Wednesday 20 October 2010

About nail-polish gurus and shoe boxes

Hey everyone. This post is long overdue, I've planned it for weeks. And today, although it's a beautiful day outside, I had to get up insanely early and just don't have the energy for swatching or jogging or basically anything, so I'll write this down. You see me mention nail-polish guru in every other post and I'm sure it's a little annoying, so I have to do a post that explains it. :))

I'm sure everyone has a NP guru. There is simple equation to see if you do. NP guru is a person, that knows ALOT about nail polish and nails, is willingly showing, lending, updating and sharing her pictures, polish, tips about manicure and so on. And, totally improtant, essential, really, has a kick-ass collection of nail-polish and nail related stuff. You have to try to learn and then to teach, right?

Now, you probably know a person or two like that, or even are one of them. :D Your guru can be a blogger, that you don't know IRL, a friend that you do know IRL, it's someone that made you fanatical about nail-polish in the first place, someone that made you write your wish list. :D Now I'm thinking about my mothers saying (imagine that with alot of sarcasm in the tone): yeah, like it's so hard to make a frog jump into water. ;) But I'm guessing for alot of people those persons are Scrangie, Michele from Lacquerized, VV, All Lacquerd Up blog etc.

But anyway, this is my definition of nail-polish guru, I guess it's a pretty logical one. My nail-polish guru goes in the internet world by the nickname Tevta and she's awesome. It's a fact. She has one of the most awesome nail-polish collection (500 bottles, though I wouldn't bet that it's not already larger, collection gets bigger every time we have coffee :D) and has reached over  the fanatic nail-polish lover border to a nail-polish collector status.  I'd love to pile all that nail polish and just organized it, can you imagine the amount of nail-polish?! Awesome! She almost has them all. And still has over 100 bottles on WL, which totally baffles me. :D Anyway, i've always loved long nails, nice manicures, when I was a kid my aunt always did a red stripe on my nails (the thin stripe was modern back then) and I walked around like the queen of the world. I don't think I ever bit my nails, I always wanted them long, I found that extremly beautiful. But I never thought of tons of colours that are out there until I saw Tevta's nails. Fanatism was reborn in even stronger shape and now it won't go away. :D 

And *the* shoe box. Tevta brings me a shoe box every once in a while. Looks innocent enough, doesn't it?


But when you open it, BOOM!
 

It's full of nail polish!! wiiiiiiiii!! The first time she did that (we went out for a cup of coffee) I almost fainted, all the awesome colours!! The ones that are out of the box are there because you can't fit them inside it, unless you lay them all in a pile in a box. Now they're organized by my likeness of the colour and those that I haven't tried out yet.

Here I have China Glaze, Orly and some other brands. All together around 50 bottles. I was shoeboxed with Zoya and OPI before blogging, OPI being the number winner, coming in smaller boxes too ... I had OPI in every room, it was heaven. ;) 
So basically, it's like goint to a store, choosing polish by bottle colour and then taking it home for a trial on your nails. That's how I'm building my WL, with combination of swatches  from other blogs  (and am emptying the WL as often as I can :)). And it's totally awesome system, I have tons of fun with it. So yeah, Tevta is the best. :) Now you know. ;D 

And an old mani, so it won't be just talk talk talk. Milani - Totally Cool. Love this colour. 



So, who is your nail-polish guru? ;)

Thanks for reading!

7 comments:

  1. Za trenutek ali minuto sem nehala dihati, ko sem videla škatlo. OMG!

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  2. Ful dober post! Jaz pravega oziroma osebnega NP guruja nimam, se pa prav tako občasno posvetujem s Tevto (in spremljam bloge, med drugim tudi tvojega ;) ). Mogoče je tudi Tevta malce kriva, da sem se začela spet ukvarjati z laki - na veliko sem se lakirala v gimnaziji (ko se je še ful težko dobilo zanimive barve), potem sem pa prekinila. Ko pa je Tevta fanatično iskala lake po Stockholmu, se je moje zanimanje spet prebudilo... ;)

    Vsekakor bi mi prav prišli nasveti o nanašanju laka na nohte, tu sem namreč še precej nerodna in spackana...

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  3. Nimam guruja, samo nekaj všečnih blogov in nailgal za swatche..... Že tako imam za svoje potrebe preveč lakov (ki jih še kar počasi dokupujem)in ki jih bom porabila približno nikoli :-S

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  4. O moj bog! Sem skoraj s stola padla, usta pa imam še vedno odprta... Super NP guruja imaš! :D Lahko pride kdaj tudi k meni na kavo ;)

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  5. Ulmiel: my helmer is totally full, so I guess there are 500 polishes in my collection, not counting frankens :D (guess how much money I've sent to Latvia and how many polishes we will get- wiiii!). I still want BB couture (27 polishes), SpaRitual (14 polishes on wl) and red OPIs (I've been buying only dark, blue& green ones in the past). Maybe I could take few photos of my stash, if you are interested :)

    Kaneli: I resent the notion of me being guilty for the new spark in your nail polish obsession. if I had your nailbed, I would probably be a polish addict for 10 years, and not just 3 ;) and your application is nice - gets better every time we see each other.

    Biba: coffee is always an option with me ;)

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  6. Nina, vem kaj misliš. Zakon pogled. :D

    Kaneli, hvala za opis. :D Če je interes, lahko naredim post o svojem tretmaju za nohte, samo ti kar takoj povem, da je pravilo številka ena vaja, da dobiš v roko ta ritem obračanja nohta na čopič in čopič na noht, več ko boš lakirala, boljša bo manikura, garantiram. :D

    Biba, vem! :D

    Erzebeth, the stash photos look simply to die for. And I'm TOTALLY curious about project Lativa!! :D I got my scolarship, so bring it on. :D Oh, don't mention BB couture, I think there is 28 of them on my WL ... Lord of the Rings, when will I buy them, I don't know. :D SpaRitual is one of the ignored brands on my list, since I'll go insane, if I find another one for my taste, before I get at least one brand checked on my WL. I already searched for the address of the salons in Prague that have Hollywood nails, but (luckily?) couldn't find them. Hehe.

    Hvala za komentarje!

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  7. Tevta rocks =) Tud js bi mela takega guruja=), upam da spoznam nekega dne takšbo osebo =)

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