Day One

This nail obsession all started on our trip to Hawaii. Melissa and I were shopping and the next thing I know she is being magically pulled into a store with shiny, blingy nail polish. Little did I know I was vacationing with a closeted nail whore. Who knew? Of course when you are sharing a room and the foofy stuff comes out…well she infected me. The next thing I know I’m applying nail polish right along with her.

Well that was fine and good UNTIL, next to our last day we ran into the nail Kiosk from hell. Yep, that’s right, us Alaska girls had never seen, nor even heard of stamping our nails. Hell we were lucky to shell out $50 bucks for a mani and get a sticker thrown on a nail. So the Kioski girl fell in love. She went stamp crazy on our fingers and we made her sales for the entire month. Yup, we bought the cart…pony and all.

Cat

My nail obsession is to be blamed on another blogger, and the dark nights of winter in Alaska. The Daily Nail blogger was changing her nails every day for a year. Wow! Something to watch, every day of the year, awesome! Well that led to thinking “I can do that” and the rest is sort of history. I won her contest, received a bunch of her polishes in the mail and thus became, a nail goddess (whore is too sharp a word).

Yes, it is true, I’m like a fly to shit when I see nail bling, no keeping me from it. I think now that we have combined polish, bling, extras, foof, and whatever the hell else nail we are up to some 50-60 polishes. Of course I want to catalog the colors (Cathy says that is being anal).

Mel

So we have enough nail supplies that we are working a 12-step recovery program. We are trying to use all of our polishes, at least once, BEFORE we go purchase more. We keep ending up back at day one. In fact we have had to figure out if we start at day one when the nail polish arrives in the mail or is it from the day we clicked, “purchase”?

The idea now is to share some of our art and use this as our catalog to show we have made it through each polish at least once, while we work on the recovery, yep…day one here.

Mel and Cat