It's too cold outside- snowflake nail design

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is enjoying this super cold winter, just kidding! It has been way too cold this winter in the USA, even in the states that usually are not that cold, they are even having cold weather. I know where I live it has been way too cold and snowy and I am just ready for at least Spring time. Anyway we all may be tired of the winter weather, but why not have a pretty snowflake design on our nails, to somewhat enjoy the winter. 

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

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

Polishes- Zoya- Estelle, Holo Taco- Toppers- Scattered, and Holo Taco- Electric Holo Collection- Circuit Breaker.

Acrylic paint- White.

Nail art tools- Thin striper brush, a small dotting tool, and a makeup sponge for glitter gradients. 

Other- Water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply a base coat to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polish all of your nails with a shimmery blue (Zoya- Estelle.)

Let that dry.

Glitter Gradient on all of the Nails: 

First we will start off with a glitter gradient on all of the nails. Take a scattered holographic polish and polish a little bit on the tips of the nails. Now take a makeup sponge with the same glitter polish that you just used and apply some to the sponge, dab the sponge on to the tips of the nails, I did this two times over all the nails to have enough glitter. Then I usually with the polish brush will apply anther thin layer over the tip of the nails, to smooth out what we just sponged on.

Snowflakes:

For the Snowflake we will mainly be focusing near the tips of the nails. To make a snowflake take a thin striper brush with white paint on it and make a cross shape, then an X shape through that. On every line make two to three very small lines. Then to finish off your snowflake, make a very small dot on the very end of each line. 

For even more snow, take a dotting tool with a sliver holographic polish on it and dab the dotting tool on the random blank areas of the nail. 

On all of the nail you can do different amounts of snowflakes depending on your nail length. Some nails I did two snowflakes, some three and some just a half snowflake. 

Once your nails match the outside, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last thought all the winter weather.

Hope all of you have enjoyed this winter snowflake nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Cookies for Rudolph- Christmas Nail Design

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Today on the blog we will be creating a shinny and cute nail design for the holidays, a gingerbread man and Rudolph because even Santa's reindeer need some cookies too, but who would want to eat this cute gingerbread?

Cookies for Rudolph

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

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

Polishes- Holo Taco- Birthstone- September- Playing With Sapphire, Holo Taco- Toppers- Rainbow Snow, and Holo Taco- Magnetic Magic Collection- Twice in a Blue Moon. 

Acrylic paint- Black, white, red, brown, and peach. 

Nail art tools- thin striper brush and detail brush, and a small dotting tool.

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

Polish-

Thumb- a sapphire blue 

Index, middle, and pinky- a holographic glitter polish.

Ring finger nail- a shimmery blue.

Let that dry.

The index, middle and pinky finger nails will stay as is with no nail art on them.

Gingerbread Man on the Thumb Nail:

First we will start off with the gingerbread man, usually with this kind of design I jump back and forth between the two to let layers dry, when I am actually paint the designs, for explaining purposes I will just explain it all in two parts, not back and fourth like when you paint the design. 

Take a thin detail brush with brown paint on it, make a large circle near the tip of the nail and fill that in. Then make two arms, for his body and legs make a upside down heart shape, then fill in your gingerbread man with brown paint, you will need to go over the a few times to be opaque.

Once your gingerbread man shape has dried, take a dotting tool with black paint on it and make two dots for his eyes.

For his smile take a striper brush with black paint and make a curved line under his eyes. With that same clean brush, just use white paint make a few squiggly line on his arms and legs.

For the last final touches we will add a bow tie and some buttons. To make his small bow tie, take a thin detail brush with red paint on it, make a small oval, then make two symmetrical round loops on each side for the rest of the bow.

Lastly take your dotting tool with white paint on it, make two dots on his tummy for the buttons

He turned out so cute! 🥰

Also if you would like you can add some snow in the background, take the same holo glitter polish that you used on the index, middle and pinky nail on a dotting tool and dot some snow on random spots on the nails. 

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer on the Ring Finger Nail:

To complete this design we will be crate Rudolph on the ring finger nail. Take a small detail brush with brown paint on it and make a lager circle for his head near the cuticle. Then make a large oval for his body, two little arms and then two ovals for his feet, also make two small circles on top of his head for his ears. Once you have the shape fill that in with the brown paint, you will need to go over this a few times to be opaque.

For this face make a peach colored oval near the bottom of the head and kind of near the tummy, fill this in.

On his tummy make a heart shape with the same peach color, then lastly with the peach color make two small circles in his ears. 

For his facial features take your dotting tool with black paint on it and make two black dots for his eyes. For his noses make an oval in the middle of the peach oval.

On his hands fill in the tip of the hands with black and the feet make two small ovals.

For the final touch Rudolph's antlers, take your thin striper brush with black paint on it, on top of his head make two lines, with two smaller lines at the top coming out from the sides. 

Just including this to show the glow that holo glitter can have! 

Once your nails are Christmas ready apply a top coat to add even more shine and to help them last through all of your cookie eating. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this Christmas nail design, I really like how the gingerbread came out, he is so adorable and the Rudolph also looks cute too. 

Here is the practice version

Hope all of you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays! 

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Holo Taco Advent Calendar- Polish Review

Hello everyone! A couple of weeks we took a look at what was inside the Holo Taco Advent Calendar, today we will take a closer look at the all eight of the polishes that were in the calendar. All eight of the polishes have different finishes and three of the eight polishes are toppers. Some of the polishes that are topper I will be showing over some of the other non toppers in the collection.

Here are all of the polishes in the bottles. 

Let's take a closer look at the polishes, I will not be going in order of how the polishes appeared in the box. 

Silent Night this is royal navy crelly polish, that can be a fully opaque midnight blue. Crelly polishes are ment to be more sheer and also can be built up to be more opaque. 

This is the first crelly polish that I have tried so I can not speak for other's, I just know from other people that I have seen online reviewing this polish have said this cruelly seems to be more on the opaque side and not as sheer as most crelly polishes. 

I got the polish to be opaque in three coats. I personal don't really care for sheer polishes, so I am unsure how I feel about this one. Even thought I go it to be opaque some part did look a little patchy. 

I did wear Gold Scattered Holo Taco over this polish on a few nails to show the topper and I kept some of the nails with just Silent Night that way you can see the polish on it's own. 

Gold Scattered Holo Taco (Worn over Silent Night) this is a clear topper with gold scattered holo glitter in it. This topper is similar to their silver on that they had made when Holo Taco first stated to make polishes. 

I applied one coat over Silent Night, this topper is very pretty and would look great over any dark colored cream polish or even a crelly sandwich, which I need to try. 

Wreath Havoc Taco (worn over Silent Night, on a few nails) this is a metallic foil multi-chrome topper, that shifts from purple, teal and green. 

I applied one coat over Silent Night on a few nails. This also is a very pretty topper, I do really enjoy Holo Taco multi-chrome polishes, so it is nice to have one in a topper to wear over any polish.

Pirouette Pink is light blush pink with crushes holo glitter in it. I am wearing Diamond Dasher Taco over this polish on all of the nails. 

This polish took two coat to be opaque. This polish I did not really care for, light pink polishes are not my cup of tea, even with the holo in the polish adding Diamond Dasher Taco over the polish I still did not care for this polish. If you like more subtle light colors on your nails you may like this polish. 

Diamond Dasher Taco is a holographic glitter topper that has different shape holo glitter in it such as diamond, and large and small hexagon glitter pieces. 

I applied one coat of Diamond Dasher Taco over Pirouette Pink. This topper is very pretty as well  of course I love the holo glitter and that there is so much glitter and many different shapes of that glitter. 

Call Me Vixen s a shimmery burgundy/ cranberry jelly, that also has scattered holo glitter in it. 

This polish was opaque for me in two coat and also is very pretty. I did enjoy this polish as well, this is a nice Christmas/ Holiday colored polish, without being a true red. 

In A Flurry this is light icy blue frosted metal that has scattered holo glitter in it, and a lot of sliver flakes in it as well. 

This polish was opaque for me in three coats. This polish is very pretty and is probably one of my favorite polishes. Holo Taco had a polish that was kind of similar to this in their frosted metals collection that they had a few years ago, that was also a blue sadly they polish turned, I just hope this polish well not do the same thing, hopefully Holo Taco has worked on the formula of the frosted metals so they will last. 

Ice Angel is an ivory, (with some silver tone) colored linear holo that has an almost yellow or gold glow to it. I did wear Diamond Dasher Taco over just two nails to show how it looks over this polish, which does add to it.

This polish was opaque for me in three coats and was also very pretty. At first I thought this was similar to the silver polish that is already in the Holo Taco line, it is not this polish still has the silver look to it but with a glow to it which I end up really liking. 

There we have it all of the polishes in the Holo Taco Advent Calendar. In Conclusion I do really like all of the polishes in this collection, and that there were three tops. I have been a fan of Holo Taco for some years now and it is cool that they decided to create and advent calendar, I personally liked when Cristine surprised all of with the collection and didn't tell us before hand. 

As for the polish that was my most favorite I would have to say In A Flurry. This polish fits with the winter theme and is very pretty. 

Next I would say that  Diamond Dasher and Gold Scattered Taco are my next favorite because of the holo glitter in them make them so pretty and would be great for a new years glitter gradient. 

Sadly my lest favorite is Pirouette Pink, I just did not create for this one due to it being a light pink, it is still pretty but not one that I really care for.

Hope all of you enjoyed this closer look at all of the polishes in the advent calendar and if you missed the post about what is in the advent calendar, you can take a look at that next.

https://munchkinsmagnificentmanis.blogspot.com/2025/12/holo-taco-2025-mini-advent-calendar.html 

See you next time for more nail fun!