Some used nail polish racks, which hang on walls. I do not have a lot of room in our apartment, so wall racks are unfortunately out of the question. Other girls used nail polish display stands, which rest on their desks/make up vanity, but because of the same lack of space reason, I did not get these stands.
The other more popular storage method is the Ikea Helmer, which consists of six drawers on casters. The Helmer is available at Ikea for $49.99 and it comes in 3 colors: white, black, and red. When I went to Ikea last weekend, they did not have the black available, but they had it in silver.
Of course, like all things that I do in my life, I got the Helmer in the nick of time -- five minutes before closing time. Hubby and I dashed to Ikea, looked up the location of the white Helmer, paid, and lugged the box out of the store (it was heavy).
Assembly took me around 45 minutes (if I let hubby help me, I would have been done much sooner, but I wanted to do it myself). I struggled with the metal tabs and the screws (which do not fit cleanly into the pre-drilled holes) but I was pretty proud of my work.
The only drawback (in my opinion) is the fact that the drawers have no stoppers, so it looks like this when I pull it out more than halfway:
Of course, when I put the nail polishes in the drawer, the drawer hangs down.
I'm still 50-50 on the fact that it was made of metal -- I thought from the photos on the Internet that it was wood/board/laminate, which might be sturdier (since the polishes could get heavy). As I said, I was rushing to buy it so I did not really take the time to read the tag, or to check the showroom floor for a sample.
I still like my Helmer, and I will be using it to store my polishes. I hope I won't fill the drawers up for a long, long time (read: I am going on a no-buy for now).
Thanks for reading, and have a great day!
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