How To Quickly Organize Your Makeup Collection

If you're a beauty junkie like me, you've collected your fair share of makeup products. Whether you're a serial spender at Ulta like myself or you're addicted to subscription boxes, figuring out how to quickly organize your makeup collection is crazy important when you've got so much stuff to wade through every day when you're getting ready. From creative storage to clear containers, there's tons of ways to organize your makeup collection that won't take several hours but will make things way easier for you in the mornings.

Like the always daunting task of cleaning your makeup brushes, organizing that insane stash of makeup you've managed to hoard over the years can seem like quite the feat. However, it doesn't have to be as time consuming or stressful as you may think. Plus, once you're done, you won't have to worry about leaked pressed powder coating your highlighter compact or liquid foundation potentially spilling into your drawer.

Even if your collection of makeup isn't a massive as others, though, keeping it organized is still a great way to speed up your morning routine and maybe snag a couple more minutes of shut eye.

These few quick tips will help make sure that your makeup collection is organized, and you haven't spend hours cleaning it.

1. Throw Out Expired Products
If you want to get your makeup collection organized quickly, the best way seems like it would be a purge. Throwing out all your expired makeup is a great way to rid yourself of some extra baggage that'll clear up some of the clutter.

2. Get Drawer Organizers
A quick way to organize is via storage. if you want your makeup out of the way but still in an order that makes sense, drawer organizers are a great trick. Simply pop your compacts, lipsticks, and powders into the organizer, and you're all done.

3. Acrylic Storage
Like drawer organizers, acrylic desktop or vanity-top organizers are quick and easy ways to organize your collection. Put your favorites in each drawer, and you'll always know where they are.

4. Use A Cake Stand
You may have seen this done with perfume, but if you want to get your liquid foundations, highlighters, or lipsticks off your desk or vanity's top, placing them on a cake stand is a great way to do it.

5. Repurpose Your Glasses
Need a place to store brushes? Jars and glasses are great options. Repurpose mason jars to be brush holders.

Dunkin' launched a limited-edition nail polish line

Dunkin'—the coffee chain formerly known as Dunkin' Donuts—is getting into the beauty business. For a limited time, nail polish inspired by Dunkin's flavored coffees will be available at select nail salons across the country.

The nail polish line includes eight freshly brewed shades. Three pay homage to Dunkin's new signature lattes—cocoa mocha, caramel craze, and blueberry crisp—and three are inspired by the seasonal Baskin-Robbins ice cream-flavored coffees: butter pecan, pistachio almond fudge, and banana split. Nail polishes in Dunkin's iconic pink and orange color palette are also available.

The collection is a collaboration between Dunkin' and the vegan-friendly nail polish company Lauren B. Beauty. While supplies last, the products will be available at certain nail salons in 10 cities where Dunkin' operates, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and Boston. Each purchase of the branded nail polish comes with a $3 Dunkin' gift card. To see if a salon in your area is participating, check out the map below.

Dunkin' isn't the first fast food chain to release its own nail polish line. In 2016, KFC released edible "finger-licking" nail polish that, yes, tasted like chicken.

These eight new nail-polish shades might remind you of your morning Dunks.

Dunkin’ is launching a limited-edition nail polish line this spring with colors inspired by the chain’s signature lattes, ice-cream-flavored coffees, and iconic branding.

Colors include Cocoa Mocha, Caramel Craze, and Blueberry Crisp, inspired by new signature lattes, as well as Butter Pecan, Pistachio Almond Fudge, and Banana Split, in honor of seasonal Baskin-Robbins ice cream-flavored coffees. The coffee chain’s orange and pink color scheme is represented in shades Slam Dunkin’ and Pretty in Dunkin’.

The polishes will be available May 15 through June at five salons in Boston, a Dunkin’ spokesperson told Boston.com: Purity Nail Bar, Treasured Hands Nail & Beauty Salon, and three locations of Town’s Nail & Skin Salon.

Roses in bloom demand a bridegroom

If I were an impulsive gal and could’ve corralled an impulsive guy to marry me last Friday, we would’ve held our impromptu nuptials smack in the middle of the parking lot of the Shoppes at Westlake Village on Russell Ranch Road.

Why such a rash romantic move?

Well, for one thing, the sun made a very late appearance in the day, following a relentless week-long gloomfest of raw, miserable, cold, ugly, hideous spring weather. Oh, there were still clouds in the sky on Friday, but in a breakup mode. The interstices between the gray masses were lit by sunbeams in a gold-spangled champagne-pink color—an ideal hue for our wedding toast.

But most importantly, the trigger for my sudden bolt from singlehood to marrying anyone available and as loony as I am, was the rose arches in the shopping center’s big, busy parking lot. They sang out for a happy couple to be framed in a wedding day photo.

It seemed a quirky place to stumble upon a stunning floral display amid acres of asphalt strewn with stray shopping carts and burger wrappers. There are two landscaped walking paths that meander through the lot to reach the entrance to the shops.

When the shopping center first opened, the rose arches seemed an improbable landscape choice. People in parking lots come and go, they don’t sightsee, and traffic fumes aren’t healthy for plants.

Me, I’m not much of a shopper. Rather, I’m intoxicated by this year’s rose displays everywhere, and nothing I’d yet encountered matched these parking lot pretties. Among them are Iceberg (white), Joseph’s Coat (an orange-red-gold blend) and Cecile Brunner (a prolific fluffy pink climbing mini-rose), each trained over their respective arch’s framework, without a gap visible.

It was the rose known as “Scentimental” that made the most indelible impression. The arch I yearned to hastily marry under was densely roofed in this sensational rich burgundy-and-vanilla bicolored rose wearing all manner of streaks and speckles. The patterning suggested a painter’s palette. It was the most vivid, joyful rose I’d ever seen, and there were zillions of flawless blooms.

I thought I’d go nuts trying to drink in such ample splendiferousness.

So that’s when the crazy notion to grab a guy and get hitched there and then seized me. I wanted to commemorate this most accidental encounter with such brilliant beauteous robust rose splendor, even if the wedding march would be interrupted by car alarms or revved engines. The white Iceberg roses were very matrimonial, and there was a sumptuous peach-colored rose that would have made a bouquet the size of a pizza.

In the end, no Romeo as rose-besotted as I happened past.

Consolation arrived in the lowering sun’s sudden flare of intense light that bathed each and every rose arch in an aura of shimmering gold. Solo or hitched, I could live happily ever after with an image like that.