r/WeGotPolishAtHome

Hello again! My coworker gifted me this lovely peach color this week! They're destashing and knows I've been using old polish(trying not to buy new ones) and the difference is INCREDIBLE. I absolutely love the color too, it's much more pink in person and perfect for spring. It dried much faster, leveled out better, and doesn't feel like my nails are being suffocated. I don't know what thinner to use, otherwise I'd probably pick some up to extend my polish's life, but if anyone has any recommendations I'm all ears!

I had to return to my magnetic roots! I wish I could attach a video followed by photos in the post’s main body. Magnetics look much better with movement. Oh well.

Spring months and their corresponding birthstones:

- March: Aquamarine

- April: Diamond

- May: Emerald

These were all magnetized with a 30 lb horseshoe magnet.

I'm envisioning a velvetized mani with polka dots on it for one of my bingo boxes, but I have a few questions.

Would it be best to make it into a 2 day process? Set the base color/velvet one night, and the next day make my polka dots on it? I'm afraid of ruining the magnetic on it.

Which brings me to the next question, how in the world do you make your dots so perfect? I understand spacing them out, but make it just right I have a problem. My dots always look a bit wonky. Pic of my current dots.

Vintage polish for a vintage prompt! This one's been in my collection for at least 22 years, though it's probably more like 25. The 2nd picture is a close up of the very chipped mani I wore on my 15th birthday, all the way back in 2004! 🥰

Sidenote: why on earth did we all wear t-shirts with inappropriate jokes in the early 2000s??

My favorite tulip are those that you can’t tell is they are pink or red.

I managed to look through my collection and NOT cave to one of the new collection releases on Friday, even though it’s still calling to me a little - I know I actually do have a dupe! Hooray! 🥳

I’ve been on (essentially) a no-buy since about December. Once my MIL got sick in Nov, I kind of lost any interest in self-care for a while there 😔, but I’m headed in the right direction, out of my grief, and back into being a functioning person again. Anyway, I did the dupe on my right hand and another pretty purple/green/gold on my left (last 3 nail pics).

Plus a fully bloomed jasmine vine tax at the end!

Okay maybe I'm a few weeks "late" to be celebrating the first flowers of spring now, but hey, they deserve to be celebrated! 🌱 Included a couple of inspiration photos. The crocuses make me so happy every year.

Lots of layering going on here, I enjoyed this one!

Sunshine + sparkles + pink charms = a girliepop nail set of my dreams! Would love your thoughts.

So, I’ve been into indie/boutique polish for about a year now, and have amassed a good collection in all my enthusiasm. I’m now trying to be really mindful about what I add to my collection, so on a no/low buy. I was about to drop an order for my usual base and topcoat and was soo tempted by some of the fun neon colours, especially a particular bright fuschia/coral that my fave brand does. Then I remembered I had some bright drugstore polishes that I had picked up ages ago as a set but never used. The left hand swatch was close to the polish I had my eye on, but just a bit too orange and not great on my skin tone. I decided to try adding some of the magenta, and was able to make a lovely bright coral colour. It might not be quite as neon as the polish I had my eye on, and I will have to see how it wears, but it definitely scratches the itch, is a colour I’m much more likely to wear than the orange, and has saved me breaking my no-buy for a while longer! I do love this little hobby 😁

I did a mani for Glittery Things also, but I hated it and I took it off after a few hours. The dark burgundy creme has been a nice palate cleanser.

For Tulips, I choose the black parrot Tulip for inspiration. It's a lovely dark maroon purple flower with reddish and blue hues in it. My fave tulip! The representing polish I choose has a deep dark red base with blue shimmer and a purple tone when it's outside sunlight

For pansy, I was inspired by a pansy combo I've in my garden. It's a pink and purple mix. The pansies have this lovely dark striped marking in their center. The matching polish has a lavender purple crelly base with pink and black flakies, black representing the dark lines in my mind.