What was this on carpet?

[notstoppinghere]

I think I found a tiny fragment of a nail extension on our bedroom carpet but not sure what they feel like. If anyone uses these, does it sound like this.
It was a tiny fragment, really shiny, midnight blue. At first I thought it was a broken piece of gem glass from costume jewellery or a broken piece from the cap of a perfume bottle (think, Versace noir). However, I pressed on it and it broke into smaller pieces, like very soft plaster. It actually looked like bits of modelling plaster which had been painted thinly.
I had been working away before finding this but I wasn't suspicious of him at all. But it's such an odd thing to find so now am wondering.

A picture would help?

If you want to post a picture I'm sure we'd be able to say. It could be, or could very possibly be something else.

I didn't take a picture before pressing on it with my thumb nail so now it's in tiny bits. Part of it broke almost into powder. It was a tiny fragment though so I doubt a picture would have helped.

Acrylics wouldn't break up like powder, they are like little bits of plastic.

I have acrylics and they are rock hard - even if a bit of one broke off (which would take some force) it wouldn't crumble when pressed

No acrylics don't crumble.

My gelish type polish doesn't crumble, it's almost rubbery. Flexible.

Eye shadow?

I was going to say this too. I have dropped eyeshadow palettes on the floor and they break into little fragments which crumble.

Has it broken off an ornament or something in the room that is the same colour? What shape was it before it broke?

Sounds like it's not nail extension then. It's not eye shadow either. It's like whatever it was had been covered in a thin layer of coloured varnish, which was why I thought it was nail polish. As it broke apart I could see the underlying stuff, which looks just like fragile plaster (like on old walls). There's nothing in our house I can think of that is that midnight blue shiney colour.

I also thought that it looked like a bit broken off an ornament. We don't really have ornaments and none at all in the bedroom. Nothing of that colour. Before it broke it was a sort of oval shape, not flat, slightly raised (again, why I thought it looked like part of a nail).

Definitely not a nail.

More likely something walked in from outside

If you have no suspicions, why was your first instinct that it must be a nail extension?

Acrylics wouldn't be much use if they crumbled on contact. They have to be melted off with acetone.

Could it be a sort of medication? A tablet that's been broken/crushed or cut into bits? They can be powdery with a thin, shiny colour coating.

We don't wear shoes upstairs but that did cross my mind !

Because it looked like that and it was shiney, like nail polish.