I know I’ve shown most of these colors on my nail tutorials, but I still wanted to share part of my nail polish collection. You would think that I have like hundreds of nail polishes since I did nails for so long, but I don’t. I have about fifty something. When I was doing nails, I didn’t need to buy all the colors because I had access to them at the shop. ^^
These are the favorites that I have. The coloring is a tiny bit off because my camera is a bit color blind. Click the pictures to enlarge and to get a better look. The color also change because of the downsizing.
I haven’t gotten any of the new collections because I’m broke and I’m in beauty school. But I have enough to mix to create a new colors.

My Favorite Nail Polishes: Left to Right.

Orly in Lola
Essie in Wife Goes On

Essie in Whisper & Cute As A Button [love both of these for summer]

Essie in Ballet Slipper [big favorite for my toes] & Adore-A-Ball

Essie in Chastity & Sexy Divide [big favorite]

OPI in Black Cherry Chutney [big favorite]
China Glaze in Stella

Essie in Midnight Cami [big favorite but a pain to get off, it's like pen ink blue]
Sally Hansen Diamond Strength in Black Diamond [big favorite]

China Glaze in Beauty and the Beach [great color for designs and putting over top of another polish]
Essie in Sheltered Island [big favorite]
China Glaze in Sky High-Top
China Glaze in Bermuda Breakaway [big favorite]

Essie in Solemate
Rimmel London 60 Seconds in Climax

China Glaze in For Audrey
Orly in Green Apple
Essie in Greenport
OPI in Gargantuan Green Grape

Sally Hansen Salon in Shooting Star [great for designs]
Sally Hansen Salon in Glity Pleasure [great for designs]
Orly in Shock
OPI in Banana Bandana

Other favorites not shown..meaning I don’t have….yet. >:]

Essie:
Marshmallow semi-sheer white [favorite for my toes]
Waltz sheer white [my favorite color to wear over a french tip]
Forget Me Nots it’s like Chastity, but deeper
Minimalistic sheer lilac white
Limo-scene sheer pinkish white [great for over the french]
Sugar Daddy sheer pink [other fav to wear with the french tip]
Wicked deep burgundy red [winter favorite]
Fiji opaque whitish pink [popular summer color, also the color my parents made me practice polishing with when I was like 15]

OPI:
Russian Navy deep blue with purple shimmer
Yoga-ta Get this Blue dark blue with blue/teal shimmer [big favorite]
Windy City lilac-ish mauve with pinkie shimmer [big favorite, looks great when you wear greens]
Mod-ern Girl semi-sheer Coral
Sweet Heart it’s like Essie’s Ballet Slipper
Pinking of You semi-sheer pinkie pink
Fiji Weejee Fawn shimmery beige [I started wearing this color obsessively when I was 15. I was too scared to wear color then. Lol. Pretty funny because now I'm all about color. Should younger kids be more adventurous with color? Not me. I'm backwards.]
I’ve Got The Blues For Red deep blue-red
Malaga Wine deep burgundy
Siberian Nights very deep bluish-purple [my absolute favorite purple, it might as well be black..its so dark. But when it hits the light, it's sooo pretty. I don't know why I don't have it. Lol]

Those are pretty much my favorites for now. ^^
The thing I really loved about doing nails was having access to so many colors and seeing the new collections. Our [friends I worked with] faces would light up like a kid in a candy store when our boss bought the new collections for whatever season. I really, really want Essie in Mint Candy Apple. I am jealous of yous that have it! I love that kind of green. My fav. I also want Essie Matte About You topcoat. I love the Matte look.

After putting and taking off of polish for this post, I ended up with this one.
Essie in Au Natural.
On the toes: Essie in Whisper.

I think I’m taking a tiny break from color on my fingernails. I blued and purpled myself out. Lol.

I cut my nails short ’cause the long was getting annoying. Specially since I’ve been cooking and baking alot. Recipes later. =P So here’s a tutorial on this look. The colors of this look kind of reminds me of a gypsy. Anywho…enjoy! =)

Cleaned my nails with alcohol. One coat of Base Coat. Two coats of a bluish seagreen polish. I used Essie in Greenport.

I painted two thin coats of an iridescent-ish purple diagonally in the center. Then a shimmery sheer teal overlapping half the purple, then bringing the it down to the rest of that side. If you click on the picture to enlarge, you’ll see what I mean. On my other hand, I did the same but mirrored it. I used Sally Hansen HD Nail Color in Cyber & China Glaze in Beauty and the Beach (LOVE this color, goes great on top of other colors).

Then I painted a dark, shimmery navy-blue curve on the side of my nails. Don’t worry about it being perfect. Just focus on getting a nice curve when you polish. I started at the middle of my nails, at my cuticles, and swerved it down the side. I used Essie in Midnight Cami.

With a brush (french brush/an old eyeshadow brush with a sharp edge), clean the sides with polish remover. Pure Acetone works faster and better. With striping paint in a similar color, I touched up the curve, making the lines cleaner and sharper.

With black striping paint, I made four diagonal lines on the corner, opposite of the blue curve. Make sure you make your lines spaced out a bit. How many lines to paint depends on how long your nails are.

Paint the equal amount of lines diagonally towards the opposite direction, overlapping the ones you just made. Like cross-hatching.

This isn’t really necessary, but I like adding depth. I like sneaking in colors, even if you can’t see it much in the end. So I painted three more lines following the black with a dark lavender purple striping paint.

With a shimmery gold/silver/white, I placed dots on where the black intersected. So where you see a square shape, you would dot the corners. I also much blue glitter over the blue curve to give it more life. Top with topcoat. I don’t have any rhinestones or pearls, but I think this look would look even better with tiny pearls instead of the dotted paint.

Hope you like it! ^_^