Peek Into My Daily Traincase

PIC HEAVY!!

Meet my Rockstar Caboodle that I got from Tar-Jeh for only $19.99. It's one of their smaller sized train cases and this one has black lace overlay while the others are either plain black, silver metal or pink metal. They all come with a latch that locks but I never lock it anyway. I've had it for 8 months and it's very durable and sturdy, however, I don't hold it by the handle because it's too heavy to support it that way. Instead, I always grab it from the bottom. The dimensions are 9.5" x 6.5" x 7.5".

This is my daily train case that I open up everyday because it contains my favorite eyeshadows and blushes, mascaras, eyelash curlers & eyeliners. Take a peek... =)

You can fit 12 5g-sized sample jars in each tray or 5 10g-sized jars & 5 5g-sized jars in each tray.
Here's the left side with all Everyday Minerals blushes and eyeshadows (2 foundation colors I use as contour). I lined the top trays with non-slip padding because I got tired of straightening out the jar labels every time I opened the case. Yup, I'm anal!

The right side

Here's what fits in the second tray on the right side. Who knew?

In the bottom are more favorite eyeshadows, mascaras, TFSI, eyelash curlers & my Anastasia brow powder duo. If you see something you want to know the color of, just ask! =)

Closeups

Many of the items in the bottom are stacked on top of each other. If you do this, you can cut out non-slip padding and put them under your eyeshadows so that they don't slide around everywhere. The downfall of this case is that you have to dig for stuff on the very bottom so I keep my less used items there.

So after doing this post, I can't believe how much stuff this little Caboodle holds! And it's no mystery that I love brown, green, and peach eyeshadows ;)
Visit Amazon to browse through more Caboodles.


While we're on the topic of Caboodles, peep my old school one! Remember these? LoL

I keep my reject makeup in here that I can't seem to throw away (a lot of Bare Minerals foundation), extra empty e.l.f. compacts & three Back 2 MAC items (I need 3 more).
Do you have a Caboodle?

*UPDATED* Tabletop Storage

A buddy has been added to my existing tabletop storage. This 5-drawer Sterilite unit used to be $6.97 at Walmart but can you believe that it's exactly $8.00 now? When does Walmart ever end a price at an even dollar? It's always .97 or .98 cents. Anyway a $1.03 price hike is HUGE for Walmart. I don't believe the first drawers I got were purchased on sale either.


I reorganized the two drawers in the black unit. The top drawer has about two layers of lipsticks.

The bottom drawer are most of my lipglosses with wand applicators. There's some Cover Girl Wetslicks & Max Factor (my faves) on top.

Then jumping over to the new drawers. More lipglosses in tubes and pots as well as lipliners and lip brushes. You should keep a separate sharpener for your lipliners. Do you see that discontinued Stila Rose Shine? That's one of my all times faves but it had the worst packaging ever!

Some eyeshadow bases, Jane Be Pure Mineral Gel eyeliner and a Sephora eyelash curler with a slide out lash & brow comb.

Eyeshadows I hardly use. There's a Rimmel quad, Maybelline e/s and a Clinique Bonus palette underneath.

Eyeliners, a separate sharpener for them, elf Studio products (review on the way), a Jane e/s palette (black rectangle) and a Physician's Formula baked e/s trio (I really like this).

Finally, the bottom drawer has some false eyelashes which I don't use too often, DUO dark tone glue and my EDM foundation brush.

Top view

I promise to show what's underneath the table too. =)

Need More Space?: Tabletop Storage

I've had this setup for a while now. These were both from Walmart and the white unit was under $7 while the black unit was under $4 or $5 if I remember correctly. I needed these for extra storage since my train cases weren't sufficient anymore. I recently reorganized these items and there's more stuff underneath this table on shelves. But that's another story. =) I lined the bottom of the drawers with non-slip padding and also the bottom of each unit to prevent slippage.

I love the back compartment on the top of this. It's the perfect place to put my most often used lippies. Under the flip-top lid is where I put my MAC Colorforms brushes, my concealer palette, EDM Baby Kabuki, custom foundation mixes & my Clinique compacts that have the powder washed out of the pans. I use these to tap in my mineral powders from sample jars and then I can dip my brushes in them. (Oh and those are not passwords on the yellow Post-It note. LoL. They're just shortened book titles)

Two layers of lippies and lip pencils. I have Jordana & NYX lipliners, an NYC lipstick, Revlon Colorstay lipglosses, e.l.f. lipglosses and candy shop tins, Wet & Wild pot glosses, Clinique & Rimmel lipsticks, one Laura Mercier gloss, Victoria's Secret Beauty Rush lipglosses underneath and a MAC clear lipglass (which is sticky but the stickier it is, the longer it lasts. It's my fave gloss to put over anything to help make any color last longer. I used to eat Subway sandwiches with this over a lipstick and my lips would still look good after lunch!)

Wet n Wild & NYC eyeliners, some crappy e.l.f. eyeliners, L.A. Colors 6-color palettes, Jane eyeshadow and Be Pure Mineral Gel liner, NYX Diamond Sparkle lippie in Sparkling Dusty Rose, 3 MAC lipsticks & a script brush I got for my gel liner from Michael's, which was only 96 cents. It has a yellow handle.

The white storage unit holds about half of my Everyday Minerals collection. The top drawer houses my foundation samples and a couple concealers on the side.

Second drawer houses extra eyeshadows. You can stack two layers of sample jars or one layer of mini sized jars.

The third drawer contains more eyeshadow. Coffee Break is a blush I use for eyeshadow and in the back are extra empty jars for future use. Now the Revlon Illuminance Creme Eyeshadow palettes you see here have been reused. What happened was that the heat spoiled my creme shadows so I cleaned it out and pressed some EDM eyeshadows in there using a nickel covered with a T-shirt. They came out pretty but matte powders hold up better than shimmery ones when using the alcohol method.

Fourth drawer holds most of my blushes. The ones I use most of the time I filled into sample sized jars and put them into my daily traincase. Then I tap those out into the empty Clinique compacts you saw earlier. It's better that way so you don't contaminate lids with your used brushes. I wash out the Clinique compacts when I'm done. Check out my video on that.

And the fifth drawer on the bottom holds pressed powders, finishing powders, a jar of custom mixed foundation, and what's my one MAC Paint Pot doing there? LOL. This is an EDM storage place only. Hehe. The MAC compacts hold depotted EDM pressed powders. Notice how I put these delicate items on the bottom? I'm a klutz and butterfingers and I tend to drop things. My pressed All Smiles blush is actually shattered. =(

I also have my makeup brushes on the tabletop as well as some random makeup that fit into little glass votive holders that look like shot glasses. I'll try to do pictures of all my other makeup in the future. Hope you enjoyed! =) What does your tabletop look like?