Besides my nails, I'm a rather sloppy person. I prefer jeans, shirts, and tennis shoes to being trendy, mostly because I'm lazy and getting into that weird age where my only options are whatever early 20-somethings are wearing (skinny jeans and oversized off-the-shoulder sweatshirts, right?), and shapeless sweater/tank top combos in colors like "bahama peach" and "fuck it fuchsia".
But, I have what I like to consider a good luck shopping charm.
It doesn't work all the time, of course, and I'm probably making it up and using confirmation bias. But once in a while, I'll get a bug to go shopping, and I usually get lucky.
Here's what I mean:
I went to TJ Maxx because I had a $10 certificate and I was flush from working extra, and I wanted to do some damage. Financially. I'd heard whispers on the wind of TJ Maxx being a good source of nail polish, and remembered the couple times I'd checked, I found nothing but sad grey Essie polish and Halloween Orange some-other-brand-I-don't-care-about. But, I figured I would pick up some makeup or something, and I went anyway, found some nice lip stains and a cute Betsey Johnson makeup travel bag, and headed to checkout.
They happened to have an endcap display at checkout with two-packs (not Tupacs) of OPI.
In one of those two-packs was OPI's "Just Spotted the Lizard".
For those of you uninitiated, this color was a limited release to promote a movie about Tobey Maguire crying over Kirsten Dunst while flying around in spandex or something. For some reason, superheroes = polish, and OPI released this absolute gem of a chameleon polish. It's also supposedly a dupe for Chanel's "Peridot". I have since found that Sally Hansen Lustre Shine "Plume" makes an okay, but nowhere near equivalent, dupe as well. I also once freaked out a friend (Hi Brenda!) by squealing when she came over wearing it.
So anyway, two-packs. They had JStL in two-packs along with a god-awful olive, which is probably the only way they were selling any of that damn olive, and I was like "okay well how easy are these to switch out?"
Turns out, incredibly easy, but I also didn't know if that was even technically okay to do, so I didn't do it. I promise you I didn't.
I got the pink and silver glitter together in one two-pack ("I love Boys-nberry" and "Silver Sparkle", respectively), and decided to dig a little further to see if I could find any better combos, but if not, I was determined to get JStL, no matter what.
THANKFULLY, there was a single package of it paired with that gorgeous blue, supposedly from the same movie-promo, called "Into the Night", and I snapped up that pack like mad. 7.99 each, for two OPIs, one of them an absolutely fabulous color I'd been looking for!
It was a good day.
Further evidence of this shopping charm, my haul from yesterday:
The OPIs were half off, and the rest were at least 75% off. Always trust your gut instinct (when it says to go somewhere).
And yeah, my desk is messy. I don't clean my cuticles, what the hell makes you think I'm going to tidy my desk? (Actually I have since tidied it since I took this picture, because I was running out of room).
But, I have what I like to consider a good luck shopping charm.
It doesn't work all the time, of course, and I'm probably making it up and using confirmation bias. But once in a while, I'll get a bug to go shopping, and I usually get lucky.
Here's what I mean:
They happened to have an endcap display at checkout with two-packs (not Tupacs) of OPI.
In one of those two-packs was OPI's "Just Spotted the Lizard".
For those of you uninitiated, this color was a limited release to promote a movie about Tobey Maguire crying over Kirsten Dunst while flying around in spandex or something. For some reason, superheroes = polish, and OPI released this absolute gem of a chameleon polish. It's also supposedly a dupe for Chanel's "Peridot". I have since found that Sally Hansen Lustre Shine "Plume" makes an okay, but nowhere near equivalent, dupe as well. I also once freaked out a friend (Hi Brenda!) by squealing when she came over wearing it.
So anyway, two-packs. They had JStL in two-packs along with a god-awful olive, which is probably the only way they were selling any of that damn olive, and I was like "okay well how easy are these to switch out?"
Turns out, incredibly easy, but I also didn't know if that was even technically okay to do, so I didn't do it. I promise you I didn't.
I got the pink and silver glitter together in one two-pack ("I love Boys-nberry" and "Silver Sparkle", respectively), and decided to dig a little further to see if I could find any better combos, but if not, I was determined to get JStL, no matter what.
THANKFULLY, there was a single package of it paired with that gorgeous blue, supposedly from the same movie-promo, called "Into the Night", and I snapped up that pack like mad. 7.99 each, for two OPIs, one of them an absolutely fabulous color I'd been looking for!
Further evidence of this shopping charm, my haul from yesterday:
And yeah, my desk is messy. I don't clean my cuticles, what the hell makes you think I'm going to tidy my desk? (Actually I have since tidied it since I took this picture, because I was running out of room).
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