Apartment Spotlight: Closet and Makeup Storage

I really lucked out with this house and giant closets. There are actually 2 of these closets, one in each bedroom. The second is more of my off season stuff -- like huge winter coats and fancy dresses I rarely have an occasion to wear.

So here it is... where my all my most prized possessions reside...

Have you ever seen a medicine cabinet so big!? Luckily, I have enough products to fill it... and then some. #hoarder

On my dresser, which is also overflowing with clothes, I have a nice tray I got at a thrift shop with my perfumes on it. I won't buy a perfume if I find looking at it on my dresser a form of violent visual assault, so thankfully most of my favorite scents come in tasteful packaging.

Also on my dresser I keep my accessories and some makeup that doesn't fit in my bathroom but is pretty enough to be on display 24/7. All of the lip products in the clear tray are either NARS or Chanel, though since taking this picture I have added an Illamasqua one in there too. The green glass bowl in the top right corner is filled to the brim with tiny tubes of perfume, so now maybe you'll understand why I keep dreading getting more in my Birchboxes!

This is my first pull-out drawer in my bathroom. It's devoted to powder products I wear on my face daily (mostly my growing collection of NARS and Tarte blushes), mascaras I either love or need to use up, and some of my single eye shadows that are not found in palettes.

This here is my second drawer in my bathroom. It's devoted to all my eye shadow palettes and lip products (mostly MAC lipsticks). This is a very prized drawer and some mornings I get lost just sitting there reading all the names of my lipsticks, deciding what to wear. And then I snap out of it and say, "Chelsea, it's just lipstick. Get over yourself."

Lastly, I present my nail polish drawer. This takes up the top right drawer of my dresser (and is currently spilling over into the left drawer as well) and houses all my polishes, top and base coats, nail stickers, some nail wheels, and manicure tools. The brands I predominately own are Essie, OPI, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear (because they are so cheap and pretty decent!!), Julep (I coupon coded the shit outta their website for so much free stuff!), and a few China Glaze and Butter LONDON scattered about.

Apartment Spotlight: My Bathroom Medicine Cabinet

One of the most amazing things about our new place is the GIGANTIC medicine cabinet in the bathroom. I am so happy that I am able to fit all my haircare, skincare, nail polish, and some makeup products in it. I'm attempting to learn more about all sorts of beauty products right now so I'm testing a lot of different ones out, hence having five different types of foundation primer (NARS, Too Faced, Smashbox, Benefit, and Makeup Forever). See any products in there you are curious about? Anything you use too? Ryan has so kindly (aka he had no option) given all the space to me except for ONE product he has in it... can you spot it?

Apartment Spotlight: My Jewelry

I took over part of the top of Ryan's dresser (sorry I'm not sorry) with some of my rings, watches, earrings, and bracelets. I also nailed all my necklaces to the wall above the same dresser. It's so nice to have jewelry out in the open. If things are tucked away in drawers, I have a hard time getting my creative juices flowing. I feel that having all my options on display makes getting dressed a more fun, creative, and inspiring activity.

DIY: Necklace Wall

Since we moved, I can never find the necklaces Im looking for -- they are all over the place. Last night I got a rush of inspiration and took my hammer and nails to the wall. What do you think?

Apartment Spotlight: My Bryn Mawr, PA Apartment

Since I moved out, I thought I'd feature my old apartment in a spotlight feature. Once my current place is up to blog-able standards, I'll be posting it for everyone to see. Until then, enjoy a peak at my previous pad (which was featured above with the "The Apartment" link). It will be weird to never go back once I had the keys over today, but I love the new place so much that I'm sure I won't miss it too much.

Ryan's side of the bed gets decorated with his old, smelly frat hat

My cluttered little workspace

Purses hang on every doorknob in my apartment (note to self: invest in some hooks)

Can never have too many shoes!

My bedside table and ring collection

Can never have too many beauty products either

Make-up, collecting dust

My plant has been alive for a few months now, I am very proud of this fact. 

Art from Etsy

Apartment Spotlight: My San Francisco, CA Apartment

I loved my room in San Francisco! I had painted it a fun, bright color and had tons of natural light. One window was right next to my bed and since I lived off Lake Merced Blvd., the fog would roll in every morning and I'd wake up with a refreshing chill on my face (and sometimes damp hair). There was always some noise going on in one of the hundreds of college apartments in the building and it was really fun to spy on the neighbors. :)

My bookcase, flowers Ryan had sent for Valentine's 2009, Mucha prints I got in Prague, and headbands Mom and I made.

The aforementioned window, which brought the fog to my face

My vanity desk filled with knick knacks and the mirror I was so sad I couldn't take with me to PA.

My Paper Source collection, rapidly growing now that there is a location ten minutes from my apartment!

The doors were magnetic and became a scrapbook of my time there.

My mom got two of these hideously beautiful chairs at Goodwill and I love them more than words.

Too many clothes, needed an extra rack!

Coasters I collected while traveling through Berlin and Amsterdam

Flowers from Ry--sunflowers are my favorite.

My TV sat atop my dresser and TiVo was a must for this girl. Don't make fun of Battlestar Galactica, it was really good!

I stole this poster out of a laundromat on Fillmore in high school and I plan to get it framed (eventually)

Anthropologie bowl holding Etsy cloth push pins

I adored my old fashioned stove, except when it came to preheating (in which case it sucked).

My mom used to send me home with fresh ingredients, which I used as decorations because I'm not much of a chef.

Anyone who has lived with me knows of the infamous "hand soap." I think it is hilarious.

I always bought orchids from Trader Joe's to give the bathroom a little life since there were no windows (they always died).

Make up

Can't believe I never took a picture of my bed with a better camera, all I have is this grainy iPhone shot.