Nail polish storage- IKEA and Container Store

Since we will all need to store our nail polish Black Friday hauls, I wanted to share my nail polish storage. I use an IKEA Besta unit, and the acrylic drawers are Container Store small shoe drawers. I mostly have Essie and ILNP polishes, although I think I want to purchase exclusively ILNP polishes moving forward (restricting myself to certain brands is one way I keep my spending in check!). One drawer can hold:

50 Essie “regular” bottles (5 across, 10 rows)
45 Essie gel couture bottles (5 across, 9 rows)
50 ILNP bottles (5 across, 10 rows)
50 Deborah Lippmann full size bottles (5 across, 10 rows)
Not sure how many mini Deborah Lippmann would fit, but 6 mini bottles can fit across
~40 OPI bottles (only 4 across, but probably 9-10 rows)

If you’re in the market for a new system, I hope this is helpful! I do have contac liner down in the Essie drawers, to keep them from sliding around when I open the drawer. It’s also easy to see the names of the polishes on the top. With polishes that have the names on the bottom though, I don’t have any liner down, because I’ll usually pull the whole drawer out and hold it up so I can read the names underneath.

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