Your responses to our poll about how many nail polish colors do you own got us to thinking. The majority of us have at least five colors in the house. And a whopping 37% have "too many to count" sitting on a shelf in our bathrooms.

So the next logical question is...do you actually use all of that nail polish? Are you touching up your mani-pedi every evening while watching Entertainment Tonight? Or are your pinks and corals and blues all separating into clumpy, sticky, unusable chemistry experiments?



We are definitely guilty of buying more nail polish that any one human can realistically use. A while ago -- like, more than a year ago -- we went on a quest from one Pure Beauty store to the next in a desperate hunt for OPI Lincoln Park After Dark. Between the name, the gothy bruise color and it's it-color popularity, we had to have it. In the third store we snatched the last bottle off the display and happy plopped down our $7.

Fast forward to today: it's sitting, still unopened, next to half a dozen bottles of black, onyx and other dark purple polishes. It will probably never get used. And it's not the only unopened bottle in my collection.

What about you? Where do you fall on the purchase-to-use nail polish continuum?