Small Stash Update

I apologize for the lack of posting lately. It has been a CHAOS with my working hours lately and on top of that I had cut myself in my index finger, so that I couldn't polish my nails or even take off my old nail polish :(
But it has almost healed so I'm back! I hope to post more frequently now! And now for the blog post.

Yeah, so I got myself some more photo display shelves... I got thirteen now... WHAT?! I know...

I now have two walls full of nail polishes; five large shelves and one small shelf on the left wall and five large shelves and one small shelf on the right wall. I got one small shelf above my bed, so my BF and I can store our phones and his glasses at night (I have a  high sleeper bed).

I got all my polishes sort by colour. It costed me about two whole days to do that. It was really a pain in the a** but the results are soooooo much better now! I don't want them sort by brand and then by colour, because I own over thirty brands of nail polish. If I do, it would look like a big mess.

At the upper shelf on my right wall I have my multi glitter polishes which are almost impossible to sort by colour ;)  I also have some small collections like the Fuzzy Coat polishes by Sally Hansen, Euro Centrale mini collection & Take Ten mini collection by OPI and some of H&M (all of those are not in the picture).

The first shelf of polish actual sort by colour contains only pinks (!!) which go from lightest to brightest/darkest. The next shelves go from corals to reds, from reds to oranges, from oranges to yellows, from yellows to greens, from greens to mints and from mints to blues.

Then, on the left wall I started at the after last bottom shelf with the leftover blues (I have a lot), from blues to purples, from purples to burgundies, from burgundies to coppers (what? yah..), from coppers to browns, from browns to nudes, from nudes to golds (whatever..), from golds to holographic glitters, to silvers, to greys, from greys to blacks, from blacks to whites (weird gradient btw) and from the whites to the iridescent toppers and flakies.

Phew! That is a lot of polish! At least I think over 400 polishes are a lot. Don't you think? I really love my colourful walls and it makes me smile every time I look at them! It makes me feel rich ;)

Swatching my whole stash

About two weeks ago, I ordered 350 nail swatch sticks from Born Pretty Store so I can finally swatch all of my nail polishes that are in my collection. I got loads of them so swatching each and every one of it may take a while! I have made ​​a start by swatching all pink nail polishes.

It took me way much longer than I first thought it would! Line up all pink polishes from bright to pastel, make labels for the sticks, stick them on there, then polish the tips of the sticks with at least two coats of nail polish, let it dry... And lastly sort all swatches neatly by colour.

Let's take a look at the pictures I made during this long project.

First I taped the sticks with Scotch tape to my desk, so that they would stay in place while I paint them. Then I printed out a label for each polish with my Dymo label printer and stuck it onto the swatch stick.

 When I had stuck all the labels on there, I began swatching the polishes. Oh my, what a smell! Even with my window open, I got almost high from the fumes. So by the time I was done swatching the pink polishes, I left my room to get some tea.

Although I got a headache after all these hours of polishing fake nails, I had fun doing it!

Now comes the hard part: sort them by colour.

That was quite a tough job to do. Everyone knows how the rainbow works, but have you ever tried sorting over 40 different shades of pink? Neither did I, and boy that takes a long time. When I thought I was on the right track, I rearranged them AGAIN. Now I am quite satisfied with the outcome.

 Here's my fan of pinks. If I counted correctly I have 43 pink nail polishes. This is SO pretty! I can't take my eyes off of this neatly organised fan! Check out the close ups.

This is only 12 percent of my stash, so I still have a very long way to go. But this is my passion, so I won't be a little bitch about it ;)

Hope you liked this post! When I'm finally done swatching all of my stash, I will upload an update!