What's in my drawer?

I follow a few beauty blogs and have seen lots of posts detailing what these bloggers stash in their make-up bags and use everyday. So I bring you... 'What's in my utility drawer?'

I store all my nail related stuff in a small set of plastic drawers and the bottom one is where I keep all the tools of my craft :D

What you see here...

At the back: The small cosmetics bag which holds all of my stamping stuff and some other small bits and bobs.

Front left: Base coats and top coats.

A lot of these go unused because they don't their job properly.

Midlle: The polishes that are too tall to stand up in the drawers!If you look carefully you can see a small pot of diamantes.

Front right: Nail file and buffer. Under the Hidden Tresure is the Scholl Nail Brightening treatment.

If you are interested, please read more. I just don't want to clog up the front page too much.

What's in the bag? 

Stamping Plates and tools

Nail and cuticle treatment

Brushes for clean-up

Cuticle Pusher

Cotton Buds/Q-tips

These are all my plates. I have 10 Konads, 12 Fauxnads and the 21 Bundle Monsters.

 

Top to bottom:

- Body Shop Almond Oil Nail and Cuticle Treatment

- Brushes that I use to clean up my manicures with acetone

- E.L.F Cuticle Pusher

Stamping tools:

- I use an old student card for scraping

- I have a Konad plate holder mat and stamper. I hardly ever use the mat though - mostly I just lay down a piece of scrap paper

- Nail Clippers

  

Base Coats

NYC Glossies - 203

Funny story about this one. I bought it assuming it was my favourite ever top coat and continued to use it for a few days. I was disappointed that it wasn't drying my nails fast enough. When I actually read the bottle and realised it was a base coat, I felt more than a little stupid!

Beauty UK Nail Whitening Base Coat

This doesn't actually whiten your nails as I first thought it would. It just makes a good foundation if you are going to apply lighter colours and don't want to see the yellow/orange through!

Top Coats

NYC in a New York Color Minute

Fast drying and doesn't smudge the stamping - my favourite brand for top coats!

Sally Hansen Dry Kwik

Not really a top coat as you still need to apply one to make the manicure last. But this is good if you have had to apply lots of colour coats such as with sheer polishes.

  

File and Buffer

From the Body Shop. I just noticed today that they match my little bag!

Last but not least

This is not in the drawer, only because it won't fit, but is a very important tool - Acetone.

I only use this for clean-up and neatening-up my manicures and not for all over removal because a) excessive contact is no good for your skin, and b) it's more expensive.

If anyone would like to see some more posts similar to this or has any questions about my technique that weren't answered here, please let me know :D