Let it snowwwww let it snoowwwww let it snow!

Actually, I hate the cold. But you know what I don't hate? Holiday polish collections, because they never disappoint and are usually filled with glittery awesomeness. China Glaze's Holiday 2011 collection is titled "Let It Snow" and images, accidentally or not have already been leaked.

Now from the color chart the ones that excite me the most are Snow Globe, Glittering Garland, Twinkle Lights, Blue Years Eve, and maybe Tinsel Town. Not going to lie though, overall I am much more excited for OPI's Muppets collection. Anyone else excited by holiday collection promotional images?

Have some C-C-Courage

Woah a gorgeous purple! 

IDK, my BFF Jill? *Giveaway Alert*

It's Wednesday and I remembered to wear pink! What a pink it is too!

The ABC's of Me!

Want to know some random things about me? You should fill it out too, it's fun! Feel free to blog about it and leave your link in my comments or just fill it out and leave it in the comments if you don't have a blog. 

I'm jumping on the bandwagon and filling this out as well!

A. Age:
I just turned 21 on Sunday!


B. Bed Size
Queen sized futon. I love my bed.


C. Chore I hate:
All of them? But currently I'm dreading packing my stuff to move home from my dorm.. ughhhh.


D. Day
Saturday!


E. Essential start of your day:
Something with caffeine in it or else I'm a total grouch!


F. Favorite Color:
Purple! Then teal.


G. Gold or Silver?:
Silver, gold jewelry doesn't look great on me.


H. Height:
5'4" when I'm standing up straight!


I. Instruments:
I played violin for five years and was in choir for six. I love to sing!


J. Job Title:
Currently: Help Desk Associate at IWU IT Services. As of this Friday: Unemployed for the summer. :-( After college? A nurse! :-)


K. Kids
Undecided... babies are so cute but teenagers are a nightmare! (I know I was when I was one!)

L. Live
A Chicago suburb called Homewood! (I bet you've never heard of it)

M. Mom's name:
Janet

N. Nicknames
Em, Emmy, Dopey (last one courtesy of my father lol)

O. Overnight stay at hospital:
Ugh several. Where do I begin?? One for anaphylactic shock from an antibiotic as a child.

P. Pet Peeves:
Bad grammar, chipped nail polish, people who try and push their beliefs (religious, political, etc.) on others...

Q. Quote from a movie:
"I am Goldberg, THE GOALIEEEE GRRRRRRRRRRAHHHHHHHH" -The Mighty Ducks

R. Right or left handed:
Righty

S. Siblings
A little sister who I miss when I'm away at school.

T. Time you wake up:
7:30 am nowadays. GUH.

U. Umbrella:
This said underwear before but I think that's a touch creepy so I'll describe my umbrella instead. It's striped pink, green, blue, yellow, purple, brown, and red with black stripes in between each of the colors. I got it at Target and it is not one of those compact ones, so it has a hook handle that is excellent to use to pull trip gags on say... your Mom when she's not paying attention. Sorry Mom! C'mon, it's not like I made you fall, you know it was funny! 

V. Vegetable you hate:
Mixed vegetables. I like them all separate! If they were supposed to be mixed they would all be on the same plant!

W. What makes you late?:
Usually trying to get 10 extra minutes of Zzz's

X. Xrays you've had:
Fractured thumb (seriously), plenty of teeth ones over the years, I think for my ankle too but that turned out to be not broken.

Y. Yummy foods you can make:
I can pour cereal. And make some delicious spongebob mac and cheese! And make bacon. Bacon is my specialty.

Z. Zoo:
The zoo is awesome!! I always see the tigers and wish I had a pet one, like Jasmine has Raja in Aladdin! 

Goin' Antiquing.

For Crackle polishes that is. Despite warnings, I caved and purchased Sally Hansen's Antique Gold crackle overcoat. (Traci is probably shaking her head in disgust if she's reading this!) I just couldn't resist though!!

OPI vs Sinful Colors comparison, and 33 Followers!

Wow! 33 followers! Last I'd checked there were 29! I'm kind of bummed I missed the rollover, but very flattered that I have 33 lovely followers that listen to my nail ramblings! I would love to get more feedback from you guys on what you'd like to see here on Polished To the Nines! I have some good news as well. Yesterday was my birthday (21! Woo!) and on this monumentous occasion I received the new Bundle Monster plates! Yay! So once I get my stamper in the mail (my Dad ordered the plates from Amazon from a link I gave him, not quite getting the concept/ process of nail stamping, therefore not ordering a stamper and scraper as well!)  get excited to see a lot more stamping on here! (And the trials and tribulations of me perfecting my stamping technique! XD) Also, in the future if I reach the honor of having 100 followers I will be assembling a giveaway to show my appreciation for you guys! For now, on to the pictures!

Today I am comparing Sinful Colors' Hottie to OPI's Last Friday Night from the Katy Perry collection. I have not done full mani's of either yet, but here I have them side by side over a base of a black creme polish (Revlon Lunar) because I find them easier to photograph that way.

Which is which?

Arrggghhh Matey! Silver Shatter on the horizon!

Thar she bloooowwwwwsssssss!

DV8 (aka Love At First Sight)

Guh.

Really. That's all I have to say.

 

Now for UP CLOSE HOLO ACTION!!

How could I sing the praises for DV8 any better then by letting the pictures show it themselves? Trust me, the holo is even better in person then on camera. This is one lemming I was glad to put to rest... and for a mere $5! Oh the joys of dusty diving!

Does anyone else have a success story of discovering a hard to find polish for a bargain price?

Absolutely Alice vs. Almost Alice

One fall afternoon I meandered through the cosmetics section of the dollar store across the street from my college campus. It was there I discovered that, lo and behold, it was chock full of LA Colors striper glitter polishes. CHA-CHING. I spotted a blue one, and then a gold one, and then, the solution to the only math problem I've ever been interested in... blue glitter + gold glitter = Absolutely Alice franken?!?

So a-frakening I went. About a month later I did manage to get my hands on my very own Absolutely Alice, for the very reasonable (and surprising) price of $9.00. So what does that leave me with? The ingredients for a comparison to see how close my adventures in frankening got me to the real thing!

The answer is...

Nubar Giveaway!

Happy Monday! (And I'm never one to say those words) but today is a happy Monday because Sonidlo's Nail Polishes has Nubar nail polishes to giveaway, and who doesn't love Nubar? Well I can't say I do because I've never tried their polish but I have heard only good things about it and I'd love to! This giveaway was too good to keep to myself!

Look at the pretty polishes!*drools*

Click here for the entry instructions post! Have at it ladies!