Storage Saturday - Nail Polish

Hello!

Since I'm (slowly) getting back into blogging more regularly I thought I'd start a mini-series and share with you how I store my ever expanding nail and beauty supplies, starting with the biggie; nail polish. Since I restarted my nail polish collection a few years ago my stash has expanded from 23 to over 800...oops! I store it all in a chest of drawers under the stairs - fairly safe from small hands and it keeps it out of the sight (and mind) of Mr NN. I dread to think how much I've spent in the last few years, but it's somewhat comforting to know that there are people out there worse than me...isn't there? Please tell me there are people worse than me!

These are the drawers I store my polish in (excuse the mess!)

The two drawers above the cupboard section, the two next to it and the two bottom drawers are all full of polish!

And, drawer by drawer:

The first two drawers contain my sets and untrieds.

Mostly OPI mini sets, but there's also an Orly mini set, some Beauty UK sets and Color Club sets from TK Maxx.

The untried drawer of doom... The topmost pink basket is full of indies, and there are OPI, China Glaze, Orly, Illamasqua, Nails Inc and lots of other pretties in there. I'm so ashamed!

The next drawer down holds my reds and oranges. It was meant to house the yellows too, but there wasn't room!

Greens and blues take over the next drawer.

Then purples and pinks (I seem to have had a pink buying spree lately), with a wee row of yellow in the middle.

And lastly, everything else! White (including flakie and shimmer topcoats), black, grey and silver, nude, brown and gold, and then multi-glitter that doesn't really fit in anywhere else. 

Phew! That's a lot of polish. Now it's all arranged again, I need to order some swatch sticks and get them all swatched so I can see what dupes I have and what I could bear to part with...might take me a while!

So, that's my polish stash. I always enjoy looking at other people's and it's been a while since I updated it, so I hope it's been interesting. Next Saturday I'll show you how I store my nail tools and nail art supplies - there's less of that, you'll be pleased to hear!

Hx

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My ever growing stash...

It's hard to believe that this time last year I had a mere 15 or so polishes. I hadn't even started thinking about blogging yet, but I was slowly getting into polish again, watching tutorials and reading blogs. Now I have over 300 polishes (probably closer to 350) and paint my nails almost every day. I can't stand chipped polish anymore! My nails are slowly getting better and I've made some great friends :) Anyway, here is my stash currently (well about a month ago, so more have been added since...).

I store my polish in an understairs unit, and it takes up 3 out of 7 drawers - two large and one small, lined with rubber mats. In the small drawer I store my glitters, crackles, striper polishes, stamping polishes, a small tray of files and my current top and base coats, and remover.

Top left-crackles, middle-remover, top right-glitter, bottom-tray containing files and topcoat, bottom left-stripers and stamping polish.

In the next drawer is the majority of my polishes, arranged by brand. I think the brand  have the most of is Barry M, top left.

 Then the bottom drawer - the newest addition. It is considerably more full now than it was a month ago when I took this picture! In here I have all my polishes that came in sets-on the left,my China Glaze polishes next to that (I had to move one group out of the other drawer and since I'm growing my CG's I chose those!), then a bag with nail wheels in, a few random falsies for swatching and below that my stamping plates etc. Then there are three boxes - one with nail art stuff in, like stickers, rhinestones, brushes, dotting tools etc, one with all the polishes that I only have one of each brand in, and another that has empty or gloopy top coats and any polishes I have doubles of for swaps etc. I also now have my Orly's in there, but they were added after I took the pic! I am going to need to move another brand from the other drawer into this one, which will be a tight squeeze but I can't fit one more polish in the top! Maybe my few OPIs will get moved in with the China Glaze.

So that was my stash! I love reading posts like these and being nosey, so I hope you've enjoyed it too :) My next project - cataloguing them all in a spreadsheet....

Hx

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