Love Month. Day 11: My Nail Space & Organization.

A few weeks ago, I had a request to show you guys my nail space and how I organize my nail supplies. It would probably be easier to show you something like this in a video, but I decided to do a post. If you'd like to see a video in the future, please let me know.
I'll be giving you an overview of my nail space, today. Mainly because my stuff is all over the place at the moment. I've been trying to condense my collection/supplies and organize it a bit better, as I'll be moving out soon and I'll have much less space there.
So, in my bedroom at the moment, I have a plain white desk. (Sorry I didn't include a picture of the whole space, it's just so messy-looking).  This is where I do all of my nail and blogging stuff. Usually the desk is super cluttered, and covered in polishes. But when I clean it off, I have a pile off to the side with my notebooks, planner, to-do lists and my pencil case. I also have a little basket that holds polishes that I need to swatch for reviews. And I have a chocolate scented candle at the moment, also. :)

To the left of my desk, I have a Helmer from Ikea. This is where my polishes live. A Helmer can hold approximately 500 nail polishes.

To the left of my Helmer, I have a plastic drawer unit from Kmart. (It's mostly just craft supplies in there.)



On top of my Helmer, I have a plastic storage box with a handle. I keep all of my mani essentials in here. I bought this because when I move out, I won't have a desk to do my nails at, so I can just grab this box and move it to wherever I want to paint my nails, and everything I need will be there.

In this box, I have a towel that I use to protect the surface I'm painting on, base coats, top coats, hand cream, cuticle cream, polish remover, nail files, polish thinner, a nail brush, cuticle remover, a cup that I put acetone in for cleaning up the cuticles, cuticle nipper, clean up brush, cuticle pusher, cotton balls (in the red box) and nail clippers! Phew!

On top of my Kmart drawers, I have an old gift box where I keep all of my untried polishes. Eek, I have too many. I'm thinking when I move, I will move these into a plastic box similar to the one above.

I am planning on doing a separate post on my nail photography set up some time soon, but here is a little sneak peek. I have two 85w 5500k studio lamps that I purchased from eBay, here, and a 30x30cm soft box, also from eBay, here (that one is 40x40x40cm but I think that would be a better size).
I keep the lamps and soft box under my desk most of the time because they would take up way too much space on my desk.

I also have a few plastic containers that hold spare top coats, base coats, cotton balls, etc. And another that holds all of my gel polish supplies.
Hope you enjoyed this post & that it was helpful / interesting for some of you! When I get everything organized a bit better, I'll update you!