Essie Round Two

Where do I even begin. Well, you all know about this post right? The one where I went on and on about NAIL POLISH?! Get ready for round two, ladies and ladies, because it’s a doozy.

Today, the best thing that could have happened to me, happened. We were over staffed at work, and my assistant manager kindly let me and another girl know that someone could go home early. Early as in, like now, early. So I took her up on that offer, stayed until my appointment was over and left before 11:00. That’s right peeps, I wasn’t off until 5:00 but I left at 11:00!! So I called hub, set up a lunch date, and got my bootay out of there.

After my amazing lunch date with Hub (Thanks hub), I headed over to Taylor’s house to pick her up so we could do some damage. What damage? Essie damage. Duh. Thanks To Miss Amy (isn’t she amazing?) we knew where to find the best Essie nail polish, at the best price. To be honest, I was scared because this is what her comment said:

“There is a nail supply shop in the Lee Lee's (asian grocery store) on Dobson and Warner. It's on the side of the shopping complex (to the right of Lee Lee's) on the Warner Rd. entrance. You can get ANY OPI or Essie nail polish there. OPI is $4 credit card, $3.50 cash. Essie is $3.50 credit card, $3 cash. AMAZING. They have the nail salon quality everything there. Best acetone ever too. Have fun and fyi, you WILL be overwhelmed! ;)” 

The warning at the end wasn’t enough for me. I needed someone screaming in my ear while bright red flashing lights were going off in my face to prepare me for how overwhelmed I’d actually be. This man alone should have been enough of a warning….

And this is what we saw when we walked up…

If this doesn’t scream sketchy, I really don’t know what does. Don’t worry everyone, outside of Hollywood Nail Supply they just have like half their inventory just chillin’. It’s really NBD.

Warning, these next pictures are very very exciting. I get butterflies just thinking about them :) sigh….

They seriously had boxes and boxes and boxes of nail polish EVERYWHERE! It was stacked on top of each other on the floor, shelves, outside, literally everywhere they could find a place, there was nail polish. I’ve never been somewhere so insane in my life. They had millions of colors, I’m pretty sure at one point I stopped breathing, not because of the smell of nail polish (and it was strong after we tried on aprox. 100000 different kinds) but because I could die I was so happy. I’m pretty sure they had 99.9% of colors Essie ever made… except Turquoise and Caicos! Can you believe it!? I would have even settled for something remotely close, but there was nothing! Tay, can we share custody of yours? Pretty, pretty please? I’ll buy you a Coke Zero with infinity limes (if you turn me down I don’t think we can be friends).

I was so excited that after looking around I even bought some super duper top coat. It’s the legit stuff that they use at nail places and I will tell you what, I have never been happier! It’s thick, but not bulkey, and it dries in record time. After going to this place, I may just start my own nail services. If anyone needs me to do their nails I would be more than happy to, as I’m sure Taylor is as well.
 
And to top it off, they don’t care if you try on a million different colors. Really, we covered both of Tay’s hands in nail polish and they never said one word. AND when we were checking out, the man was super nice and I felt right at home as if I was actually getting a pedicure, not just doing my own.

Left to right, Bottom Row	Left to right, Nordstrom Colorized Order
Merino Cool	Merino Cool
Boat House	Soiree Mauve
Sew Psyched	Sew Psyched
Super Duper Top Coat	Baubing for Baubles

Aren’t those the best names?

Then I saw it it. A display that was just as amazing as the Essie display (and you know that was just sick), they had GEL NAILS!!! (the crowd whispers) “What? They had gel nails? Is that even possible?” Yes folks, it is. The following conversation took place…

Me: “Tay, we seriously could do our own nails. I’m over paying people to do this. I want to try the gels”.
T: “You have to like take classes for that stuff”.
Nice Asian Man: “You don’t take class”.
Me: “See, you don’t have to take a class. How do you do it?”
Nice Asian Man: “You watch youtube video”.

That’s how it’s done people. All this time you thought you were getting your nails done by a professional, think again. They just watch youtube. So get excited, I’m ready to head back and get me some jell nails!


PS. I got these picture messages about an hour after I got home



Amazing right? I’m loving the ring finger painted another color. When I got home I painted my toes Boat House and my fingers Sew Psyched, because I’m sew psyched!

What did everyone think about their Essie Nail Polish now that you’ve tried it? Amazing, yah? I’ll never go back. What other amazing beauty products do you swear by?

Ps, I love that cousin Paige sent me this picture at Target, $7.79. We LOVE Target, and we LOVE LOVE Essie