Del Sol Sale

I have yet to try this brand as well but who doesn't love color changing polish?!  This changes with the sun and they have several different colors available.  Bottles do run $10 a piece so it's a little pricey but since you technically get 2 colors in one bottle, it's more like $5 a bottle.  At least, that's what I tell myself ;]


Del Sol is available on their website here.

Nails Magazine - Reader's Choice Awards

Nails Magazine (which I do not subscribe to at the moment) is having their Reader's Choice Awards where you get to pick your favorites.  The link to vote is here.  Please do not click on that link until you're ready to vote because it will log that you have started the survey and not let you go back and vote again.


Some of my absolute favorites are nominated from CND to China Glaze, OPI to Zoya, Seche and even Nubar (which I'm still dying to try).  Also nominated is Dermelect, which I am still using their base coat Launchpad on my nails.  They are hosting a Facebook contest for the chance to win a $350 gift package of Dermelect products if you do indeed vote for Dermelect.  You can read more about that here.


So get to voting!  You may vote for whoever you like - it is a Reader's Choice!

Sally Hansen Platinum Chrome

While in the midst of this house remodel, my Mom came across a box of nail polish that HAD to have been mine but I don't remember ever buying any of it.  Some of them didn't have labels anymore, and all but two were still in pretty decent shape.  At least one bottle was my Mom's, I'm sure of it.  The rest... well whatever.  I know that these colors are all at LEAST 8 years old if not longer.


Sally Hansen Platinum Chrome is a pretty plain and simple - silver chrome.  As with chromes, it's pretty brush strokey but who cares when your nails are so slick?  It did STINK, a lot.  I'm not sure if this is big 3 free but I'm guessing no.


I used a base coat of Dermelect Launchpad, 2 coats of Platinum Chrome and I left my nails without a top coat this time.  I was shocked at how fast it dried (under 5 minutes), but it may have toluene in it - who knows.

Oh chrome <3


My camera didn't like this color in the shade as you can see below.

I really don't know anything else about this particular line of Chromes - I'm just glad I have my China Glaze Khromes now!

Almost Back!

Sadly, this is me last Thursday, after an exhausting day that included my (hopefully last?) IV injection. My nurse blew out not one but two veins before sticking my other hand (and that vein worked).  Yes, I was sitting at Bingo.  Yes it looks like I'm the hunchback of Notre Dame.  No real excuses - just bad posture and a very long torso that makes all tables too short for my body.


So I'm almost back - my poor hands look miserable.  I have rough, peeling cuticles, I still have paint on my knuckles and elbows (and in some of my nail beds), my nails are uneven and one was splitting this morning, and I think the arthritis is spreading to my hands or I'm just really working my hands (it's both).  I'm waiting until this house appraisal to be over with and then I'm going to be going wild with polish.  I got a phone call Saturday that my polish racks should be here this week, and I received a neat press sample from a new company and the TO DIE FOR China Glaze Halloween and Fight Like A Woman sets.  Plus I have Zoya Wicked/Wonderful that I've been dying to get to.  That, and a really Naughty company, as well as some drugstore buys.


I really do want to thank you for reading my blog.  I never thought I'd have so much online support as I do.  Last I looked, I'm just 45 readers away from 500, which I already have a special company sponsored giveaway planned - I'm excited about it at least!  Also coming up this week will be a link to the new beauty blog I now guest write for.  When the post comes out, I'll be linking everyone to it as well as explaining a little more about them.  I really do love makeup and beauty products, but my first love is still nail polish.  This way I get the best of both worlds!


Now I'm going to munch some frozen pizza... Okay, so seriously this is the BEST frozen pizza I've ever found in my life.  It's a brand called Freschetta and it was like $6 for a large pepperoni pizza.  I do add extra pepperoni on my own but the crust is SO amazingly soft and pillowly.  Oh geez.  I also love food.  Seriously.

Packing is not fun

Helmers, polish racks, clear storage boxes... we all have our way to organize our collection.  I love these spinning nail polish racks that I originally found on eBay, but turns out that the eBay user has her own website as well called Queen Nail & Beauty Supply, Inc. [official website]

This is quite an old picture of the rack, but you can see how many China Glaze polishes fit per side.

The wide sides hold 40 bottles and the narrow sides hold 30 bottles, so we're talking 140 bottles of China Glaze per spinning rack.  Considering I have ~218 bottles of China Glaze... well yeah.

So I originally had 2 of these, but I just recently ordered 3 more.  Sadly, they are on back order and I received a phone call the next morning from the company letting me know that it would be 2-4 weeks before they arrived.  I was already getting free UPS Ground shipping because of my total purchase price, so there really wasn't anything that I could do but say "okay" and wait.  I'm now on day 10 since I placed my order... it's going to be awhile.

However, some things can't wait, and currently my flimsy table that I was holding the racks on, isn't going to cut it.  Neither is keeping my nail polish in my entryway to my house (ask my friends, we all bumped into it).  So my spare bedroom which is currently occupied by boxes, will be cleaned out this weekend and a sturdy 8 foot table will be put up and I will be enjoying 5 total spinning racks before long!

I prefer the racks because you can easily see every bottle, every time.  Helmers only allow you to see the top of your bottles and you have to come up with some other kind of way to find THAT color that you wanted to wear.  Clear plastic boxes are kind of the same deal since you can only see the items on the outside of the box.

Yes, this is a very expensive route to go, considering the racks are $70/piece, but to me, it's been totally worth it. The quality of these racks are very heavy duty - and the acrylic has held up really well.  My son accidentally kicked it once and a piece broke off but I was able to super glue it back together and you can't even tell it's chipped.

My current polish count is at 556 bottles but that's not counting base coats/top coats/matte coats...  I figure with bottle size to take in account, I'll be using all 5 of those racks and be looking into a 6th before long.  Also I'm having issues on how to sort my polish.  I had them sorted by collection, then brand, but that got annoying.  Next I went for color then brand.  Now I'm thinking brand and then color.  Even though my spreadsheet is sorted by brand and then code or bar number, that would kill me if I had to move all my polishes every time I buy an "older" color.  Any thoughts?

So back to the title of this post.  I had to empty my racks today and stick all my polish in a box for moving.  I'm freaking out that they are going to break, leak, or both.  I currently also have a handbag full of 50+ polishes including my to be reviewed Zoya Wicked/Wonderful and all 3 of the Naughty Nails collections, as well as over 30 e.l.f. polishes I bought during their HUGE sale (I paid 40 cents a bottle!).

Here's the box of polishes that I had from the racks - you can see how deep the thing is

And a fun look off the top

Back in the day I learned how to fill type with an image but frankly, it didn't look so well with my preferred font or with the above picture... haha.  One day I'll show you my awesome photoshopping skills.

Well I have to get back to packing.  It's after 4 a.m. and I'm still not done...  I'm sneaking in polish swatching when I can - wish me luck!