man thank goodness I'm not the only person who buys a polish thinking "yeah this wont look like the swatches, it's guna look the way I want it to look!" then swatching it out and *shocked Pikachu face* it looks like the swatches online
Saame, specially pinks! I see it on a darker skintone than mine and it looks great! Then I see it on skintone closer to mine and looks grey but I'm still like: it's going to look like on the darker skin tone on my super pale ass suuurely. Nope!
"Ok delulu" is so real 😂 The amount of times I've bought a polish from one pic while not loving the others... 😶🌫 Unfortunately I had a ton of polish regret purchases last year, so my goal for this year is to try to reduce impulse / fomo buying; mostly when I'm on the fence for a polish. I was watching an underconsumption video recently and my biggest take away was the phrase "if it's not a hell yes, then it's a no". With this mindset I was able to skip Jan PPU since the one polish I wanted I wasn't sure if I should get / I already had ones similar. Now I just gotta make it through the rest of the year LOL but yeah trying to stick to conscious purchases for polishes I 100% absolutely love for 2025 💪
i loveee that!! such a great phrase to keep us in check. i’m glad there’s soo many people on the same page about slowing down this year, i know another struggle for me too with destashing is the immediate temptation to buy things since i’ll have room for it lol. so having that little saying will also be so helpful!!
😂 “But it’s gonna look a little bit different, though”-is the exact reason why I have Lurid’ January PPU offering ordered.🤦🏾♀️ I have at least 6 polishes with similar looks (it’s my guilty pleasure combo)-they all differ in particle size or slightly in base color, but they have the exact same shimmer. Idk what it is, the aqua/turquoise to green to gold shimmer in a pinky/fuschia/reddish base just snatches my money, every time.😅 Thank you so much for this. It’s comforting to see other peoples’ regrets and not feel like I’m in a box of shame.😂
If you’re scared of regretting destashing polish, you may like a method another UA-camr I follow does. Basically she went through her whole collection and took out all the polishes she thought wanted to destash, put them all away in a big box for a few months. And if she went through the box to find a polish in the meantime or kept thinking about specific ones in the destash pile, then she’d take those ones out and destash the rest. That could also help avoid the whole “oh no! I destashed a polish I really liked cause I was kinda iffy on it at the moment 😭” cause you’ll have a few months to sit on it and changing opinions. I feel like it’s especially helpful for seasonal wearers, since they may think they don’t like a green and destash in the winter, but come spring they’re all sad cause now they want that green lol
Love that you fully admit to delulu choices. I feel so absurd when I regret a purchase solely because of my decision making: I was convinced it would look a certain way (even though the swatches indicated otherwise), I bought into the hype, I convinced myself I would like something I know I wouldn’t wear… Good luck with your destash! Mine is going super slow, and I envy Hilary’s chaotic energy from hers. I’m swatching on swatch sticks as well, and I’m hoping that will help point me towards some dupes and others that need to be rehomed.
Stefanie, I only just discovered your channel this past summer, but you’ve quickly become my favorite “nailfluencer” hehe! I _have_ _to_ watch your videos before getting any new releases and all of your different series/themed videos are so amazing! Your upbeat personality and the passion with which you approach things is infectious! I sadly started off this new year with the loss of my beloved fur baby who was truly like a family member to me, so it’s been difficult getting back to normal with her absence. But watching your videos is one of the only times I’ve been able to smile, laugh, and get back to enjoying what I used to enjoy so much before. It has helped bring me back a semblance of normalcy and finding the joy in the things I love - like nail polish! So I just wanted to send you a huge thank you! Can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store! ❤
Omg hellooo!! First of all I’m so so sorry to hear about your fur baby 😭💔 losing a pet really is so incredibly difficult bc like you said, they’re family. My heart goes out to you 🥺 it means so much that my videos can provide some comfort during this time, like what an honor!! 😭 not to mention your sweet compliments in the first half, you’re truly too kind and I appreciate you so much! sending big hugs friend, I’m glad you’re able to find joy again with nail polish & this community 💕🤗🫂
Destashing by color makes the most sense to me because then it's harder to justify to yourself why you want to keep two very similar polishes. Especially if they're shades you love.
ok right!! its gonna be a challenge bc i know i’m also picky sometimes where i can tell polishes aren’t 100% dupes and therefore can be worth keeping lol, but i neeeed to be better at that 🙈 hopefully the comments will keep me in check too haha!
I agree, you need to see all the similar ones together in order to pick the best one(s) to keep. Because many of the ones we destash are not 'bad" intrinsically, they are just slightly less good than another one.
This was a good video but bittersweet. It’s sad to be so disappointed in a polish for whatever the reason. I can only think of one indie polish that I regret buying but it was from a maker’s website. But keep in mind, I have a very small collection in comparison. I do have quite a few mainstreams that I regret from when I started buying about three years ago. Most of those are from China Glaze. I’m excited for you to start a destash series. I need inspiration to let go of the ones I’m not crazy about. I keep thinking of reasons to hang on to them!😂 Thanks for the video Stefanie!❤
yeah its at least relieving to not have had a bad experience like i often read about on reddit lol! sooo many issues with goopy or watery thin formulas, or colors looking soo off than the website pics. these were my own damn fault lol 🤣
So excited for the destash series!!! One thing you could do since you love doing comparisons, when you get your destashes, film swatch clips that you can pull up for side to side swatch comparisons down the road. I have a yearly “Nail Jail” where I shove polishes in a box and if I don’t reach for them in 3 months, I give them away.
yess i’ve been swatching the destashed polishes on a swatch stick so i can have for future comparisons! i did think about doing it on my actual nail but i figured the swatch stick can at least be put directly next to the polish im comparing vs having two videos next to each other. omg i loveee Nail Jail lol!! i think Hillary did something similar but called it her purgatory box 🤣 so genius!
Why is it so oddly fun to see someone else’s polish regrets!? 😂 maybe because we all share in that feeling every once in a while? I somehow held back on Ether Dragon and I’m glad, I definitely have polishes similar enough! 🤭
I am glad to see that I’m not the only person who lusts after a shade, buys it, gets it on my fingers and then is like…..I don’t love this on me! That’s how I feel about Mooncat Memento Mori, I want to love it so much because it’s gorgeous but when I put it on I don’t love it on me. Maybe I can just gaze at it longingly in the bottle? 😂 Anywho, super excited about your future destash series! Love all the cool content you have been making lately. I’m hooked!
its such a shameee isnt it!! bc you know its so pretty 🥹 and LOL i love gazing at it longingly in the bottle, tbh i would do that with a mooncat shade since they have pretty bottles too! but aww yay thank you so much!! that makes me so happy to hear 🥰🥰
Thank you for being so transparent about your mixed feelings throughout your nail polish collecting journey! I actually stopped buying from a few brands cus of how close enough the shades are to my existing shades, but I also understand that if you were to keep PR and let go of your existing ones, you'll lose that sentimental value and passion you want to keep for this hobby!
ILNP Music Box definitely threw me off too! I’m actually so happy you searched it because I also hoped it would be more aqua like the photo! Definitely taking it off my wishlist!
so happy i could help, its a bummer it looks so different bc that bottle shot is GORG 🥲 you might like their shade Riding Waves though! i think i shared a swatch of that in my Fav Aquas & Teals video !
😲Not Ether Dragon!!! lol I have it and Lush and...I worked too hard to refresh that PPU Rewind page for ED, and love that finish too much, so I'm covering ears and not hearing you say they look the same, nope nope 🤣🤣 But seriously, I completely understand that you don't need double the shades if you prefer one over the other (and lowkey, I do prefer Lush's more purple lean, b/c ED can look a bit yellow in some lights...). It's the nature of nail polish buying, esp. online, the bottle, even a swatch can be wildly different from our expectations. This vid is why I'm so looking forward to your destash series b/c I like not only how mindful you are but also realistic and a little ruthless --- we need that in the polish space cause that FOMO/need for the latest shiny polish can hit hard and we all need a reality check on what works for us color, formula, and def. financially and space wise. I know these destashes teach me to not only be more picky w/ my future purchases, but keep my own large collection in check and more in-tune w/ me to where I get a lot of joy and use from it.
Definitely interested in destash content, going by color seems smart. The "oops I duped it" moments are relatable, it happened to me after BF sales last year. And how curious is your story of chasing a lemming, only for it to be a bust. Oh well. Much luck with your goals this year! Sounds like you are being pragmatic, good start 💅
Yes! I’d like to see a destash! I seriously need to do that myself! And yes I have some regrets when I get a polish only to find out I have something so similar is silly! 🤦🏼♀️
I recently destashed a lot of my polishes because i don't feel good, keeping them and know, i never really can wear them 😭😭 I've got too much polishes 😂 So i can feel you and i'm glad to know that i'm not the only one struggling with too many polish 😅😅😅 ❤❤❤
I ❤ these videos, Steff!! This definitely happens to me! I just get so determined to buy a shade based on the magic of ONE shot! 😂 Then disappointment happens! Thank you for sharing that we all do that! ❤
ahh looking forward to the destash series & to picking up polishes from your destash! i’ve only been in the indie nail polish space for a bit over a year, am still growing my collection, have similar taste in polish, and am also based near philly so shipping will be quick, so this is like the perfect opportunity to pick up more indies that i missed out on!
Yessss, destashing by color sounds like such a great series idea!! I just completed a massive de-stash of about 250 polishes - but not before creating about 15 "frankenpolishes," trying to make polishes I love by mixing together a bunch of ones I don’t. So fun. (Most were a success. 😅) Anyway, great video, as always
Oh that’s soo fun!! See I’d love to try and Franken some polishes myself but I have no room!!! 😝 maybe in the future haha but thank you, glad you enjoyed!!
I definitely had better success destashing based on colors/finishes. It helped me figure out what colors I preferred on my skintone. I realized that even though some looked identical in the bottles, I would find myself comparing similar shades and realizing I had a clear preference. The red with the slightly more pink I loved much more compared to the red with slightly more orange lol. It's tedious, but it was definitely helpful to sort based on colors, and I was able to destash a lot more that way.
thats soo good to hear!! i was gonna say idk why i never thought to do it before, but probably bc its just way more tedious to do 😅 but i’m looking forward to trying!!
I really enjoyed this video. I can listen to you talk forever about the different subtleties of different polishes. I love to hear the descriptions , you are so good at it I can totally relate to you. I buy something thinking it might be brighter or darker or somehow different, and then I am not satisfied with the result. I recently purchased Flaming June by AllEngland because I love the painting it is based on and have really begun to love orange polishes. But it is just not bright enough! I am also mislead by bottleshots!
Good luck with your destashing - I think you'll do great. I always imagined it would be fun to get PR, but I see now it is a mixed blessing. On one hand, you don't want to waste, and you know how much it would cost to buy those polishes, and on the other hand, you need space to live in! I have trouble with shimmers, because I am particular about colors. Sometimes I love a few of the shifts, but not all of them, so when I look at my nails at the wrong angle, I get uncomfortable with the color I don't like as well, or I move my hand until the color shifts to what I like, and I feel silly. For me, it is easier to have polishes that just look like the bottle.
This year, I’m planning on going through polishes and destashing a bit. I feel like I have a lot of polishes I regret for a variety of reasons and I need to let go 😂 I look forward to your new series!!
Thank you ❤ I think there are a lot of twins out there in the polish universe. If you don’t have a lot of polish or if you are beginning to collect, that is a good thing. When you are constantly drawn to the clones it’s probably time to destash and keep better records of your collection.
Destash related: What if you first go through your collection and pull out the favorite polishes you have in a color category, then you can pick through the remnants for destashing? I think I will join you in this journey, and I might start with this approach. I’m going to divide my collection by finish and color for comparison. We all have polish purchases we regret, for many different reasons, so this is a very relatable video post!
oh yes i love that approach! i’ll be sure to mention that in the video too, i’m envisioning a top down view on my desk with all my reds laid about, and i can separate the must-haves first and then go through the rest 😁 so exciting you’ll be joining in!! and for suree, would love to know if theres a polish you regret from 2024 🙈
@ I have a destash box full of regrets. Partially, there is a huge learning curve in this hobby. We have to buy the polish to learn if we like the colors, flakies, holo, shimmers, glitters, etc. But, I am disappointed in myself for most (not all) mystery polish purchases, dupes and too many FOMO purchases. I’m really trying to be aware of my purchases and make better choices. I think your voice is important in this hobby! I think we need to have hard conversations about our purchases and learning to make decisions to spend less, buy more responsibly and thoughtfully. Keep the conversation going!
Phew I can stop kicking myself over not getting Ether Dragon now ❤ actually prefer the look of Lush as the purple base balances out my staining better 😂
Yess so many people mentioned this too that Ether Dragon can lean a bit more yellow on the nails! Lush is def more flattering imo, I prefer the more purple base too 😍
I'm also a libra so I feel that pain of indecision or changing your mind a lot!! I learned that I shop better online, which feels ridiculous, but the swatch photos really make a big difference 😅 I picked out a polish online at Target about a month ago but decided to look at it in store first, brought home a different one that caught my eye, tried it on, and went oh my god I hate it, why didn't I just get the one I was originally looking at 🙈🤣 Looking forward to the destash series!
Thanks for honesty in sharing the regrets. We all have them. A destash series is a great idea! It may help you going forward as you will be more cognizant of what you have and may avoid dupes in the future. Side note: I typically am not a blue polish person but decided to get ILNP Snowstorm on Black Friday based on your recommendation. I absolutely love it! No regrets there.
I'm always interested in how others handle collection management (tracking, storing, sorting, rotating usage, purging, etc). I only got into polish maybe 2 years ago, and to be completely honest: I COMPLETELY LOST MY MIND!! I've got at least 3 Helmers full of polish, nearly 500 plates, more decals/stencils/stickers than I can count, powders/pigments, and the list goes on & on!! And, no, I am not wealthy nor am I on any PR lists, so, yes, I paid for EACH AND EVERY ITEM out of my pocket. So, while I'd normally be salivating over the idea of shopping a juicy destash like I imagine yours will be, I will only permit myself to watch the series from the POV of learning from the process you use & taking away any helpful tidbits that I think will improve the overall management of my collection, including downsizing. Although I don't envy the vast amount of work it's going to take, I do look forward to being positively influenced by the outcome!!
Same hat! 😂 I’ve only become hyperfixated on nail polish since Black Friday 2023, and I’ve not gotten into stamping, but I have acquired over 200 polishes to date 😳 For me, organizing is half the fun of most of my obsessions. With polish, I love using swatch sticks and my beloved label maker to mark shade and brand names, plus swatch wheels for collection references or swatching out combos or toppers (especially iridescent ones) over different base colours. I currently have my swatch stick rings sorted by (1) brand, (2) finish (basically cremes vs toppers vs specialty finishes; I would drive myself crazy if I tried to subcategorize the latter, but that’s just me), and (3) rainbow-ish order. Do I agonize over whether browns go with orange or at the end of the rainbow next to black and white? Yes. Do I periodically move them back and forth? Also yes 😂 Holo Taco and Mooncat make up the majority of my collection, so I just have a couple of separate swatch rings for (1) other boutique/indie polishes and (2) drugstore brands. In terms of physical storage, I have a couple Holo Taco display racks but mostly keep my collection in shoeboxes, organized by brand and then alphabetically. For polishes that don’t have the shade names on the top of the carton, I add them with my label maker. I like the size of shoeboxes for the weight of polishes, and when my apartment flooded a month ago, it was (relatively) easy to chuck a half-dozen boxes into the trunk of my car before the heaters and dehumidifiers were set up and threatened havoc on my collection. (Fortunately, nothing irreplaceable was damaged 😅) Digitally, I use the app Lacquergram to track my collection, and over the holidays I started building a spreadsheet to track things not covered in that app (as a data analyst, I can be a persnickety biscuit). There were some things I knew I wanted to track and be able to sort by, and then I just googled “nail polish organization spreadsheet” to get some more ideas. I’m using my email receipts to populate my spreadsheet (starting from my oldest purchases, going brand by brand) so hopefully I won’t miss much. I really like the fan-made Holo Taco randomizer, so eventually I want to code something that encompasses all the brands in my collection and lets me randomize choices and combos or select never-used polishes or ones I haven’t used in X months or whatever. I also love stationary and bullet journalling (hello, previous hyperfixation!), so I have a physical journal to track my manicures 🤷♀️
@@impastomusic Oh good lord ~~ you & I must NEVER EVER meet IRL, as I can see that we would encourage in one another all of our most obsessive tendencies!!! 🤣🤪🤣🤪
@@lifeandrandomness1868 Ahahah right?! I absolutely cannot remember where my keys are or when I need to file my taxes, but I will absolutely be able to rattle off random collection data until the day I die 🤣🤣🤣 I wish you all the joy in your organization journey, and know you’re definitely not alone!!
Love this video and looking forward to some destash videos! I’m relatively new to my nail polish obsession in the last year or so, but I have consciously avoided PPU and HHC because I know myself well enough that FOMO and wishful thinking about the colour or formula of a polish would definitely leave me with some regrets and maybe a negative bank balance 😂 The only regret I can think of is Mooncat’s Treachery in the Blue. I thought the warm state was more pink than beige (and I really don’t like nudes on me); I know their swatches can be misleading, but generally even if a shade looks different IRL, I still like it. It was also my first (and now only) thermal, before I learned that they expire. I also have uneven nail lengths and don’t file them all down when one breaks, so with a thermal, it just looked like only 2-3 fingers had a French tip and I had just forgotten the others 🤪 So while I may regret this polish, I am very grateful for the lessons it taught me! As much as I was tempted by some of Holo Taco’s flakie thermals, I’m so glad I skipped that collection.
This video is so relatable! 😂 Especially looking at swatches of a polish and seeing one swatch (or bottle shot) where it looks the way you want and completely dismissing all the other pictures, then being all surprised Pikachu face when it doesn't look that way in person.
I'd love to see the destash series! I need to be better about destashing, since I do want all my polishes to go to a good home rather than kick around in my drawer and not get used. I try to use them all throughout the year. But I also don't want to get too tempted to destash things I might still have used, specifically so that I can have room to buy more - want to keep a lid on that!
yess same! it can be hard to determine what’s worth destashing, i would say the easiest place is with polishes that had bad formulas or colors that are very similar!
i've been watching videos on over-consumption by shawna ripari and as someone who only buys my polish and doesn't receive anything in PR, i can already see all my collections of things (not just nail polish 🙈) as too much... i'm in the middle of the fires in california rn and was thinking about how hard it's going to be to evacuate and leave all this stuff behind. anyway, all this to say, i appreciate your content and i'm looking forward to your destash videos! letting go of things, because you can acknowledge that you don't need it even if it is pretty/sparkly/of a brand you don't have a lot of, is such an important and healthy thing to show.
omg! first of all i hope you & your loved ones are okay and safe from the fires 🥺 yeah unfortunately i’ve thought about things like that too, if something were to happen, what would happen with all my stuff?? i first learned about Swedish Death Cleaning a few years ago and i’ve used it to declutter other areas of my life, but nail polish is so hard (especially since its basically my job) 😩 but i def dont want to promote over consumption either.. its tough to balance lol but i’m glad you’re looking forward to this new series! 🤗
@@PolishedYogi thank you! we've been very lucky so far and we're hoping the upcoming winds don't blow embers in our direction. and luckily my partner and i are the only weirdos living in LA out of our immediate families haha. i saw someone on the destash FB selling some of (maybe all of?) their collection because they were evacuated and my heart went out to them so hard. i love the concept of swedish death cleaning and think about it a good amount actually. i wonder if learned about the concept from you haha. but yes! i think a lot of your disclosures are generally anti-over consumption despite the fact that you receive and have so much nail polish already. and it's your job!
Okay, I’m glad you addressed why you didn’t pick up the January PPU Ethereal polish 🤣 you and I seem to have verrry similar personal taste in colors, and when it didn’t end up on your wishlist I was second guessing myself. I kept rewinding your video thinking I had just missed your clip on it haha, I was that stunned you didn’t pick it. Ultimately, I decided to go with my gut, and it was the only one I got this month! But totally makes sense why you didn’t. Also side note - I so enjoy and appreciate your videos! You and Polished Bookwrom are the ones I base most of my indie decisions on. Keep doing your thing! 💕💜
Love your videos !!! 😊 and honestly I really like these videos cause sometimes I buy certain polishes expecting way more! Like I love mooncat but I wished freshly bitten had a bit more red cause mine was leaning very purple ish
So glad you enjoyed! Yeah we’re definitely not alone feeling that way sometimes 🥲 ahh I’m sorry to hear you felt that about Freshly Bitten! It’s one of my favorites from them 😩
Thanks for the video, Stefanie! I appreciate your honesty; we all have occasional regrets. It makes me so disappointed in myself when I dupe polishes or receive a polish I don’t love, regretting that I spent money on something I don’t even need. Oh well, I’m sure there will be more 🤷🏼♀️😂
of course!! i do wish i could share these more relatable videos more often than sharing new things lol 🥹 we are definitely not alone!! and hahah yes exactly, its not like this WON’T happen again either 🤣
This is also why I keep my polishes sorted by colour - easier to see dupes! Looking forward to the destash series and also reasons why you’re destashing it!
thanks for being so honest and sharing your thoughts here!! I definitely experience the same sometimes with just having so many polishes. I just take it as a happy chance to destash!
of course! and yes exactly, i’m always of the mind that its not the worst thing in the world since destashing is usually pretty easy to do lol esp with PPU/indies!
Can confirm that very sheer polishes can look extremely similar. Because so little base colour pigment deposits on the nail, it has far less influence on the overall look. And each colour you do collect covers a wider swath of the colour wheel than you might expect. But if you are really determined to have more, you can always pick different shimmer combos. And by you, I mean me.
its so frustrating!! like with Calcifer i can clearly see the more pink colored base and ugh i so desperately wish that translated onto the nail 😩 i do think the different shimmer combo is way more justifiable though hehe thats gonna be so hard to deal with once i start destashing 🙈
Looking forward to your destashing series. I felt the disappointment deep in my soul when you described how one swatch looked exactly up your alley and in person looked darker in person. I had a couple of those in my BF haul. Pretty polishes…just didn’t look nice on me☹️
I would love to see a destash series from you!!! I am personally on the hunt for ether dragon at a reasonable price and that comparison rly helps! Tho In my delulu mind ether dragon and lush are like 10% different, so therefore I will be getting both!😈
hahah i can def see the differences too and how its like enough to justify keeping both 😝 i think i mighttt just like Lush a bit more due to the more pigmented base too, i just hate admitting it since Ether Dragon being more sheer reminds me of Glass Frog being such a letdown too lol 😩 but glad you’re looking forward to my destash journey!!
same! it's one of my favorite polishes from this year! not sure if im biased because of Astarion but it was my first time getting a non dark vampy shade and I fell in love!
burried juniber is one of the best greens out there for me! i loooove it even if it sometimes feels like 1% crelly but 2 coats really makes me love it! especially with a gold flake top coat or matte top coat on it to make it seem a little lighter
I'm feeling you so much here! I seem to be one of the few humans on the planet who doesn't care for Goblins & Ghoulies and destashed it. And I did the same with Omega Centauri -- mmmm beautiful formula, but not the color I was looking for exactly, plus I have so many colors in that range already. For some reason I thought it was going to be more...unique? I dunno.
omg wild!! i dont think i’ve ever seen anyone mention they’ve destashed it lol yay for not being alone 😝 and yes exactly the same w Omega Centauri! its a color combo i think we see somewhat often, but i was sure it would be different enough thats its worth keeping lol 🤦🏻♀️
I am not thrilled with cold shoulder HT. Everyone of the bottles went bad. Taught me not to buy more than one bottle at a time. It’s not the only one of their foil polishes that went bad. But I still like the brand. But gone are the days I buy on an impulse multiples of any polish even when they are being discontinued. Now I’m stuck with polishes that are not the same. And I haven’t even opened any of those bottles. Too late to get my money back. It is what it is.
Oof yeah buying backups of Cold Shoulder ended up being more wasteful than any other backup 😭 and right it’s a shame since you can’t really do much with it now that they’re tarnished.. though I wonder if there are some collectors out there who are still looking for a bottle “just to have it” or something? You never know 😅
My faves of the ones you showed: Lyn B. Designs “Tenta-cool” Glisten & Glow “Omega Centauri” Ethereal “Careful, I Bite”, Ethereal “Ether Dragon” Ethereal “Calcifer”, I am sorry you had these disappointments! This is a very timely video because I am on another no buy and am now going through my polish and realizing that I don’t like a few, or rather, I legit could have liked it from a far. But the FOMO of PPU and Hella Hand Made is real with me! Also, I think it’s a great idea to destash by color!
I love the video Stefanie and I look forward to your destash series. I sat knee-deep in turquoise and turquoise blues with pink to orange shimmer as I desperately searched for a dupe of RBLs Aqua Lily that I destashed years and years ago and regretted instantly. Needless to mention that I lost interest the second I swatched them and reaized they were different. I am still under a self imposed ban (mostly successful) until I at least wore all of them once before I get more 😂
thank you Christine!! ahh yes i know that struggle too, it really is soo hard trying to dupe something you no longer have and then being disappointed by everything you try 😭 but yes i’m putting myself under that sane kind of ban for the pinks with blue shimmer lol! so you’re not alone 😝
Side note: I really like your sweater today! The pattern is just so cute. I felt what you said about the cracked polish soooo bad! It’s always a little sad when I can appreciate how good a polish looks but on me I just really don’t like it 😢 oh well, it happens! I’m glad that it took you a few months to get enough polishes you regretted for a video because that’s certainly a goal isn’t it? Not buying a lot of polishes AND not having a lot of them that you end up regretting 😂 I myself am glad that I only had like 1-2 polishes I regretted getting this year out of how many I got.
aw thank you!! 🥰 and ugh yeah its such a bummer when that happens right?! 😭 just knowinggg a polish looks so pretty, until we put it on lol. & thats so true too re: not having many regrets! i get why people would want to see more of it bc its like the anti-haul style of content thats so refreshing to see, but yeah unfortunately i’m not the best channel to expect that from 😅 i’m glad you only had 1-2 regrets, thats so impressive! what were they??
@@PolishedYogi tbf i also didn’t buy that much polish last year! So 1-2 out of like….idek how many I bought actually but it evens out since I didn’t buy that much anyway 😂 I think my two regrets was Emily de molly all the feelings (a topper) & holo taco secret society….ATF was just me trying out a topper I wouldn’t really reach for and indeed, I don’t reach for it much….😂😂😂😂 Secret society was also on me but I was still much more disappointed by it! It’s a polish where I loveeeed the concept (esp since it really does invoke the old vibes of a house) but I just deluded myself into thinking I would like how gray it is out of direct light. Unfortunately it didn’t change my stance on grays but that’s on me 😅
To me Berried Juniper looks great on you! It's actually a polish I've been eyeing but I haven't because I've never bought from them before and I'm trying to do a low buy. I think it's gorgeous tho! 😍 I love it ❤
aw thank you!! its such a weird thing to experience, i dont get howww i dont like it when its on me lol but i love it on anyone else or just seeing it in the bottle 😩 good on you for doing a low buy this year!! 🙌🏼
When you wish a polish leaned more red or green, do you ever add a jelly topper or a magnetic topcoat with that color to create what you wanted? I ordered some gray and some other color jellies just for when I'm regretting the color something is compared to my imagined color when ordering. It's worked quite well with several polishes.
no i rarely ever do that! i can see how it might help, but i think it would alter the color a bit TOO much for what i want/was expecting 🙈 but i’ve neger tried it before, i can definitely see it working for some polishes/colors!
haha i appreciate your excitement! i’ll be destashing thru my IG account linked in the description, though I won’t list the polishes in this video until next weekend when i’ll have time to ship etc!
I wanted to love ether dragon. I too bought it for how it looked in indirect lighting. It was magical. But in direct lighting that strong eye searing green shimmer plus the yellow tinge of the base was enough for me to destash it
oof yeah i can sometimesss be forgiving with how underwhelming a shimmer can look in direct light/sun, but this was just a letdown all around 😅 so glad i’m not alone!
It really sucks when you dupe yourself. I do that all the time. Like right now i could line up 6 mint blue w/ pink orange shimmer. And i keep buying them bc i'm delusional. 😅 so i totally get it.
I ended up destashing my MC Flight of the Monarchs because it was too similar to Ethereal's Calcifer because Calcifer is just SO MUCH More glowy for me ahhh!
I use a sheerish blurring base coat with Ether Dragon; then 2-3 coats of the polish,( usually 2), and after a glossy top coat I add a matte top coat. Really pretty. Honestly, I have been trying to find a dupe for forever, and I have tried like every other aqua/blue/green/pink shimmer that comes up, and I have not found a dupe yet. Missed the rewind, darn, and I am having a hard time wearing it now because it is almost at the halfway point. Hoping their January PPU scratches the itch! It looks like it might be a similar formula...finally!
I understand the regret 🥲 I'm being more picky now, I have a few polishes I regret buying and is impossible for me to detash them because I'm not from US and ppl here don't tend to use regular polish and doesn't know about indie brands
omg noo thats definitely so much trickier!! 😩 even though it will be a loss, maybe you can at least gift some of the polishes for holidays or birthdays? maybe if received as a gift, they’ll learn to enjoy it 🤞🏼
Does anyone have any recs that are close to ether dragon? At least that kind of blue/green shift. It’s much darker but I like the look of mooncats root of all evil too.
Hahah I appreciate this 🤣 it looks super beautiful!! But reminds me of ILNP’s Flower Child without the holo sparkle, maybe more purple leaning too. So I’ll stay strong for now 😝
Wow, I LOVE Careful, I Bite. I've been looking for an ethereal, fairy-green polish for a while now. Do you have any suggestions for a dupe that's still available? edit: you know, actually maybe the pink base is going a little too hard for me? I can't tell. Either way, I'll keep searching for a perfect luna moth shade!
I HIGHLY recommend topping Lush with Ether Dragon. 2 coats Lush, 1 coat Ether Dragon and glossy topcoat - these two combined is the ultimate glowy duo. I promise you won't regret it.
I also bought Careful, I bite, and received it at the same time as Mooncat Pixiestick, and I regretted having bought the Ethereal one, since they are very similar
omg yeah! i meant to compare it to Pixiestick which is one of my favsss, so i also was like how did i let this happen lol. idt Pixiestick shifts to purple though, but still not worth keeping both imo 😅
So happy Holo Taco and Mooncat skipped this list! 😅 Also, do you have a video showing your whole nail polish collection? I'd love to see all of the polishes you have! (I just imagine something extravagant like Simply Nailogical's nail polish wall!)❤
Haha thankfully they were skipped since I didn’t really buy any! But I will likely be destashing somee HT & MC too🫣 And I have a video from maybe last year called “my nail polish desk & collection tour!” Sadly not that extravagant with wall displays, I only use helmers for storage 😅
Omega Centauri is GORGEOUS but when you said it's more purple than red, I also was like "...oh" UGH. also im only halfway through video but IF you destash ether dragon iiiiii may open my wallet if available and no one else claims it LMAO I've been lusting over that one or Glass Frog/Glass Jellyfish from Lumen but impossible to find for not extreme prices ugh
omg yeah it feels almost silly to be SO picky over the slightly more purple color in Omega Centauri lmao like its such a pretty shade but i feel meh 🤷🏻♀️ I likely will be destashing Ether Dragon tho, make sure you’re following my insta destash page bc thats where i’ll be posting this weekend! and NOT at an insane markup price lol 🙅🏻♀️
@@PolishedYogi lol no I get it, I'm the same way 🥴 and following!! I'll be keeping my eyes PEELED lol I wish instagram had a reminder function hahaha but I'm sure you'll get someone asking for it regardless no doubt!
I literally bought ILNP Music Box for the same reason! I liked one photo and wished myself into thinking it will look like that. I have a rule now where I must like at least 2-3 pictures of a polish before I buy it!
ugh i’m sorry you also were burned by that one!! 😢 such a shame bc that bottle pic is sooo freaking pretty lol. and yess i’ve seen people share the advice of needing to like the worst photo before buying it 🤣
I have Cupcake Twister and LOVE it. But I don’t have anything like it in my collection. One of the last polishes I bought last year was a disappointment (I honed in on one swatch photo and disregarded the others). I’m using that as my touch point to keep me on track for my no buy 2025.
its such a beautiful shade!! i’m a fan of that shimmer/holo flake kind of formula so i’d definitely love to try more from Cupcake, just in different colors haha. and agh yeah its always the one swatch photo that gets us!! 😝 best of luck on your no buy this year! 💪🏼
I did the *exact same thing* with Calcifer. I bought it both for the theme and for thinking it was going to be pinker. But no. On the nail it's nearly dead on for FotM. 🤦♀️
😅 I’m kinda relieved that the polishes you weren’t 100% pleased with wasn’t something I owned. I like this series and knowing the reason why a particular polish didn’t scratch that itch.
Awwww man, it stinks when colors just don’t end up working. I am not an impulse buyer, I OVERTHINK everything and to end up still wrong… uggg 😪 At my age, I feel I should really understand my preferences and undertones but I guess I don’t. 😂
Yeah it just sucks sometimes !! And sameee lol like I know~ my tastes, but my problem this time seemed to be just trying to convince myself things would be different 🙈 we’ll be better this year though!!
@@PolishedYogi we will be. 💪🏻 Usually by this time, I’ve returned 3 Sephora products and 12 Ulta. So far just 1 Sephora and 1 Nordstrom. With a new life lesson, NEVER blind buy perfume because I obviously do not know what anything smells like. 😬
I only really regret buying colors when they don't look like the pictures shown. I always try to watch swatch videos before I buy. Or if I dupe a color. But I won't know it until I buy it
yes so smart!! i should’ve done that with a few of these, but i apparently will still also try to convince myself that the polish will look different LOL 🤪
@PolishedYogi going through all of my swatches I have noticed I have a lot of similar colors. I need to stop convincing myself I need it because it's a little bit off of something I already own. The only way I'll get a polish now is if it's a different formula. I like to use 2 or 3 colors when I do a mani. But I want them to be close to the same formula. So currently the only colors I have now that are similar are different formulas.
Regret is a bit of a taboo topic in the nail polish community. I always hate talking about my nail polish regrets because a certain polish can grow on me eventually (it happened several times before) or because I think I'm bad at seeing small differentiating details in potential dupes. P. S. Managing the size of your collection is really stressful. I think you shouldn't feel bad about destashing PR or keep PR for the sake of comparison. Two pre-filmed swatches side by side would be enough for comparison, keeping the physical bottle is not necessary.
yeah its unfortunately a common problem for a lottt of brands 😅 i wish more brands would prioritize showing swatches in natural light, i know studio lighting is so professional and all, but chances are its going to look so different once we try them!
Kicking yourself for missing out on a PPU polish and buying a similar polish from PPU to fill that hole is always a recipe for dissatisfaction. Yet I keep doing it 🤦♀️
man thank goodness I'm not the only person who buys a polish thinking "yeah this wont look like the swatches, it's guna look the way I want it to look!" then swatching it out and *shocked Pikachu face* it looks like the swatches online
lol. Me, thinking “it will look a bit different on me”. It does not in fact, look different on me. 🫠
whyyyy are we delusional sometimes lol?? 😭😭
Saame, specially pinks! I see it on a darker skintone than mine and it looks great! Then I see it on skintone closer to mine and looks grey but I'm still like: it's going to look like on the darker skin tone on my super pale ass suuurely. Nope!
"Ok delulu" is so real 😂 The amount of times I've bought a polish from one pic while not loving the others... 😶🌫 Unfortunately I had a ton of polish regret purchases last year, so my goal for this year is to try to reduce impulse / fomo buying; mostly when I'm on the fence for a polish. I was watching an underconsumption video recently and my biggest take away was the phrase "if it's not a hell yes, then it's a no". With this mindset I was able to skip Jan PPU since the one polish I wanted I wasn't sure if I should get / I already had ones similar. Now I just gotta make it through the rest of the year LOL but yeah trying to stick to conscious purchases for polishes I 100% absolutely love for 2025 💪
i loveee that!! such a great phrase to keep us in check. i’m glad there’s soo many people on the same page about slowing down this year, i know another struggle for me too with destashing is the immediate temptation to buy things since i’ll have room for it lol. so having that little saying will also be so helpful!!
When you do your destash series, I would love to know why you're not keeping certain shades. I'd love to see that!!
Will do! 😊
@@PolishedYogi yay!!!
Same, It's also like to know.
Me too! 🫶🏾
Same too!!
Looking forward to the destash series! I would love to hear the reasons behind destashes as someone growing their polish collection
yess i’m looking forward to working on it!!
😂 “But it’s gonna look a little bit different, though”-is the exact reason why I have Lurid’ January PPU offering ordered.🤦🏾♀️ I have at least 6 polishes with similar looks (it’s my guilty pleasure combo)-they all differ in particle size or slightly in base color, but they have the exact same shimmer. Idk what it is, the aqua/turquoise to green to gold shimmer in a pinky/fuschia/reddish base just snatches my money, every time.😅
Thank you so much for this. It’s comforting to see other peoples’ regrets and not feel like I’m in a box of shame.😂
*fuchsia though.
(sorry this is a pet peeve of mine 🙈😅😄)
If you’re scared of regretting destashing polish, you may like a method another UA-camr I follow does. Basically she went through her whole collection and took out all the polishes she thought wanted to destash, put them all away in a big box for a few months. And if she went through the box to find a polish in the meantime or kept thinking about specific ones in the destash pile, then she’d take those ones out and destash the rest. That could also help avoid the whole “oh no! I destashed a polish I really liked cause I was kinda iffy on it at the moment 😭” cause you’ll have a few months to sit on it and changing opinions. I feel like it’s especially helpful for seasonal wearers, since they may think they don’t like a green and destash in the winter, but come spring they’re all sad cause now they want that green lol
Love that you fully admit to delulu choices. I feel so absurd when I regret a purchase solely because of my decision making: I was convinced it would look a certain way (even though the swatches indicated otherwise), I bought into the hype, I convinced myself I would like something I know I wouldn’t wear…
Good luck with your destash! Mine is going super slow, and I envy Hilary’s chaotic energy from hers. I’m swatching on swatch sticks as well, and I’m hoping that will help point me towards some dupes and others that need to be rehomed.
Stefanie, I only just discovered your channel this past summer, but you’ve quickly become my favorite “nailfluencer” hehe! I _have_ _to_ watch your videos before getting any new releases and all of your different series/themed videos are so amazing! Your upbeat personality and the passion with which you approach things is infectious!
I sadly started off this new year with the loss of my beloved fur baby who was truly like a family member to me, so it’s been difficult getting back to normal with her absence. But watching your videos is one of the only times I’ve been able to smile, laugh, and get back to enjoying what I used to enjoy so much before. It has helped bring me back a semblance of normalcy and finding the joy in the things I love - like nail polish! So I just wanted to send you a huge thank you! Can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store! ❤
Omg hellooo!! First of all I’m so so sorry to hear about your fur baby 😭💔 losing a pet really is so incredibly difficult bc like you said, they’re family. My heart goes out to you 🥺 it means so much that my videos can provide some comfort during this time, like what an honor!! 😭 not to mention your sweet compliments in the first half, you’re truly too kind and I appreciate you so much! sending big hugs friend, I’m glad you’re able to find joy again with nail polish & this community 💕🤗🫂
This internet stranger (and fellow lacquerista!) is sending you comfort; so sorry to hear of your loss. 💗
@@PolishedYogi Thank you so much!
@@Lo-im3jb Thank you very much for the kind words, internet stranger! ❤
Destashing by color makes the most sense to me because then it's harder to justify to yourself why you want to keep two very similar polishes. Especially if they're shades you love.
ok right!! its gonna be a challenge bc i know i’m also picky sometimes where i can tell polishes aren’t 100% dupes and therefore can be worth keeping lol, but i neeeed to be better at that 🙈 hopefully the comments will keep me in check too haha!
I agree, you need to see all the similar ones together in order to pick the best one(s) to keep. Because many of the ones we destash are not 'bad" intrinsically, they are just slightly less good than another one.
This was a good video but bittersweet. It’s sad to be so disappointed in a polish for whatever the reason. I can only think of one indie polish that I regret buying but it was from a maker’s website. But keep in mind, I have a very small collection in comparison. I do have quite a few mainstreams that I regret from when I started buying about three years ago. Most of those are from China Glaze.
I’m excited for you to start a destash series. I need inspiration to let go of the ones I’m not crazy about. I keep thinking of reasons to hang on to them!😂 Thanks for the video Stefanie!❤
I like the idea of this video. I had a few disappointment myself this year.
Most of my regrets are also not bad polishes, they just are too close to ones I already have, or are not what I expected. Only a few are truly "bad".
yeah its at least relieving to not have had a bad experience like i often read about on reddit lol! sooo many issues with goopy or watery thin formulas, or colors looking soo off than the website pics. these were my own damn fault lol 🤣
So excited for the destash series!!! One thing you could do since you love doing comparisons, when you get your destashes, film swatch clips that you can pull up for side to side swatch comparisons down the road.
I have a yearly “Nail Jail” where I shove polishes in a box and if I don’t reach for them in 3 months, I give them away.
yess i’ve been swatching the destashed polishes on a swatch stick so i can have for future comparisons! i did think about doing it on my actual nail but i figured the swatch stick can at least be put directly next to the polish im comparing vs having two videos next to each other. omg i loveee Nail Jail lol!! i think Hillary did something similar but called it her purgatory box 🤣 so genius!
Why is it so oddly fun to see someone else’s polish regrets!? 😂 maybe because we all share in that feeling every once in a while? I somehow held back on Ether Dragon and I’m glad, I definitely have polishes similar enough! 🤭
haha yes exactly that!! and i’m glad you already have some polishes similar to Ether Dragon 🙈
@ I bet a lot of polish aficionados did and do, but the hype was so intense for that polish!! 🤣
I am glad to see that I’m not the only person who lusts after a shade, buys it, gets it on my fingers and then is like…..I don’t love this on me! That’s how I feel about Mooncat Memento Mori, I want to love it so much because it’s gorgeous but when I put it on I don’t love it on me. Maybe I can just gaze at it longingly in the bottle? 😂 Anywho, super excited about your future destash series! Love all the cool content you have been making lately. I’m hooked!
its such a shameee isnt it!! bc you know its so pretty 🥹 and LOL i love gazing at it longingly in the bottle, tbh i would do that with a mooncat shade since they have pretty bottles too! but aww yay thank you so much!! that makes me so happy to hear 🥰🥰
As a burgundy polish lover, I’m drooling over Omega Centauri lol. Can’t wait for the destash series! ❤❤
its definitely a beauty!! but yay i’m glad you & others are excited for that series, its been a long time coming 😅
Thank you for being so transparent about your mixed feelings throughout your nail polish collecting journey! I actually stopped buying from a few brands cus of how close enough the shades are to my existing shades, but I also understand that if you were to keep PR and let go of your existing ones, you'll lose that sentimental value and passion you want to keep for this hobby!
Enjoyed this video and looking forward to the destashing series!
Yay, I’m so glad you enjoyed it! 😁
ILNP Music Box definitely threw me off too! I’m actually so happy you searched it because I also hoped it would be more aqua like the photo! Definitely taking it off my wishlist!
so happy i could help, its a bummer it looks so different bc that bottle shot is GORG 🥲 you might like their shade Riding Waves though! i think i shared a swatch of that in my Fav Aquas & Teals video !
😲Not Ether Dragon!!! lol I have it and Lush and...I worked too hard to refresh that PPU Rewind page for ED, and love that finish too much, so I'm covering ears and not hearing you say they look the same, nope nope 🤣🤣 But seriously, I completely understand that you don't need double the shades if you prefer one over the other (and lowkey, I do prefer Lush's more purple lean, b/c ED can look a bit yellow in some lights...). It's the nature of nail polish buying, esp. online, the bottle, even a swatch can be wildly different from our expectations.
This vid is why I'm so looking forward to your destash series b/c I like not only how mindful you are but also realistic and a little ruthless --- we need that in the polish space cause that FOMO/need for the latest shiny polish can hit hard and we all need a reality check on what works for us color, formula, and def. financially and space wise. I know these destashes teach me to not only be more picky w/ my future purchases, but keep my own large collection in check and more in-tune w/ me to where I get a lot of joy and use from it.
Definitely interested in destash content, going by color seems smart. The "oops I duped it" moments are relatable, it happened to me after BF sales last year. And how curious is your story of chasing a lemming, only for it to be a bust. Oh well. Much luck with your goals this year! Sounds like you are being pragmatic, good start 💅
Yes! I’d like to see a destash! I seriously need to do that myself! And yes I have some regrets when I get a polish only to find out I have something so similar is silly! 🤦🏼♀️
this is the year of destashing!! and ahh yes it can be so frustrating 🙈
I recently destashed a lot of my polishes because i don't feel good, keeping them and know, i never really can wear them 😭😭
I've got too much polishes 😂
So i can feel you and i'm glad to know that i'm not the only one struggling with too many polish 😅😅😅 ❤❤❤
Aw yeah I totally get that!! It’s overwhelming having so many 🥲 I’m glad you were able to destash so many!!
Looking forward to the destash series! Going by colour sounds like a great idea
I ❤ these videos, Steff!! This definitely happens to me! I just get so determined to buy a shade based on the magic of ONE shot! 😂 Then disappointment happens! Thank you for sharing that we all do that! ❤
Thank you!! Happy to hear that :) yeah we are definitely not alone with that struggle haha but we’ll be better about it this year!
ahh looking forward to the destash series & to picking up polishes from your destash! i’ve only been in the indie nail polish space for a bit over a year, am still growing my collection, have similar taste in polish, and am also based near philly so shipping will be quick, so this is like the perfect opportunity to pick up more indies that i missed out on!
Yessss, destashing by color sounds like such a great series idea!! I just completed a massive de-stash of about 250 polishes - but not before creating about 15 "frankenpolishes," trying to make polishes I love by mixing together a bunch of ones I don’t. So fun. (Most were a success. 😅) Anyway, great video, as always
Oh that’s soo fun!! See I’d love to try and Franken some polishes myself but I have no room!!! 😝 maybe in the future haha but thank you, glad you enjoyed!!
I definitely had better success destashing based on colors/finishes. It helped me figure out what colors I preferred on my skintone. I realized that even though some looked identical in the bottles, I would find myself comparing similar shades and realizing I had a clear preference.
The red with the slightly more pink I loved much more compared to the red with slightly more orange lol.
It's tedious, but it was definitely helpful to sort based on colors, and I was able to destash a lot more that way.
thats soo good to hear!! i was gonna say idk why i never thought to do it before, but probably bc its just way more tedious to do 😅 but i’m looking forward to trying!!
I really enjoyed this video. I can listen to you talk forever about the different subtleties of different polishes. I love to hear the descriptions , you are so good at it I can totally relate to you. I buy something thinking it might be brighter or darker or somehow different, and then I am not satisfied with the result. I recently purchased Flaming June by AllEngland because I love the painting it is based on and have really begun to love orange polishes. But it is just not bright enough! I am also mislead by bottleshots!
Also I am sooo excited for your destash series!
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Good luck with your destashing - I think you'll do great. I always imagined it would be fun to get PR, but I see now it is a mixed blessing. On one hand, you don't want to waste, and you know how much it would cost to buy those polishes, and on the other hand, you need space to live in! I have trouble with shimmers, because I am particular about colors. Sometimes I love a few of the shifts, but not all of them, so when I look at my nails at the wrong angle, I get uncomfortable with the color I don't like as well, or I move my hand until the color shifts to what I like, and I feel silly. For me, it is easier to have polishes that just look like the bottle.
This year, I’m planning on going through polishes and destashing a bit. I feel like I have a lot of polishes I regret for a variety of reasons and I need to let go 😂 I look forward to your new series!!
totallyyy understand that!! i feel like a lot of people will be focusing on destashing this year which is awesome, we got this 😎
Thank you ❤ I think there are a lot of twins out there in the polish universe. If you don’t have a lot of polish or if you are beginning to collect, that is a good thing. When you are constantly drawn to the clones it’s probably time to destash and keep better records of your collection.
Destash related: What if you first go through your collection and pull out the favorite polishes you have in a color category, then you can pick through the remnants for destashing? I think I will join you in this journey, and I might start with this approach. I’m going to divide my collection by finish and color for comparison. We all have polish purchases we regret, for many different reasons, so this is a very relatable video post!
oh yes i love that approach! i’ll be sure to mention that in the video too, i’m envisioning a top down view on my desk with all my reds laid about, and i can separate the must-haves first and then go through the rest 😁 so exciting you’ll be joining in!! and for suree, would love to know if theres a polish you regret from 2024 🙈
@ I have a destash box full of regrets. Partially, there is a huge learning curve in this hobby. We have to buy the polish to learn if we like the colors, flakies, holo, shimmers, glitters, etc. But, I am disappointed in myself for most (not all) mystery polish purchases, dupes and too many FOMO purchases. I’m really trying to be aware of my purchases and make better choices. I think your voice is important in this hobby! I think we need to have hard conversations about our purchases and learning to make decisions to spend less, buy more responsibly and thoughtfully. Keep the conversation going!
This is a fun video! Excited to watch your new destash series.
thanks so much!! i’ve been anxious to start that series hehe 🙈
Phew I can stop kicking myself over not getting Ether Dragon now ❤ actually prefer the look of Lush as the purple base balances out my staining better 😂
Yess so many people mentioned this too that Ether Dragon can lean a bit more yellow on the nails! Lush is def more flattering imo, I prefer the more purple base too 😍
I'm also a libra so I feel that pain of indecision or changing your mind a lot!! I learned that I shop better online, which feels ridiculous, but the swatch photos really make a big difference 😅 I picked out a polish online at Target about a month ago but decided to look at it in store first, brought home a different one that caught my eye, tried it on, and went oh my god I hate it, why didn't I just get the one I was originally looking at 🙈🤣
Looking forward to the destash series!
Thanks for honesty in sharing the regrets. We all have them.
A destash series is a great idea! It may help you going forward as you will be more cognizant of what you have and may avoid dupes in the future.
Side note: I typically am not a blue polish person but decided to get ILNP Snowstorm on Black Friday based on your recommendation. I absolutely love it! No regrets there.
I'm always interested in how others handle collection management (tracking, storing, sorting, rotating usage, purging, etc). I only got into polish maybe 2 years ago, and to be completely honest: I COMPLETELY LOST MY MIND!! I've got at least 3 Helmers full of polish, nearly 500 plates, more decals/stencils/stickers than I can count, powders/pigments, and the list goes on & on!! And, no, I am not wealthy nor am I on any PR lists, so, yes, I paid for EACH AND EVERY ITEM out of my pocket.
So, while I'd normally be salivating over the idea of shopping a juicy destash like I imagine yours will be, I will only permit myself to watch the series from the POV of learning from the process you use & taking away any helpful tidbits that I think will improve the overall management of my collection, including downsizing. Although I don't envy the vast amount of work it's going to take, I do look forward to being positively influenced by the outcome!!
Same hat! 😂 I’ve only become hyperfixated on nail polish since Black Friday 2023, and I’ve not gotten into stamping, but I have acquired over 200 polishes to date 😳
For me, organizing is half the fun of most of my obsessions. With polish, I love using swatch sticks and my beloved label maker to mark shade and brand names, plus swatch wheels for collection references or swatching out combos or toppers (especially iridescent ones) over different base colours. I currently have my swatch stick rings sorted by (1) brand, (2) finish (basically cremes vs toppers vs specialty finishes; I would drive myself crazy if I tried to subcategorize the latter, but that’s just me), and (3) rainbow-ish order. Do I agonize over whether browns go with orange or at the end of the rainbow next to black and white? Yes. Do I periodically move them back and forth? Also yes 😂
Holo Taco and Mooncat make up the majority of my collection, so I just have a couple of separate swatch rings for (1) other boutique/indie polishes and (2) drugstore brands. In terms of physical storage, I have a couple Holo Taco display racks but mostly keep my collection in shoeboxes, organized by brand and then alphabetically. For polishes that don’t have the shade names on the top of the carton, I add them with my label maker. I like the size of shoeboxes for the weight of polishes, and when my apartment flooded a month ago, it was (relatively) easy to chuck a half-dozen boxes into the trunk of my car before the heaters and dehumidifiers were set up and threatened havoc on my collection. (Fortunately, nothing irreplaceable was damaged 😅)
Digitally, I use the app Lacquergram to track my collection, and over the holidays I started building a spreadsheet to track things not covered in that app (as a data analyst, I can be a persnickety biscuit). There were some things I knew I wanted to track and be able to sort by, and then I just googled “nail polish organization spreadsheet” to get some more ideas. I’m using my email receipts to populate my spreadsheet (starting from my oldest purchases, going brand by brand) so hopefully I won’t miss much. I really like the fan-made Holo Taco randomizer, so eventually I want to code something that encompasses all the brands in my collection and lets me randomize choices and combos or select never-used polishes or ones I haven’t used in X months or whatever.
I also love stationary and bullet journalling (hello, previous hyperfixation!), so I have a physical journal to track my manicures 🤷♀️
@@impastomusic Oh good lord ~~ you & I must NEVER EVER meet IRL, as I can see that we would encourage in one another all of our most obsessive tendencies!!!
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@@lifeandrandomness1868 Ahahah right?! I absolutely cannot remember where my keys are or when I need to file my taxes, but I will absolutely be able to rattle off random collection data until the day I die 🤣🤣🤣 I wish you all the joy in your organization journey, and know you’re definitely not alone!!
Love this video and looking forward to some destash videos! I’m relatively new to my nail polish obsession in the last year or so, but I have consciously avoided PPU and HHC because I know myself well enough that FOMO and wishful thinking about the colour or formula of a polish would definitely leave me with some regrets and maybe a negative bank balance 😂
The only regret I can think of is Mooncat’s Treachery in the Blue. I thought the warm state was more pink than beige (and I really don’t like nudes on me); I know their swatches can be misleading, but generally even if a shade looks different IRL, I still like it. It was also my first (and now only) thermal, before I learned that they expire. I also have uneven nail lengths and don’t file them all down when one breaks, so with a thermal, it just looked like only 2-3 fingers had a French tip and I had just forgotten the others 🤪 So while I may regret this polish, I am very grateful for the lessons it taught me! As much as I was tempted by some of Holo Taco’s flakie thermals, I’m so glad I skipped that collection.
This video is so relatable! 😂 Especially looking at swatches of a polish and seeing one swatch (or bottle shot) where it looks the way you want and completely dismissing all the other pictures, then being all surprised Pikachu face when it doesn't look that way in person.
Lmao yess like why are we like this?! 😝🙄 gotta be better about that this year and moving forward lol
I'd love to see the destash series! I need to be better about destashing, since I do want all my polishes to go to a good home rather than kick around in my drawer and not get used. I try to use them all throughout the year. But I also don't want to get too tempted to destash things I might still have used, specifically so that I can have room to buy more - want to keep a lid on that!
yess same! it can be hard to determine what’s worth destashing, i would say the easiest place is with polishes that had bad formulas or colors that are very similar!
i've been watching videos on over-consumption by shawna ripari and as someone who only buys my polish and doesn't receive anything in PR, i can already see all my collections of things (not just nail polish 🙈) as too much... i'm in the middle of the fires in california rn and was thinking about how hard it's going to be to evacuate and leave all this stuff behind.
anyway, all this to say, i appreciate your content and i'm looking forward to your destash videos! letting go of things, because you can acknowledge that you don't need it even if it is pretty/sparkly/of a brand you don't have a lot of, is such an important and healthy thing to show.
omg! first of all i hope you & your loved ones are okay and safe from the fires 🥺 yeah unfortunately i’ve thought about things like that too, if something were to happen, what would happen with all my stuff?? i first learned about Swedish Death Cleaning a few years ago and i’ve used it to declutter other areas of my life, but nail polish is so hard (especially since its basically my job) 😩 but i def dont want to promote over consumption either.. its tough to balance lol but i’m glad you’re looking forward to this new series! 🤗
@@PolishedYogi thank you! we've been very lucky so far and we're hoping the upcoming winds don't blow embers in our direction. and luckily my partner and i are the only weirdos living in LA out of our immediate families haha.
i saw someone on the destash FB selling some of (maybe all of?) their collection because they were evacuated and my heart went out to them so hard.
i love the concept of swedish death cleaning and think about it a good amount actually. i wonder if learned about the concept from you haha. but yes! i think a lot of your disclosures are generally anti-over consumption despite the fact that you receive and have so much nail polish already. and it's your job!
Okay, I’m glad you addressed why you didn’t pick up the January PPU Ethereal polish 🤣 you and I seem to have verrry similar personal taste in colors, and when it didn’t end up on your wishlist I was second guessing myself. I kept rewinding your video thinking I had just missed your clip on it haha, I was that stunned you didn’t pick it. Ultimately, I decided to go with my gut, and it was the only one I got this month! But totally makes sense why you didn’t.
Also side note - I so enjoy and appreciate your videos! You and Polished Bookwrom are the ones I base most of my indie decisions on. Keep doing your thing! 💕💜
Love your videos !!! 😊 and honestly I really like these videos cause sometimes I buy certain polishes expecting way more! Like I love mooncat but I wished freshly bitten had a bit more red cause mine was leaning very purple ish
So glad you enjoyed! Yeah we’re definitely not alone feeling that way sometimes 🥲 ahh I’m sorry to hear you felt that about Freshly Bitten! It’s one of my favorites from them 😩
@@PolishedYogiI will say that collection is perfect though!❤️ I prefer it as a pedicure more cause on my hands didn’t look good 😅
Thanks for the video, Stefanie! I appreciate your honesty; we all have occasional regrets. It makes me so disappointed in myself when I dupe polishes or receive a polish I don’t love, regretting that I spent money on something I don’t even need. Oh well, I’m sure there will be more 🤷🏼♀️😂
of course!! i do wish i could share these more relatable videos more often than sharing new things lol 🥹 we are definitely not alone!! and hahah yes exactly, its not like this WON’T happen again either 🤣
This is also why I keep my polishes sorted by colour - easier to see dupes! Looking forward to the destash series and also reasons why you’re destashing it!
yess so so smart to organize by color! i’m so nervous to be confronted with everything LOL 🙈
thanks for being so honest and sharing your thoughts here!! I definitely experience the same sometimes with just having so many polishes. I just take it as a happy chance to destash!
of course! and yes exactly, i’m always of the mind that its not the worst thing in the world since destashing is usually pretty easy to do lol esp with PPU/indies!
Can confirm that very sheer polishes can look extremely similar. Because so little base colour pigment deposits on the nail, it has far less influence on the overall look. And each colour you do collect covers a wider swath of the colour wheel than you might expect. But if you are really determined to have more, you can always pick different shimmer combos. And by you, I mean me.
its so frustrating!! like with Calcifer i can clearly see the more pink colored base and ugh i so desperately wish that translated onto the nail 😩 i do think the different shimmer combo is way more justifiable though hehe thats gonna be so hard to deal with once i start destashing 🙈
Looking forward to your destashing series. I felt the disappointment deep in my soul when you described how one swatch looked exactly up your alley and in person looked darker in person. I had a couple of those in my BF haul. Pretty polishes…just didn’t look nice on me☹️
It’s truly so heartbreaking!! 😭 I’m sorry you’ve experienced the same esp from your BF haul! 😖
I would love to see a destash series from you!!!
I am personally on the hunt for ether dragon at a reasonable price and that comparison rly helps!
Tho In my delulu mind ether dragon and lush are like 10% different, so therefore I will be getting both!😈
hahah i can def see the differences too and how its like enough to justify keeping both 😝 i think i mighttt just like Lush a bit more due to the more pigmented base too, i just hate admitting it since Ether Dragon being more sheer reminds me of Glass Frog being such a letdown too lol 😩 but glad you’re looking forward to my destash journey!!
Careful I Bite ended up being one of my favorites of the year! 😂 Bummer it didn’t work out for you though, but I understand sometimes it just happens
Omggg that’s too funny lol 🙈 I’m glad it was one of your top favs though!!
same! it's one of my favorite polishes from this year! not sure if im biased because of Astarion but it was my first time getting a non dark vampy shade and I fell in love!
burried juniber is one of the best greens out there for me! i loooove it even if it sometimes feels like 1% crelly but 2 coats really makes me love it! especially with a gold flake top coat or matte top coat on it to make it seem a little lighter
oh that definitely sounds like a beautiful combo!!
I'm feeling you so much here! I seem to be one of the few humans on the planet who doesn't care for Goblins & Ghoulies and destashed it. And I did the same with Omega Centauri -- mmmm beautiful formula, but not the color I was looking for exactly, plus I have so many colors in that range already. For some reason I thought it was going to be more...unique? I dunno.
omg wild!! i dont think i’ve ever seen anyone mention they’ve destashed it lol yay for not being alone 😝 and yes exactly the same w Omega Centauri! its a color combo i think we see somewhat often, but i was sure it would be different enough thats its worth keeping lol 🤦🏻♀️
Not related to the video but are u going to swatch Cirque Moonstruck collection?
unfortunately not, they didn’t send it to me 😅
I am not thrilled with cold shoulder HT. Everyone of the bottles went bad. Taught me not to buy more than one bottle at a time. It’s not the only one of their foil polishes that went bad. But I still like the brand. But gone are the days I buy on an impulse multiples of any polish even when they are being discontinued. Now I’m stuck with polishes that are not the same. And I haven’t even opened any of those bottles. Too late to get my money back. It is what it is.
Oof yeah buying backups of Cold Shoulder ended up being more wasteful than any other backup 😭 and right it’s a shame since you can’t really do much with it now that they’re tarnished.. though I wonder if there are some collectors out there who are still looking for a bottle “just to have it” or something? You never know 😅
My faves of the ones you showed:
Lyn B. Designs “Tenta-cool”
Glisten & Glow “Omega Centauri”
Ethereal “Careful, I Bite”,
Ethereal “Ether Dragon”
Ethereal “Calcifer”,
I am sorry you had these disappointments! This is a very timely video because I am on another no buy and am now going through my polish and realizing that I don’t like a few, or rather, I legit could have liked it from a far. But the FOMO of PPU and Hella Hand Made is real with me!
Also, I think it’s a great idea to destash by color!
I love the video Stefanie and I look forward to your destash series. I sat knee-deep in turquoise and turquoise blues with pink to orange shimmer as I desperately searched for a dupe of RBLs Aqua Lily that I destashed years and years ago and regretted instantly. Needless to mention that I lost interest the second I swatched them and reaized they were different. I am still under a self imposed ban (mostly successful) until I at least wore all of them once before I get more 😂
thank you Christine!! ahh yes i know that struggle too, it really is soo hard trying to dupe something you no longer have and then being disappointed by everything you try 😭 but yes i’m putting myself under that sane kind of ban for the pinks with blue shimmer lol! so you’re not alone 😝
Side note: I really like your sweater today! The pattern is just so cute.
I felt what you said about the cracked polish soooo bad! It’s always a little sad when I can appreciate how good a polish looks but on me I just really don’t like it 😢 oh well, it happens!
I’m glad that it took you a few months to get enough polishes you regretted for a video because that’s certainly a goal isn’t it? Not buying a lot of polishes AND not having a lot of them that you end up regretting 😂 I myself am glad that I only had like 1-2 polishes I regretted getting this year out of how many I got.
aw thank you!! 🥰
and ugh yeah its such a bummer when that happens right?! 😭 just knowinggg a polish looks so pretty, until we put it on lol. & thats so true too re: not having many regrets! i get why people would want to see more of it bc its like the anti-haul style of content thats so refreshing to see, but yeah unfortunately i’m not the best channel to expect that from 😅 i’m glad you only had 1-2 regrets, thats so impressive! what were they??
@@PolishedYogi tbf i also didn’t buy that much polish last year! So 1-2 out of like….idek how many I bought actually but it evens out since I didn’t buy that much anyway 😂
I think my two regrets was Emily de molly all the feelings (a topper) & holo taco secret society….ATF was just me trying out a topper I wouldn’t really reach for and indeed, I don’t reach for it much….😂😂😂😂
Secret society was also on me but I was still much more disappointed by it! It’s a polish where I loveeeed the concept (esp since it really does invoke the old vibes of a house) but I just deluded myself into thinking I would like how gray it is out of direct light. Unfortunately it didn’t change my stance on grays but that’s on me 😅
To me Berried Juniper looks great on you! It's actually a polish I've been eyeing but I haven't because I've never bought from them before and I'm trying to do a low buy. I think it's gorgeous tho! 😍 I love it ❤
aw thank you!! its such a weird thing to experience, i dont get howww i dont like it when its on me lol but i love it on anyone else or just seeing it in the bottle 😩 good on you for doing a low buy this year!! 🙌🏼
omega centauri has been the polish i’ve been craving with out even realizing
i would suggest following my IG destash page, that’s where i’ll be listing it hopefully by this coming weekend!
When you wish a polish leaned more red or green, do you ever add a jelly topper or a magnetic topcoat with that color to create what you wanted? I ordered some gray and some other color jellies just for when I'm regretting the color something is compared to my imagined color when ordering. It's worked quite well with several polishes.
no i rarely ever do that! i can see how it might help, but i think it would alter the color a bit TOO much for what i want/was expecting 🙈 but i’ve neger tried it before, i can definitely see it working for some polishes/colors!
Hoping for swatch pics for the comparisons during the destash series?
All of my regrets were polishes where the shimmer overwhelmed the base. I'm sure I could "fix" that by mixing polishes, but I'm too lazy lol.
aww yeah i’ve seen a lot of people mention trying to create frankenpolishes to fix their disappointments lol! i love that idea so much
I’m excited to SHOP your destash! Do you have a link?
haha i appreciate your excitement! i’ll be destashing thru my IG account linked in the description, though I won’t list the polishes in this video until next weekend when i’ll have time to ship etc!
I wanted to love ether dragon. I too bought it for how it looked in indirect lighting. It was magical. But in direct lighting that strong eye searing green shimmer plus the yellow tinge of the base was enough for me to destash it
oof yeah i can sometimesss be forgiving with how underwhelming a shimmer can look in direct light/sun, but this was just a letdown all around 😅 so glad i’m not alone!
It really sucks when you dupe yourself. I do that all the time. Like right now i could line up 6 mint blue w/ pink orange shimmer. And i keep buying them bc i'm delusional. 😅 so i totally get it.
LOL its just so hard sometimes!! esp when they’re all so pretty 🥹
I don't know where you'll destash but I' would be very interested in buying the last 3 you presented in this video 🙊🥰
i’ll be listing them on my destash IG linked in my description box probably by next weekend!
I need to destash also
Best of luck!! It can be daunting & tedious 🥵
I ended up destashing my MC Flight of the Monarchs because it was too similar to Ethereal's Calcifer because Calcifer is just SO MUCH More glowy for me ahhh!
it definitely is super glowy!! ✨
I use a sheerish blurring base coat with Ether Dragon; then 2-3 coats of the polish,( usually 2), and after a glossy top coat I add a matte top coat. Really pretty.
Honestly, I have been trying to find a dupe for forever, and I have tried like every other aqua/blue/green/pink shimmer that comes up, and I have not found a dupe yet. Missed the rewind, darn, and I am having a hard time wearing it now because it is almost at the halfway point. Hoping their January PPU scratches the itch! It looks like it might be a similar formula...finally!
I understand the regret 🥲 I'm being more picky now, I have a few polishes I regret buying and is impossible for me to detash them because I'm not from US and ppl here don't tend to use regular polish and doesn't know about indie brands
omg noo thats definitely so much trickier!! 😩 even though it will be a loss, maybe you can at least gift some of the polishes for holidays or birthdays? maybe if received as a gift, they’ll learn to enjoy it 🤞🏼
That Cupcake Twister is also dead on for ILNP’s Bluebell 😮
i can kinda see that too! i think Bluebell is just more sheer due to the jelly base, so thats another reason to let this one go 😅
Does anyone have any recs that are close to ether dragon? At least that kind of blue/green shift. It’s much darker but I like the look of mooncats root of all evil too.
Sorry to enable but I really think you need M&N indie’s raven - its pink with a blue shimmer but not like any of your others imo!!!
Hahah I appreciate this 🤣 it looks super beautiful!! But reminds me of ILNP’s Flower Child without the holo sparkle, maybe more purple leaning too. So I’ll stay strong for now 😝
Wow, I LOVE Careful, I Bite. I've been looking for an ethereal, fairy-green polish for a while now. Do you have any suggestions for a dupe that's still available? edit: you know, actually maybe the pink base is going a little too hard for me? I can't tell. Either way, I'll keep searching for a perfect luna moth shade!
I HIGHLY recommend topping Lush with Ether Dragon. 2 coats Lush, 1 coat Ether Dragon and glossy topcoat - these two combined is the ultimate glowy duo. I promise you won't regret it.
oof that combo sounds DIVINEEE. but i’d rather not use up Ether Dragon anymore so i can let someone else enjoy it lol 🥲 what a dreamy combo though!
I also bought Careful, I bite, and received it at the same time as Mooncat Pixiestick, and I regretted having bought the Ethereal one, since they are very similar
omg yeah! i meant to compare it to Pixiestick which is one of my favsss, so i also was like how did i let this happen lol. idt Pixiestick shifts to purple though, but still not worth keeping both imo 😅
@PolishedYogi yes you're right, and also Pixiestick has micro holographic particles!
So happy Holo Taco and Mooncat skipped this list! 😅
Also, do you have a video showing your whole nail polish collection? I'd love to see all of the polishes you have! (I just imagine something extravagant like Simply Nailogical's nail polish wall!)❤
Haha thankfully they were skipped since I didn’t really buy any! But I will likely be destashing somee HT & MC too🫣
And I have a video from maybe last year called “my nail polish desk & collection tour!” Sadly not that extravagant with wall displays, I only use helmers for storage 😅
Omega Centauri is GORGEOUS but when you said it's more purple than red, I also was like "...oh" UGH. also im only halfway through video but IF you destash ether dragon iiiiii may open my wallet if available and no one else claims it LMAO I've been lusting over that one or Glass Frog/Glass Jellyfish from Lumen but impossible to find for not extreme prices ugh
omg yeah it feels almost silly to be SO picky over the slightly more purple color in Omega Centauri lmao like its such a pretty shade but i feel meh 🤷🏻♀️ I likely will be destashing Ether Dragon tho, make sure you’re following my insta destash page bc thats where i’ll be posting this weekend! and NOT at an insane markup price lol 🙅🏻♀️
@@PolishedYogi lol no I get it, I'm the same way 🥴 and following!! I'll be keeping my eyes PEELED lol I wish instagram had a reminder function hahaha but I'm sure you'll get someone asking for it regardless no doubt!
Great video! Love it. I get it.
I literally bought ILNP Music Box for the same reason! I liked one photo and wished myself into thinking it will look like that. I have a rule now where I must like at least 2-3 pictures of a polish before I buy it!
ugh i’m sorry you also were burned by that one!! 😢 such a shame bc that bottle pic is sooo freaking pretty lol. and yess i’ve seen people share the advice of needing to like the worst photo before buying it 🤣
TFS! I don’t usually regret a polish unless it ends up being a dupe. That burns my biscuits! 😅
its so annoying!! 😝
Hoping I can grab Twister and Omega Centauri omg
make sure to follow my destash IG linked in the description box! i’m hoping to upload these polishes at least by next weekend
I have Cupcake Twister and LOVE it. But I don’t have anything like it in my collection. One of the last polishes I bought last year was a disappointment (I honed in on one swatch photo and disregarded the others). I’m using that as my touch point to keep me on track for my no buy 2025.
its such a beautiful shade!! i’m a fan of that shimmer/holo flake kind of formula so i’d definitely love to try more from Cupcake, just in different colors haha. and agh yeah its always the one swatch photo that gets us!! 😝 best of luck on your no buy this year! 💪🏼
They are the same shimmer just difference colored base…. Good eye Yogi.❤
I did the *exact same thing* with Calcifer. I bought it both for the theme and for thinking it was going to be pinker. But no. On the nail it's nearly dead on for FotM. 🤦♀️
such a shame right!! bc you can def see the more pink jelly base color in Calcifer in the bottle at least.. ugh i wish it translated better 😩
I'd buy Loch Lomond for the name alone. The place holds such a special place in my heart!
i listed it on my destash earlier, its linked in my description if you want to grab it!
@PolishedYogi I checked it put but I live in Canada. Whomp whomp.
Yeah glisten glow isn’t my favorite anymore. Idk what happened to them
Am I the only one listening to the destash video series being very excited for greens? Also wondering how we can purchase from the destash?
i’m gonna be posting them today on my insta destash page, its linked in the description!
I'll happily take your Ether Dragon 😂😂😂! LMAO
Lmao make sure you follow my destash IG page! I’ll be listing everything there hopefully by this coming weekend 😝
Thanks you for sharing.
You’re welcome! 😁
😅 I’m kinda relieved that the polishes you weren’t 100% pleased with wasn’t something I owned. I like this series and knowing the reason why a particular polish didn’t scratch that itch.
haha i get that!! it hurts when you love a polish and then see someone else say they don’t see the hype 🥲 but u’m glad you enjoyed this!!
Awwww man, it stinks when colors just don’t end up working. I am not an impulse buyer, I OVERTHINK everything and to end up still wrong… uggg 😪 At my age, I feel I should really understand my preferences and undertones but I guess I don’t. 😂
Yeah it just sucks sometimes !! And sameee lol like I know~ my tastes, but my problem this time seemed to be just trying to convince myself things would be different 🙈 we’ll be better this year though!!
@@PolishedYogi we will be. 💪🏻 Usually by this time, I’ve returned 3 Sephora products and 12 Ulta. So far just 1 Sephora and 1 Nordstrom. With a new life lesson, NEVER blind buy perfume because I obviously do not know what anything smells like. 😬
I only really regret buying colors when they don't look like the pictures shown. I always try to watch swatch videos before I buy. Or if I dupe a color. But I won't know it until I buy it
yes so smart!! i should’ve done that with a few of these, but i apparently will still also try to convince myself that the polish will look different LOL 🤪
@PolishedYogi going through all of my swatches I have noticed I have a lot of similar colors. I need to stop convincing myself I need it because it's a little bit off of something I already own. The only way I'll get a polish now is if it's a different formula. I like to use 2 or 3 colors when I do a mani. But I want them to be close to the same formula. So currently the only colors I have now that are similar are different formulas.
You should do destash brackets like march madness. 😂
LOL omg that would be too funny 😝
I want calcifer !
make sure to follow my IG destash page, thats where i’ll be listing everything!
Regret is a bit of a taboo topic in the nail polish community. I always hate talking about my nail polish regrets because a certain polish can grow on me eventually (it happened several times before) or because I think I'm bad at seeing small differentiating details in potential dupes.
P. S. Managing the size of your collection is really stressful. I think you shouldn't feel bad about destashing PR or keep PR for the sake of comparison. Two pre-filmed swatches side by side would be enough for comparison, keeping the physical bottle is not necessary.
Awww❤️
All brands have issues with the polish not looking like the website photos irl. This is not just one brand for sure.
yeah its unfortunately a common problem for a lottt of brands 😅 i wish more brands would prioritize showing swatches in natural light, i know studio lighting is so professional and all, but chances are its going to look so different once we try them!
Kicking yourself for missing out on a PPU polish and buying a similar polish from PPU to fill that hole is always a recipe for dissatisfaction. Yet I keep doing it 🤦♀️
We are going to end this cycle!!! 😫
My toxic polish trait is looking at swatch photos and thinking “I can change that.”