Angie's toenail polish post this morning reminded me of a funny story. A few years ago, my daughter was riffling through my bottles of nail polish and she asked if we could buy some more colours. I said, "Why? we have loads", and she replied that almost all of them were black. I must have looked confused, because she held some up and said, "See? You have purple that looks like black, and blue that looks like black, and red that looks like black, and green that looks like black, and I think this one might actually be black...". She was right! I hadn't realized that I gravitate towards super-dark colours. (In my defence, non of the colours looks like black once it's on your fingers -- they just look really dark in the bottle).

Silly thing is, I almost never wear fingernail polish. It won't stay on my fingers. I'm much more likely to wear toenail polish, and if I do, I wear light pink -- never dark colours on my toes! So what's up with impulsively buying bottles of dark nail polish?

Over to you. Does anyone else buy polish they don't wear? And are your fingernail polish colour preferences different from your toenail polish ones?