Stash additions & spreadsheets (w/bonus Lizard Belly pic)

Everything I've bought lately:

top row:

• Julie G Sugar Rush (Gumdrops textured collection)
• WnW Megalast On a Trip
• Glitter Gal Lizard Belly (deep green holo)

bottom row:

• Hedy's Ma.nish.ma. Ramblin' Red (I don't know why I picked this color, it looks like something I won't want to wear until fall!)
• Picture Polish Violet Femme
• Color Club Raspberry Rush
• Color Club Gimme a Grape Big Kiss
• Color Club Eternal Beauty (holo)

I did something the other day that I've avoided doing all this time: I made a nail polish spreadsheet. I know other people have them, but it seemed slightly extreme, somehow. But then I looked at somebody's (PolishAHolic's, to be specific - link is on this page) and suddenly it became clear to me what the point was. Now that I think about it, I wonder why it took me so long. I'm comfortable with spreadsheets - I used to be the secretary for a group of accountants, so aside from the fact that I never quite figured out pivot tables I'm really a pretty advanced Excel user - and I don't think pivot tables are going to be necessary here! (Certainly once you get to the size of PolishAHolic's collection, a spreadsheet has to be almost the only way to keep track.)

So of course now I'm geeking out over it, now that I've gotten started. I keep adding columns so I can do new ways of sorting. First I just had one column for the color, but then I added another one for "Color Family" - so I can do sort of basic color categories and sort by that, and then more specific colors in the original column.  I lumped all the purples into one "color family" and I made all the reds and fuchsias into another. As I mentioned when I was sorting out colors for those stash pictures, some are hard to categorize. For example, is Gimme a Grape Big Kiss, up there in the picture above, a pink or a purple? "Grape" leads you to think purple, but actually I'd call it a red-violet, poised right in between. I have a lot of those - I ended up putting them in the purple category but specifically labeling them red-violet as well.

I also love PolishAHolic's spreadsheet because it has links to all her reviews. I'm going to be checking that now that I noticed it's there. She doesn't have every polish in the world, but my god, she's got a lot. Here is her review of the 2 non-holo Color Clubs above, which I haven't tried out yet: Wicked Sweet. (I've never bought scented polish before, I hope it doesn't drive me crazy.)


I'm still wearing Lizard Belly, although several tips are starting to look very worn. (Others still look almost perfect. On the whole, considering how hard I am on my nails in general, I thought it did extremely well.)

It doesn't look very green here, does it? But actually it is. It's the first genuine dark green that I've ever owned. I like it a lot, even in normal room lighting where you can't see the holo-ness of it. And then once in a while the sun hits it and it's suddenly all gorgeous and you go, "Whoa."