A few images from Konad m85

Wow, it sure has been ages. I come out from under my rock today with a few manis I created with the help of Konad plate m85.

Here is a PR image of the plate, I wish I had taken a picture of mine before I used it so I could show you what it looked like before I got polish and remover all over it.

More after the jump!

Winner winner!

(Well... this post was scheduled to go up about a week ago. I guess Blogger... ate it? I don't know what happens when posts go missing like that, maybe one day it'll turn up again. I suppose the real shame is that it took me that long to notice it was missing. My life is in shambles XD)

Anyways...

Heather is the winner! Thank you to ALL who entered, and for reading Polished To The Nines :D

Julep referral- help!

It seems there was a glitch in the Julep Maven program and referral credits program. According to the information on their site I was supposed to get $15 in credits for every new Maven who joined because of me! I have emailed Julep and they emailed asking for a list of names of people I have referred, so if you were one of those people please let me know in a comment! Thank you!

News of My Life 8/23/11

You guys may have noticed the lack of updates... including the lack of Giveaway winner announcement, which I PROMISE I am getting around to. I have returned to my senior year of nursing school and things are already insane, and I foresee having very little spare time to post. Also, two days of the week I have to do clinical rotations at nearby hospitals where I am not allowed to wear nail polish! (the horror!) In other words, I will try my best to post weekly, but probably not more often then that. Next semester however I will only have two classes, so I can get the ball rolling again this spring!

Another reason updates will be fewer is that I will soon begin training to run a half marathon... 13.1 miles! It is called the Monster Dash in Chicago, and my friend and I will be dressed as Legolas and Aragorn from LOTR! It's going to be great! I have decided to blog about my training experience and run to raise money for the family of two of my closest friends, whose 19 year old brother was diagnosed with leukemia this summer. I will be setting up that blog soon with a paypal setup so people can donate right from the website! This is very important to me, and unfortunately will have to take priority over Polished to the Nines as I won't be able to keep up with two blogs while going to school full time, working 10 hours a week and training... yikes! 

If you've read this far- thank you! I'll include at least one nail picture as a reward XD

I call it... OPI Blues Ombre Magnificence. I LOVED this mani with all my heart. I'll probably redo it exactly the same again- it was that good. The blues were perfect!

For this I used: (from pinkie to thumb)
What's With the Cattitude?
No Room For the Blues
Ogre the Top Blue
Absolutely Alice
Dating a Royal

Check out Julep!

I have just heard about Julep's Maven program, an offer similar to Birchbox for those of you familiar with that. When you sign up with Julep for $20.00 a month you recieve a surprise package filled with $40.00 worth of Julep merchandise, including previously unreleased nail polish colors! I was also lucky enough to hear about a promotional code from Traci at The Trace Face Philes that gives you $15.00 off of your first months order! (smh9oxu) That makes the total come out to $5.00 for a $40.00 package of goodies, INCLUDING free shipping! I have been wanting to try out Julep and this is a great chance to do it cheaply!

Also, if you are interested you can use my URL to sign up for the Maven program and it gives me a $15.00 Julep credit! http://www.julep.com/AP.aspx?ID=XX&EID=14700373

My Giveaway ends today!

Today is the last day to enter my giveaway! Good luck to all the entrants!

To enter click here to go to the entry post!

(I know it says the deadline is the 2nd on the entry post but I extended it!)

Emily frankened! Success!!

I call it... Glitter in the Mist. Obviously it's my frankened version of Deborah Lippmann's Glitter in the Air that my tight budget couldn't stretch to cover. I made GITM by dumping two little Sally Girl Polishes (they didn't have names as far as I recall, they were just a silver hex glitter and a pink hex glitter polish) into a half empty Milani Angel Pink bottle. But really any very pale sheer pink polish would work. I am very pleased with the results!

 As you can see it isn't a dead on frankendupe as it has silver hex glitter instead of the light blue but I find it to be a good substitute for GITA anyways.

 I wore GITM over China Glaze Nude to mimic the look achieved by DL Glitter in the Air + Naked. This was three coats of GITM. Much like the polish I was trying to dupe the hex glitter goes on sparsely and you have to play with it to get it placed where you want on the nail. Obviously these pictures are from a while ago because I was still rockin' my falsies! My real nails have grown out again thankfully, I missed them!


Has anyone else tried to franken a version of a pricey or hard to obtain polish?