Nail Mail: April & Polish Count

Hi ladies, it's been a while! Before I start with the Nail Mail post I'd like to apologise for my lack of posting this last week. The weather in the UK has been horrendous, it's pretty much rained constantly for the past week so I haven't been able to get any swatching done! Fortunately, the weather is beautiful today so I have been 'catching up' on my swatching which I will be posting over the next week. Anyway, enough excuses - let's get into my Nail Mail for April!

BarryM; Black Multi Glitter, Silvery Lilac, Denim & Teal

Models Own; Ibiza Mix, Collection 2000; Hoola Hoop, Button Moon, Wham & BMX Bandit, GOSH; Splish Splash

China Glaze; City Siren & Traffic Jam

I picked up these polishes at the beginning of the month during my trip into town. I knew that BarryM had released new colours, so I wanted to see if my Boots/Superdrug had them in. Unfortunately they didn't have Copper at the time so I was only able to pick up the four you see, from Superdrug. Whilst in Superdrug I spotted GOSHs new Spring/Summer releases but to be honest, the other colours didn't really tickle my fancy so I only picked up Splish Splash. I then headed over to Boots in search of the always sold out Ibiza Mix from Models Own, to my surprise there was one left on the display! Needless to say I grabbed it. I also picked up a couple of Collection 2000 polishes, just because they were 2 for £3. Then just as I was leaving town I decided to quickly head over to Sallys to see if they had any of the new China Glaze/OPI collections, which they didn't, but it was buy one get one free on China Glaze Metro Collection! I only picked up two colours since I'd already spent most of my money in town >.<

China Glaze; Smoke & Ashes, Sinful Colors; Let Me Go

I got these from a mini swap I did with Traci @ The Trace Face Philes. I'd seen swatches of China Glaze - Smoke & Ashes around the interwebs and thought it looked interesting, so I asked her to pick it up for me. She was kind enough to throw in Sinful Colors - Let Me Go as a bonus!

GOSH; Rainbow, Silky Mint, Holographic, Rainbow & Sweet Rose

I've been on a little bit of a GOSH hype lately, ever since the discounted bin arrived in my Superdrug. Unfortunately, the two polishes I was hoping I would find in there were nowhere to be found. So I took to eBay to fish out Rainbow & Holographic and to my surprise I managed to find them both for a reasonable price! I picked up an extra Rainbow for my 1000 follower giveaway (only 12 people away!)

Dollish Polish; Dark Passenger & TEAM Salvatore

Now, if you know me in real life, you'll know that I am a HUGE Dexter & The Vampire Diaries fan! I've read all the books for both TV shows and have watched every season religiously. As soon as I saw that there were Nail Polishes named after characters in my two favourite shows, I had to have them! As you're probably aware, Dollish Polish is a pretty popular Indie brand that sells out literally seconds after she opens the shop and being in the UK I always missed out on the opening due to time zones. BUT I was determined to get my hands on them this time, so I specifically stayed awake until she opened. I snagged Dark Passenger straight away, but TEAM Salvatore kept jumping out of my cart, so after constantly refreshing and clicking I was able to get it.

Models Own; Peaches & Cream, Edamame & Naked Shimmer

Diego Dalla Palma

These polishes were kindly sent to me for review by the companies PR. Being a Models Own junkie, I was surprised that I didn't actually have the polishes already! You can see the swatches I did of those here. I've never heard of Diego Dalla Palma but I'm pretty impressed with their formula! I'll have a swatch post uploaded soon.

OPI; Pirouette My Whistle

This was also kindly sent to me by OPI's UK PR company. This was the only polish which stood out to me from the NYC Ballet collection, mainly because I'm not a fan of sheer polishes.

Wet N Wild; Grays Anatomy & Spoiled; Paying With Platinum

Catrice; Iron Mermaiden

You may remember a while ago I posted a picture on my Facebook page of Deborah Lippmann - Wicked Game, OPI - Not Like The Movies & BarryM - Silvery Lilac, well I have been asking around for dupes and the lovely Amanda from Mandy's Polish kindly offered to pick up the Wet N Wild & Spoiled polishes for me. I was then contacted by a lovely follower Daria saying she had the Catrice polish for me so we organised a mini swap for it! I will be doing the post sometime in May, so keep an eye out for that!

I apologise at how much I've rambled on in this post, clearly the lack of posting has affected my blogging ability. The main point of the post is the photos so you'll have to forgive me. Seeing as it's officially the end of April today, I thought I would tag on my Polish Count for the month. So without further ado, the grand total of polishes I now own is;

Polish Count (April 30th); 357

That's a total of 42 new polishes! The best news is that I now have a HelmerIKEA so I didn't have to pay the expensive shipping fees to have it delivered! I'll try and do an updated storage post soon to show you guys!

Polish Count: March

Hi ladies! As we're nearing the end of March, I thought it was about time I posted my monthly 'polish count' update! If you're new to my blog and haven't seen this before, basically every month I do a total count of my stash (using my spreadsheet, I don't sit there and count them every month, I promise) and make a post. This is a way for me to keep track of my monthly purchases and polishes I have received from swaps etc, and also a way to show you guys how out of control I really am! So without further ado, here's my count for the month of March!

Polish Count (March 27th); 315

So that's a total of 68 polishes I have added to my stash this month! I'd say that this month is definitely one of the larger months I have had in a while. I said in my last polish count post that once I reached 300 polishes, I was going to invest in a Helmer, well that hasn't happened yet! I'm working on it, I promise. Here's a little photo I took of my stash yesterday when sorting them out! This isn't actually everything, I forgot to include all of my E.L.F polishes and some misc cheap brand polishes from the market, as you can see, I do have a challenge deciding what colour to wear when I want to paint my nails!

Polish Count: February

For those of you who are new to my blog, every month I do a Polish Count, where I total up the amount of polishes I've bought throughout that month.

It's basically a way for me to keep track of my addiction and to show you how obsessed I really am! 

This month I did get rid of a few polishes through my blog sale, so that has altered the complete total I would have had, however my current count for February is:

Polish Count (Feb 27th); 247

That's a total of 31 polishes this month. Which isn't too bad in my opinion! Next month will probably be a lot higher, as I have a few swap boxes coming my way! I think once I reach 300, it is time for me to invest in a Helmer, as I've already outgrown my current storage solution!

Polish Count; January

Wow, I completely forgot about my monthly polish count! If you're new to my blog, every month I will make a little Polish Count post, to see how my collection has grown in the last month and to see how obsessed with Nail Polish I actually am!
So my last count on December 17th was 175. I can tell you it hasn't really grown much, as I have gotten rid of a couple of my polishes too.

So, my count for January is *drum roll*

POLISH COUNT (JAN 28TH); 216

Actually, I haven't done as bad as I thought. That's only a total of 41 polishes in a month, okay so it is a lot for some, but considering Decembers total, I've done pretty well. There are a few polishes I've bought this month that haven't arrived yet, but those will be in next months total :)

Polish Count; December

Last month I decided to do a monthly polish count, to keep track of my vastly growing collection and boy has it grown.
When I counted last month (November 22nd) I had 99 polishes. This month, my collection has grown a hell of a lot since then, to the point where I think I have a problem. I said I was going to include photos of all my additional polishes every month, but to be honest with you, I can't even remember half the stuff I got this month, if you're interested though, most of the new polishes will be in various nail mail posts.

POLISH COUNT (DEC 17) ; 175

No, this isn't a typo. I've actually bought a whooping 76 polishes less than a month...Holy cow. Houston...I have a problem.

Polish Count; November

My polish collection is vastly growing, and I thought what better way to keep track of my addiction with monthly postings of how much my collection has grown in that month. This will be accompanied by photographs of the polishes, possibly including swatches too (depending on the amount, and if I have time) giving you polish addicts a few samples to go by and to see if you'd like to purchase them yourself. Good idea or bad? Give me feed back in the comments below as to whether you think this is a good idea or not.

Please note; this isn't a form of bragging, it's just how my collection is growing every month and how I find the space to store my addiction. It's also a way to put a 'face' to the name of a polish. I'll still be posting Nail Mail as and when any arrive, this is just going to be a collective 'haul' every month, if you please.

POLISH COUNT (NOV 22ND) ; 99