Inaugural Post!

Hello, and welcome to my blog Liberal Lacquer! After months of contemplation I have officially decided to start a blog dedicated to my love of nail polish! It must have been about two years ago when my insane addiction to nail polish started. I used to never paint my nails and if, on the rare occasion, I did, I'd wear it till it all chipped off. I even used to bite my nails! *GASP* Terrible, I know. However, now I take good care of my nails, I do not bite them, and I paint them probably about twice a week. My collection was small to begin with, mostly polishes I had acquired as stocking stuffers years before, but today my glorious collection has grown to 291 bottles of polish (and counting)!

So, for my first post a look at how I store/display my collection of polish.

This beauty here is a rack I made from foam board, silver Duck Tape, and hot glue. It is currently holding 87 of my most used/favorite polishes.

Here is a close up look at the first three rows of my nail polish rack.

And here are the bottom three rows. I plan to make another one or two of these racks but have not gotten around to it yet.

To hold the rest of my polish I have a small bedside table with three drawers. I hate this thing for two reasons. First, because I cannot see all of my polish in the drawer like I can with the rack. Second, the drawers have no stoppers on them! I am constantly pulling the drawer too far and having all my polish spill out onto the floor. Ugh! Annoying! But it will have to do for now.

Drawer number one is holding a variety of different brands and colors.

Drawer number 2

...And drawer number 3. This drawer holds my top coats, matte top coats, cuticle oil, strengthener and mini polish bottles.

Anyway that's it for now! Hopefully I can keep up with this blogging thing and start to focus on posting swatches.