My Trashed Nail Polish
It’s amazing to realize just how much I collect. I gave myself a pedicure the other day and when I opened my bag of nail polishes, I had to sift through bottles and bottles before finding the color I wanted. Many of the shades I’ve owned since college. Let’s just say they’re more than a decade old. What’s worse is that I know several of the shades are goopy, but for some reason I still keep them, as though magically, I’m going to open one and find that it has reinvented itself as a brand new bottle. I thought about cleaning out the polish bag and had that strange tingling sensation that comes whenever I contemplate getting rid of things that I’ve had for a long time. I quickly zipped the bag shut and placed it back in the closet.
A few days later my daughter asked me to paint her nails too. Back to the magic bag. I pulled it out, completed the task of giving my little girl a rainbow manicure (a different color on each finger) and gathered my courage. I pulled out the bottles that I knew had to go. Some had actually changed shades over the years, and many I haven’t worn since the first Bush was in office Sad. Sad. Sad. Over the whines of my little girl lamenting the exit of a particularly bright fuchsia shade, I tossed them into the trash. Mission accomplished.
I’m still fighting the tingling sensation, and to be honest, more bottles still need to go. But, I have to work in stages. Though I’ve made the decision to simplify, which includes getting rid of goopy nail polish and anything else in my house that needs to be reincarnated, I know this is a process. I’ll just have to work on it one nail polish bottle at a time.
And just so I know I’m not alone in this nail polish simplification, I’m issuing a challenge to all my nai polish hoarding sisters. Let’s keep track of how many nail polish bottles we get rid of. I just tossed 10 bottles. If you clean out your stash, please add it to this number. We’ll keep a running total. Let this be our first united step toward simplifying our lives. ‘Cause really, how many nail polishes do we need?
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