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Vintage Vanity Accessories 💋💅💄
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items Dress up your sink or dresser with these glamorous and practical touches to corral your lotions, potions, and accessories!
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Trays and Trinket Dishes
Boxes and Jewelry Holders
Art and Decor
Mirrors
Brush and Makeup Containers
Trays and Trinket Dishes
Vintage trays are a perfect option to keep your perfumes, lotions, and others bottles grouped on your dresser or sink/vanity. They come in all sizes, shapes, and styles, from glamorous to streamlined.
A classic style with a mirrored base, these are perfect for holding perfume, nail polish, any other bottles you want to display. The velvety bottom protects your wooden or marble surfaces in your bedroom or bathroom, and the high sides keep everythin...
Vintage brass mirrored vanity tray
This is the style I have on my own dresser! Easy to come by and available in a range of sizes, you could even group a couple of these together if you have a large collection or want to display multiple collections at once.
Vintage Small Gold Metal Oval Mirror Tray with Filigree Ormolu | Vanity Dresser Tray | 6.5" x 9.5"
This is the sweetest style, in my opinion! I have a similar one (second photo), and I do store modern glosses/lipsticks in the holders, as well as stashing other modern makeup in the tray portion. So glam!
Vintage Vanity Mirror with 4 Lipstick Holders, Small Tabletop Makeup Mirror Tray, MCM Bathroom Decor Storage,Hollywood Regency Decor Storage
If glass or brass isn’t your thing, porcelain and ceramic options are also great catchalls! You can store bottles on these, or use them as a trinket dish to hold current jewelry selections or other items in your rotation.
Antique French Vanity Tray, Floral Porcelain Dresser Tray, Perfume Tray, Makeup Organizer, Dressing Table Bureau Decor
A perfect option for holding your small makeup items, cotton balls, etc. This would be so cute as a nail polish caddy to hold polishes, cotton balls/pads, nail clippers, etc.
VTG Cut Glass Vanity Caddy Rectangular Gold Filigree 3 Glass Dishes Two Lidded
Boxes and Jewelry Holders
Keep all of your bits and bobs safe in style with these beautiful antique boxes and tins.
As a nail polish lover, I use these sweet antique tins as jewelry boxes to separate different categories of my collection (bracelets in one, seasonal earrings in one, etc).
Cutex Antique Five Minute Manicure Tin
A perfect container for jewelry or vanity consumables (q-tips, cotton rounds or balls, or if you use toothpaste bits!)
Vintage Glass Footed Powder Box with Engraved Brass Lid, Vanity Trinket or Jewelry Dish - 19305
This gorgeous set would give you a box to protect items you don’t want to get dusty, as well as two smaller matching trays to act as catchalls for your daily jewelry during showers, hand washing, etc.
Vintage bird trinket box and plates
I love the shocking pop of pink inside this tiered, lined jewelry box! Such an excellent way to save space while storing your collection, and that fun pop of color is a total surprising bonus.
Vintage Gold Tone Brass Finish 3-Tiered Folding Jewelry Box
The sweetest, quirkiest earring holder I have ever seen! This would be delightful on an adult vanity or for a young girl’s earring collection.
Vintage Pink Poodle Metal Earring Holder Tree Revere MFG / 1960s 60s / Mid Century Kitsch / Retro Home Decor
Art and Decor
Beautiful art for your beauty station!
I love framing vintage and antique beauty and fashion ads for my bathrooms. I don’t have a walk in closet or dressing area, but a collection of these in a space like that would be incredible!
Vintage 1961 Nail Polish (Cutex) and Make-up Magazine Advertisement - Glamour's Beauty Book
A beautiful addition to a makeup vanity or dressing room!
Vintage 1942 Tangee Lipstick Ad in Vintage Gold 8 x 10 Frame
Perfect for a lipstick or makeup lover! Framed vintage ads look great in a bathroom, dressing area, or over a dresser.
1960 Cutex Lipstick Cosmetics Beauty Magazine Ad
If you’re someone who does your own nails, this would be a lovely addition to your bathroom, polish storage area, or the spot where you paint your nails.
Vintage 1942 Dura-Gloss Nail Polish Print advertisement
If you’re someone with an older home, or just someone who enjoys antique artwork, soap ads are often beautiful and accessibly priced to buy and frame for a bathroom, powder room, or dressing area.
1915 Ivory Soap "It Floats" Full Page Print Ad
Mirrors
A petite option you could easily move around as needed to do your makeup and more!
Vintage 80s Commodore Gold Tubular Swivel Table Mirror Makeup Vanity
This retro magnifying mirror is so cool! If you’re a midcentury kind of guy or gal, this would make an amazing addition to a makeup vanity or dresser.
Vintage 1970s GE General Electric "The Looking Glass" 2-Way Magnifying Powered Lighted Vanity Mirror | Makeup Mirror
This petite option is a great choice for a high dresser if you want to quickly check your hair or have a way to look at yourself while you put in earrings or try on other jewelry.
Vintage Lucite And Metal Double Sided Vanity Mirror 7.5" H 6.5"W Gold Color
Brush and Makeup Containers
These can easily hold your current rotation of lipsticks, glosses, or stains, but also: Bobby pins, spoolies, shorter makeup brushes, cotton swabs, and more!
Vintage Metal Gold Tone Filgree Lipstick Tube Holder Vanity Home Decor Glam Boudoir Decor 4 Holders
This is listed as a desk organizer but would make a perfect makeup/makeup brush holder for a modern vanity setup!
Vintage Smoked Acrylic Desk Organizer. 70s & 80s. Retro Office Decor. Mid Century Modern Pen holder. Vintage Desk Caddy, Office Storage.
A beautifully ornate silver option for the Hollywood regency gals that don’t love gold/brass!
Vintage Hollywood Regency Round Brush Holder 7"
