I WANT TO MAKE A CONDIMENT-INSPIRED POLISH COLLECTION

OKAY, LOOK.

You know when you're trying to go to sleep and your brain is all 'THINGS'? Well a couple nights ago, things-brain actually came up with something that I'm seriously into. Oh, shoot. Now I can't remember what name I came up with for the collection. Condiments. Condi-meant to Be! Bah hahahaha. I was seriously about 2 seconds away from being asleep at that point. Anyway, without further ado:

Spicy Mustard

 

 

A rich, olive-toned golden creme with burnt orange, brown and tan matte glitter. I wouldn't want the glitter to be too huge- I'm more interested in capturing the color combination. Actually, I could probably figure out a whole mustard collection. Tell me you wouldn't just love the color of Dijon all up on your nails this fall.

Ketchup

Duh, ketchup. A barely-orange-hued bright red crelly. I feel like a true jelly would be too opaque and wouldn't properly capture the congealed quality of ketchup. Congealed, also, is an awful descriptor but completely accurate.

Soy Sauce

This one would for sure be my favorite. A warm mahogany, deeply pigmented sheer. I would jelly sandwich the crap out of this one. I would want to be able to build this one on the nail just like how soy sauce looks in a bowl, where the most layers looks black except for in bright light and it gradually lightens to the brown the less layers there are. Guh.

Mint Chutney

Probs Def a textured polish. Grass green with darker and lighter green texture bits. What is that even? Feel-y particles. Interest bumps. You know what? Let's get crazy. The base would a sheer grass green (because I seriously cannot get enough of sheers) with crap-tons of texture in avocado and dark green.

Pico de Gallo

Clear base, glitter bomb consisting of regular and matte glitter in different sizes of square, hex and micro glitters in the following colors: aubergine, green, off-white and vermillion. I would probably assign the shapes and sizes to specific colors, i.e. large vermillion square glitter for the tomatoes. I would want it to look like a salsa bar at the tips of your pretty little finkies.

Aaand that's as far as my brain got me before I drifted into dreamland. There's something about things that look like other things that I just love (nail polish that looks like food, for example). I think it's kitschy but could be really chic, which I guess is kind of how I see myself but without the whole chicness thing and also kitschy is also kind of a nice word for "weird". WHATEVER THO.

So, would you wear this nonsense? Okay, I already know your answer is yes. I guess the better question is: which one makes you the hungriest?

Nail Polish Swap Cluelessness and Other Things

Well, this is embarrassing, but I don't have even the slightest clue how to go about finding a swap partner. I guess my first order of business would be to gather all the polishes I'd be keen on swapping, yeah?

I need more indie polishes in my life.

Oh, I know! I'll make a wishlist.

Just when I think I'm content with the list of polishes I want I start going through old entries at The PolishAholic and am reminded how limited my wants are. And seeing beautiful swatches from, like, 2009 so the polishes are htf now. And trying to find an in to the black market so I can pawn whichever organs I have multiples of so I can buy polish.

I have two ideas:
1. LAZOR NAIL POLISH OF THE FUTURE (the technicalities are still being worked out)
2. Polish that turns into cheeseburgers when you want it to so you can tell your boyfriend "It's okay, we can eat it later!"

No, all right, my boyfriend is pretty great when it comes to my obsessions. My three most recent collecting obsessions have been:
1. Stamps
2. Magic the Gathering cards
3. Nail Polish.

I didn't start a blog about either of the other two things OR grow out parts of my body to display them. So, me and nail polish, we have a special thing going.

Anyway, my boyfriend, he works ALL DAY and at the end of the day when he comes home and once the children are asleep and it's quiet, he'll play Skyward Sword and I'll paint my nails. We've got old people habits already. It's sweet. He makes fun of me for it, for the nail polish, and he always asks me really stupid theoretical questions, the most recent being "what would you do if you came home one day and I had smashed all your bottles of nail polish?" I don't know what I would do! Would it break the spell? Would I be so discouraged I wouldn't ever start collecting again? I would smash his face is what I would do. But I can't know what I'd do, really, because I know he wouldn't do that. Who would do that? But especially he wouldn't.

What a weird picture I've painted of my anonymous self! I collect nail polish and am a huge nerd.

"Little Sticky Pieces of Old Paper of Love"
"Fantasy Playing Cards that I Have No Technique to Playing Them of Love"

I'm for realsies making a polish, um, thing. Like, swatch book except it's not a book (the swatch book I was making failed so hard I don't even want to talk about it). I really will take pictures this time.

TL;DR
Where can I find polish swapping partners? Thx 4evs