Fact: I love organisational storage. Knowing where everything is, colour coding, beautiful display ideas, they all excite me. In particular I enjoy thinking about ways to better organise my beauty and fashion storage but today I thought I'd show you how I store and display my beauty products.

Yesterday I put an Instagram up of some beauty products I've been loving lately and thought I'd do some mini reviews of them today for you because they really are fantastic and the love deserves to be shared. There's also some miscellaneous fashion and stationery bits thrown in there because I've been loving them this month too.

Mac Pro Longwear Paint Pot in Eclair This was released as part of the Baking Beauties collection and I think it's sold out now. Constructivist is similar and part of their permanent collection. The shade is a coppery brown with fine gold shimmer running through it. This paint pot is very true to colour and looks lovely worn by itself or with other Mac eyeshadows like Woodwinked and All That Glitters. This also goes nicely with the metallic shades in the Naked 2 palette as well. What I really love about this paint pot though is its staying power. With an eyeshadow primer underneath this does not crease at all. It's perfect for long days when eyeshadow touch ups aren't an option.

Antipodes Joyful Hand & Body Cream I actually first heard of Antipodes on Estee's blog and was excited to hear they were a New Zealand brand. This hand cream was tested many a time I visited Farmers and I finally picked it up when I had some reward dollars to use. This cream is scented with blackcurrant berry and hibiscus flower so it smells quite fruity with a hint of floral. I use this as a hand cream and the cream sinks into the skin so quickly. You aren't left having to vigorously rub at the greasy residue. This is probably the only hand cream that doesn't dry out my skin in Winter too and I love it for that. Next on the Antipodes lust list is the Grapeseed Butter Cleanser which reminds me of the ever-popular cleansing balms everyone loves at the moment.

When I heard Benefit was launching in New Zealand I was excited to finally get my hands on some of their cult products. What I didn't know was that Benefit also happen to take brows very seriously. Last Thursday I visited the Benefit Brow Bar* in Smith & Caughey's where I was left in the safe hands of Jess, one of Benefit's educators and brow experts.
My skin is quite sensitive with brow waxing and the area underneath my brows never fails to go tomato red. Jess powdered under my brows with the Hello Flawless powder in Ivory (Gee I'm Swell), brushed them into shape with a spooly and I was good to go.

Beauty products can be costly, especially the high-end offerings. I'm often on the hunt for alternatives that are just as good as some of my more expensive favourites but cheaper. While we don't have the variety of high street beauty products that America or England may have, there are still some gems out there. I'm of the belief that if it is less expensive and performs just as well then it deserves to be shared. So sit back, relax and watch the High Street beauty edit unfold..