About a year ago, when I started to lose weight, I became very interested in how I looked, both in terms of my clothes and my accessories. I wore belts infrequently before a year ago, because I always wore jeans that didn’t need them. They didn’t need them because I was wearing what my friend Nina lovingly referred to as “mom jeans”: high-waisted, unflattering jeans I wouldn’t be caught dead in today. Of course, when you move to medium-waisted or low-waisted jeans, you discover why everyone keeps talking about “muffin top” and why you need a belt for your jeans.
Another thing I started doing was taking care of my nails. I’ve bitten my nails for years. And I started saying, No, I’m going to take care of my hands, so they look nice. This hasn’t been 100%—this week, in fact, I’ve had a hell of a time keeping the stresses of trying to get the house in order off of my nails. But for the most part, over the past year I’ve had very nice nails.
My first point of order a year ago was to buy more of my favorite nail polish, MAC Vino. Alas! MAC no longer made this shade. So I dived headfirst into what was available, trying to find a duplicate. From there, I branched out into brighter reds. Then pinks. Then purples. Then I went nuts and hit my favorite shade, a dark purple/grey named OPI My Private Jet.
While looking for all of these faboo nail polishes, I made quite a collection.
And now they all have to stay here until I find a place for them in the new house. Alas.
http://polishaddict.com/2008/10/21/the-opi-my-private-jet-controversy/
More bad news?
Oh! That is so depressing! Dangit.
Oh well, I guess that’s why they keep making new colors… Sigh.
That’s a huge lot of nail polish. How often do you keep changing the color?
That’s actually a small collection compared to some women! (And it’s grown a little since this shot. Ahem.) I change the color about every 4 or 5 days–once the color chips or peels, I put on a new color. It’s a great habit that keeps me taking care of my nails. I actually had bitten my nails to the quick (ouch!) this August, with all the stress of the move, but now they are long enough to start interfering with my typing/iPhone usage again, which is the perfect length for me.