Aqua by Jimeale New York

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Aqua by Jimeale NY Blue Cosmetic Clutch, A$15

Aqua by Jimeale NY Pink Complete Cosmetic Clutch Bag, A$35

Aqua by Jimeale NY Green Small Clutch, A$10

Aqua by Jimeale NY Orange Toiletry Organiser, A$20

Aqua by Jimeale NY Hot Pink Weekender Bag, A$50

Aqua by Jimeale NY Gray Fold-Over Organiser, A$25

 When you’re planning on going to your friend’s place for a sleepover, travelling on holiday or even organising a road trip up north, Aqua by Jimeale New York will have you organised with their new range of stylish, bright and fun travel accessory bags available in a variety of different sizes and colours to suit your needs. Aqua by Jimeale NY was developed by Australian-born, New York designer and entrepreneur Jimeale Jorgenson and is sold exclusively at Target stores. The range of travel accessory bags are affordable, between A$10 and A$50, and the bags are made from durable, sturdy and wipe-off material to keep your contents safe and sound while travelling. My picks are the Fold-Over Organiser to carry all my beauty essentials and the Weekender Bag to carry some change of clothes for a business trip. 

Aqua by Jimeale NY is available exclusively at Target and online here.

How do you organise your beauty essentials when travelling?

xx Rose

DIY Makeup Organiser - Re-use your Glossyboxes

The Spring season is in full swing and during these last few days I've been sorting and organising my makeup and beauty products. The other day, I came across a DIY tutorial on Laura's blog where she made her own makeup organiser by re-using 4 of her old Glossybox boxes. I absolutely love the idea and it's such a great way to make better use out of these sturdy and cute Glossyboxes.

Glossybox Australia released their first box in November 2011 and unfortunately the company was short-lived and released their last Glossybox in April 2012. I have received all 6 Glossyboxes and 3 of the Glossyboxes have been used to hold my nail polishes and other bits and bobs. I thought I'd get a tiny bit creative and show you how to make a makeup organiser using only 3, rather than 4, empty Glossyboxes.

Things you will need:

• 3 Glossyboxes
• 2 x strong cardboard pieces (one 20.5 x 20.5 cm and the other 20.5 x 16.5 cm)
• A long and sharp kitchen knife (it's a lot easier using a long blade rather than a small Stanley knife/scissors)
• Hot glue gun (you can purchase one on eBay for a measly A$4)
• Scissors and a pen to pierce holes into the drawer
• Ruler
• Ribbons for decoration (I used the pink ribbon which came with my Glossybox subscription)

First of all, use your kitchen knife a cut off one of the long edges of 2 Glossybox lids. The lids will be used to support the sides of your organiser. Keep the two long edges for later.

Using the 2 strong cardboard pieces (I surprisingly had these two cardboard pieces lying around and even though they are not the same size as specified in the above list, they still worked well to support the frame of the organiser), glue the edges to the the two Glossybox lids to create the frame. 

Next, glue-on the 3rd Glossybox lid right on top of the frame. To add further support, in case your drawers are filled to the brim with beauty products, glue on the two long edges at the back to hold the frame in place. 

Now, onto the drawers. I decided to decorate the drawers using the pink ribbon which came with my Glossybox subscription as it goes with the pink theme I was looking for. Use a ruler to mark the center of the drawer and then use a pen/scissors to pierce two holes for the ribbon. The length of each ribbon I used was 21 cm. You may want to start with at least 25 cm of the ribbon to tie a cute little bow with ease. I couldn't find where all my other Glossybox ribbons went off to, but luckily I had just enough.  

And.... voila! There you have it, your own Glossybox makeup organiser :)

Hope you enjoyed my little tutorial! What have you been using your Glossyboxes for?

xx Rose

Lipstick Organiser + Sneak Peek of my Lippie Collection

Over the past few years I have accumulated so many lipsticks, lipglosses, mascaras etc... so it's about time that I get all these makeup products organised and sorted. Today I went into Target at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre and found these FAB acrylic lipstick organisers which can hold 9 lipsticks in total. 

They were actually on sale in Target for A$3.50 (normally A$5) which is an absolute bargain! Here's what they look like when filled.

To distinguish the shades of the lipsticks, just invert them in the slots. In addition to placing lipsticks to these organisers, I've also added some perfume miniatures from Jo Malone and Juice Couture (middle front), mascara, eye liners and lipglosses. I was able to fit in two Illamasqua lipglosses in one slot and the Illamasqua lipsticks, although they're quite chunky, fit in perfectly!

How do you organise your makeup?

Rose