My latest obsession....

You're painting them again????

This color does not have a name, but is from American Eagle and is a teal color that looks more green live and in color.

My latest obsession is... painting my nails!! I LOVE IT.. I love changing the color, buying new polish, trying accent nails, etc. I don't go all crazy wild with designs and all that, but I absolutely love painting my nails.

Why do you love painting your nails? Isn't it a hassle? Seriously - I don't know. Maybe it's that I have control over what color I want to wear. Or maybe it's just the femininity of it. Maybe it's the way that it makes my hands feel to have lovely color on them? I don't know???!?!?!? I just love it! As far as it being a hassle - no, I don't think so. I mean it does take me about 20 mins from start to stop (and then about another 10 to make sure they are fully dry) but I don't care. It's sort of therapeautic for me and I consider it, me time.

So how many colors do you have and how to you store everything? I have about 30 colored nail polishes and about 6 different base/top/conditioning/strengthening coats. Up until recently I only had them in simple wooden tray. Then I watched my favorite vlogger (tiffanyd) and she had a great idea for storing her nail polish bottles and nail implements which totally made sense, so I sprung into action to get my stuff organized and put up. In the next couple of pictures, I'm gonna show you my organized obsession...

Ok.. So here is how the containers look. They are called SnapWare - but they are found at Target and are in the ReOrganize brand. I think that's how it goes. Anyway, the big one comes with two containers and a lid. They snap together to make one whole container - you'll see what I'm talking about in the picture below. As for the little SnapWare, it comes with three containers and a lid - BUT there is a bonus! In the last container (the one on the bottom) it comes with a divider! LOVE IT.

The big container.

Once I take off the lid, you will find my nail polish collection as well as some nail polish remover and some nail polish drying spray. The nail polish collection includes brands such as OPI, ESSIE, Revlon, ORLY, MILANI (my favorite!), American Eagle (only two bottles as they were on sale and I don't even know if I'm a fan...) and some random ones as well. The nail polish remover is nothing fancy, just some from Walgreens. The nail drying spray was bought on a whim and really I don't feel like it's cutting my drying time by much.

Once I unsnap the top one and move it away, you get the bottom container that holds cotton balls, qtips, cotton pads and some extra nail polish remover. I used the cotton balls and cotton pads with the nail polish remover. I find that the pads work best. The qtips I usually use to clean my nails around the edges where I may have some stray nail polish markings. I just dip the qtip in nail polish remover and clean around the edges of the nail careful not to smudge the actual nail.

The small container.

Once I take the lid off of the small container, you will find my base coats, tops coats and conditioning/strengthening coats. I usually use the conditiong coats in between nail colors. Meaning that if I am giving my nails a break, then I will just put some conditioning/strengthening coats and just wear that for a few days. Then when I am ready to go back to color, I put on a base coat then polish then top coat. This helps out a lot when I am wearing a dark color because the color adheres to the basecoat and not my nails therefore making it easier and cleaner to remove the color later on. The top coat makes the colored polish last longer and also add shine. Right now the top coat that I am using is the OPI one, but I am not loving it and am going to probably try the famous Seche Vett.

Moving on. When you take the top container off to reveal the middle container, you will find all my tools. Such as nail files, buffers, nail clippers, nail brush, lotion, nail glue, etc. These are pretty much self explanatory.

Then the bottom container has these cute little organizers, which I have nothing in. Though I am sure pretty soon, it will be filled with something! LOL.

There you have it... my latest obsession. It's getting pretty crazy, but I know that if I can find it on sale, the hubs won't be toooo mad! Oh and since I am not a nail painting fool, I think I will start putting a nail pic of the day or something like what color I'm wearing today in each post? IDK... but I think you get it?

Hasta!
Adri.