Holographic Color Blocking Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a pretty holographic color blocking nail design. In theory this design is simple, but also kind of tricky to do as well, if you ended up doing a design that I did on my ring finger nail, then yes this design can be a little hard. 😁  

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

 

 

Top and base coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Polishes- Holo Taco- Blue Freezie- Rainbow Collection, Holo Taco- Purple Slushie- Rainbow Collection, Holo Taco- Magenta Jelly- Rainbow Collection, Color Club Halo's- Harp on, and Kiss nail art stripper- Silver.

Other- stripping tape/ nail art tape.

Apply Base coat, let that dry

This design does not require any base polishes at first.

First we will need to apply stripping tape/ nail art tape to our nails. For the index and middle finger nail I made an X shape on the sides of the nails using two pieces of tape. 

For the polish, I polished each area with the brush that came in the bottle (carefully) in each section. 

Then before the polish dries quickly take off the stripping tape/ nail art tape, do not wait for the polish to dry! This area will not have polish, so for this area take a nail art polish or just some silver polish and carefully go over those lines, for the outline.

For the thumb and pinky nail place the tape into a V shape on the side of the nails, once again using two pieces of stripping tape. 

Repeat the same steps as you did with the index and middle nail.

Now for the more complex nail the ring finger nail. When I was practice this design I was going to try and make this nail a little more simple, but as you can tell I didn't end up doing that. 😄 Anyways for this nail I think I place six pieces of tape on this nail, to create a very random design. 

As always you don't have to create this same design on you ring finger nail, you can always go much more simple with less tape. If you choose to do this same design it was a little bit hard to polish into each little area with your nail polish brush, so if you do have some trouble you can use a small nail art brush to get into each area.   

Also once again repeat the same steps again for polishing and taking off the nail art tape.  

Here is my practice design where my ring finger is not as complex? This took four pieces of tape to make.

Once you have your holographic color blocking nail design the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last. 
 

Hope all of you enjoyed this this color blocking nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Chasing Rainbow's - St.Patrick's Day Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy almost St. Patrick's Day! For this years St. Patty's day design we will be using a lot of holo polishes, because they all ready have rainbows in the polish, so they are just fitting, and of course we will be using some polishes from the Holo Taco rainbow collection, along with other polishes that go with the St. Patty's theme.

Here are the polishes and nail art tools sued to create this rainbow filed design:

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Polishes- A lot of polishes! Holo Taco rainbow collection, KBShimmer- Blue- d Lines, OPI Hawaii- My Gecko Does Tricks, and Holo Taco-Mint Money- Metallic Foil Collection.

Acrylic paint- Green.

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper brush and thin detail brush.

Other- Nail art tape/stripping tape and makeup sponge.  

Cup of water to clean off your nail art brush.

 

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

Polishes- 

Thumb and ring- blue holographic polish.

Index and pinky- green shimmer polish. 

Middle- Holographic rainbow polsihes.

Let that dry as well.

 

Gradient on index and pinky nail:

On the index and middle nail we will create a glitter gradient with a silver polish. I used Holo Taco-Mint Money for the sliver glitter, this is a green based polish but because I polished it over a green, the green in this polish does not show. For the gradient first polish a small amount near the tip of the nail. Then take a makeup sponge with that same glitter polish on it and dab that on the tip of the nails. 

 

Rainbow on the middle finger nail:  

On the middle finger nail place four pieces of nail art tape/ stripping tape diagonal going down the nail. Starting at the tip of the nail, polish the first area red,then the next area, yellow, green, blue, and lastly purple. Then before the polish dries quickly remove the tape, then polish over the area's that the tape was covering.   

 

Shamrock on the ring finger nail:

Take a thin detail brush with green paint on it and make kind of a heart shape for the leaves staring near the cuticle, then two on each side and one near the tip of the nail, then fill that in at lest three times to be opaque. 

 

Rainbow on the thumb nail:

On the thumb nail we will be using all seven of the polishes from the Holo Taco Rainbow collection, but a very small amount (don't wait to waste the holo!) On a nail mate poor a small amount of polish, one at a time, starting with red on a thin stripper brush, then make a arch in the middle of the nail. Then clean the brush off between each color, and repeat the same steps for each color; yellow, orange, blue, green, purple, and magenta.

 

Once you have your St. Patty's Day design the way you like, full of rainbows! Apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last.

Hope all of you enjoyed this holographic rainbow design for St. Patrick's Day!

See you next time for more nail fun!