I've filled all but one of my nail display wheels to this point, and I need more wheels. But, it occured to me that I needed a better way to store the wheels than just popping them into the drawer where I keep my nail art supplies. I couldn't seem to come up with anything though.

I found a solution when I was looking for an answer to another question - whether one should apply top coat on the wheels after painting them or not. Which for the curious seems to just depend on your personal preferences. Anyway, I came across this storage idea for the wheels on this blog: Wixology. I have to wonder why I didn't think of it myself.

A soft-sided CD case!





I had a couple old cases lying around the house, but in cleaning out the accumulated junk lately, my dad came across them, didn't think we needed them and got rid of them. So I got a new one from Dollar General for $3. It will hold 36 CD's, which means it's nail wheel capacity is 18. The wheels - only speaking for those from Head2Toe Beauty, with 18 tips per wheel - are slightly bigger than a CD, so the case provides a snug fit for them.

I really like this idea because it keeps all your wheels together, it's portable in case you ever have any reason to take the wheels with you when you go somewhere (?), and it's easy to flip through them to see your options. If you just number the wheels, like I do, rather than writing the color brands/names on the wheel's label, you can print out your list of colors and tuck it into the front of the case where the  index card is; OR, since you only put the wheels in one side of the sleeve (b/c they're thicker than a CD they take up more room that way, trying to fit one in each side could lead to breaking!) you can print off your list for each wheel and place it in the other side of the sleeve behind the wheel. I haven't done that yet, but that is my chosen method for keeping the list of colors with the wheels.

I need more wheels, but am out of money (again... le sigh) so for now it's going to have to wait. I ordered some wheels and polish for my sister-friend... really wanted to get more for myself LOL but I decided it was better to get a gift for her and not be selfish.

A somewhat unrelated note: I know I haven't done swatches or polish of the month in forever; I'm trying to get all my stuff sorted, and there's a lot going on in other areas of my life. Nail polish is still taking the back seat to other things these days. I've gotten through about half my stash with the wheels; I just need to photograph the wheels & get the pictures up here. I know it's not the same as swatching the colors on my nails, but it's the best I can do for now and it's MUCH faster than swatching on my nails. And they do actually give a really good idea of what the colors look like, so it's not a bad thing. I'll try to get pictures of the wheels I have done so far on here for you asap, but I can't make any promises when I can get to that! I will try to get the polish of the month picked and up some time today though.