My swatching so far

.... so in the last post I wrote about swatching all my polishes and taking pictures of it and upload a picture on my Instagram. Well so far I have uploaded 8 pictures... Oh man it's gonna take a while for me to do this with all my 400-something nailpolishes (at least I can count away the base and top coats, I think I have like 12).

So here goes all the pics so far

 1. Do You Lilac It?

 2. It's A Bird, it's A Plane, it's OPI!

 3. Pompeii Purple

 4. Save Me!

 5. German-Icure By OPI

 6. Lucky Lucky Lavender

 7. Nothin' Mousie 'bout It

8. You Glitter Be Good To Me

All my polishes

Hello :)

Two days ago I decided to swatch all my polishes... what was I thinking about.... OK I have over 400 polishes included also my base and top coats. I know that is not much in comparison to what some of the bloggers I follow has. And to be honest I can't see how I'm going to have time to swatch all my polishes. Sure I have some whites and blacks too but they also need to be swatched. So far I have uploaded two polishes on my instagram and I will continue to upload my polishes in the order I have them in my Helmers.

Here are my Helmers and NO they are not full... One Helmer can have about 400-500 polishes just by itself. You can google "Helmer and nailpolish" and you will understand why nailbloggers kinda LOVE Helmers. 

WHY do I then have 3 Helmers if I have over 400 polishes and that would fit in just ONE Helmer. Well we can call it OCD... I like to have my things in order. Just like I have my books in height order, my CD and DVD's in alphabetic order, I like to have my polishes in brand order. 

The Helmer's contain from left to right top to bottom

Various Polishes ( basically brands that I only have 1 bottle from)
Qtips, toilet paper and Make up pads

Stamping ( plates, scraper, stampers)

Fimo canes, glitter, beads, stripes, sponges

Scissors, files, tools in general

Nail wheels, nail book, packages from polishes

OPI

H&M

Models Own

Primark

essence

IsaDora, Yves Rocher and BarryM

Rimmel, Kiko, Depend and Manhattan

SinfulColors, essie, LA. Colors and Sephora

Mavala, China Glaze, nails inc., Colorfun, Collection and 17

 Maybelline, ciate, Bissu, innisfree, pixi and Viva La Diva

Sally Hansen, Yes Love, Hits, Catrice, Pronails and Ztiz

Pieces, CR Cairuo, Orly, im and Yesensy

Above my Helmer's I also have this mini shelf where I now have my nail art pens, my removers, my brushes and dotting tools, base and top coats, some nail wraps, hand creams, my caviar beads and my home made sheer tint polishes.

All my polishes

So today I took out all my polishes.... ooops

I store them in 3 Helmers from IKEA. (no no no, they are not full, but I like to have them in brand order or same colors in one drawer).

This time I took them all out to organize them in color.

 Black

 White

 Clear (Base and Top Coats)

 Blue

 Pink

 Purple

 Green/Teal/Torquise

 Yellow

 Red

 Orange

 Brown

 Silver/Grey

 Gold

Mix (since I didn't know where to put them)

My IKEA Helmer

I have talked about this before..... read it about here and here

First I ordered my polishes by color in rows, then I had them according to brands and now I have done the drawers after color but not in rows....

I have done it like this

WHITES, CLEARS AND BLACKS

BLUES, GREENS AND TURQUOISES (and blue/greens or green/blues)

PINKS AND PURPLES

REDS, ORANGES AND YELLOWS

BROWNS, NUDES, METALLICS (gold, bronze, silver, copper etc.)

Why I did this, even if I like to have them in brand order, is cos it's a pain when I'm looking for a special color and have to go through my pretty rows (cos I'm kinda anal about having things in nice rows). So now I just have them randomly in the drawers until next time I feel like change it :P