Striped Birthday Suit

Sorry, I'm awful at making titles for posts, hahaha!  It's relevant though, I promise!  Today's look is a simple double-accent nail mani; I'm kind of 'meh' about this one, but figured I'd post it anyways in hopes that maybe some of you will like it better.  

I started with a base of Essie Topless and Barefoot on my accent nails.  While that was drying, I applied three easy coats of CrowsToes Birthday Suit on most of my other nails. This shimmery nude is part of the new CrowsToes springTHIS collection, I'm almost done swatching and will have a full-collection review post up soon!  :)

On my right hand, I also have two accent nails that tie in with the colour scheme of the stripes.  My index finger is LaCC 1963, a light but bright coral, and my middle finger is a soft and pretty lilac, LaCC 1972.  

Once the base on my accent nails were dry, I applied the striped water decals from the Born Pretty Store.  They were surprisingly easy to apply, seeing as it was my first time using water decals.  They got slightly messed up at the tips, but that was due to my own clumsiness where I bumped them on my camera.  Luckily it's mostly covered by the glare on the nail in my photos, haha! 

As I said before, I'm not quite feeling this look.  I don't dislike it, but I'm not really a huge fan of it either.  I'll definitely be using the water decals as accent nails again though; I quite like them, despite the fact that they may look like stripey pyjamas!  :P

Spotty Dottie Pink Gradient

I've finally been starting to get into wearing lighter polishes for spring.  I'm more of a rich and vampy polish person, but I forced myself to dip a toe outside my comfort zone and made this cute spring-y pink mani!

I started with three thin coats of LaCC 1957, the lighter pink.  Next, I sponged on a gradient in LaCC 1950, which I went over twice to get the second colour more saturated on the nail.  Finally, I added a thick sponged coat of All That Glitters Spotty Dottie Light, and topped it all with two coats of Seche Vite.  

This look is super easy to re-create, and there's so many possibilities with what colours you use for the gradient and which glitter topper to add!  Even though I'm not a pink-polish girl at all, I think this mani was pretty cute; I got a lot of compliments on it from my friends!  :)

piCture polish: Monroe

It's been a while (as in old-camera 'a while' *cringe*) since I've posted any piCture pOlish swatches, but boy am I making up for it today with this stunner!  You're in for a treat, but don't blame me for any damage to your keyboard due to drool.  That blame is all on piCture pOlish, for creating this beauty.

Behold the magic that is piCture pOlish Monroe.  

Typical flawless piCture pOlish formula, as per usual.  Two dreamy coats, one coat of Seche Vite.  Apparently I forgot to take pictures of this without the studs, sorry!  

I'm a devout viewer of the tv series Smash, which makes this polish even better.  The (scripted) show is centered around the making of a Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe.  Fabulous, catchy original Broadway songs and musical numbers, paired along the inevitable drama and comedy of the rehearsal studio makes this a must-watch for me every week! 

piCture pOlish is available at picturepolish.com.au as well as through lots of other network members around the world. Check out the Network for a full list. 

Are you as in love with Monroe as I am?  The deep red with rainbow flashes will certainly be a go-to for me whenever I'm in need of a quick but beautiful mani!  :)

Disclaimer: The products in this post were sent to me for review. 

Coffee Skittlette

If you missed my post earlier this morning, go enter my 1-Year Blogiversary Giveaway! 

Today's my first day back to regular school and dance after my trip to Europe and spring break; it's been really nice, but time to get back to regular life!  Today I've got some random skittlette nail art that I did sometime last week; I really like the nail art in neutral colours!  :)

My index finger is A England Jane Eyre with white acrylic paint.  My ring finger is black acrylic paint over Essie Gym Dandy, which I picked up last week while I was waiting for my mom in the dentist.  She was in there for over 2 hours and there's only so long one can sit in Starbucks alone, so buying nail polish was bound to happen. 

The rest of my nails are gradients with OPI Don't Touch My Tutu! and Essie Gym Dandy, with Born Pretty Store black rhinestones.  The whole look (especially the gradients) were looking very coffee-ish to me, so on my right thumb I did a watermarble with the same two polishes to look like the pretty foamy swirls you get in the top of your coffee!

I wasn't so sure about this look when I first did it, but it grew on me and I ended up wearing it for almost three days!  I was pretty sad when I had to take it off to swatch some stuff.  :P

Posting probably won't be quite a frequent for the next few months until the school year is over.  I'm graduating this year, so it's pretty important that I stay on top of my school work.  On top of that, we're charging head-first into rehearsals for multiple shows, and I've still got to try to keep up with the blogging!  I'll  still post as often as I can (hopefully at least 3-4 times per week); I hope you all understand!  :) 

Globe & Nail 1-Year Blogiversary Giveaway!

So I'm getting pretty excited over here, my 1-year blogiversary is quickly approaching!!  I can't believe I've been blogging for almost a year now, the time has flown by.  When I started Globe & Nail, it was just an outlet for my nail polish problem addiction hobby, and I never imagined it would turn into such a huge part of my life!  I'm constantly humbled by the positive responses to my blog, and for that I'm so grateful to all my readers, old and new!

So, it's finally time to give back to you guys!  I've got 26 new polishes to give away to two lucky winners.  The giveaway starts today and will close on Saturday, April 27th, which is the date of my blogiversary!

There are 6 full-size Wonder Beauty Products polishes generously provided by the lovely Leah Ann from Llarowe, and 1 full-size as well as 19 mini WingDustCollections polishes generously provided by Stephanie, the creative mind behind WingDust.  The prizes are as follows:

Prize #1:

Wonder Beauty Products Kismet, Euphoria, and Roxie Hart.

WingDustCollections Love, Love Me Do!, Night Fury, After The Storm, Total Pink Bomb, Boogie Wonderland, Shake Ya Tail Feathas, Easter Egg Hunt, Blue Steel, HOPE, and Deep Deep Trouble. 

Prize #2:

Wonder Beauty Products Let's Play Footsie, 1 Dozen Heart Bouquet, and Blue Sterling.

WingDustCollections Dancing Queen, Gilty Pleasure (23-karat gold and silver flake topper, this is the full-size), Mind Blue-ing, Grey Sky Morning, Once In A Blue Moon, Snake Skin Shoes, Breathing Underwater, Funky Town, Sea Shell Bra, and Fairy Blind. 

For larger photos of each of these polishes, you can check out the Llarowe Wonder Beauty Products and WingDustCollections pages.  Take a good look, because in the Rafflecopter widget below you'll have to tell me which prize you'd like if you were to win! 

The giveaway is open to Canadian and continental US mailing addresses only; prizes are all unused and will be shipped by me directly to the winners.  You must be at least 17 years old or have parental permission to enter.  Once the winners have been contacted, they will have 48 hours to reply and claim their prizes.  If each prize is not claimed within 48 hours, another winner will be chosen.  The packages will be shipped directly from me to each winner.  I will package the polishes as safely as I can, but am not responsible for any damages done to the prizes after they leave my possession.  

a Rafflecopter giveaway
This is my first time using Rafflecopter, so I hope it all goes smoothly!

Here are the badges to share for extra entries!  :)

Shimmer Polish: Cristina, Mary, Jennifer

Hello again!  Me, double posting?  No, this isn't a joke, just a continuation of this morning's post!  Earlier today I posted about Shimmer Polish Lorene, Jasmine, and Nichole, and now I've got Cristina, Mary, and Jennifer to share with you!  

Read more after the jump!  :)

Shimmer Polish: Lorene, Jasmine, Nichole

No April Fool's jokes here today, but I do have some swatches of a few gorgeous polishes sent my way by Cindy from Shimmer Polish!  I've got six polishes and lots of pictures, so I'm splitting them up into two posts with three polishes each; this is the first, and the second will (hopefully) be posted later today.

Click the jump to read more!  :)