TaraLaraDesign

Makeup Tray

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A slim makeup tray with sliding doors that part to show everyday essentials, finished in matt white with soft pale yellow pull handles.

Makeup tray with its sliding door open, showing makeup inside

Year

2026

Type

Beauty storage

Finish

Matt white plastic, pale yellow handles

Process

Sketching, CAD, rendering, animation

01 — Sketch

The idea started as a shallow tray with a sliding lid and a row of slots, one for each product.

Pencil sketch of the tray with sliding lid and product slots

02 — Prototype

A 3D-printed prototype in white and pale yellow: a frame, two sliding doors, a lined insert with a lane for each product, and two small handles.

Prototype parts laid out: sliding door, yellow insert with product lanes, two handles and the white frame
The parts
Closed prototype tray held in two hands, yellow handles meeting in the middle
Closed
Prototype tray with doors slid apart, showing makeup in the yellow lanes
Doors slid open

03 — Form

Rounded corners, a split line across the lid and two small handles. Closed, it reads as a simple soft block.

Closed tray seen from above
Closed tray at an angle on a white surface
Tray floating at an angle

04 — Inside

Open, the yellow-lined interior holds lip gloss, concealer and mascara upright in their own lanes.

Open tray from above with makeup in yellow-lined slots
Close-up of makeup inside the open tray

Materials

Matt white plastic for the body and doors, with pale yellow for the handles and the lining inside.

Close-up of the matt white corner

Matt white plastic

Body and sliding doors

Close-up of the pale yellow handles

Pale yellow

Pull handles

Close-up of makeup in the yellow-lined lanes

Yellow lining

One lane per product

Film

TaraLaraDesign × Tray — the making of the makeup tray.