Episode 25 – Tip Tuesday – Keeping Your Makeup Organized and Knowing When It Expires - Intentional Edit

How to Organize Makeup

Does makeup expire? In this Tip Tuesday Episode of The Intentional Edit Podcast, Lauren answers a listener question about organizing makeup, cosmetics, and brushes. Find out the recommended expiration dates for the most used products in your cabinet.

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Does makeup expire on this tip Tuesday episode of the intentional edit podcast, I’m answering a listener question about organizing makeup, cosmetics, and brushes. You will find out the recommended expiration dates for the most used products too. Hey friends, quick tips that make a big impact in your daily life are my favorite ways to implement systems or on the house. I’ve been sharing easy strategies. And my go-to organizing products for tip Tuesday on the intentional at Instagram feed for a few years. Now I’m excited to bring it to the podcast with sure episodes answering your questions every Tuesday. If you want me to answer your questions, go to the podcast page on intentional, edit.com and submit your questions there. Let’s get it started on this tip Tuesday episode of the intentional edit podcast. Hey friends, welcome to another tip. Tuesday episode of the intentional edit podcast.

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It is episode 25. And today we are talking about all things organization for makeup and makeup supplies or things that you use, like makeup brushes. I am Anthony earing, a listener question that came in. If you have questions about how to get organized or what to do to purge or how you can simplify and declutter your home and life, submit them to me, by going to the intentional edit website and recording, you can record a message for me, just like you would to voicemail you just click on the record. Now, button that pops up and leave me your question or concern or something that you’re wondering about. I will answer your question on a future tip Tuesday episode. The question that came in today says I followed your bathroom organization tips from Instagram. And I must say my bathroom has never been in close to this organized before.

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I’m wondering how long makeup lasts does it expire and how I should organize it. That is a great question. And I’m so glad that you found the stuff that I am posting on Instagram beneficial, and that you’re using those tips that I have for bathroom organization and that they are working long term to, for you in terms of a makeup organization, makeup does expire. I’ve done, uh, a couple blog posts on this in the years past what I have found to be the most common recommendations for makeup expiring is mascara, eyeliner and eyeshadow. Like the powder eyeshadow would only be used for three to four months. That’s three to four months after you open the package and start using it for mascara, eyeliner eyeshadow. You want to only use them for three to four months and then get rid of them. The reason for this, as well as all the other products that I will talk about.

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The expiration dates for is makeup is a BA breeding for bacteria, especially depending on how you use it and what brushes you’re using, or if you’re sticking your finger in it. It’s just a place where bacteria can grow. It’s good to get rid of products before you have a problem or a breakout or things like that. The next thing is like lip glass, liquid foundation, concealer, and things along those lines that is a six to 12 months timeframe. And again, that’s after opening it. So if you buy something and you don’t use it or open it for six months, it’s not already time to toss it. You it’s from these dates are from the time that you are actually opening them. Lipstick is one year and then powder based products, other than eyeshadow, anything else, powder base that you’re putting on your face. Those last, the longest, and tend to be able to stick around for two years.

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That’s a big time frame. The mascara, eyeliner and eyeshadows three to four months, lip gloss, liquid foundation, and concealer six to 12 months lipstick one year and powder based products. Other than eyeshadow two years. That’s your recommended guidelines or criteria for expiration dates on makeup when it comes to organizing makeup and how you wanna do that, it really depends what space is available to you, where you put on your makeup and how much makeup you tend to have or wear a lot of people store their makeup in the bathroom. And that’s where they use it. If you have a lot of counter space, a great thing that you can do is purchase of those cosmetic organizers with the drawers. And usually a top that flips up or the top is, uh, has little tiny compartments where you can stick, stick lipstick, lip, lip gloss in your brushes.

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So that they’re upright. That’s not my number one solution because I don’t like things on the counter. But if you have a lot of counter space, but not a lot of storage space, that is a great option. If you don’t have a lot of counter space, or if you like a clean, clear counter to create that simplified, feel in your bathroom, then try using your drawers. If you can dedicate an entire drawer to your cosmetics or everything you use in your morning routine, which, and would include skincare and moisturizers and things like that, that drawer can have different compartments. And depending on the depth of the drawer, there are very shallow containers that you can use. And some are even stackable where you can have two layers. So the top layer would slide back and forth over a larger bottom container. The best thing to do, just like any other organizing project, and you are organizing your makeup, gather everything, discard, all of the things that you no longer need use or want.

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And then think about the expiration dates that we just went over, discard. Anything that would fall into the too old and it’s past the time that you should be using it for. You can see what you are left with. You will sort into categories. Once you have that, you know, what kind of containers that you need. If you choose a container that sits above the counter, or if you choose something that goes into your drawers, then you will know what you need and how you wanna divide it up. If you don’t wear a lot of makeup. A lot of times, people that I work with will just have one section in their drawer and one container in the drawer for all the makeup, and then maybe they separate out the lipsticks and the lip gloss and another container brushes should be kept separate. If you have a makeup that you only wear for special occasions, and you have super limited bathroom space, you don’t have to keep that in a drawer or on the counter.

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It can go some like it can go in a container under the cabinet because you barely ever use it. But the things that you use every day, just like with everything else, you want the things you use every day or the most often to be easily accessible. If you don’t wear a lot of makeup at all, sometimes people just store makeup in a small cosmetic bag. They have it all in there. And on the days that they use it, they grab that. And then everything that they need is in that small bag. Again, the is the same thing that I would tell you with organizing any other space in your home. There’s not a definite right or wrong way to do this. You have to customize it to you. If you don’t wear makeup very often your storage solutions and where you would want to keep, it would be a little bit different than if you wear a lot of makeup or you wear makeup all the time.

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It, if you’re wearing makeup a lot, or you have a lot of makeup, because it’s something you like, you want to have it in a place where you have easier access. Maybe it’s the top drawer in a bathroom. If you have a medicine cabinet or a linen closet in your bathroom, some other type of storage, you can also put the makeup organizers that you can buy, that a lot of people have on their counter. You can put those on a shelf in a cabinet and pull out the things that you use or designate a top shelf of that, or a top drawer of that to the things that you use daily. And then the other things can be in the lower drawers, organized by category. There are a lot of ways to do it, and it is specific to your needs, what you have and the available to you.

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But I hope that some of the things that I’ve shared today have helped you and given you some solutions so that you can get your makeup purged, get rid of those old things that could be causing problems, and you can finally get it organized so that you know what you have, and you can finally start using it. Thank you for joining me for another sh short and sweet tip Tuesday episode of the intentional edit podcast. Again, if you have questions that you would like me to answer and help you simplify, purge, and get organized, then head over to intentional, edit.com and click on the record now button and leave me a message with your question or what you are concerned about so that I can answer it on a few future tip Tuesday episode, we’ll meet you back here later in the week for another episode of the intentional edit podcast,

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Lauren is the founder of Intentional Edit, a home organization and lifestyle company focused on consciously editing to create efficient and organized spaces. Lauren believes that a functional home that looks and feels good has a positive influence on all aspects of life. Creating systems that allow for the home to function more efficiently, therefore, eliminating most of the clutter and chaos is her priority. While trends come and go organization is always in style!

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