my name is zweisamkeit and i have an addiction

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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It started out innocently enough. People around me used it, and you know, it was just SO COOL. I had to have it, had to use it.

First, it was only a few. No big deal. But time passed, and my collection grew. It was sucking up my money, my space, and my time.

You ladies (and some gentlemen) know what I’m talking about.

Nail polish.

I just bought one yesterday. It was a CoverGirl NailSlicks in “Dark Denim”. The deep deep navy with subtle glitter was just too much for me. So I bought it and brought it home. I pulled the huge produce box (about 2.5’X2.5’X7") from under my bed to put it with its new friends.

I nestled the dark navy between the 30+ other blue polishes. The blues are third in number only to purples and glitters. I have reds, yellows, an orange (mainly just so I could say I have every colour), greens, blues, purples, whites, blacks, browns, glitters, metallics, shimmers, the list goes on.

My collection is reaching obsession-level. I have 164 bottles of nail polish in my possession. This doesn’t include the 20+ bottles that I’ve used up, either.

Considering that the past 3 years I’ve averaged $70/week (I go to school full-time and work part-time), it’s amazing that I choose to waste my money on something so trivial. Sure, I also buy books (like the time I had $20 to last me two weeks, and I went out and bought a $15 book on the third day) and caffeine, but when I think of the amount of money I’ve spent on nail polish over the years… the mind just boggles.

'Course, I probably won’t be able to stop without intervention. See, there’s this REALLY cool teal chrome polish I saw the other day, and I think I’m gonna need to get it… :wink:

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To quote the immortal Lewis Black, SNAP OUT OF IT!!!
(that is all…) :wink:

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Ooh, the teal chrome is one of my favorites! I like ALL the chromes, even if the gold ones look terrible on me.

And you have green? I’ve been looking for a metallic dark forest green for about three years now, and the New York green isn’t it, and the Cover Girl Let’s Go Green isn’t it either… care to recommend one?

Ahem.

I’m probably not a lot of help in ending this addiction.

I share it. :slight_smile: I’m up around a hundred bottles myself, mostly blues, purples, pinks, and reds, with a few other colours scattered in.

However, it is a fairly harmless obsession - haven’t heard of anybody knocking over a liquor store to fund their nail polish addiction - yet, anyways.

The fall colours should be out soon…:smiley:

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I’m with you on this one.
My faves are the color-shifting ones. In this light they look purple, but oooooooh! Lookit that! I moved my hand and now the polish is green! Simple pleasures.

ps–I mainly opened this thread so I could tell you how much your screen name cracks me up zweisamkeit. I have no idea what it really means, but every time I see it I hear it in my head as an intensely intoxicated person saying “shwaitaminute”. :stuck_out_tongue:

bella

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Go here and be happy

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Put “silver” in instead of “blue” and that’s me. Recently I found a line of stuff that bills itself as “chrome nail makeup” and has about 15 different shades of silver. It rules.

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Oooh, I’m gonna be at MakeupAlley for awhile! :smiley:

tisiphone, I have the best forest green, but it isn’t made anymore. :frowning: Revlon’s Street Wear in Forest (10) is a deep dark metallic forest green. It’s gorgeous. I’m not sure if you’ll be able to find it new anymore; they seem to have scaled back the Street Wear line to seasonal stuff and small packets (I’ve seen them in F&M and Meijers). I also have this Rimmel nail polish (Mania 877) that colour-morphs from a deep metallic forest green to a deep metallic teal. Heh, now I’ll be on the lookout for a forest green, and if I find it, I’ll let you know. :wink:

The colour-morphing shades are addicting. I have the green-purple, a red-copper, green-teal, magenta-bronze, and a blue-purple. I also have mood nail polishes. One goes from pink to silver, another from purple to red, one from blue to purple, and another from green to yellow. And I have around 15 shades of silver alone, Dao, that’s not including the gunmetals either!

I have a polish regimen that lets my polish last for as long as I want (usually I only go a week before I get bored with the colour, but I’ve gone weeks and weeks, with noticeable nail growth below the polish, without a single chip on any nail). I was even able to (accidentally) smash my fingernail head on with a wrench at work, and it still was fine.

Hmm… this thread isn’t exactly helping my addiction, is it? Heh heh.

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I love girls who love nail polish.

Looks around nervously

[sub]I…I…I like to paint their nails for them[/sub]
sigh

Not something you want to readily tell your male friends.

I’ve actually gotten quite good at it too. All of my ex-SO’s thought it was great.

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I’ve only got about 40 nail polishes. Reds, pinks, purples, blues, greens, yellows, golds, silvers, pewters, and sands.

Please, zweisamkeit, please give some clues as to your super special polish regimen.

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Woohoo! Here it is:

zweisamkeit’s Super Special Polish Regimen[sup]TM[/sup]

1 - Make sure that all nails are clean (no left over polish, no oils or dirt, and no acetone stuff left over) and trimmed nicely, no ragged edges.

2 - Apply 1 coat of base coat. I like Sally Hansen’s “Diamond Strength”.

3 - Apply first coat of coloured polish and let dry completely.

4 - Apply second coat of coloured polish. Afterwards apply Sally Hansen’s “Mega Shine” top coat (this topcoat is a GODSEND I tell you!). With both coats, make sure to go over the nail tip and cover the tip and a tiny bit of the underside of the nail.

*** Make sure that when you’re polishing that if you have any “corners” to your nails (where it separates from the finger and has a slight point) to cover those in polish. Those are often the first areas to chip, so make sure that they’re covered well.

(step 5 is semi-optional, but does help)

5 - Now apply a 3rd coat of coloured polish and another coat of the top coat. Make sure that you cover the tip and bit-of-the-underside this time as well.

When you’re applying the Mega Shine top coat, you do not need to wait for the last coat to dry completely (it even says on the bottle “apply over wet or dry polish”); this does not necessarily hold true for other top coats.

The Mega Shine dries very quickly, even after having so many layers of polish on. It gives an extremely shiny surface, like the nails had a layer of water on them. The reason I put a layer of colour on top of the top coat (step 5) is that Mega Shine will completely smooth over any little bubbles, smears, or indentations that keep the surface from looking nice and smooth. Adding another colour layer after it makes the entire nail look absolutely perfect; there are no bubbles or marks at all.

(Note: I don’t use any other top coat besides Mega Shine if I have a choice; it’s seriously the best one I’ve ever used).

And no, I don’t have stock in Sally Hansen, why do you ask? :wink:

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Color morphing nail polish? :eek:

I apparently do not get out enough. Now I’m on a mission.

Ahem——Oh yeah, sorry about your problem, zweisamkeit. Nothing like new friends to enable that addiction of yours. . .

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I really, really don’t care for blues and greens and purples and blacks, but I have probably 50 reds, pinks, burgundies, mauves, silvers, golds, bronzes, coppers, mochas, taupes, corals, fuschias, etc. Funny think is I hardly ever polish my nails, except in summer, I do my toenails. Now recently, I found a pack of 5!!! chrome colors plus a file for $5 at Walmart. I had to have them! And one of them was a chrome teal/green/aqua (depending on the light) and it looks SUPER on my toenails. :smiley: