Hi everyone,
So I have a weird topic I wanted to bring up, we're probably all nail polish collectors to some degree since we're hanging out in a nail care forum. I've gotten to the point where my stash is too large and I've sold/rehomed pretty much all I'm willing to part with and what I'm left with is a still too large of a collection that I would preferably like to finish. I'm planning on selling my house in the next few years and the thought of packing all that up and moving it is giving me anxiety. Eventually I'd like to get to a manageable level since the collector-drive has fizzled out in me. I still love my polish and I love nail polish in general but I want to not have such a huge amount--I hope that makes sense.
Anyway, has anyone come up with strategies for using up polish? Aside from changing my polish more often, how do you focus on polish when you're so used to wearing different colors each week? I was thinking I would pick three colors and rotate them, I usually do a mani change on saturday mornings but maybe I could try and do a midweek change on wednesdays. With three colors it's an odd number so I'm not always wearing one color on the first half of the week and another on the second half, so there's a small bit of variety. But by picking 3 colors I'm targeting those bottles to finish.
I don't know if I can do it. I don't think I've finished a bottle of nail color in my life. Nail treatments, sure, but not polish. My oldest bottle is OPI Prince George's Passion (black label, R16) which was discontinued in 1996, I'm pretty sure I bought this bottle circa 1993 when I was fresh out of college. Yikes. Time to use it up.
Has anyone done anything like this?
So I have a weird topic I wanted to bring up, we're probably all nail polish collectors to some degree since we're hanging out in a nail care forum. I've gotten to the point where my stash is too large and I've sold/rehomed pretty much all I'm willing to part with and what I'm left with is a still too large of a collection that I would preferably like to finish. I'm planning on selling my house in the next few years and the thought of packing all that up and moving it is giving me anxiety. Eventually I'd like to get to a manageable level since the collector-drive has fizzled out in me. I still love my polish and I love nail polish in general but I want to not have such a huge amount--I hope that makes sense.
Anyway, has anyone come up with strategies for using up polish? Aside from changing my polish more often, how do you focus on polish when you're so used to wearing different colors each week? I was thinking I would pick three colors and rotate them, I usually do a mani change on saturday mornings but maybe I could try and do a midweek change on wednesdays. With three colors it's an odd number so I'm not always wearing one color on the first half of the week and another on the second half, so there's a small bit of variety. But by picking 3 colors I'm targeting those bottles to finish.
I don't know if I can do it. I don't think I've finished a bottle of nail color in my life. Nail treatments, sure, but not polish. My oldest bottle is OPI Prince George's Passion (black label, R16) which was discontinued in 1996, I'm pretty sure I bought this bottle circa 1993 when I was fresh out of college. Yikes. Time to use it up.
Has anyone done anything like this?
