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Makeup-Organizing Checklist 

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Quick steps to streamline your overstuffed makeup bag and find the beauty products you actually use.
 

  • Empty makeup bag. Dump contents on a flat colorsafe surface, such as a bathroom counter.
  • Toss old products. Discard any old, expired, or broken items. In general, mascara and liquid eyeliner expires after three to four months; eye and lip pencils, three to five years; lipstick and lip gloss, two to three years; and foundation, about two years.

    Related: When Do Beauty Products Expire?

  • Reasses your makeup stash. Keep only what you are really going to use.

    Related: Makeup Essentials Checklist

  • Place products in organizing trays. Keep items together: all eye shadows, all lip liners, all blushes, and so on. Consider a pencil organizer to keep brushes upright and easy to access or a vanity tote if you’d like to move cosmetics from room to room.

    Related: The Ultimate Bathroom Organizer

  • Store lipsticks upright. Since you can see their names, you’ll choose the one you want at a glance.

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