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Quick mani before work with a sky blue jelly and clouds on the ring fingers for the prompt. Feels like Andy's room in Toy Story.

Starting my summer bingo early. This combo (matte polish with a topper) is an attempt to dupe a polish I saw posted last week.

Galaxy nails 💫

We have teal beverages at home!

Finally got to use a problematic polish in a way that turned out well!!

Excuse my shame pinky

A lovely polish that's very difficult to photograph... perfect match for my mug that's also very difficult to photograph 🙃

Love how this combination looks magnetic but doesn’t require me to buy a horseshoe magnet or cool spinning tool (as fun as they seem). Optical illusions R Us.

I just did layers (base coat, blue, scattered sparkle) and a stripe with the teal shimmer, a halo around the stripe with the purple shimmer, and top coat.

The ring finger is my favorite and really looks magnetic to me. The middle finger blends in with the rest, but when I look at it too long, I can see how the bold center stripe looks hand-painted and not like a gathering of magnetic particles. Gotta try this again until I get all the nails right! But I’m very pleased with it.

Featuring a grown-out mani I refreshed yesterday and I actually capped the tips and I want it to stay nice, or so help me 🔪🤣💅

Have fun with the polish you have, so you don’t have to want new polish! You can do ittttttt - you already love the stuff you bought, you bought it, after all!!! ❤️🌈❤️

I was so proud of myself layering some unexpected polishes for a summery pink lemonade vibe… and then I made nachos for my kids and saw the unfortunate match. I couldn’t stop thinking about this meme. And then I felt like they matched everything! My favorite nails in a while, I’ve not been feeling well for a couple months and haven’t had a ton of energy for nails.

A jelly layering experiment

I love how many colors this shade has packed into it. Blurple base, cool toned greenish shimmer!

Last week I was stuck in a rut trying to choose a polish when "Topper Tuesday" came to mind. Since it was in fact a Thursday, I decided to think up themes for each day of the week. Here is what I came up with:

• Magnetic Monday
• Topper Tuesday
• One-Coat Wednesday (or maybe just cremes)
• Thermal Thursday
• Flakie Friday (or Franken Friday??)
• Sparkle Saturday
• Shimmer Sunday

The idea is that whatever day of the week it is that I apply polish I will use that theme. I happen to have some thermals and magnetics that I'm not in the habit of using much, so I'm hoping this will help me work them into the rotation.

And today I changed my nails again so here is my first Topper Tuesday mani.

Any other ideas of themes you would use...?

Featuring a wild bunny guest appearance 🐇🌸

OPI Suzi calls the paparazzi (pink)
Zoya Emma (coral)

A bit late but getting round to posting now! Apologies, picture order is a bit all over the place.

Total manis: 7

Total polishes used: 10

Days of no buy: 170 (to today)

Destashed this month: 3

Project polish manis: 2
1 x duck egg flakie (photos 1&2)
1x skittle with yellow and purple cremes (photo 5)

Unworn Polish manis:
Photo 7

Not worn in 2 years manis:
Photos 10 & 11

Other polishes I had at home manis:
Photos 3,4, 8 and 12

Other photos:
Photo 6 - OW
Photo 9 - progress on purple creme
Photo 13 - empty project polish 🙌

Thoughts:

I destashed the purple holo in pics 10&11. Loved it in the sun but at all other times it was just meh. I have another purple holo I like more so this one went. I doubt I’ll buy more holos in the future.

Also considering destashing the turquoise in pic 8. It’s fine, but the glitter isn’t that visible and I have other turquoise cremes that look more vibrant.

I was tempted by the annual neon collection but managed to control the urge to buy. I think I’m over it now. There is still one I want but it’s a neon lime/yellow and I do already have a few polishes in that category…

One of my favourite brands has just released a polish I LOVE. It’s my birthday next month so I’m considering letting myself order it as a gift to myself. Maybe the neon I mentioned above too (🫣). I can’t decide if this feels ok or if I just want to commit to the full no buy.

My previous project polish posts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeGotPolishAtHome/s/EowUe2yvqE

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeGotPolishAtHome/s/SX3Xde8vCS

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeGotPolishAtHome/s/LZ5zTUIMCz

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeGotPolishAtHome/s/sZiZLH7Yc1

I've been eyeing certain pink shimmers and magnetic polishes, because I technically only have magnetics in other colors, but I'm currently on a no-buy. Recently I've also been doing a lot of layering experiments, and yesterday I tried layering a light red jelly polish over a purple magnetic polish that has blue shimmer and a light peachy flash. The result is a gorgeous magenta base color with a coral magnetic flash. I was stunned at how well it worked! This legitimately looks like some of the pink polishes that I've been considering, and maybe even looks better??

I also layered that same reddish jelly under a very sheer blue polish with a pink-to-gold shimmer, and that came out to a nice hot pink shade with shimmer. Layering truly is a lifesaver when it comes to appreciating the polishes I have while also scratching my itch for novelty!