Polish Therapy

From the beginning of the year I've had so much going on, that I felt I had to get something else to think than my actual life. Or, rather, something that does not involve much thinking.. I love organizing things (I'm just not good at keeping things organized, but there's a difference), and what's better than combining organizing with nail polish? Nothing!

The original idea is from who-knows-where, but for me it came from Nailspotting via Lacky Nails. Thank you so much for the idea, girls! This was the best form of therapy I've tried out so far! Learning from their experiences, I used coffee stirrer sticks ordered from Amazon, nail wheels from eBay, white water-soluble glue and a permanent cd-marker.

The goal was to get all my polishes painted on false nails (which I cut apart from a nail wheel), glue them on a wooden coffee stirrer stick with the name of the polish on, organize those "swatchsicles" by colour and - hey presto - to be able to see, say, all my teal polishes at a glance when planning a buy or a mani, or to find dupes!

As opposed to just painting the polishes on nail wheels, the sticks are easy to move around for comparisons, have the name of the polish written directly on them and make a great tabletop deco in a jar! Or a cool centerpiece for a dinner with all of your polish pals.. (Or not.. tastes may differ...) And, you can always re-organize them or add, say, one more baby pink glitter among the others without having to start a new wheel. AND you can easily count them! How is that so important, then? Well, just wait for my next post tomorrow...!! I've got a surprise for you...

My Untrieds

I've done some inventory of my polishes lately. You will see the results soon, but today I just want to show you some new polishes and my older untried ones.

I store my untrieds in a black canvas bag. Every time I don't have a clear idea for a mani, I just rummage through the bag, pick a polish and go with it. I think I've currently got some 20+ polishes there waiting for me, and I'm hoping to get that closer to 10 in the near future

 I noticed there is an overrepresentation of purple polishes in my untrieds. Have I been in a purple mood when shopping, or have I just neglected the purple ones when choosing which ones to use? I wonder...

I wouldn't know what to do if the bag was empty. I don't think it ever will be, though. There's so many enticing new collections coming out all the time. By the way, if you see a polish in there you'd like to see swatched, just drop me a line in the comments!

The newest addition to this crowd are a few Color Club foils and China Glaze Snowglobe I ordered from eBay. After taking these pics I've bought some Essence and Catrice polishes (they're cheapos, so they don't really count, do they..), so that's how it grows..