Monday, November 2, 2009

Obsessive Collecting

I have, since I was little, been an obsessive collector. Like sick, not healthy I would obsess about something I wanted or saw until I got it. It wasn't that I was jealous of what other people had. Most of the time the things that I wanted weren't anything people I knew had...or cared about, like owning every color crayon that crayola invented. Who cares about that? No one that's who, except for me. Of course in kindergarten I couldn't afford to stock my pencil box with random colors of wax , so that dream died slowly. Now I collect Prisma Color markers and colored pencils...I have art school to thank for that expensive addiction.
Also I started collecting Pilot G-2 pens in various colors, there's even a company that starts with an "S" that sells awesomely unique colors like marigold and pine green that look like, and write like the G-2's. To this day if I go shopping with family they refuse to let me enter the stationary/pen aisle.
I collect butterflies now as well. Not pictures of butterflies or statues or shirts with emblems printed on them, but real carcasses glued between two pieces of glass so that you can see the camoflaged, and the beautiful sides.Despite the whole artisitic thing I never really did like having art that someone else created on my wall, the butterflies provided a nice alternative. AND there are so many colors, designs and shapes!!!! I am geeking out just thinking about it!
More recently my wallet gas been assualted by the overwhelming necessity of owning make-up. Now in general I am too lazy/impatient to waste time preparing a facade for the world, this is because I find it increasingly difficult to wake-up every day in a timely manner, and I feel comfortable without it so why bother? But I feel compelled to purchase brightly colored eyeshadows, glosses, and of course lipsticks.
UV reactive, check!
rainbow matte eyeshadow? check!
rainbow shimmer? check!
neutrals? check and mate
Seriously. It all started with Urban Decay shadows, then I found xsparkage's site, and now I'm in love with that and DoeDeereBlogazine the creator of which sells Lime Crime Make Up "So Bright It's Illegal!". And now my wallet hates me, because I have been systematically purchasing goodies from Lime Crime (read: as soon as I get money I buy more from there). But I don't wear them, because they look so pretty in their containers, and really I just want to own them...that's weird isn't it? I blame my not too serious but still gut-wrenching-ly distracting case of OCD.
As if all of these lures weren't enough an old penchant has reared its plundering head. NAIL POLISH!!!
Buh, Buh, BAHHHHHH. Seriously is there a female in the developed world who hasn't at one point worn nail polish? There are men enjoying its beauty on their digits too, more power to them, it's not fair for us ladies to have all the fun. But fun on the fingers is painful to the budget in the past 6 months I have been hauling loads of nail polishes in. Appoximately 4 shoe boxes have been filled... as in I need to start another one if I buy one more polish, where as 7 months ago I had MAYBE half a shoe box?!!!!!!!! Blues, greens, purples, duochromes, and holo's I can't get enough!!! It's sad, but it's my life, and it makes me do the happy dance every time I get a new lovely for my collection.....anyone have any good/weird/unique collections?

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