Why I Should Stop Buying Lipstick

I have a 10-drawer hardwood dresser where I keep my makeup stash as well as some of my favorite personal items like back-up body creams, false lashes, perfumes and what-not. I keep my lipsticks and glosses in transparent drinking glasses in one of the drawers (making it look as similar as possible to the glass beakers MAC uses to store its tester lip stuff). As I trudge along my morning makeup routine, however, I notice that the transparent glasses are getting harder and harder to use each day. I have to go through several glasses just to find the lipstick/lipgloss that I want. This weekend, however, I was shopping at Target with the whole family when I came across this at the dollar bin:

It's a tin pail that is as big as the pails used by toddlers for their sandbox activities. Underneath it, you can see my craft boxes holding my full-size mineral eyeshadows (that is an altogether different story, though. More of those in another entry). I figured since this has a bigger circumference/diameter, I can hold more lipsticks/glosses and eliminate the hassle of scrounging for lipsticks in different containers.

Hmm, this would work, I think. This holds part of my MAC lipglass collection. C-thru is sticking out of the pail because it just wouldn't fit anymore - but I wanted C-thru in this group, dammit! Yes, all are still fresh, wearable and still have the sweet vanilla scent; I chuck out rancid lipglass regularly.

(Click for the rest of my lip stuff in pails)