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The cat is being helpful.
Not sure when I'm going to post this, but I finally caved and bought a proper storage option for my polish. Well, I bought one even though I know I'm going to need more than one. But I don't know how I'll actually feel about it when I get it and start to use it, so I am being responsible and starting at one.
Also, I still have absolutely no grasp on dimensions and what they actually translate to in reality. Cass apparently has this but worse, because I have never bought a huge TV by accident.
Anyway, I am still awfully excited to figure out which polishes will make the cut and which will continue to live in my plastic totes or shoe boxes. I have a vague idea of which brands I'm going to go with, as I think I'm going to go with the ones I tend to get crankiest about having to move heaven and earth to get to when I want to use them. That makes sense, right? If I weren't a coward, I'd look at my spreadsheet and see how many of those brands I have and then I'd be able to figure out if this is a two drawers per brand thing or what. But I'm going to be ~surprised~ because why not. In case future!me wants to laugh at me, my current tentative plans are: BKL, WFL/Royla Lee, and HT. I have another round in case there's room, but we're not going to jinx it. If nothing else, I'm hoping to get everything out of the cardboard boxes for now. BKL and HT are in two of the larger plastic totes, but WFL is in a CB box.
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Eeee!
Don't look at the state of my bookcase, k?
So, it hath arrived. It wasn't supposed to be here for another twenty minutes at the earliest but it showed up about two hours ago. I semi took it outta the box, but I'm leaving it in the protective wrapping because the straps will make it easier to carry upstairs if Widget doesn't come back tonight. The box is legit huge and for a second I thought I'd completely lost any tiny amount of spatial awareness I possessed, but no, they just really weren't fucking around with packing. It's the prettiest shade of blue. *swoons*
Gotta admit, part of me desperately wishes I could just call out and organize properly and then flop into bed and watch Stranger Things. But I must wait, I suppose.
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Soooooooooo... yesterday the cat and I hauled it upstairs, moved stuff around, and then got to work filling 'er up. I did mostly get what I wanted in there. WFL has room for more, in theory, but BKL filled up and then had to room with WFL, so... there's that. HT has room to grow and has more room if I take out the topcoats/basecoats I have in there, but I also realized I still have some downstairs so we'll see how much room is actually left. That being said, it'll be SO MUCH EASIER to put those away.
It's so BEAUTIFUL. (Also, multichromes and shimmers are a bitch to figure out where they belong!)
I went random-ish for HT since I keep them in their cartons/boxes for reasons I don't fully understand (I might go back through and sort them into rainbow order, or close to with the ones I'm not likely to use anytime soon at the very, very back), but went rainbow-adjacent for BKL/WFL. I'll admit it's not my best work because after awhile I got tired and still had other things to do, but again, it's so much easier to get to these now so it's not a big problem to re-do the rainbow, or change it up entirely.
Future!me, the round bottles fit 77 in a drawer and HT is 96, I believe. Not sure if I could make another few fit but I need a little wiggle room and it might also be different without the cartons.
Would I have bought this not on sale? Probably not. I did wait for their BF sale and now I wish I'd waited for CM since that was a better sale but it also shipped and arrived in like, four days, including a holiday, so there's that. It also arrived fully assembled and that was a big part of the appeal, plus half the time when I checked the more popular/less expensive option, it would laugh and say no shipping for you. So, dunno what that's about but it did limit my options. Overall, pleased, but I also have only had it up and running for a couple of days. I did put the two HT collection boxes I had in my HT tote on top, along with my advent calendar (told you it was decoration) and my holiday AG doll. Festive.
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Date: 2025-12-04 01:55 pm (UTC)It was glorious being able to take it out of its shipping paraphernalia and immediately begin loading 'er up with shiny things. :D Each time I look at it, I get stupidly happy. It took all my financial self control not to buy a second one on CM but oh, it will be getting a twin at some point.
I had to share the pretties! This may also be dangerous because now I want to use all the pretties but I only have so much time and so many nails. But I guess it'll help kick me into using my untrieds and the ones I haven't used in eons. Huzzah!
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Date: 2025-12-04 11:37 pm (UTC)What brand is this particular cabinet? I actually thought it was a helmer at first glance!
And I know what you mean about the temptation of the pretties. It's easy to forget how many you have when they're locked away out of sight. I actually just picked up 2 SH x Reese's polishes at Dollar Tree that are very prettyful and fall-like. I didn't even know this collection existed. I don't know how you keep up with all the indie brands!!
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Date: 2025-12-05 02:28 pm (UTC)Tis one of the Bisley 6 drawer under desk models, I believe. They come in an absolute ~rainbow~ but that blue was so damn pretty. ♥
You found the Reese's polishes! Swoon! I keep hoping I'll stumble across them because one of the polish people I watch on YT (linry) loooooooooooves that collection and every time she uses it, I fall in love. Which shades did you get?
As far as I can tell, the key to following indies is to find like, three brands you hardcore follow and then pick up a few casuals annnnnnnnnnd everything else is a surprise. There are people who seem to follow ALL the indies and I just can't. I'm doing well enough to spot the big name polishes when they pop up on reddit, and I feel extra proud of myself when I can tell the difference between two polishes that are damn near identical and people are being coy about which one they're wearing. I miss nail blogs.
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Date: 2025-12-07 11:50 pm (UTC)My Reese's polishes are 735 Feeling Hungry (dark purple shimmer) and 739 The Best Combo (chocolate shimmer). When I looked these up to find out what collection/time they are from, it appears that they were Walmart exclusives which is why I never saw them. They had a couple of other shades at one of the Dollar Trees I went to, but nothing that caught my fancy (beige creme representing PB, I guess? meh).
I will leave the indie polishes to you and enjoy the wankery vicariously. What I'm learning from the latest is that Halo Taco is by the same person who made KB Shimmer? I remember that polish line from back in the day (when there were nail blogs!).