Fanatic Feedback – How Many Polishes Do You Own?
Posted on February 5, 2009
Come on kids, it’s time to fess up! How many bottles do you have tucked away in drawers, cabinets or under your bed? Are you conservative with a tightly edited collection of staples or full blown insane (like me) with too many to count?
You don’t have to give an exact number, just a guestimate.
I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours.
I have around 80. I plan on buying about 20 more soon along with a rack to hang them on like the at the nail salons. Right now they are in a OPI train case and it’s spilling over and I hate not being able to see everything I have because I always ending up using the ones at the top. While I don’t have a excel for the polishes I have already I do have one for the polishes I want to buy and it’s pretty long!
i have about 100…glad to confess since i seem like i am on the minimal side.
200+ OPI and about 30 non-OPI.
Around 200, not including treatments.
I’m afraid it’s 200+
My stash is getting bigger and bigger every day…
I only have around 60 polishes for now.
It’s harder for me to get the beauties you have, since I live in Italy.
At least 60, but that number is about to skyrocket up as I am just about to open a parcel containing 25 China Glaze polishes!
170!
I feel great when i see these girls that own more nail polishes than I do!
280+, I finished cataloguing them beginning of January but I’ve just bought a load more but haven’t catalogued them yet, so just a questimate
777 as we speak……but I’m still waiting on my 12 Misas
huh… Ive got around 10. Yes, ten. I use them up quickly though.
70-75 right now.
140 as of right now. Have a couple of swap packages due in, so that will change
only 35, but will be ordering about 15 once 8ty8beauty is up and running again.
Plus I’m planning on getting quite a few from the various spring collections. 
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( I am from Russia )
This feels a little like being the ‘new’ person in an ALANON group, but I have to admit that I am hopelssly hooked on this stuff!
I have maybe 125 different bottles stuffed away in boxes though I keep maybe 15-20 out that I like and wear the most.
I used to have maybe 10-15 favorites, but then I found this and other nail blogs and began buying, swapping and gifting polishes with others. That’s when the addiction began to take over. And I have all of you to blame!! (it’s a good thing though)
I have boxes and boxes full…it’s a true addiction!
Too many, I like to mix my own. I don’t care about designer labels or other ho-hum. I have true originals!
hmmm i think i have about 80 bottles in my place – not counting back ups and bottles that are in my old bedroom in my parent’s house…
95-100
About 50 not including B&T Coats and this is only since mid Jan '09 after getting my first vamp mani and then finding all you laquered up folks! Someone stop me now!
600 plus
Just over 100, less than 125. They fit nicely into 3 plastic shoe boxes. I feel like it’s a pretty good collection for me, and there aren’t many dupes at all, but there are a few that I don’t *love* that I’d rather give away
50 or so.
i just hit 156. yesterday. now how many do YOU have???!!!
4 plastic shoeboxes full. All OPI and Essie, so however many of those will fit in there. 150 maybe?
Probably shouldn’t be admitting this, but over 300… not bottles, but colors. I don’t know (and don’t want to figure out) how many actual bottles I have, because I have multiples of a lot of colors – so it’s anyone’s guess! I keep thinking I’m at the point that there aren’t too many colors that I don’t have something similar already – but CG keeps proving me wrong
I've got about 70… I think. Though every time I guess I've got about five more than I thought. Most of them are from a Swedish brand called Depend (as I live in Sweden) but other than that I've got Mavala, IsaDora, some without a brand I bought in China, H&M, Be-Yu, Lumene, and then from some cool brands you can't here in Sweden: Zoya (and Nocti), Orly, and three from China Glaze. I love Ruby Pumps and Fairy Dust! (though the drying time for FD is terrible…)
I stumbled across your blog in November which sparked my obsession with nail polish. Since then, I’ve only bought 76, but I cannot wait for 8ty8beauty.com to be up and running again, so I can add to my collection. I cannot thank you enough for your inspiration.
285 colors as of last month, which will increase VERY soon! Last March, it was less than 20, but then I found your blog and became obsessed with polish. I didn’t know I had it in me.
I have 106 and already run into dupes…
Girls, how do you keep such collections without repeating the colors???
I’m a die-hard OPI fan, but their latest collections do not inspire me any more…
I feel bad, I only have about 40 polishes that I currently use. But when I tire of a polish I donate it to my manicurist friend. I’d love to have tons and tons of polish, but I don’t know where I’d put them, and I have two young daughters who love polish almost as much as me! I just use an old Caboodle (remember those?) to store my current polishes in.
I have become a fan of China Glaze since reading this blog, I never tried it before, but now it’s basically all I want to use! Thank you!
16 or so – but this blog is my starting point for pumping up my collection!…call it my new favorite hobby
over 300, I think. I have three drawers almost full, and more on the breakfast bar. I’ll count and post later. How ’bout you, Michelle??
I have about 225 that I’ve cataloged, plus another 25 or so top coats, base coats, and treatments, and I’d say about 50 bottles that have been AWOL since I moved last year that I hope I didn’t accidentally purge.
I’ve been collecting since about ’98, but I do a purge every so often that I regret a year later that keeps the numbers down.
I feel so sane with my 15 bottles (just do NOT ask me about perfume
).
25
Wow, I love how many of you responded to this. This is perfect ammunition to show The Boyfriend that I’m not the only crazy collector out there.
To those of you with more modest collections I say BRAVO for having more self control than the rest of us.
And now for my number…. around 1550. I know, ridiculous right? That’s after giving unloved colors and dupes away. I’m planning another purge soon though to a local charity so that should take my number down. Only long enough to bulk back up with more Spring/Summer collections. I wish you all lived closer, I’d let you come pick through the unwanted pile.
*grin*
I live in Akron, is that close enough?
The only reason my collection is modest is that I spend 6 months of the year beating the crap out of my hands gardening. So there’s not much point in polish from April to October, yanno?
Pick through your pile? I think that’s every girl’s dream! Good for you on purging to a charity. I know a women’s shelter or such would love to have fun stuff to do manis/ pedis with. When my friend was in a long-term care situation, the girls had a Friday night polish party every week. She loved it…and it was a great way for me to de-stash a bit of bulk.
Man, though…1550+…I’m drooling!
I would estimate 200, though I’m pretty sure that’s on the low side.
Anywhere between 180 and 210. I haven’t done a count in a month or two!
I believe am at exactly 200! What’s funny is that I crave mooooooooore.
I don’t have an exact number but I know I have 100+
i have 16 polishes, opi cost here 13 euro (= 17,68 dollar) and we do also have gosh (which is the most interesting nail polish brand besides opi, other brands sell only browns/reds/pinks)and because i’m 14, i can’t order online without my parents permission (and they don’t give me permission, as predictable)
so my stash grows slo-o-o-o-o-owly
About 40 of them, and I just put a new order of 6 in from H2T
about 35!! =D i try to keep it under control!
350 or more. Love nail polish!
Less then 10 after pitching 10 year old polishes that I’m sure were not 3 free and learning to take care of my nails all over again after finding this wonderful blog site.
For the first time in my life I’m doing my own manicures that last up to 4 days without a chip! These nail blogs rock!
Not sure, in denial, but in reality I’m thinking around the 800 mark. Eep!