Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday's Nail Design

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Today on the blog we will be creating a Christmas themed nail design; with a gingerbread man, two gifts, a Christmas tree and mistletoe or holly. For this nail design we will be using some polish from the Holo Taco Birthstone collection. 

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this nail design:

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and CND Super Shiney Top Coat.

Polishes- Holo Taco- Birthstone- March- Happily Ever Aqua, Holo Taco- Birthstone- July- Ruby,Madly,Deeply, Holo Taco- Birthstone-August- Peridon't Bother Me, Holo Taco- Birthstone- April- Ride Or Diamond, Holo Taco- Chorme Collection- World's First, and Snowman Rainbow Glitter polish.

Acrylic paint- White, black, red, green, and brown.

Nail art tools- Small dotting tool, thin stripper and detail brushes.

Other- Water and acetone to clean off nail art brushes. 

Apply a base coat to clean dry nails, wait for that to dry.

Polish- 

Thumb and ring finger nail- a light blue holographic polish (Holo Taco- Happily Ever Aqua)

Index- a red glitter polish (Holo Taco- Ruby,Madly,Deeply)

Middle- a green glitter/ shimmer polish (Holo Taco- Peridon't Bother Me)

Pinky- a sliver glitter polish (Holo Taco- Ride Or Diamond)

Let that dry.

 Gingerbread on the Thumb Nail: 

First we will start off with the gingerbread man on the thumb nail. Take your detail brush with brown paint on it. Make a small circle near the tip of the nail, then two arms, a tummy and then two legs, then fill in your gingerbread man with brown paint, you may need to go over your gingerbread man a few times to be opaque. 

Once your gingerbread man has dried take a dotting tool with black paint on it and make two eyes, then wipe that black paint off an take some red paint and make two dots on his tummy for the buttons. 

For his frosting take a thin stripper brush with white paint on it and make some squiggly lines on his arms and legs. On his head take a detail brush with white paint on it and make a curved shape on his head and then make some thicker smaller lines for some dripped of frosting. 

Lastly that same detail brush with black paint on it and make a smile for your gingerbread man. Although my gingerbread don't look to happy he looks a little sad that he might get eaten. 

Gifts on the Index and Middle Finger Nails: 

On the index and middle finger nails we will be making a red and green gift. On both nails I started with an outline using white paint. First take a thin stripper brush with white paint on it and make a cross on the nail, then make two loops on both sides of the center part of your cross, lastly make two lines come down from the loops you made. If you would like you can stop here or you can take a sliver polish (Holo Taco- World's First) and go over the white bows you just made with silver. 

Christmas Tree on the Ring Finger Nail: 

On the ring finger nail we will make a Christmas tree with snow. First take a thin stripper brush with brown paint on it and make a thin line starting in the center of the nail and going to the tip of the nail, this is for your tree stump. With that same stripper brush with green paint on it, make thin lines that are kind of curved all the way down the tree stump on both sides as you go down the tree start to make each line just a little longer. Also add a few line of white to the tree for snow. 

For a last touch to your tree add a little bit of glitter to the tree, I used a glitter that a different colors in it with a little bit larger glitters. 

Then you can add snow to the sky by taking a dotting tool with white paint on it make random dots to the sky. 

Mistletoe/ Holly on the Pinky Finger Nails: 

On the pinky finger nail we will make mistletoe or holly. Near the cuticle take your detail brush with green paint on it and make two leaves on both sides of the nail. Then take your dotting tool with red paint on it and make tree red dots. 

When you are happy with how your Christmas design turned out, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last all Christmas long. 

Here is the practice version of this nail design.

Hope all of you enjoyed this Christmas nail design! 

Also if you are wondering what is on my other hand, my right hand, polishes from the Holo Taco Birthstone collection. April, July, and August birthstone polishes. This makes a great Christmas color combo. 

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 

See you next time for more nail fun!!

Holo Taco Birthstone Collection Review

Hello everyone! Today on the blog I will give you my final thoughts on the Holo Taco Birthstone collection. I did 6 post on this collection reviewing 2 polishes at a time and now I have wore the whole collection on my nails. Unfortunately as soon as this collection was released it sold out but  Cristine/ Holo Taco had said on her YouTube channel that she does plain on rereleasing some of the popular polishes, I am unsure about the whole collection. As with any of the Holo Taco Collection I always suggest purchasing them right away if you want them, do not wait. 

As stated above and in other post this collection has 12 polishes one for each month, a polish for each birthstone. Each polish has a different finish to it, which I do like that there was a lot of different finishes and not all the same. 

I do feel like Holo Taco did a good job as always (well most of the time) with this collection. This collection did represent all 12 birthstones pretty well.

As for formula, for the most part they had pretty good formula. I have notice that some times their polishes can be a little on the thick side. Holo Taco I feel does linear holo polish the best, like for example the rainbow collection was all linear holo and applied well in 1 to 2 coats and was very smooth.

As for my favorites of the collection I would say first is 

April's Birthstone Ride or Dimond, this polish is so pretty, it applied well and look like diamonds on the nails, with all of the holo glitter in this polish it shines bright in the sun. 

My second favorite polish would be

August Birthstone Peridon't Bother Me, this is my birthstone so I may be a little biased. I actually don't really care for green polishes, but this one I can make an exception. When I took the photo's above this polish looks like it is glowing under the photography light and in bright sun light. This polish did have a good formula too. 

My Third favorite would be 

July's Birthstone Ruby, Madly, Deeply this polish is another one that is so beautiful and the holo glitter in it makes it look so shinny. I love wearing red polishes on my nails and I always say that any one can wear/ pull off a red polish on their nails. This one also had a good formula.

Two runner ups would be 

 

February's Birthstone Crystal Mommy, I also like purple and once again with the holo glitter this it just made this polish look so pretty. 

March Birthstone Happily Ever Aqua this is my hubby's birthstone, I also really like blues as well and this on is also very beautiful and had a very good formula. 

In conclusion I really did enjoy this collection and if/when it goes back in stock I do recommend buying this collection. I was nice to have so many finishes in polish to choose from. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this review and if you have not checked out my individual (2 polishes at a time) reviews of this collection don't forget to check them out as well. 😊

Here is a link to purchase all 12 polishes, hopefully it will be back in stock soon. 

Holo Taco Birthstone Collection $149 USD (when in stock)

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Holo Taco Birthstone Collection- November and December

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we have the last two polishes from the Holo Taco Birthstone collection, November and December. For this collection there was 12 polishes and I reviewed 2 at a time, which did take a while, but as stated in my first post of this collection I like to wear enjoy my polishes, now we have finally completed this collection. 😓😁

November' s polish is Topaz Tears this is described as a brown jelly base, with green/ gold iridescent flakes, and bronzed shimmer and scatted holo glitter. 

This polish applied very good in two coats. This polish had one of the best formula of this collection, this polish really did surprise me with the formula, and this polish was very unique. 

This polish did look a little bit different than the birthstone, but I do remember Cristine said she wanted to make this polish look unique to the birthstone. I actually like that she went with this, I am usually not a brown polish girl but this polish is so unique that I do like it.

Holo Taco- Topaz Tears $14USD (when in stock)

Lastly we have December Tanzanite Away this is described as royal indigo jelly base polish, with red magenta micro shimmer, scattered holo and blue reflective glitter. 

This polish formula was not that great, it was sheer on the first two coats, and didn't have a smooth texture due to the reflective glitter, this does tend to make a polish look thick and lumpy. Before you apply a topcoat this polish does look dull, yes even for a glitter polish. Also I always wait a long time for my nails to dry 10 mins after I polish, then I apply a top coat then wait 30 mins for the full manicure to dry. This polish still felt tacky after the 30 mins, plus I did have to apply a second top coat due to it not being smooth and still looking dull. Lucky this polish did not dent because of it feeling still tacky, that feeling did eventually go away. 

This polish did represent the December birthstone well, this polish is pretty if only the formula was a little bitter, this polish looks best in sunlight/ bright light.  

Here is the polish with the photograph light and my cell phone light, to try and show the reflective glitter. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this review of the Holo Taco Birthstone Collection. Stay tuned for my final thoughts on the collection. 

See you next time for more nail polish fun! 

Holo Taco Birthstone Collection- September and October

Hello everyone! This week on the blog we will be taking a look at the next polishes from the Holo Taco Birthstone collection, September and October. Also if you have not taken a look at the rest of the post that I did on the first few months of this collection January- August, don't forget to take a look at those as well. I have been reviewing two at a time.  

September's polish is Playing With Sapphire this is described as a deep jelly base sapphire blue, with iridescent flakes, and scattered holo glitter.

This applied good in three coat, the first few coats were a little sheer but this polish did build up in three coats. 

This polish did represent the September birthstone well, this blue polish is very beautiful. 

Holo Taco- Playing With Sapphire  $14USD (when in stock)

October's polish is Birthday Brat this is Cristine's Birthday polish, this collection was in celebration of the creator of Holo Taco, she decided to make a polish for each month and October is her birthday month. This polish is described as bright pink topaz, frosted metal, with silver and rose gold metallic flakes, along with scattered holo and iridescent flakes. 

This polish formula was good it was opaque for me in three coats. 

October's birthstone has more then one birthstone a pink and a opal, Cristine decided to go with a bright pink version of her birthstone, which I am glad that she decided to go with a bright pink and not a white opal, this was a good choice. 

Holo Taco- Birthday Brat  $14USD (when in stock)

That is all for this week, hope you have enjoyed the reviews so far even though it has taken a while to go over all 12 polishes. Next week we will be going over the last two polishes of this collection November and December, and then my final thoughts on this birthstone collection.

See you next time for more nail fun! 😊

Holo Taco Birthstone Collection- July and August

Hello everyone! This week on the blog we will be taking a look at the next two polishes from the Holo Taco Birthstone Collection, July and August. 

July's polish is Ruby, Madly, Deeply this is described as a jelly base, ruby red, with holographic glitter. 

This polish formula was good it was a little thick and still took three coats to be opaque for me. 

This polish did represent the July birthstone well, this polish is so beautiful I do really like red polishes, I fell like red polish can look good on anyone. This polish will be great for the up and coming Christmas Holiday.

Holo Taco- Ruby, Madly, Deeply $14USD (when in stock) 

August's polish is Peridon't Bother Me is decried as a lime green shimmer with a yellow green shift along with green reflective glitter. When I look at the bottle I see a slight blue shift on the sides, I don't see this on the nails, also in the bottle I feel like you can see the reflective glitter more then on the nail, on the nails the reflective glitter is more subtle.

This polish applied well in three coats, it was a little sheer on the first coat it did build up in three. In the photo on my thumb it loos a little sheer due to me not applying enough polish there. This polish seems like it is glowing on the nails, in the photo above when I have the light hit it looks so beautiful.

As for a good match with the birthstone, peridot is my birthstone (I was born in August) this is a great match for the August birthstone. This polish is so beautiful, usually I don't really care for green polishes but this one I do really like, Holo Taco did a good job on this. This polish will also make a great Christmas Holiday polish. I also like the name of this polish as well. 

Holo Taco- Peridon't Bother Me $14USD (when in stock) 

That is all for this week, hope you enjoyed July and August, those are my favorite months (yes I am biased in a good way because July is when I got married and August is my birthday month.)😊

For next week will be taking a look at September and October.

See you next time for more nail fun!