How tidy or untidy is your dressing table

I don’t have a dressing table - I had a built in one in our last house. I have a battered pine chest cluttered with photos, mostly of my son at various stages of his life, but one of GS (the yellow beads were a gift from a junior school trip to France! They are “my lucky beads”) and one of DH, various bits of useless china, and a crystal rose bowl that DH used to house his spare car keys and his season ticket! I don’t wear make up but if I did it would probably be in the bathroom with my perfume.

No dressing table here. No chair in the bedroom either. Sometimes I think I’d like both then realise either or more likely both would be full of all sorts of (un)important ‘stuff’ that I’d never get around to moving. .

Oops!

This is the one in my bedroom in our main home, quite good today as when I sorted the chair on Thursday I did the dressing table too.
Never as tidy as the above though.

This is my dressing table at our holiday apartment, it’s always neat and because it’s a second home and not full of clutter every thing remains tidy!

I don’t have one

Here is mine

watermeadow

Why do people feel bad about being untidy? If they wanted to be tidy they would.
I am tidy because I couldn’t bear to be otherwise. I put things away and have as little as possible out. That’s just the way I am, it’s not because I’m good and you’re bad.
Stop worrying about it.

Being untidy doesn’t bother me one bit.

Before I moved here the dressing room (no windows and door taken off) was my third daughter’s bedroom.

No dressing tables in the house - computer desks, chest of drawers and bedside tables. All fairly cluttered - creams, pictures, books, woven bracelets. DGD got one for Christmas along with make up. She is 5 and has drawers for her make up, perfume, brush, jewellery. She loves it and me and Granma often get made up! Papa too sometimes. She wanted Papa to put eyebrow pencil on me last week. He was trying to use it in the wrong direction and got a terrible row! I. had one when I was a teenager and it had a yellow lacy skirt!

mokryna

I can’t remember seeing one in France. I personally use the bathroom, as do my three DDs and GDDs. Do your DDs have dressing tables or are they out of fashion? We have larger beds and bigger wardrobes these days, so maybe there is not enough room for everything. I have a strong magnifying mirror attached to the wall, which visitors are horrified to see things. Make-up etc. is in a drawer, it rarely ones out now.

My daughter has a dressing room, never mind a dressing table!

Callistemon21

Am I the only one who does their makeup in a bathroom?

Me too. I love my bathroom mirror. I look 10 years younger in it than any other . At least I can go out feeling that I look good.

I've got one, LadyStardust, but it's not quite as smart as that. It does keep cosmetics, hairbrushes etc tidy.
It's in the bathroom, of course!

Seagrass wouldn't be so easy to keep clean imo

My makeup is in a soare room with better light!

Strangely enough, this week, I've been looking at my chest of drawers top that houses literally every cosmetic I use and thinking there must be a way to tidy this up in some way. I'm currently searching for the perfect 'Dressing Table Organiser'. Something like this. Or maybe a nice seagrass one. Decisions decisions!

I can’t remember seeing one in France. I personally use the bathroom, as do my three DDs and GDDs. Do your DDs have dressing tables or are they out of fashion? We have larger beds and bigger wardrobes these days, so maybe there is not enough room for everything. I have a strong magnifying mirror attached to the wall, which visitors are horrified to see things. Make-up etc. is in a drawer, it rarely ones out now.

LauraNorderr

Love your wall colour Pittcity

Thanks Lauran'. It's a bit more olive than it looks in the photo.

Why do people feel bad about being untidy? If they wanted to be tidy they would.
I am tidy because I couldn’t bear to be otherwise. I put things away and have as little as possible out. That’s just the way I am, it’s not because I’m good and you’re bad.
Stop worrying about it.

Callistemon21

Am I the only one who does their makeup in a bathroom?
(When I wear any)

Me too!

Shinamae

nadateturbe

It's a chest of drawers with a mirror from Pastimes. Mostly perfume. My make up and jewellery is in a drawer. On the right, blue package, my tickets for Andrea Bocelli ?. Large poster on wall Kings and Queens of England.

Do you know it’s best to keep perfume in a cupboard because being in the light especially sunlight can make the perfume lose its potency ?

Or drawer…

Am I the only one who does their makeup in a bathroom?
(When I wear any)

nadateturbe

It's a chest of drawers with a mirror from Pastimes. Mostly perfume. My make up and jewellery is in a drawer. On the right, blue package, my tickets for Andrea Bocelli ?. Large poster on wall Kings and Queens of England.

Do you know it’s best to keep perfume in a cupboard because being in the light especially sunlight can make the perfume lose its potency ?

Love your wall colour Pittcity

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No bedroom chair or dressing table here.
Mirror and bits and pieces on top of chest of drawers which are quite tidy having been moved for a new carpet this week.

No dressing table