Bubblelina Polish review

I had the pleasure of swatching another collection for Bubblelina Polish and I found some real gems. 

I'll start with my favourite from the collection. This is called Grinch's Mistress

This is three coats of shimmery mermaid-coloured goodness. Mainly green with a slight duo chrome of gold, it also has teeny tiny gold glitters for sparkle. Absolutely magnificent! 

Next up is Cocoa Glitz

Not a colour I would usually go for but putting it in was a dream. It reminds me of Lindt chocolate. Creamy and rich. This is just two coats. It has small copper glitters in it too with tiny bits of texture, so it actually looks like chocolate on your nails!

Next up is Queen Of New Years Eve

The only issue I have with this is the consistency is quite thick, although with this much glitter in a bottle I don't think you can expect anything else.

I thought this would be perfect for a glitter gradient so I did so over a plain black. Because of the amount of glitter I only needed to use it twice to achieve this. And I LOVE it!

It's a mix of royal blues and purples, some metallics and golden stars.. Beautiful!

Next are two polishes I have used with one mani.

The base is a shimmery silky pearlescent white called The First Snow. The only thing I wasn't sure about was the bits if texture through it, not sure if it was meant to be a textured polish but I thought it would be better smooth. This was three coats but it is still quite opaque with two. 

I then used a glitter topper called Frosted Winter Berry. This polish I absolutely adore! Works well as a Christmas polish but also as a Valentines Day one also. It's so romantic and bold. This was two coats and has a mix of red, white and silver glitters in different shapes and sizes.

Next up is More Gifts For Me

A very subtle purple jelly packed with glitters. I put this over a purple undie to bring out the colours. As you can see, the amount of different glitters are wonderfully put together and are in different sizes, etc. The polish itself was quite thick but not too difficult to work with thankfully. 

The most surprising polish of all was this one

I'm absolutely not a pink kind of girl, never have been. But I do love a thermal!

The polish in the bottle is hot pink but when on your nails and it warms to your body temperature it goes a very elegant champagne pink. LOVELY! I love everything about this polish! Three coats as it is quite sheer, but an amazing thermal to add to your collection. This one is called My Lover Perfect.

There you have it!

Remove nail stains!!

So.. The other day I had an unfortunate thing happen. I was testing out a brand that for some reason had a bad reaction to my nails. I used a strong base coat like I do everytime. I swatched, took a picture and went to take it off.. Then this happened...

Imagine my horror. I've never been a "oh no I broke a nail" kind of girl, but this gave me a lump in my throat. I had also just buffed the surface of my nails a few days prior so I knew that buffing again so soon was not ideal. Doing so would make the nails weak and brittle.

Luckily my hubby reminded me about a stain remover that I had bought a while back. I use it on my teeth but I saw on other blogs and reviews it can also be used successfully on nails. And this is the product:

It's called Eucryl. We don't have this readily available in Australia so I bought mine online. Oh and look at the hedgehog nail brush my former nail mail buddy Megan got for me! Squee! 

So the process is that you wet the bristles of the brush, shake off the excess water, dab it in the powder and scrub away. Not too hard though, it's not necessary.

Amazingly, I didn't have to scrub for more than a whole minute to get rid of all the stains. I started scrubbing thinking nothing was happening until I pushed some of the foam away... It seriously felt like a miracle!

I highly recommend you invest in this stain remover powder! I was absolutely amazed! While it may not take away all the yellow stains straight away, my nails certainly do look less yellow. The most important thing is that it got rid of the awful polish stain. I'm going to make this scrub a weekly ritual now!

Xx snowglobenails 

The Hungry Asian - Strawberry 🍓

I am amazed by how gorgeous this polish is! It's a smooth jelly red, but for a jelly it's opaque in two coats only. I used three in this picture and only  because I accidentally chipped a few of the tips while doing some housework (first world problems hey) 

It has teeny tiny black glitters in it, although I'm not sure if you would say they are glittery, they're not shiny at all. They are perfectly round and pure black. But there aren't too many to take away from the gorgeous blood red colour of this polish. 

Strawberry is a completely appropriate name because it looks exactly like it.

PERFECT!

I couldn't resist doing some handpainted strawberries as an accent. I used OPI Jade Is The New Black and a Skin Food lime green for the vines. Also did some little yellow dots to act as the strawberry plant flowers (without the petals)

Altogether, I think this is one if the most beautiful polishes I have ever seen and used. The outer appearance of the polish in the bottle certainly does the finished product justice.

Thank you The Hungry Asian!

You can buy her polishes on Etsy so please check them out!

Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheHungryAsian

Website: http://www.thehungryasian.com/?m=1

The Hungry Asian polishes

I'm so lucky to have received some gorgeous polishes from a nail mail buddy of mine @pikapolish, from The Hungry Asian. I received Strawberry, Cookies and Cream, Kiwi Squeeze and a mini Mint Condition. 

I honestly opened the package and thought I was going to cry, they were so beautiful. Check them out...

I've just used Strawberry and it's amazing! Check my next post for my review on it 🍓❤️

Macklemore Zebra Nails

The inspiration behind my new nails was this beautiful man right here:

I can't begin to describe how happy I am when he hear Macklemore's music. It's rare to hear an artist rap about things other than hoes and money. 

Instead he bases his lyrics around growing up, equality, sobriety and respect. Oh and also op shops, because he's best known for only having 20 dollars in his pocket.

I've always been a hip hop and rap fan, in my teenage years it was all I listened to. 

Luckily my music tastes have evolved to other genres, but I will always favour hip hop/rap. It will always be my weakness..

I was looking to create some nails inspired by one of his amazing eccentric outfits and this one was the original and greatest in my eyes.

I used China Glaze in Kalahari Kiss, only two coats.

The zebra stripes were created using and black striper brush by Art Club. Amazingly, these brushes are easy to control even though they look awkward. 

I waited about 15 minutes before applying a top coat of Seche Vite. Unfortunately the stripes still bled and I'm not sure why. Maybe it's the formula of the black polish in the striper brush bottle?

Regardless, I was really happy with these and I got a hell of a lot of compliments when wearing them. 

Very happy with my first attempt at zebra stripes 👍 now I'm off to pop some tags...

11 Questions Tag!

I was tagged by the gorgeous Ten Little Nubs for the 11 Questions tag. Basically you tag some bloggers and they answer your 11 questions, and then they make up 11 more questions and tag other bloggers.

Here are her questions and my answers:

1. How many places have you lived in in your 

lifetime?

I was born in Gayndah, grew up in Gooniwindi 

and Boggabilla. Then moved to Palmwoods 

and now I'm here on the Sunshine Coast. 

All in all I would say maybe 7 places because I 

know there are a few I couldn't remember from

my earlier years

2. Have you ever broken a bone?

Nope! Never!

3. What are your favourite and least favourite

nail trends?

Favourite - gradients. Least favourite: magnetic 

or crackle polish. Sorry it just looks tacky to me!

4. Where in the world would you like to travel?

EVERYWHERE! I have the travel bug bad!! New

York, Prague, Peru, Africa, Japan, Egypt, New 

Zealand, Texas, ahhh so many to name!!!!! I have

only been to Fiji and Thailand so far though.

5. What made you start blogging?

Wanting to connect more with my followers. 

And I'd like to know more about the girls I 

follow on IG.

6. Other than nail polish/beauty products, do 

you have any obsessions or collections?

Yes, I don't know if it was obvious from my 

blog/IG name but I collect snowglobes. I have 

family and friends that have travelled and 

collected them for me. And when I travel I grab 

a heap. Also I collect anything nautical!

7. What are your favourite movie genres? 

And can you name a few of your all time fave 

movies?

I like EVERY type of movie! I'm a movie nut! Violent

 movies from Kill Bill to classics like Sound Of 

Music! Too many to name but a few off the 

top of my head would be Hunger Games, Sex 

 and the City, The Artist, 8 Mile, Avengers, 

Batman, Hot Fuzz, Independence Day, The 

Hangover (1 and 2. 3 was terrible!) Mean Girls, 

Django Unchained, Tron, the list is too long! 

But anything with Tom Hanks, Leonardo 

Dicaprio or Kate Winslet I LOVE! And I'm a 

massive sci-fi nerd! Anything Star Wars, Star 

Trek, etc: OBSESSED!

8. What is your top tip for someone wanting to 

start a blog?

Do some research. Start slowly. Ask questions. 

Be honest.

9. What is your favourite nail polish finish?

Seche Vite of course. Can't find anything 

similar that's as good as this!

10. What is your all time favourite food & drink?

Creeeeeeamy pasta!!! I love food! I could eat 

all day if I could. How sad.. 

And to drink? Brown Brothers Zibibbo!

11. Do you have any bad habits?

I pull my hair out.  Don't know what it is but I run my fingers through my hair and if I find any hairs that are frizzled
or feel weird I pull them out. Weird I know.

Ok my 11 questions are:

1. If you could eat any food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

2. Stuck on an island.. What actor or actress would you bring with you?

3. Any tattoos?

4. Tv series you have watched every episode of?

5. What pets do you have?

6. What do you do for work?

7. Dream job?

8. Favourite polish ever?

9. Favourite concert you have been to?

10. Favourite childhood memory?

11. The last time you laughed so hard you cried?

And I tag:

1. Maggies Manicures

2. Magnifique Nails

3. Mommy Needs A Mani

4. Moustache Manis

5. Arvonka Nails

6. One Nail To Rule Them All

Smoky nail tutorial

My first ever tutorial is for the smoky nail. Hopefully the instructions are self explanatory. Let me know if you have any questions. Xx Megan

My first blog post ❤

Hello everyone! This is my first post on blogspot, so please say hi and make me feel welcome! I have mainly been on Instagram under @snowglobenails, but wanting to branch out in the community a bit more. Feel free to recommend other nail artists to me also! I'm still trying to figure out how this all works so bare with me while the newbie learn the ropes. I don't even know how to do a search for a blog. Can anyone help me out there?