Once Upon a Polish Queen of Hearts

Hello loves, how's your week been? It's Friday! I have absolutely nothing planned, except maybe a shower and I might be threatened into putting away a stack of laundry. I live a wild life.

Today's super belated (I'm sosorrysosorry) post features a polish I'm super in love with. These pictures are a few months old, but I'm actually glad I've waited to post. Now I can let you know how the glitters have lasted in their suspension base over time!

Once Upon a Polish Queen of Hearts is a mix of tiny white glitter, little gold and black hex glitter, large white hex glitter and black and red hearts.

From L-R: one coat of QoH over Wet n Wild Black Creme, two coats of QoH over Sinful Colors White on White, one coat of QoH over China Glaze Kalahari Kiss, and one coat of QoH over Zoya America.

I used two coats over white to sorta demonstrate that one coat really looks best! I did have to use a bit of the dabbing method but I didn't have to fish for hearts, which was awesome. This polish is so much fun. I'm a huge Disney fan, if you haven't noticed, and I think this sums ol' Queenie up so well.

To wear as a whole mani I used Queen of Hearts over China Glaze Kalahari Kiss. I friggin love this weird taupe-yellow-whatever color. It's the perfect neutral to make those gold glitters stand out!

Of course my Seche bubbled a little, so annoying.

Anyway, what do you guys think?? This polish has been on my shelf for months with no curling glitters, no bleeding glitters, and only a slight difference in thickness from when I first received it. It's really a gorgeous, unique polish with so much character.

Here's a picture of Her Highness for your viewing pleasure :)

Fabulous!

Once Upon a Polish can be found at Kimberly's Etsy shop. Queen of Hearts retails for $8.50 for 15 mL  (.5 oz) and is available right now, so don't miss out!

<3 Rachael

China Glaze Secret Peri-Wink-le and Candy Lacquer Frozen Treats!

 Hello hello!! Today is my 2 year dating anniversary with my sweet boyfriend. I'm all glammed out (I look fabulous!) and he's taking me to dinner in just a little bit. I am such a lucky girl :)

I've had this post ready to go for ages, wondering if I should post it. This is one coat of China Glaze Secret Peri-wink-le with one coat of Candy Lacquer Frozen Treats. Do you see that crazy bubbling?? That would be my awful Seche Vite, the bastard. He failed me miserably! Neither polish bubbled at all, so don't blame them, poor things.

Frozen Treats is chock full of glitter, mainly white shredded. It looks sooo cool in the bottle. I love the little pops of colored glitter! This polish was pretty thick, but I shook it half to death and that helped. Sorry about the bubbles... uuugh, Seche, Y U SUCK SOMETIMES.

It's beautiful!!

What do you think??

Cupcakes for everyone :)

Rachael

HAUL.. PIC (AND SHAME) HEAVY

Hello darlings :) This post is long overdue. I've finally gotten my act together and took pictures of everything beauty-related that I purchased (or received) in the month of April.

Rachael has been a very bad girl.

Pantene conditioner, Simple cleansing wipes, Neutrogena facial wash, and Nivea lotion

First up, Target spring beauty bag! This was free so it doesn't count. 

OPI Nail Envy, Seche Restore, Mary Kay moisturizer, eos lip balm in Summer Fruit

Nail Envy... I hadta. This stuff is a miracle worker. Seche Restore for those old half-bottles of top coat that I refuse to throw away. Moisturizer because I'm obsessed with how soft this stuff makes muh face. And eos balm because... OMG no more explanations, I JUST NEEDED IT 

Fingerpaints- Flashy, Flecked, Inkblot Blue, 15 Minutes of Frame, Pink Perspective

Models Own Hed Kandi Disco Heaven, OPI Houston We Have a Purple, OPI Cool in the Pool, OPI Rainbow Connection, Cult Nails My Kind of Cool-Aid and Manipulative. 

need, need, need, need, need, need. nuff said.

OPI Austin-tatious Turquoise, MAC Ice Cream Cake, Jesse's girl... can't remember the name, Lacquer Convention Elphaba

YES. SO MUCH YES

Zoya Breezi, Petra, Dove, Perrie, Kieko, Jem

This is not color accurate. Wtf camera

Zoya Wednesday, Zuza, Kate, Belle, Coraline

 again, not color accurate. I swear the Blogger collection has three different colors, unlike the pic- they look identical! lame

Julep Portia, Hayden, Helena, Taylor, Demi, Melissa, Penelope

OPI Crown Me Already, DS Shimmer, Pirouette My Whistle, Don't Mess With OPI

 found Shimmer at a dusty... no silver cap. "I changed it, it was dirty." Still gorgeous, but I wish it had the cap!

Orly Decades of Dysfunction, Royal Navy, Revlon... something... and Cloud

China Glaze Stella, Royal Tease, International Flare, Golden Enchantment

 found at a dinky little nail supply. It was so messy, I asked if they'd just moved in... "No, we've been here for three years." MY bad

Deborah Moneysucking Lippmann Mermaid's Dream, butterLONDON The Black Knight


FOR SHAME, FOR SHAME...

I'm in trouble.

Once Upon a Polish- Scuttle

Hellooo perky ones! Today, er, tonight, we have an indie polish you're gonna need ASAP. Truuust me.

Let's just look at this gorgeousness.

Holy. Crap. This is two coats of Scuttle over one coat of Zoya- Dove. Scuttle is a milky pale grey base filled with black hex, white hex, tiny white hex and a smattering of teensy holo glitters. Dove is identical but glitterless, so it's a perfect base. Scuttle applied perfectly. I did a little fishing for the black glitters just so things would be more uniform, but if you don't mind the beauty of random glitter placement then you can get away with two coats. One coat of SV to top 'er off.

Scuttle is a handmade polish by Kimberly of Once Upon a Polish. Click that link and go check out her other creations- GOO NOOOW. She has lots of Disney themed polishes and you KNOW how I feel about that! Also,  LIKE  her on Facebook! Word has it that she's restocking in a couple weeks. I'm saving up for Flounder, Princess and the Pea, Ursula... ah, I need them all.

SO. PRETTY! Look at that bottle!!!! 

I ordered this polish late one evening and the very next morning Kimberly had processed my order and sent me a tracking number. UH, the girl is good. I received Scuttle four days later, beautifully wrapped in blue bubble wrap and tied up in a gorgeous little gold embossed bag. As my friend Amanda says, presentation is everything, and Kimberly really, really impressed me! Her polishes are $8.50 each and I'd pay more than that for beauties like Scuttle.

Here he is, for comparison:

Please tell me you've seen The Little Mermaid. Don't make me sing to you. 

Under the seeaaaaaa.....

<3

Pretty & Polished Jawbreaker

Hi everyone!! How are you? It's Friday night so I'm hoping most of you are out having a good time. If you're like me, you like staying in where no scantily clad schwasted skanks are out on patrol for guido steroid pushers. No offense to steroid pushers or skanks. Or whatever.

So, if you're like me, you're guido and skank-free at home, painting your nails. This polish arrived yesterday. Pretty and Polished Jawbreaker. Let's take a moment to gaze, and wipe the drool from our chins.

Jawbreaker is a handmade polish by Chelsea Marie of Pretty and Polished. HERE is the link to her etsy shop. She's on vacation but stocks pretty regularly. Even so, Jawbreaker is hard to come by, and goodness... isn't it obvious why? It's beyond gorgeous. This is 2 coats and one coat of Seche Vite.

Jawbreaker aka Best Friggin Polish Ever is a white base filled to the brim with multicolored and multisized (that's not a word but I don't care) glitters. Square red, yellow hex, blue hex, purple circular, and MOOORE. It's insane. I stared at my nails allll day. It's a little thick but nothing unmanageable. I. EFFING. LOVE. IT.

I got compliments on it all day. Rightly so! The people of the panty-verse need to recognize great polish while I'm ripping sensors from their overpriced v-strings. AKA assfloss. 

I'm at 100+ followers... you guys are amazing. I'm so happy to have you all here and I hope that I can make you smile. If you laugh, for goodness sakes TELL ME, otherwise I feel like a wannabe comedian at the mic listening to the crickets chirp. Or whatever crickets do. I don't hang out with them much.

GIVEAWAY SOONNNN.... Stay tuned, perky ones!

Love, 

Rachael