I mentioned my ridiculous stash in a post last week, and finally remembered to snap a picture today. So, bracing myself for judgment--here it is! This is the collection I've amassed over ~three years... though I haven't bought any in months. I organize by brand, then by color within brand. From left to right: Deborah Lippmann (I only own one, Happy Birthday, because I thought it was so awesome), butter London, Essie, Rescue Beauty Lounge, Zoya, Orly, Color Club, OPI, Sephora by OPI, China Glaze. My favorite brands are butter London and China Glaze, though one of my all-time fave colors is OPI (Damone Roberts 1968... I bought a few, because they were very limited).
Anyone else care to share their overkill stash? Kore, I know you have a major love of palettes....
I had a similar size collection until last year, though made up almost completely of drug store brands. I did a huge purge and now I try and only buy the good stuff.
But yeah. Zero judgement here. If I was at home I could post a pic of my collection. I love nail polish.
I figure this is as good of a place as any to drop my embarrassing confession:
I own 4 bottles of nail polish. Two were freebies from the Zoya website launch (FYI - they have another free promo that starts tomorrow) and one was from Ulta that I used rewards points for.
The last bottle - that I actually shelled out money for (gasp) - is clear.
I never do my own nails, so I just pick a color out at the salon. I was half tempted to post a photo of my 4 polishes in their own little bin.
I figure this is as good of a place as any to drop my embarrassing confession:
I own 4 bottles of nail polish. Two were freebies from the Zoya website launch (FYI - they have another free promo that starts tomorrow) and one was from Ulta that I used rewards points for.
I own 2, and that's because I got carried away buying some to wear on my toes for a wedding. 99 cents each I'll never use them up - they are right there with my lip balm
100% of my personal care and beauty items fit in 1 of these baskets. And I would bet that 1/3 of it needs to be thrown way.
Wow! That's quite a collection. I bite my nails horribly but I still have probably a dozen or so colors I've bought in the bathroom. I paint my girls nails as a reward & toes on occasion.
One of my excesses of stuff is art supplies. I have a pic I took from when I was organizing some of it (the stuff up in the office) a while back. This is less than half of what we have....we have a 8' high shelf full of art supplies down in the "art room" too.
My nail polish collection would fit in 1 of your bins. I did a major purge before we moved and threw out a lot of stuff I had grown out of. It sounds silly but I really try to think through nail polish purchases now and only buy colors that I know I will reuse.
I can't wear nailpolish at my current job so that has definitely hindered my nail polish obsession.
I use to have lots of polish, but I never do my nails anymore.
My overkill stash is all fabric. Way too much fabric. I'd take pictures, but my sewing room is a disaster area. Plus the fabric is stashed in three different corners.
My nail polish overflowed one of those bins so now I have two smaller bins. Well since Then i had extra room I went and bought a ton more polish so now I am overflowing again. I wear only butter London, opi and Essie. I have tossed everything else because t doesn't work for me. Before I was pregnant and tired I did my nails every 3 days.
The caboodle is all my base and top coats. Everything was sorted by color until the past couple weeks when I have been lazy. Sent from my SPH-L710 using proboards
I probably had that many until I did a big purge earlier this year of old ones and colors I don't like anymore. Now I probably have two containers' worth. I have them arranged by color, light to dark, but I like how neat yours looks arranged by brand.
And I didn't address this in the other post, but I would love a nail polish shelf. It would make it easier to choose a color.
They are all organized by brand and color and I have them swatched and labeled so I can find them easily. I have been building this collection for over 10 years now, but it's getting unmanageable! I started blogging the swatches last year and I am about 1/3 through them all.
I figure this is as good of a place as any to drop my embarrassing confession:
I own 4 bottles of nail polish.
You have two more than me! And one of mine is clear. I just SUCK at doing my own nails so I don't bother buying them. Plus I am brutal on my hands so a 1 hour mani (that still looks like crap) only lasts half a day before I knick it.
Post by belovedbride07 on Jan 6, 2013 21:46:21 GMT -5
I try to keep my makeup/beauty stuff pretty minimal, but I'm kind of jealous of this. :-) I only own three colors (plus base coat & top coat): red, pink, and China Glaze "For Audrey."
I've been wanting some new colors, might have to check out the Zoya deal tomorrow.
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I have a ton of polish...mostly OPI and zoya. All in clear bins...then a separate bin for things like files, buffers, cuticle oil, etc. I love doing my nails.
The code zoya2013 worked for my 3 free bottles this morning.