With holidays just around the corner, it’s time to start figuring out the list of gifts we have to get. Do you have any polishaholics in your life? Luckily, I don’t [well, other than myself, of course], otherwise it would have been very hard to gift them a bottle of pretty nail polish they don’t already own… And that’s where indies come in! Small independent nail polish companies usually have the most unique nail polish blends that will satisfy just about any polish collector.
Today I’m reviewing a few colors from Evolve Indie Polish, a brand started by artist/polishist Amy Andujar. Each batch is hand-blended and hand-poured with love, and clean 5-free formula can match up to the highest industry standards.
This October Evolve Indie Polish celebrates their official launch at Gloss48, a new online beauty retailer that promotes lesser-known indie brands. If mass-market products are just not your cup of tea, or you are looking for something new and different, definitely check them out! Gloss48 adds new products daily, and for the first week you can get them at a discount. All new members receive a voucher for $10 off $30 or more, combine that with a sale and you’ve got yourself a sweet deal!
By the way, Evolve Indie Nail polish will be officially available on Wednesday, October 22nd at 11am and the sale prices will be valid through Wednesday, October 29th at 11am. The collection will include fall brights and an exclusive duo that is only available on Gloss48: Candy Corn Scorned & October Skies. Each duo is housed in a cute giftable tin, so if you’re buying these as a present, you won’t even have to worry about the gift packaging.
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| Evolve Indie Polish Valley Girl and Lovers Rock Duo |
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| Evolve Indie Polish Valley Girl |
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| Evolve Indie Polish Lovers Rock |
For this review I received three duos. The first one is a pair of Valley Girl and Lovers Rock.
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| Evolve Indie Polish Valley Girl |
Valley Girl is best described as a baby powder white cream. It’s extremely pigmented and can easily be a one-coater! The formula is on a thick side, so I had to wait longer than usual between coats, otherwise the brush would create unsightly smudges. This color is absolutely gorgeous on! I had another off-white from Color Club that I like, but now this one is my favorite for sure.
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| Evolve Indie Polish Lovers Rock over Valley Girl |
The second polish in this duo is Lovers Rock. It’s a mix of white, silver, and red hexagonal and square glitters suspended in a clear base. I liked that I didn’t have to fish for the glitters, or put in any extra effort in trying to align the flecks perfectly – the brush pretty much did it all. I also liked that the surface of my nails stayed smooth after the glitter dried. This formula is consistent across all glitters, so I’m not going to repeat myself below.
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| Evolve Indie Polish Cupcake Tour and Coralavish Duo |
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| Evolve Indie Polish Cupcake Tour |
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| Evolve Indie Polish Coralavish |
Second duo is actually a duo of glitters; it features Cupcake Tour and Coralavish.
Cupcake Tour is a very pretty mix of lavender, celery, peach, and sky blue hexagonal and square glitters suspended in a clear base. I love this mix of colors, it has a lot of depth to it.
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| Evolve Indie Polish Coralavish over Valley Girl |
Coralavish lives up to its name! It’s a gorgeous blend of white, coral, sky blue, royal purple, true red, and silver hexagonal and square glitters suspended in a clear base. It really looks like a tropical fish, doesn’t it?
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| Evolve Indie Polish Galactical Tactics and Carnival Lite Duo |
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| Evolve Indie Polish Carnival Lite |
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| Evolve Indie Polish Galactical Tactics |
Third duo features a glitter and a crelly – Galactical Tactics and Carnival Lite.
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| Evolve Indie Polish Carnival Lite |
Carnival Lite is a really subtle play on red-white-and-blue theme, with tiny light blue and brownish red hexagonal glitters added to slightly off-white crelly base. I had a hard time determining if the base is the same color as Valley Girl, and decided that Carnival Lite is just a smidge cooler, while Valley Girl has more yellow in it. Or maybe I’m just crazy and my mind is telling me they’re different only because I was trying really hard to find that difference. Either way, they’re very very close. This formula is not as thick as Valley Girl, so I could easily apply the second coat right away, and it dried down to a beautiful semi-matte finish.
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| Evolve Indie Polish Galactical Tactics over Valley Girl |
The last color for today, Galactical Tactics, is a mix of navy, light blue, and silver hexagonal, square, and bar glitters suspended in a clear base. The brush had a hard time picking up bar glitters, so I ended up with just 2-3 of them across all my nails, which is okay with me, since I’m not a huge fan of bar glitter to begin with.
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| Evolve Indie Polish glitters – three coats of each |
And finally, I swatched all four glitters alone without a creme base just so you could see the opacity and the glitter distribution. All of these swatches feature three coats with no top coat, and I didn’t have to fish for the flecks or arrange them.
PRICE & AVAILABILITY
$14 for a duo or $12 during the sale event. Available at Gloss48.
The tins are adorable!
They really are! That’s got to be some of the best Indie nail polish packaging.
The packaging is so cute and yes, I love all things glittery! Great set to consider!
I know right? Those tins are adorable!
I like the packaging. Lovers Rock is my favorite polish of this group.
It certainly stands out from the crowd. It looks very festive, almost Christmassy to me.
What cute packaging!
Putting polishes into cute little tins was really a great idea!
Those are very pretty glitters!
Glad you like them! Do you have a favorite glitter polish? I’m actually new to glitters, so I don’t have that many, but I’m looking to expand the collection.
I absolutely love Cupcake Tour! So fun.
It’s so fun! The mix of purple and green really makes it look unique, doesn’t it?
Cupcake Tour is so cute
Agreed!
All the colors are gorgeous!
Good to know that you like them, Norah!
Loooove the packaging and the glitters. Magpie alert!
Those glitters are perfect for you! 🙂
The packaging is awesome! Loving those glitters!
Right? This has to be some of the cutest packaging on the indie polish market.
How cute is that packaging!!!
I know, right? love it!
These look gorgeous!
They really are, aren’t they? Indie polishes are always so unique.
I do have a polish freak in my family–this would make a great gift, thanks for sharing!
Oh that’s nice, I bet she would love some of these. Is she into glitters at all?
Very cute polishes.
They really are! What’s your fave?
White nail polish FTW. I adore white nails.
You and me both, Kimmi, I’ve always thought white nail polish looked very chic.
So many great glitters… definitely awesome 🙂
Playing with glitters can be infinitely fun!
Gorgeous glitters!
They did such a great job with the packaeging 🙂
That’s a neat idea. I like the cute tins they come in.
Love the packaging on these!