Tropical Vibes- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we will be creating another tropical design, my favorite designs for this time of year, Summer time! For this design we will be using two of the polishes form the Holo Taco Lite Mode collection, along with the scattered Holo Taco topper, to create an ocean color nail design, with tropical vibes. 

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-Wireless Mode- Lite Mode Collection, Holo Taco- Lite Link- Lite Mode Collection, and Holo Taco- Scattered.

Acrylic paint- Black and white.

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper and detail brush.

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply base coat to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polishes-

All of the nail we will be using two polishes to create a gradient. Holo Taco Lite Link (multichrome green) on the left side and Wireless Mode (mutlichorme blue) on the right side.

Gradient on all of the nails: 

For the ocean effect on the nails we will do a lazy gradient (that what Cristine Simply Nailogical calls it). The lazy gradient just requires the brush that is in the polish. The lazy gradient method,I think is best done with light colored polishes like these ones. 

First take your blue polish Wireless Mode and polish that on the nails only going half way on the nails, then right away polish your green Lite Link on the other half, making sure you over lap the polishes so they can blend together. You will need to do three layers so the nails will be opaque enough. 

Let your gradient dry. 

We will be creating our tropical design on our ring and middle finger nails. I will not be going in detail about how to create the palm trees because I done a lot of tropical designs, so I feel that I don't need to explain how to create a palm tree each time.

Two palm trees on the ring finger nail: 

Anyways for this design I first started with the ring finger nail. First we will make a large palm tree on the right side of the nail and then right under the large palm tree make a smaller palm tree. 

For the water, take a small bit of white paint on a detail brush make a few small lines and before it dries smudge those lines to make waves in the water.

Palm trees and islands on the middle finger nail: 

For the middle finger nail on the right side make an island shape by just making a thick line that has three hills on top of that line. 

Then make two palms trees on the left side of the nail, make one large palm tree that is close to the cuticle and then a small one under that one. Then make a small island that the palm trees will be on. 

Repeat the step for the water under the island/ beside the palm trees.

For a final touch in the sky, you can apply a scattered holo top coat to give a star look to the sky. 

Also on all of the other nail with just the gradient I applied the scattered holo taco top coat. 

Once your nail design is ocean and tropical vacation ready, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help to last though your tropical vacation.  

All of the designs that I create I always practice them, sometimes if I feel like they turned out very good I will share them on the blog.

Hope all of you enjoyed this tropical ocean themed nail design. I thought blending the two polishes for the Holo Taco Lite Mode, Wireless Mode and Lite Link blended very well together and really gave an ocean look to the nails.

See you next time for more nail fun!

Holo Taco Lite Mode Multichrome Collection Review

Hello everyone! Today we will be taking a look at the newest collection from Holo Taco, the Lite Mode Collection. This is a collection of multi-chrome polishes, that are similar to Cristine's multi-chrome collection that she came out with in fall of 2020, the main difference is the other collection had darker colors and seem to have more of a shift in colors, this collection has more light colors hints the name lite mode. Also if you don't know what multi chrome polish is it is a polish that shifts in color depending on the light, most of the polishes in this collection shift to 2 colors, some multi-chrome polishes can shift to more than 2 to 3 colors depending on the polish.

Let's take a look at the Holo Taco Lite Mode Collection.

Like all of the Holo Taco collections all of them come in a nice collection box. Their are 5 polishes in this collection. 

Here are the polishes in side of the box. 

As with all of the Holo Taco polishes this collection are all in individual black boxes. 

Here is what the polishes look like outside of the small boxes. 

Now let's take a look the the individual polishes.

First we have Sunset Simulation this polish is described as an amber colored multichrome with a pink shift. To me in my photos it kept looking brown, in real life this polish looks kind of copper. 

All of these polishes have a sheer finish on the first coat, and can get to full coverage in three coats. 

With this polish I also to photos on the white background to see if it looked any different. 

They still kind of just look brown to me, maybe a little bit copper like in a few of the photos. All of the other polishes I just took photos on the black background. 

Next we have Flash Drive this is described as a purple mutichrome polish that has a magenta shift to it. 

Wireless Mode is described as a multichrome cobalt blue with a turquoise shift. This is a very ocean like color. 

Lite Link is described as a multichrome that shifts between teal and green. I also think their is a  gold shift to this polish as well. This polish also gives me ocean/ mermaid vibes.

Lastly we have Encryption Key this is described as a reddish, pink and orange multichrome polsih. In my photos this polish look more pink. 

Then in the photo of the polish, it looks more orange It just depends on the lighting for all of these polishes. Which is what is cool about multichromes that they look different in all kind of light. 

In conclusion I am a big fan of Holo Taco and I like Cristine's YouTube channels. I did really like this collection, I love bright fun polishes, and I know that these polishes are meant to be on the sheer side to show that shift in colors. I would have to say that formula wise this was my lest favorite collection, also maybe because I am not that great at polishing more sheerer polishes. I do still really like this collection it is very pretty and I would recommend this collection to anyone that loves bright fun and unique polishes. 

 

My two favorite polishes are Wireless Mode and Lite Mode, I like these two the most because they remind me of the ocean and I love blue. 

My next favorites are Encryption Key and Flash Drive. To me Encryption Key reminds me of a fiery sunset and I like how this one looks the most different depending on the light. Flash drive I also like because purple is also one of my favorite colors.

Lastly I would have to say Sunset Simulation this polish just leans to neutral for me, which I don't care for. In my opinion this does't remind me of a sunset. This would be a great color for someone that is just starting off want to wear more brighter unique colors.

 
Also I thought these polishes would look even better with a Holo Taco Holo Topcoat (the holographic topcoats from Holo Taco) and to me they look even better. 

Pinky Nail- Sunset Simulation with Linear Holo Taco.

Ring Finger Nail- Encryption Key with Scattered Holo Taco.

Middle Finger Nail- Flash Drive with Scattered Holo Taco.

Index Finger Nail- Lite Mode with Flakie Holo Taco.

Thumb Nail- Wireless Mode with Flakie Holo Taco.

At the time of typing up this blog the collection box is actually still available for $70 USD 

Holo Taco- lite-mode-collection

Also available individually $14 USD each Holo Taco- collections/all-products

Hope all of you enjoyed this review of the new Holo Taco Lite Mode Collection. 

See you next time for more nail polish fun!