Standing Here Waiting for my Dancing Queen

I hate making titles.  Seriously, my least favourite part of blogging.  Anywho, today's post features two indies I haven't worn in a while: Aphrodite Lacquers Standing Here Waiting and WingDustCollections Dancing Queen. 

I started off with a base of OPI Eurso Euro, before layering on two thin coats of Aphrodite Lacquers Standing Here Waiting.  This one is so packed with glitter!  On top of that I added one very sparse coat of WingDustCollections Dancing Queen, for a bit of holographic sparkle.  I purposely did just a very thin coat of this polish here - to see its full sparkle power, check this out! 

One coat of Seche Vite to smooth it all out, of course.  What do you think of this look?  Recently I've really been enjoying pulling out my older polishes that haven't seen much but the inside of my helmer since swatching, and I love finding old favourites like these two!  :) 

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!  :)

WingDustCollections: Zambia Missions 2012

Today I have some very special polishes made by the amazing Stephanie of WingDustCollections.  She has an entire collection of beautiful polishes inspired by her Missions trip to Zambia this summer, and I have three of them to show you.

First is HOPE, a soft white jelly base with white, pink, and holographic square glitters, and white and iridescent micro-glitters.  This one is very sheer, but I didn't want to layer it over a white base because I wanted to keep it looking soft.  This is four easy coats of HOPE with one coat of Seche Vite.

Mongu At Midnight is a mix of various sizes of silver and holographic hex glitters and blue bar glitters in a dark blue shimmer base.  This one gave me a lot of trouble at first; my bottle was super thick, goopy, streaky, and near-impossible to apply nicely.  After contacting Stephanie to ask if she knew about this, we compared bottles and the ones she had definitely looked like it applied much more nicely.  She was extremely apologetic about me getting what was probably just a fluke bad bottle, but I didn't want her to have to send me a new bottle so I added a couple of drops of thinner, let it sit overnight, and added a couple more drops before re-swatching. Ta-da! It was tons better than before.  What you see here is three thin coats with one coat of Seche Vite.

I've included a picture from the first time I swatched it with the super-goopy bottle.  The difference isn't as noticeable in the pictures, but was drastic in person!  Just know that it can be easily fixed with some thinner.  This is two thick coats with one coat of Seche Vite. 

I've saved my favourite of the bunch for last, this is Save A Life. It's a beautiful soft lilac jelly polish with light purple, dark purple, white, silver, and iridescent glitters sprinkled throughout.  This was significantly less opaque than the other two, so I put it over a base of Sally Hansen Lacey Lilac.  This one had the smoothest application of the them all.  This is three coats of Save A Life over Lacey Lilac with one coat of Seche Vite.  (Yes, I filed my nails down a lot before this swatch.  They were getting too long for my liking.) 

Without a doubt I love all of these polishes. Aside from the initial thickness of Mongu At Midnight, the application posed no problems.  A real big bonus with these is that the glitters only need one coat of top coat to be smooth!  If you love these polishes as much as I do, you'll for sure want to check out the rest of her collections!  :)

*EDIT* Stephanie had very generously offered 15% off at her Etsy shop for my readers with the coupon code GLOBE15.  You can find Wing Dust Collections on Facebook here, and her Etsy shop here. 

Disclaimer: The products in this post were sent to me for review and my honest opinion.