Nail Polish Discussion - Any Brand

MRV said:

You made me push the button

! And I had been holding off for days

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They are actually in pretty bad condition but they just are not clinging to my nails. I'm trying to use oil and an orange stick every week (in addition to daily Dior). I'm sure they would benefit from some extra care though. The cold weather is already making my skin react.


Love that KBS teal, too! I picked up 2 polishes from their summer collection, and really liked the formula of one of them. Hopefully I can get this teal too, but I just did not see much else interesting from them so I did not order.

Maybe it would be nicer over a black polish?

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MRV said:

Check out the latest from Essie! Essie does a sand... and more!

http://imabeautygeek.com/2013/09/29/essie-holiday-2013-encrusted-treasures-how-to-use-essie-belugaria/

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lilinah said:

Just wait until you try the bath bombs, the bubble bars, the bath melts, the bath gels, the soaps, the shower scrubs, the massage bars, the body creams, the shampoo bars, the conditioners, the special holiday limited edition stuff...

Who, me? LUSH much? Hah!

I'm trying not to go into my local LUSH because i have boxes of stuff i haven't gotten through yet!

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CartoonChic said:

I'm so excited to share this! I'm still working on my polish drawers, but I've finished organizing my lipsticks and lip pencils. Those are my new containers sitting on top of my polish drawers. This is in my closet as I don't have a lot of space to work with, so I have to be as space efficient as possible. There's still polish sitting on top of one of the drawer units while I figure out how to organize them.




MAC lipstick box. 6 main compartments divided by color. Each compartment holds 20 lipsticks.




Other brand lipstick drawer - Chanel, YSL, NARS, Revlon, and OCC Liptars. I haven't really worn any of these lipsticks since winter because they were stashed away in different boxes from my MAC lipsticks. Out of sight, out of mind. No more! I actually have 35 Revlon lipsticks, but I don't want more than 1 compartment for them. So I went through and picked the 20 colors I like the most. I'm giving the 15 I didn't choose to my daughter. It was so hard to go in and remove from my stash, but I'm determined to not grow beyond these 2 containers for my lipsticks. If a section is full, I'll have to go in and remove a color before adding a new one. And now I'm forced to be really picky if I want to buy a color or not.




Here's the bag I was using to store my lipsticks before. This is only MAC and Revlon. You can see the overflow with MAC lipsticks happening at the time I took this pic months ago. My other lipsticks were kept in various random boxes.




Here are some of my polish drawers. Each drawer can hold about 100 polishes. I can arrange the drawer organizers in any way that I see fit.







That's what I've done so far. I still need to figure out what to do with my lipglosses. I don't want a 3rd container, so I need to think of something else to do. I've been storing all of my glosses in 2 ziplock bags. I was looking for one bag yesterday and can't find it. I'm tired of losing stuff. I also have to figure out how I want to organize my eye makeup and blush. I haven't even attempted to start yet.

I bought the large men's shoe box with the shoe box dividers and the white drawer organizers from The Container Store. I originally bought the white drawer organizers to better organize my polish. They're perfect because all I have to do is break off the little pieces to fit the size I need. I then used the smaller broken pieces to organize my lipsticks in the shoe box. I got the smaller 5 pack version. As I've said before, I was going to use the acrylic shoe box for my overflow polishes, but bought another drawer unit instead because it could store more. The shoe box can hold about 60 polishes.

Here's a link I posted before showing the boxes storing polish. The blogger ordered her containers from a different store.

http://www.fabfatale.com/2012/08/nail-polish-storage-cubes/

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CartoonChic said:

I'm so excited to share this! I'm still working on my polish drawers, but I've finished organizing my lipsticks and lip pencils. Those are my new containers sitting on top of my polish drawers. This is in my closet as I don't have a lot of space to work with, so I have to be as space efficient as possible. There's still polish sitting on top of one of the drawer units while I figure out how to organize them. MAC lipstick box. 6 main compartments divided by color. Each compartment holds 20 lipsticks.       [COLOR=CD69A1] [/COLOR] Other brand lipstick drawer - Chanel, YSL, NARS, Revlon, and OCC Liptars. I haven't really worn any of these lipsticks since winter because they were stashed away in different boxes from my MAC lipsticks. Out of sight, out of mind. No more! I actually have 35 Revlon lipsticks, but I don't want more than 1 compartment for them. So I went through and picked the 20 colors I like the most. I'm giving the 15 I didn't choose to my daughter. It was so hard to go in and remove from my stash, but I'm determined to not grow beyond these 2 containers for my lipsticks. If a section is full, I'll have to go in and remove a color before adding a new one. And now I'm forced to be really picky if I want to buy a color or not. Here's the bag I was using to store my lipsticks before. This is only MAC and Revlon. You can see the overflow with MAC lipsticks happening at the time I took this pic months ago. My other lipsticks were kept in various random boxes. Here are some of my polish drawers. Each drawer can hold about 100 polishes. I can arrange the drawer organizers in any way that I see fit.     [COLOR=CD69A1] [/COLOR]    [COLOR=CD69A1] [/COLOR]     [COLOR=CD69A1] [/COLOR] That's what I've done so far. I still need to figure out what to do with my lipglosses. I don't want a 3rd container, so I need to think of something else to do. I've been storing all of my glosses in 2 ziplock bags. I was looking for one bag yesterday and can't find it. I'm tired of losing stuff. I also have to figure out how I want to organize my eye makeup and blush. I haven't even attempted to start yet. I bought the large men's shoe box with the shoe box dividers and the white drawer organizers from The Container Store. I originally bought the white drawer organizers to better organize my polish. They're perfect because all I have to do is break off the little pieces to fit the size I need. I then used the smaller broken pieces to organize my lipsticks in the shoe box. I got the smaller 5 pack version. As I've said before, I was going to use the acrylic shoe box for my overflow polishes, but bought another drawer unit instead because it could store more. The shoe box can hold about 60 polishes. Here's a link I posted before showing the boxes storing polish. The blogger ordered her containers from a different store. http://www.fabfatale.com/2012/08/nail-polish-storage-cubes/

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CartoonChic said:

I'm so excited to share this! I'm still working on my polish drawers, but I've finished organizing my lipsticks and lip pencils. Those are my new containers sitting on top of my polish drawers. This is in my closet as I don't have a lot of space to work with, so I have to be as space efficient as possible. There's still polish sitting on top of one of the drawer units while I figure out how to organize them.




MAC lipstick box. 6 main compartments divided by color. Each compartment holds 20 lipsticks.




Other brand lipstick drawer - Chanel, YSL, NARS, Revlon, and OCC Liptars. I haven't really worn any of these lipsticks since winter because they were stashed away in different boxes from my MAC lipsticks. Out of sight, out of mind. No more! I actually have 35 Revlon lipsticks, but I don't want more than 1 compartment for them. So I went through and picked the 20 colors I like the most. I'm giving the 15 I didn't choose to my daughter. It was so hard to go in and remove from my stash, but I'm determined to not grow beyond these 2 containers for my lipsticks. If a section is full, I'll have to go in and remove a color before adding a new one. And now I'm forced to be really picky if I want to buy a color or not.




Here's the bag I was using to store my lipsticks before. This is only MAC and Revlon. You can see the overflow with MAC lipsticks happening at the time I took this pic months ago. My other lipsticks were kept in various random boxes.




Here are some of my polish drawers. Each drawer can hold about 100 polishes. I can arrange the drawer organizers in any way that I see fit.







That's what I've done so far. I still need to figure out what to do with my lipglosses. I don't want a 3rd container, so I need to think of something else to do. I've been storing all of my glosses in 2 ziplock bags. I was looking for one bag yesterday and can't find it. I'm tired of losing stuff. I also have to figure out how I want to organize my eye makeup and blush. I haven't even attempted to start yet.

I bought the large men's shoe box with the shoe box dividers and the white drawer organizers from The Container Store. I originally bought the white drawer organizers to better organize my polish. They're perfect because all I have to do is break off the little pieces to fit the size I need. I then used the smaller broken pieces to organize my lipsticks in the shoe box. I got the smaller 5 pack version. As I've said before, I was going to use the acrylic shoe box for my overflow polishes, but bought another drawer unit instead because it could store more. The shoe box can hold about 60 polishes.

Here's a link I posted before showing the boxes storing polish. The blogger ordered her containers from a different store.

http://www.fabfatale.com/2012/08/nail-polish-storage-cubes/

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CartoonChic said:

Enchanted Polish August 2013 (middle, ring)
Colors by Llarowe Rare Bear (pointer, pinky, thumb)



I had to trim my nails a bit to get rid of some of the brittle tips. They look uneven in this pic so I need to go back and file some more. I need to change my mani today to start my Halloween nails, but I'm out of polish remover. I'm making a run to Ulta.

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^^Those white drawer organizers are genius, I haven't seen anything like that before.
I just bought my forst muji acrylic organizers, not for polish but makeup. They're really great and worth the money.

I'm thinking about getting a muji organizer. I need to figure out how I would use it first and how I really want to access my makeup.


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I much prefer Rare Bear and am now kinda glad I never had the chance to get August 2013. Wonder what happened to September though... We must be due a restock again soon.

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kimibos said:

Great collection CC! im glad you're happy with your new storage! i was going to show you how i store my lipsticks but nevermind you got your way already

As for Lush, i like some of their stuff but i have some issues with the brand. especially their non-sense price hikes just like mac. and all the hype. too.

the lemony flutter is ok, a little bit too greasy. when i had it i used it right before a mani/pedi to soften the cuticles. no way i can sleep with that stuff on. the smell is too strong. then they raised it to $16 so

i never got it again. maybe im lucky with my nails cause even if i dont do anything they grow and look ok. so there is no way im paying that much for a cuticle cream or any other nail product.

i do love their Twilight Shower Gel and snow globe soap. and i horded those like crazy last year. i would recommend you to save your money and wait for Dec 26th. when they have buy one get one FREE of their Holiday stuff. like soaps, bath bombs. gels. trust me that sale is good!
also if you want gels, philosophy always has sales, i cant wait to see what their are going to have for the holidays!

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CartoonChic said:

I don't have a vanity. No room for it. But I'm buying pieces now that will work with my future vanity when I have the space to get one. I can't put stuff on the walls either. My liners were all in ziplock bags before I bought the container they're in now. It was annoying trying to pick the color I want. I kept reaching for the same colors. I highly recommend moving them to a cup or some other container so that you can easily see and grab what you want.

Under the desk could work for the melmer, or next to the desk depending on space. You could also try getting a DVD holder to hold your palettes, or maybe one of those paper/letter holders.



I love getting packages too. I think I have 3 coming my way as well. I know your stash must be huge!


I'm thinking about getting a muji organizer. I need to figure out how I would use it first and how I really want to access my makeup.

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CartoonChic said:

Thanks! How do you store your lipsticks? I'd still like to know. I love seeing how others organize and store things. I may be able to use your method for something else.

My nails always seem to grow even when they're brittle. However, they break easily when they're in poor condition, so I don't retain the growth. I'm prone to have dry skin and I wash my hands frequently, so I definitely need extra moisturizing. I used the Lemon Flutter this morning. It feels lighter to me than the Dior Abricot and seems to moisturize well. I can see myself using it in the morning for day use, and the Dior Abricot at night. But the lemon scent may be an issue for me. How much did it cost before? The container seems very big to me, so I thought that's why it's $16.

Thanks for the tip! If I like anything after I'm finished sampling it, I'll wait for the sale to buy it. I don't think I'm going to get the Handy Gurugu lotion anymore. I like how it does well to moisturize my hands, but the earthy scent is distracting to me and I didn't know the product has parabens. I'm not completely against using some parabens in my products, but I was aiming for something purely natural.

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kimibos said:

OK I'm back lol. sometimes i have to take a break to baby sit my little brother and/or watch some TV with my mom.
I'm so glad September is gone and October is here. like i haven't hauled anything this months LOL my goal is to only haul the hare coin collection and Enchanted Polish but only at Harlow or the EP website.
Remember i was complaining alot about my hauling last month (sep) and feeling extremely guilty. well it was because my dad gifted me 2 pieces of furniture from the Pier1 Hayworth collection. i still feel bad about all my hauling, so i cant thank my dad enough. i got the lingerie chest for my makeup and the jewelry for some jewelry, makeup and polish haha.
sorry about the box and rest of stuff LOL
and here is how i store my lipsticks in the 3rd drawer. first 2 are shadows.

i have 2 of those cube trays from ebay. they each hold 60 mac lipticks. they dont work with other lipticks. but as you can see most of my lipsticks are mac. i dont know how many i have right now. i refuse to count them. thats why i have them divided by the 2 trays. i do know i have more than 60

also i have them by finish, sort of cause im not that organized, and some by special packaging. i know that all the ones in the right are mattes in regular packaging tho. and that i have like 7 lippies in my makeup bag.
this is a drawer from the jewelry chest. in it i have my mac glosses and lancome ones/other brands too. im not a gloss girl. and i have my lipliners and all the wetnwild lippies in a watch tin from fossil. and 2 BB dupes.
as for polish. i have an indie drawer. this pic needs to be updated tho.

there is a line of hares you cant see

/ zoya, essie, catrice. and mac/ mini essence and some others.and a cat tin LOL im such a cat lady.

and a Butter london drawer. with 4 Illa and 2 nars.

i still couldnt fit all my OPI, CG CC. in them that would be impossible and a crime. i tried doing it and i think i messed up the last drawer of the lingerie chest.

"too heavy, too many, take them out" - said my brother

so that is my BL drawer now. its kind of hard to open. i feel like calling Pier1 but i know its my fault and there is no way im packing it back. what if my dad just returns it, regrets it. upps nope. ill just push alittle bit harder to close it

the green/teal tray on the bottom has drugstore polishes. like WnW, revlon.

so thats how i store my lipticks CC and some of my polishes

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