I am an idiot.
Jan. 30th, 2021 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyI need to resume my swatching of polishes. But I waited a bit too long between the last round and now so I'm not 100% sure on which polishes I've already swatched. Most of them I know, but there's a grey area and I'm not looking to re-swatch anything that I don't have to.
Enter my brain:
Only instead of Mona we're all The Trouble With Angels with Hayley Mills in my head but you try finding a gif of that. Go on. Please report back to me with them.
Anyway, brain says, "FINALLY we are going to make an OFFICIAL POLISH LIST!"
I'm intrigued by my own insanity so I tell myself to continue. Yeah, yeah, we'll list the brand, the name, the color, the finish, and any other important info. Mm, seems a bit more work than I bargained for but sure. Why not.
The problem is I decided to start with the ring of swatches closest to the computer. The fucking toppers.
The toppers are the swatch-sticks I need to re-do because no one, and I do mean no one, warned me that while you could paint normal polishes on either side of the swatch nail, for toppers your ass had better actually put them ON TOP. You think to yourself "it's in the name, idiot" and you might be right. Only no. Some toppers actually worked just fine. Until they didn't and got all foggy and weird and what the fuck, mate. So some of them are easy to tell how to classify them. Some... I have to Google because I don't know if they're actually meant to be clear or a bit opaque. It does not help that the light above the bar (which is a little to the right of me) is out and has been out for years now and is impossible to replace and anyway, it makes figuring out if we're talking iridescent or holo a PITA.
Why the fuck did I start with the toppers?
WHY.
Plus side, literally anything else is going to be easier to do.
In case you wondered, I have 52 toppers that past!me considered so sheer or topper like that they didn't need to be kept with their respective colors. Well, maybe 47. This ring also includes white/cream polishes.
Maybe I shall go resume my watching of Filthy Rich which is the ultimate in trash TV and I am most disappointed that Fox didn't necro it when COVID forced them to air it because they didn't have anything else on tap. It's so bonkers. How did it not catch on? The world embraced fucking Tiger King but this little gem was allowed to vanish? Pfft.
eta: Did greys/blacks/silvers and we're up to 102. This was nearly as painful as the toppers because I can rarely say no to a black polish only to get home and realize it's graphite grey or black with something in it, and sometimes the something in it is a good thing and sometimes it is only disappointment.
greens took us to 152.
Blues have only taken us to 204. I'm honestly surprised by that. Either I have shown WAY more restraint in my blue purchases than I realized or I have a stash of un-swatched blues somewhere. Or my brain normally lumps teals, aquas, and turquoise with blue and for the swatch sticks I put them with green due to space. Still, I was expecting eleventy-billion blues and that was not the case.
With pinks and the misc gold/yellow/oranges, we're up to 280. This leaves Reds and Purples. I have found a few I misfiled but I'll be damned if I'm fixing that right now.
Nap time.
Enter my brain:
Only instead of Mona we're all The Trouble With Angels with Hayley Mills in my head but you try finding a gif of that. Go on. Please report back to me with them.
Anyway, brain says, "FINALLY we are going to make an OFFICIAL POLISH LIST!"
I'm intrigued by my own insanity so I tell myself to continue. Yeah, yeah, we'll list the brand, the name, the color, the finish, and any other important info. Mm, seems a bit more work than I bargained for but sure. Why not.
The problem is I decided to start with the ring of swatches closest to the computer. The fucking toppers.
The toppers are the swatch-sticks I need to re-do because no one, and I do mean no one, warned me that while you could paint normal polishes on either side of the swatch nail, for toppers your ass had better actually put them ON TOP. You think to yourself "it's in the name, idiot" and you might be right. Only no. Some toppers actually worked just fine. Until they didn't and got all foggy and weird and what the fuck, mate. So some of them are easy to tell how to classify them. Some... I have to Google because I don't know if they're actually meant to be clear or a bit opaque. It does not help that the light above the bar (which is a little to the right of me) is out and has been out for years now and is impossible to replace and anyway, it makes figuring out if we're talking iridescent or holo a PITA.
Why the fuck did I start with the toppers?
WHY.
Plus side, literally anything else is going to be easier to do.
In case you wondered, I have 52 toppers that past!me considered so sheer or topper like that they didn't need to be kept with their respective colors. Well, maybe 47. This ring also includes white/cream polishes.
Maybe I shall go resume my watching of Filthy Rich which is the ultimate in trash TV and I am most disappointed that Fox didn't necro it when COVID forced them to air it because they didn't have anything else on tap. It's so bonkers. How did it not catch on? The world embraced fucking Tiger King but this little gem was allowed to vanish? Pfft.
eta: Did greys/blacks/silvers and we're up to 102. This was nearly as painful as the toppers because I can rarely say no to a black polish only to get home and realize it's graphite grey or black with something in it, and sometimes the something in it is a good thing and sometimes it is only disappointment.
greens took us to 152.
Blues have only taken us to 204. I'm honestly surprised by that. Either I have shown WAY more restraint in my blue purchases than I realized or I have a stash of un-swatched blues somewhere. Or my brain normally lumps teals, aquas, and turquoise with blue and for the swatch sticks I put them with green due to space. Still, I was expecting eleventy-billion blues and that was not the case.
With pinks and the misc gold/yellow/oranges, we're up to 280. This leaves Reds and Purples. I have found a few I misfiled but I'll be damned if I'm fixing that right now.
Nap time.