New Storage!

Yay! I went to Ikea yesterday just to browse around with my mom (she had never been to Ikea! Can you imagine?) and look for new nail polish storage containers and  I ended up finding the PERFECT nail polish storage system. I seriously am in love love love with it. It is a bit large for most people, but I figure I have a lot of polish and I didn't want to get the small one and end up having to buy a second one in a year. 

Here it is in all its glory. It is about as wide as my helmer that I got at Walmart. Not too bad. And it is about twice as tall - I'd say around 3 1/2 or 4 feet. For reference, I am 5 feet tall and I can clearly see over the top of it and into the top drawer..it comes up to about my boob/shoulder area. 

I was originally going to grab the one that All Lacquered Up has when I saw it, but I am so glad I kept my eye out and found this. It is soooo much nicer. And it was only 119 bucks! You could get the small one, which is half the height for 79. The drawers as high enough to fit all of my polishes perfectly.

This system really makes my polish collection seem small. I guess that means I'll have to buy a bunch more. Yay! 

This is a drawer of top coats/base coats and things like cuticle oil and remover. All that good stuff that I want to keep separate from regular polish. I really should take pictures of all of the stuff in here. One day I will get to it. 

So far I have just organized the polishes that I have swatched so far.

Blues/Greens

Purple/Pink

Orange/Yellow/Red

Silver/Black/Metallic/Neutral

My nail art drawer.

And unswatched/untrieds that I am trying to get through.

It would probably be easier to get through if I stopped placing 80$ transdesign and 8ty8beauty orders. Damn nail polish addiction. It is killing my bank account. 

Stash Pics

Hey, this post is especially for BD, who constantly requests pics of my stash. So here you go! 

The necessary tools. 

And the cute little thing I keep them in. 

Miscellaneous Minis. Most Claire's and Bon Bons. 

My surprisingly small number of OPI. I actually don't like OPI all that much. So I guess it's not really surprising. 

Color Club. This collection needs to grow. A lot. I love Color Club. 

The ever expanding Essie collection. 

Sinful Colors

An absolute necessity!!!!! This savesssssssss polishes!! It is a gift from the god I don't believe in. 

Hard Candy

Pure Ice

Krackenpolish. Which sounded much cooler online than it actually is. 

L.A. Colors. I actually just picked these up to use the bottles to franken.. So they won't be around much longer unless they're amazing when I get a chance to try them. 

Orly

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure. This will increase dramatically by the end of the week because Winn Dixie has a buy one get one free sale. 

Miscellaneous Sally Hansen, but I'm missing a few HD bottles. A pink and a blue one. I have no idea where they went. 

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri

Assorted polishes. Nothing that special. Though if I go to Ulta tomorrow I am def picking up the new Borghese blue glittery polish. 

The expensive ones.

Diamond Cosmetics

Ulta

China Glaze. I started trying to organize them by type. But then I realized I really don't give a crap. haha. 

Nail Art. Most of these I got on eBay for an awesome deal. 99 cents, plus 20 bucks shipping for 48 of these suckers. That's pretty darn good. 43 cents a bottle. Heck of a lot cheaper than the 1.50 per bottle at Sally's.

The whole collection. I love my crooked diploma. Damn. I should probably fix that. 

Hope you enjoyed! Because it took a lot of work, dammit.