I've gone through and organized / categorized most of the photos from my phone, laptop, and external hard drive. A lot of those photos were of nail art for inspiration, or photos of polish I really like. Those inspiration photos are all categorized and most are uploaded to my Pinterest... I should have the remainder of that finished tomorrow. The polishes I want are now stored in Google Drive by brand and polish name.
Speaking of nail polish I've also gone though and put the other half of my polish into my database - FINALLY - as that was a project I started before college and then never had a chance to finish. Needless to say, I've discovered that I have an OBSCENE amount of nail polish (closing in on 4000 bottles of non-gels) and that hits it home to me that I need to get back to making jewelry and also expand into pre-decorated press-on nails. I have a hard time not doing stuff so I'm not upset that I can always have those things as a backup of something simultaneously fun and productive to do. I've seen nail sets sell on Etsy and I think I could do well with that.
While still on the subject of nails I've also been studying gel application and removal and the difference between types of gels. I feel like I've learned a lot. So gel polish is apparently a type of soft gel that you are able to soak off with acetone. I also have some hard gels that are not supposed to be able to be soaked off and instead need to be filed off. They are usually used for overlays (just a protective reinforcement layer on the nail) and enhancements (when you want to add length beyond the natural nail).
I had been using a really stiff hard gel on Shaun as an overlay, but he uses his nails like tools and therefore they bend sometimes... meanwhile the gel stays stiff and so it separates from the nail. I ordered a softer hard gel that will flex so I'm hoping we have better luck keeping that down on him. I'm also going to try it as an overlay for myself because I'd like for my natural nails to grow out a bit and right now they're all peely and sad. I'd rather try the gel overlay than chopping them all off (which is what I'd normally do). So we'll see how that goes.
Anyway, I would definitely say that I've been hyper-fixating on some things, but I'm not upset about it. I'm getting so organized and it's how I'd have like to have been all along, but that is not how life worked out. So now I'm fixing it and it is SO SOOTHING to my brain. I was literally giddy the other day when I looked at my Google Drive and could just so easily see my "wishlist" of polish. I'm thrilled to be able to have a spreadsheet copy of my polish table from my database in there, as well - so no more buying dupes accidentally. Next up, I'd like to work on moving my database from Access to MySQL and possibly putting it online (just to see if I can). That means I'll probably have to learn PHP or something, but that's ok.
