Aargh! A recent frustration: I typed text in here and accidentally started a search from this page rather than switching to my intended tab. So I deleted everything I wrote. Oh well.
Mine aren't quite as bad, but they were educational. 1) In my early teens I got polish on a piece of clothing. To remove it, I put the item on the toilet seat lid and used acetone. It worked and the clothes were fine, but the lid was trashed as it melted the plastic! At least a toilet seat lid is cheaper than a TV. It wasn't that bad, but I certainly did not repeat that! And of course some clothing would also have been melted by acetone - word to the wise. 2) Recently coming back from a trip I had my polish in my checked luggage (obviously you can't have it elsewhere), and it was well wrapped, but when I returned and opened it, the pressure difference caused the liquid to burst out of the bottle all over the counter and into the outside part of the lid. I lost about a third of my remaining Cult Nails Wicked Fast top coat, so that was sad. I really like it, and of course go through top coat fairly fast. I should have fractionally opened it and let it sit for a while. Ah, and maybe not a disaster either, but 3) I gave away a bunch of polish several years ago. I felt I didn't 'need' it. True enough.
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A potential polish disaster for some (without the tolerant partner, space or budget for it) is the desire to have !!! all the new polishes !!! If you estimate that you have 20 applications per bottle, and apply polish twice a week, 200 bottles would last you 40 years! Sure, for most of us it isn't about using it all up, but it's interesting to consider. We need nail polish heirs! I'm being a bit critical about how many pinks/reds/etc. I have that are close to those in new collections, but there are a lot of gorgeous new colours out there, and I'm always looking for great nail art polish!