Indie Spotlight: Once Upon A Polish!

Hey everyone!  I have yet another amazing indie polish brand to share with you today!!  The brand is called Once Upon A Polish and the polishes are all themed from fairy tale, as the name suggests.  I think that is such a cool premise for a brand and offers endless possibilities for amazing polish creations!

When I opened the package of polishes to review, I was psyched to see that they are themed after Alice In Wonderland!  How awesome!

I wore all three of the polishes as two coats on their own, with topcoat.  I believe similar colored "underwear" polish would also work nicely with these, but I felt the bases the glitters were in were opaque enough to use without, which I prefer to do when possible.

So, here we go onto the swatches!

The Caterpillar

First up, we have The Caterpillar.  This is a blue/purple shimmery multi-toned base jam packed with different shapes and sizes of blue glitter as well as sheer white square glitter.  This polish really is gorgeous, I don't think pictures do it justice!  The formula was easy to work with, and the glitter didn't hide in the base, I was able to brush it on without fishing for pieces.

As an afterthought, I decided to layer this on a nail wheel over Black, White, Blue and Purple, and here is how that came out:

The Caterpillar over: Black, White, Blue, Purple

I honestly think in this case, I would probably layer this one in the future now that I see how it looks over other colors!  It is definitely wearable on its own if that's your "thing" but I think the true complexness of this polish seems to shine through when layered.

Down the Rabbit Hole

Down the Rabbit Hole is a gorgeous blue jelly base packed with loads of multicolored small sized glitter.  I love multicolored glitter polishes and I love them even more when they are in a wearable base!  So this polish is an obvious win for me!  I love the shimmer that hides in this jelly, it's not just a flat jelly.  The formula was, once again, easy to apply and work with.  It really looks stunning! 

Cheshire Cat

I saved my favorite of the these three polishes for last:  Cheshire Cat.  I love this polish the most for several reasons,  first of all, when I saw it in the bottle I think my jaw might have dropped a little from how pretty it is!  I adore pink and purple together so I was psyched about that!  I also LOVE the Cheshire Cat from the Alice in Wonderland story, so that was more bonus points.  Lastly, I love jellies like this one, with all the different shapes and sizes of glitter in a wearable jelly base, WIN!

This is a shimmery purple jelly packed with all different shapes and sizes of pink, purple, and sheer white glitters.

Once I had this polish on, I was completely sold.  I mean, just look at the picture!  I love those bright fuchsia hexes!  They were a little harder to fish out than the glitter in the other two polishes but it was totally worth it and it wasn't a big deal, just took some careful bottle shaking to get them on my brush so I could use them.  A little extra work is totally worth the final outcome with a polish like this.

I loved this polish so much that I actually wore it a second time a few days later for my birthday!  I stamped over it with Houndstooth, and I will show that mani in an upcoming post! :)


So overall, I think you can tell, I am totally impressed with these offerings by Once Upon A Polish!  I am very excited to see what else this store has to offer in the future, as well as possibly grabbing a few of her other existing colors, which look amazing!

So please go check out the Once Upon A Polish etsy shop!
Also check out the facebook page to keep up to date on news for future releases: Once Upon A Polish on Facebook


What do you think of these polishes?  Which is your favorite?



*products provided for review consideration