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Project Pan - 2017

So I can't believe it's already 2018 and I meant to write about this in 2017. Back in June 2017 I started a project pan with an awesome group of people on Facebook. We all have a fairly large collection of makeup and such and everyone was on board with the idea to try and do a project pan. I think project pan has been fairly popular lately. I was curious about it last spring so I started researching what it was exactly and why people where doing it. I don't quite recall which particular article I read or got this from anymore at this point (it's been about 6 months - heh) but if you spent so much money on something why not use it and appreciate it? I know when it comes to shiny pretties you never want to touch it because it's so shiny but it is meant to be used and loved. So that is what we decided to do. We laid out some fairly simple guidelines to try our best with. * This is meant to be fun and show some love to our stashes! * Any number of products y

New year, new organization

So at the end of 2017 I decided I needed to do some organization of my collection. I've been collecting makeup since 2014 and it is scattered between my bathroom, my closet, and my dresser in my room. It was difficult to keep track of what I had and use things consistently because I would have some stuff everywhere. In the summer I revamped my computer desk with acquiring Alex drawers and a table top from IKEA and it had been working awesomely for my computing needs. I know the internet is gung-ho for Alex drawers when it comes to makeup organization as well. So I purchased another set of Alex drawers and put them in my closet to start organizing  and that never happened. It just wasn't convenient to put some stuff in my closet, have some stuff on my dresser, and then some stuff in the bathroom where I would get ready in the morning. Not to mention I know it's not a good idea to keep makeup in the bathroom because of the humidity. And that did concern me because I didn&