24 Life-Changing Ways to Store Your Beauty Products

By Brooke Shunatona

published 20 May 2014

1. Use a spice rack as a shelf for your perfume bottles.

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2. Display pretty fragrances on top of a cake stand.

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3. Arrange your everyday beauty products on a revolving spice rack to save space.

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4. Toss your makeup brushes in a slim sunglasses case when traveling so you won't lose them.

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5. Store liner pencils, mascara, or brushes in an old pencil box.

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6. Fill a flower vase with coffee beans or beads, and stick your brushes inside for easy access.

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7. Separate your products by category inside of a kitchen utensil tray to organize your makeup drawer.

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8. Store your hot tools inside of a decorative magazine holder.

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9. Hang your hot tools on adhesive hooks inside of a cabinet door.

10. Use the pouches on a hanging shoe organizer to store larger hair products.

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11. Save space by stacking hairspray bottles on a wine rack.

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12. Use a desk file organizer to display and store makeup palettes.

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13. Stick your eyeshadow singles into ice tray slots so you can see all the shades at once.

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14. Use a jewelry organizer to visibly store small makeup products.

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15. Adhere magnets to the back of your makeup compacts, and stick them on a metal board to save space while also decorating your walls.

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16. Arrange your makeup in lucite desk organizers so you can see everything that's stowed away.

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17. Line your drawers with plastic food containers to neatly organize cotton balls, sponges, and other makeup application tools.

18. Stick cotton swabs inside an old candle vase.

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19. Store your nail polishes in a cute cookie jar.

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20. If you like traveling with many different lip shades, remove the lipsticks out of the tubes, and keep them in a clean pillbox for easy transportation.

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21. Stack pretty lipglosses and lipsticks on the tiers of a cupcake tray.

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22. Use a mini loaf pan to neatly organize your lip shades or other small products inside a drawer.

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23. Stack your hair ties on a pretty decorative wine bottle.

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24. Stick your bobby pins along a magnetic strip so you won't lose them.

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Photo Credit: Kathleen Kamphausen

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Brooke Shunatona is a contributing writer for Cosmopolitan.com.