*crawls to the finish line*
Nov. 11th, 2024 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyI FINISHED SWATCHING MY POLISHES!
I repeat, I finally finished swatching my nail polish collection. I still have to sort the swatch sticks* but as of right now, I'm done with the actual swatching. I know I'll have to go back and redo a few since I tried out swatching the underside for a few and that I cannot recommend doing because some polishes do not play well with the plastic and things get weird. I'm also fairly certain that there's probably a couple that somehow escaped getting swatched, but we're not worrying about those until we stumble across them.
So. Tell me why, while waiting for the last batch to dry enough before I slapped top coat on them, why did I partake of the last Wildflower Lacquer sale of the year (and ever before she rebrands)?
STILL.
DONE.
Victory lap around the couch, people! It only took *checks* Four years. And at least two of those years I went a bit nuts buying polish so... yeah.
* One of the swatchers I watch is doing her sorting and I'm wondering if maybe she's got the right idea when it comes to sorting them on rings. Do them by finish. So there'd be cremes, glitters, flakies, multichromes, and kitchen sink polishes per color as needed. Might combo these for some colors like yellow where I simply do not have a ton of those shades, but things like purple and blue probably NEED them broken down like this because lemme tell you, do I have a type. I also like her idea to ignore whatever the brand says and just go with how you percieve it. So if the brand says it's a brown base but all you see is gold shimmer, put that shit with the gold. Same with finishes, as sometimes it's hard to figure out where it should technically belong. Look at it, assess the polish, throw it on a ring and keep on moving. You can change it later if need be but there's no point in losing 30 minutes trying to figure out where exactly it perfectly belongs. Already did that shit when I was putting them on the spreadsheet, dammit.
I repeat, I finally finished swatching my nail polish collection. I still have to sort the swatch sticks* but as of right now, I'm done with the actual swatching. I know I'll have to go back and redo a few since I tried out swatching the underside for a few and that I cannot recommend doing because some polishes do not play well with the plastic and things get weird. I'm also fairly certain that there's probably a couple that somehow escaped getting swatched, but we're not worrying about those until we stumble across them.
So. Tell me why, while waiting for the last batch to dry enough before I slapped top coat on them, why did I partake of the last Wildflower Lacquer sale of the year (and ever before she rebrands)?
STILL.
DONE.
Victory lap around the couch, people! It only took *checks* Four years. And at least two of those years I went a bit nuts buying polish so... yeah.
* One of the swatchers I watch is doing her sorting and I'm wondering if maybe she's got the right idea when it comes to sorting them on rings. Do them by finish. So there'd be cremes, glitters, flakies, multichromes, and kitchen sink polishes per color as needed. Might combo these for some colors like yellow where I simply do not have a ton of those shades, but things like purple and blue probably NEED them broken down like this because lemme tell you, do I have a type. I also like her idea to ignore whatever the brand says and just go with how you percieve it. So if the brand says it's a brown base but all you see is gold shimmer, put that shit with the gold. Same with finishes, as sometimes it's hard to figure out where it should technically belong. Look at it, assess the polish, throw it on a ring and keep on moving. You can change it later if need be but there's no point in losing 30 minutes trying to figure out where exactly it perfectly belongs. Already did that shit when I was putting them on the spreadsheet, dammit.