Confessions of a Nail Polish Addict

When I realised that I had a nail polish addiction it was already too late and I had amassed over 200 bottles of the stuff! I'm not sure what exactly, and still don't fully understand why this cosmetic has captured my imagination.

I was never into make-up as a teenage and only recently towards my late thirties have I taken all that must interest in the confusing and overwhelming world of beauty products out there and how to apply them to your mush!

However I have always had a creative side and perhaps that's why I love it so... the multitude of colours (I have about 50 purple polishes and I swear no two are the same) the effects and things that you can do with them is endless and only limited by your own imagination. Nail polish manufacturers, mostly indie, are forging the way with new effect polishes whether the trend be crackle, thermal, textured, flakies or holo's and the designs that nail bloggers and vloggers are coming out with every week delights and surprises me.

Now I own over 500 polishes and even this doesn't seem to be enough, just this last week when self proclaiming my own 'No Buy' did I buy 6 more bottles!

First up is a polish I've been hankering after for a while. It's a green scattered holographic polish from Orly called 'Sparkling Garbage'. I picked this up in a set of two polishes from TK Maxx for £9.99. So not a bad price for Orly polishes as one bottle from the brand can set you back as much.

I'm not sure if you can layer this polish up to full opacity, so I used it as a topper to a polish I bought from Next called 'Anaconda'. Next have a relatively small selection of polishes in their stores but the colours and glitters they have are apparently irresistible! Their bottles are a unusual rectangular shape and every time I've visited the shop they are 3 for 2, so I now own 9!

I've also been lusting after OPI DS's polishes. Mostly the first set they brought out which is like gold dust and has the most amazing linear holographic polishes. I spotted this next one again in TK Maxx for £3.99 and had to bag it. Again you can pay up to £15 for these silver capped bottles.

This polish is bright red and has a gold shimmer running through it, seen more in the bottle than on the nail unfortunately. It's also quite sheer, probably the reason it was in TK Maxx, and took three coats for some sort of opacity. I topped this one off with another polish from Next called 'Miami Heat' a gorgeous red and gold sort of flakie glitter. They're not flakies in the conventional sense, but the glitter in this polish isn't of any discernible shape.

So I've failed miserably on not buying polish, the only way I can see myself stopping is by not going into any shops that sell it! I still plan to resist, how long for I don't yet know...