves, corals, etc.)
Side 2: MAC evening shades (reds, fuchsias, purples, etc.)
Side 3: Highest end shades (Chanel, NARS, Armani, Givenchy)
Side 4: Miscellaneous (Urban Decay, Estée Lauder, Clinique, Bite, etc.).
There are also lipstick slots on top of this organizer for Colourpop Lux, Sephora Lipstories, and a few MACs that didn’t fit on the sides. My Guerlain Rouge G lipsticks are too big to fit in these slots, so they’re in a special drawer where I keep my Chanel and Dior cheek products (i.e., the products that come in their own special velvet pouches).
Liquid lipsticks and other non-bullet lip products are in a different acrylic organizer that has several big open sections. This organizer also has a drawer where I keep mini lipsticks and sample sizes.
And finally, there’s a flat, two-row lipstick acrylic organizer that houses my NARS Velvet Lip Glides and PowerMattes.
I have a few things that are always within reach, and then I have the rest organized in a small Sterilite 3-drawer organizer: Lipsticks, Liquid lipsticks and Glosses. I tend to switch things out seasonally as well.
My lip shades are separate by color and I keep my glosses separate from the lipsticks. I’ve collected a lot of red, pink, purple lipsticks and have found it helpful to split them up between light an dark shades.
Pictures,please!
I typically keep around 12 lipsticks in my purse, and I switch up which ones each month. I have a set of storage drawers for my makeup and the lipsticks take up a large drawer. I have them in rectangular organizers and first separate what is openy and what is unopened. Then for each category (unopened vs. opened) I sort them by formula (bullets, lipgloss, liquid lipstick, etc).
I have a little acrylic drawer set from the Container Store and on top of it is slots for lipsticks. I have to double up some of the slots to get them all to fit, but it works because I have several pencil type lipsticks (like the NARS Velvet Mattes), which are quite slim. And also I always have several lipsticks in my bag. I don’t bother to organize them any further than that as my collection, while definitely larger than I need, is not so large that I can’t find anything pretty quickly. (I have, I think, 22 lipsticks & glosses.)
Lipsticks — I have several acrylic organizers. DS stuff goes in my less expensive ones, and my higher end stuff goes in my spinning ones. I organize by brand. Lip liners are in an acrylic organizer on my vanity, by color family. Liquid lip colors and lipglosses are a bit of a mess right now. I’m working on organizer them into 3-sectioned brush holders that my my husband 3D printed for me. Lip balms are in a drawer.
I use three lipstick organizers, with a slot for each lipstick. I organize the lipsticks so that nudes and light colors are in one organizer, pinks and reds in another, and purples and berries in the third.
Many are in a rotating acrylic lipstick tower….unfortunately, I need a 2nd one or a much taller one. This houses 72, I believe? Plus 8 lip glosses. There are quite a few that are standing upright on my “Vanity”. Then there’s always some in my top drawer in a large cookie box placed label side up. These are the so-called seasonal shades that get pulled out of general rotation.
I totally forgot to add the lip glosses, liquid lipsticks, pencils! In my defense, I’m going on very little sleep. ?
Lipglasses and other glosses are either in my son’s giant coffee mug or in an old tumbler, same with LLS’s. Some are in the drawer of an acrylic organizer I bought last year on Amazon. It’s much smaller than I was expecting, so it doesn’t quite do the job. Lip pencils are (were) secured all together in an elastic hair tie.
I have a large bathroom with plenty of drawers so I have drawers designated for certain types of products. For example, I have a drawer for face products, a drawer for eye products, a drawer for lip products, etc. So, I just keep my lip products in their own drawer. Within that drawer, though, I do use shallow acrylic trays to group by product type—lipsticks together, lipglosses together, lip pencils together, and tinted balms together. Because I purge my products on a regular basis, I typically only have a dozen or so products at any given time. Not much to organize.
I have the acrylic holders x2 for stand up lipsticks grouped by shade. Red, coral and orange, red, nude, gold and pink. I have the acrylic drawers 2 of them have glosses and one has liquid lipsticks. Pencils, primer and brushes are in a glass creamer pitcher that is small and was my gramma’s.
I organize my lip products (MAC makeup) by color; browns, reds, pinks/plums and miscellaneous colors.
Lipgloss is the same way organized by color.
My lipsticks are all stored in one bag – which is a nuisance when I am looking for a particular shade. I should be more organised….
Now that all of you have given me your ideas I can get to work and put all mine in better order, and my children have moved out so I have way more room too. That’s what I love about reading all the posts here it helps give me so many ideas and information, I learn so much. Thank you all.
Poorly. They are in a constant battle with my executive functions, as to how they should be done. Difficult to decide between alphabetically by brand or by shade similarity.
I need help in this area. All my lipsticks and glosses are in a drawer with a small plasic box for lip balms.
I have a small acrylic organizer that I keep in my top drawer. It houses my lesser used lip products, like my liquid lipsticks and my darker colors.
I like to keep my everyday products more in sight, so I’ll either keep them in a little bowl on top of my drawers or in my on-the-go makeup bag.
I don’t have the best organization for lipsticks so I’m very curious to see how others do it. I have an acrylic drawer organizer that I have pencils in one drawer, liquid lips in another and lipsticks in a 3rd. I’m actually out of room but didn’t want to buy anymore storage until I’ve figured this out.
Okay … drawer in a rolling bin for the ones that haven’t been been added to my “sampled and described” spreadsheet. I also keep my colored lip balms there, even though they’ve been sampled and described. For the ones added to my spreadsheet, they’re in plastic baggies with a label card inside under the following categories:
reds
pinks/roses
browns
oranges/peaches
nudes/MLBB (cool taupes, warm mauves, and plums)
berries/wines
purples
strange (black, blue, green, “dead girl”, etc.)
The idea is that I don’t reuse any in the baggies until I’ve tried and described everything I own at least once. I haven’t been completely successful in this “once and move on” approach as I will occasionally hanker for a color that I’ve packed away in a baggie, but for the most part, I’m remaining strong.
As to what’s going to happen when I reach the last color to be tried, I haven’t worked that out yet. There will be a purge (that’s a given), but how I choose to store them after the purge is up in the air. I really don’t want to put them back in the rolling bin drawer. Fortunately (?), I still have a long way to go before I have to worry about that.
I group a few like 5-6 in small jars by colors reds, berries, pinks, orange/peachy ones, violet and a few nudes and vampy. I rotate them and check on the rest often also stored standing up (I have many, many! ?).in acrylic container.