My. Entire. Updated. Collection.

You know, I think my new declaration should be that I shouldn't make declarations cos it lasted, what, all of a couple days? I get way too much enjoyment out of blowing things off so committing to a schedule is never a good idea. So! Let's go with "more" posts. Since my last two manis weren't quite right, I thought I might as well show you my polish collection. Conditional upon me showing you this, you must promise not to count them then work out the approximate cost. I have low expenses and nail polish is my favourite thing to buy so...yeah. The worst part is is that I have probably bought about 200 more polishes since I took these pictures. And this is what my collection looked like in April 2012...

To give you an idea of how much of a problem I have, keep in mind that this table is the Ikea Norden table, extended, making it close to 7 feet long. Yeah. It's that bad. I even had to crack out a fish-eye lens because I couldn't fit everything in frame otherwise. The bonus of the fish-eye is that it makes the table look like a tiny planet populated exclusively by nail polish...mmmmm. I organised everything by brand but I really want to put them all in a rainbow now. Can you imagine, a seven foot wide sparkly polish rainbow?? Took ages to this so it's unlikely to happen, but nice to think about.

And this is my baby collection, from April 2012.

The Verdict: Of course I love this. I'd be even crazier to spend all this time and money, if I didn't like looking at them all. If there's something you want to see close up, just leave it in the comments and I'll do a macro version!

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