Fall in Paradise- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a nice fall so far. Today on the blog we will be creating one more tropical design, with a fall look to it with three fall like colors to give a fall in paradise look to the nails. I think this is the best way to spend your fall or any season if you can, in paradise, if you can't then this design is perfect for you if you are like me and dream of a tropical vacation year round/ all the time. 

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used to create this fall in paradise nail look:

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

Polishes- Holo Taco- Orange Drink- Rainbow Collection, OPI Lisbon- Now Museum Now You Don't, Zoya- Ziv, and Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Black Heart. 

Acrylic paint- Black

Nail art brushes- Thin detail and stripper brushes.

Other- Makeup sponge for gradients, Holo Taco liquid latex for easy clean up around the nails, a small cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Apply a base coat to clean dry nails, then let that dry.

Polish- 

Index and pinky nails- a brick red (OPI- Now Museum Now You Don't)

Thumb, middle and ring finger nails- Orange holographic, this is your base color for the gradient (Holo Taco- Orange Drink.) 

Let that dry.

Sunset Gradient- 

To start off and to make things easy to clean up, if you have a liquid latex apply that around the finger. (I used Holo Taco's) 

For the sunset gradient we will be creating a gold, orange and red gradient for our fall inspired sunset. First take a makeup sponge and first polish a gold polish (Zoya- Ziv), then an orange holo the same color as your base polish color (Holo Taco- Orange Drink), and then a brick red, the same polish you used on the index and pinky nail (OPI- Now Museum Now You Don't). It is ok if the polishes overlap on the sponge, it is actually better if they do overlap, that way the gradient will blend better. 

Then dab the sponge on the thumb, middle, and ring finger nails, you will need to do this a few time to be opaque, I did this three times. 

Once your gradient is just right peel off your liquid latex, if you used one. 

Lastly apply a top coat this helps the gradient to blend better. Let that dry.

Palm Tree Design:

First off on the thumb nail make a large palm tree in the middle of the nail.

For the middle and ring finger nail make two palm trees one on the left side that is tall, then one on the right side that is shorter. 

Then on just the middle and ring finger we will make a small piece of land with black polish on the tip of the nails make a French tip like shape, it doesn't need to be perfect. 

Once your nails are fall in paradise ready apply another top coat to all of the nails to seal in your design and to help last. 

Here is the practice design of fall in paradise.

Hope all of you enjoyed this fall in paradise nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Keep Summer Alive- Tropical Nail Design

Hello everyone! This summer has gone way too fast, it seems like it just was Memorial Day and now Labor Day has come and gone. Technically according to the calendar, it is summer until September 22. So to try can keep summer alive for a little longer we will be creating another tropical nail design. Back in April I purchased the Orly Melting Point collection and I wanted to create a tropical design using some of the polishes from that collection, and I finally got to create one. This collection did give me some troubles creating a gradient, I think due the polishes having a more of a sheer finish to them. 

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

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

Polishes- Orly- Glass Act, Orly- Having a Smeltdown, Orly- The Floor is Lava, Orly- Erupt To No Good, Orly- Cesium The Day, Sally Hansen- Hard as Nails- Hard to get, and Zoya- Oceane.

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper and detail brushes, and a fan brush.

Acrylic paint- Green, yellow, and brown.

Other- Makeup sponge and liquid latex. 

Apply a top coat to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polishes-

Thumb- a blueish purple (Orly- Glass Act)

Index and pinky- a blueish green (Orly- Having a Smeltdown) 

Middle and ring finger- white (this is your base color for the gradient, the white helps the colors to show up better.)

Sunset gradient on the middle and ring finger nails: 

First we will start off with the sunset gradient. Just to start off, this gradient did take a little bit of trial and error, at first when I practice this design I started with a sponge and it seems to not work that well. So then I looked up a YouTube video to see if anyone had tried to make a gradient using the Orly Melting Point collection and someone had done one using a fan brush, I tried that and it seem to work, then when I did this final design on my nails, I tried the fan brush method and it seem like it was drying to fast. 

Anyways I will go over the weird way that I got this gradient to work. 

First if you have liquid latex you can apply that over your fingers that you are going to do the gradient over. 

First take your fan brush and polish three colors that you would like to use, I used a Pink The Floor Is Lava, Orange Erupt to No Good, and Yellow Cesium The Day, then polish your fan brush with each color overlapping the colors a little. 

Then take your fan brush and wipe the brush from side to side on the nail. I did this a few time and it seem like it was drying to fast and not distribute the polish on the nail enough. 

Then I tried the sponge method and that see to help the gradient to be opaque enough.

If you applied liquid latex, you can peel it off first. 

Once your gradient is done apply a top coat to help to blend the gradient together. 

Ocean Water: 

For the ocean water we will keep things very simple, just take a makeup sponge with a shimmer blue on it (Zoya Oceane) and dab that on the tip of the nails for your ocean water, it is ok if it looks a little messy.

Palm Trees: 

For the Palm trees first I mixed green and yellow to make a lighter green (that way I have 2 greens). Make one palm tree on each side of the nail on the right side on the ring finger nail and the left side for the middle finger nail. I went for a true to color palm tree verses a shadow. 

Once you are happy with how your nails look, apply a top coat again to all of your nails to help your nails last through the rest of the summer days and to help them shine in the sun.

Here is the practice version, I did like this design but I was not my favorite I just think the Orly Melting Point collection was hard to gradient, due to the polishes being on the sheer side. I did still feel like this was worth doing a post on anyways.

Hope you enjoyed this summer tropical nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Holo Taco- Mixed Emotions 5th Anniversary Collection

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a good summer. This summer has gone by so fast, we have been doing a little be of traveling this summer going to New York and Chicago and going to two big cities in one year is really not for me, it is just to busy and chaotic. Anyways today on the blog we will be taking a look at the latest collection from Holo Taco this collection did come out in July and I am a little late because of the busy summer, but I did still want to do a review on this collection. 

Unfortunately as of doing this post this collection is sold out but still shows on the Holo Taco website, this is a limited edition collection maybe this collection might come back I am unsure.

Here is the collection box that all Holo Taco polish collection come in. The front and the back of the box.

Here is the inside of the collection box, all of these polishes are color changing/ thermal polish from hot to cold, and the box also changes color as well. All of the polishes can change in hot/ cold water or even from a hot to cold areas in a room. 

Here are the cute boxes that they come in as well. 

This collection also came with some color changing stickers. I did put them on the box, the box did not have the emotion stickers on them. 

Now let's take a look at all of the polishes. 

First we will start off with Funny Feeling above this polish is show in the cold state this is described as a turquoise with a hint of green shimmer and a little bit of scattered holo in it. 

Here is Funny Feeling in the warm state this is described as chartreuse yellow, to me this look like a light green with shimmer and scattered holo glitter in it. 

Here is Funny Feeling in the hot and cold state. 

Second we have Rage Bait in the cold state this is described as a coral or a hot pink with shimmer and scatter holo.

Here is Rage Bait in the warm state that is described as a tangerine yellow. 

Rage Bait in the warm and cold state.

Third we have Guilty Pleasure in the cold state this is described as a dark purple with shimmer and scatted holo. 

Here is Guilty Pleasure in the warm state this is described as a flamingo pink or light pink. 

Guilty Pleasure in the warm and cold state.

Fourth we have Deeply Superficial in the cold state this is described as a magenta pink with iridescent flakes and scattered holo glitter. 

Here is Deeply Superficial in the warm state this is described as a pale light pink. 

Deeply Superficial in the warm and cold state. 

Lastly we have Simply Chaotic in the cold state this is described as a dark purple or dark navy blue with iridescent flakes and scattered holo glitter. 

Here is a Simply Chaotic in the warm state this is described as a turquoise green. 

Here is Simply Chaotic in the warm and cold state.

As for formula on all of these polishes they all had an ok formula, all of the polishes did kind of have a thick formula, and due to most of the polishes being a light color on the warm state I did have to apply three coats to make sure the warm and cold state was opaque enough. As for the color changing properties, they did change very quickly from just a warm to cold room and of course water. 

In conclusion these polishes are very pretty and that it is cool that you get a two in one with the color changing, so then it is like you are getting 10 polishes in the collection instead of 5. I was a little disappointed in the formula being so thick and that you really still need to apply 3 coats to be opaque. Also after I bought this collection I later found out that the color changing part may only last 6 moths to a year, which I hope is untrue due to these polishes being pricey. 

As stated above these polishes are sold out and also limited edition, but are still showing on the website so I will link them just in case.

https://www.holotaco.com/collections/all-products Link to the individual polishes from the Mixed Emotions collection, they where $15 USD each. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this review of the Holo Taco- Mixed Emotions 5th Anniversary Collection!

See you next time for more nail fun!