Makeup Wars: My Fall Manicure.

I am really torn when it comes to fall nails. I am usually all about bold shades on my nails as soon as fall rolls around, but this year I am loving nude colors too. So for my fall manicure I did a mix of both.

I used the butter LONDON Half Moon Manicure Set from QVC to create my fall manicure. First let's take a look at the kit, then we'll look at my manicure.

The butter LONDON Half Moon Manicure Set contains all you need for a sensational seasonal manicure, including two hot shades, Union Jack Black - an opaque, glossy, jet-black cream shade and Yummy Mummy - an opaque, medium-beige cream shade. The set also contains Nail Foundation - base coat and Hardwear P.D. Quick Topcoat. It really is everything you need for a complete mani and perfect for fall. The kit also comes with easy to follow step-by step instructions for how to create a half moon manicure. Though, I am so artistically challenged that it did not work out so well for me. At all.

After multiple attempts at the half moon manicure failed, I wound up with my standard accent nail look that I love so much. I used Yummy Mummy as my base shade and Union Jack Black on my ringer fingers as my accent nail. I then took a toothpick and dipped it into Yummy Mummy and painted a few tiny polka dots over the Union Jack Black. It is a balance of the bold and nude; perfect for fall.

Makeup Wars: My Makeup Storage.

As a beauty blogger and someone who is simply pretty much obsessed with beauty products, I have a lot of products. I am fortunate to do what I do and test a lot of makeup, skin care and hair care items, but it can be overwhelming. Luckily, I have a teenaged daughter with a lot of friends, a sister who is just as addicted to beauty as me, and quite a few friends and family members that regularly go through my stash of products. I also make seasonal donations to local women's shelters and donate to events, etc.. Even with all these hands in my stash, I accumulate a lot.

At times, all these beauty products can seemingly take over my house. I had come up with a system of organizing that works for me. It is not a pretty system. It is not for anyone to see. I like to think of it as organized chaos, actually. While I really don't know where any one thing is, I sort of have an idea of where it may be.

When I receive products, I unload them onto shelves in my home office. These are the newest of my beauty products; they have either recently been reviewed or need to be reviewed. I clean out these shelves about every month.

From those shelves in my home office, products make their way into a large armoire that I have in my bedroom. Seasonal products or favorites that I may pull out on a regular basis go on the top shelf in bins. I have one bin for lips, eyes, face and skin. Products that need more organizing or storing go into a set of large plastic drawers that I keep in the armoire. I have one unit for department store brands and another for drugstore and mass brands. I label the shelves, again for lips, eye, face and skin. My larger products and sets, products that aren't so easily stored are just thrown in here in front too. These are products I will probably be needing or using soon. Items such as razors, shampoo, body creams and such like to hang out here.

I try to do a major reorganization each quarter. This is when I toss old products and put together boxes to donate. As I do this, I fill up drawers in these two lingerie dressers.

These dressers have a lot of smaller sized drawers that are perfect for storing makeup. Because I have many more drawers, I can further separate and organize more. Here I have a drawer for things such as my all time favorite MAC lip products, the eyeshadow palettes I use often, or just a random drawer of lippies.

I told you it wasn't pretty, but for now, my beauty stash organization works well for me.

I can't wait to see how the rest of my beauty blogger friends store their stash of beauty products too.