Valentine's Chocolates- Valentine's Day Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy Valentine's Day! Today we will be creating a fun chocolate looking design on our nails, well at lest two of our nails and the other nails we will have a pink glitter polish on them. Anyone have fun plains for Valentine's Day, well as much as we can do? Me and my hubby don't have much planed, in our state restaurant have been closed for a while, in dining and have just opened up, so we have plans to eat at a Italian restaurant next weekend because the restaurant was all ready booked for this weekend.

Valentine's Day Nail Design 

 

 

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

Base and Top Coats-  CND Stickey Base Coat, Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat, (not pictured) CND Top coat ( I used this on the Holo Taco Menchie polish because of this being a thick glitter to kind of smooth the polish.) and OPI Matte Top coat for the chocolate nails.

Polishes- Holo Taco- Menchie the cat, Nicole by OPI- That's Just Plain Nuts!, Revlon- top speed- Hearts of gold fx, and Kiss nail art stripper- White.

Acrylic paint- red, black, and white.

Nail art brush- thin stripper brush.

Cup of water to clean of your nail art brush.

Valentine's Day Nail Design 

Apply a base coat, and let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb, ring and pinky- a pinky glittery polish (Holo Taco- Menchie the cat)

Index and middle- a brown creme polish (Nicole by OPI- That's Just Plain Nuts!)

Let that dry.

Valentine's Day Nail Design 

For your index and middle finger nail that we will make them look like chocolate, I suggest first applying a glossy top coat to help your nails last, matte top coat is known for not lasting as long as a glossy one, so it is best to apply a glossy then a matte top coat.

Then once your glossy top coat has dried, to get that chocolate look apply a matte top coat.

The for the design on the chocolate, I first took white paint to make the design then went over it with a nail art polish just in case. 

On the index nail make a heart shape with two lines extending from the heart.

On the middle finger nail make a line near the cuticle and then an X shape under that line. Then if you have a polish that has heat shape glitter put some of the glitter then a piece of the heart shape glitter near the tip of the nail. In the photo I did keep that glossy, but I suggest also making that matte because it does actually look better, I did this later on.

Valentine's Day Nail Design 

 

On the ring finger nail make one large red heart and then a smaller red heart above that one. 

Also for the pink glitter polish Menchie the cat, I did apply a different top coat the CND top coat, due to this polish being a thicker glitter a thicker top coat seem to work better then my usual thinner top coat Revlon no chip. 

 

Valentine's Day Nail Design 

On the ring finger nail make a small heart near the tip of the nail, on the corner of the nail.

Valentine's Day Nail Design 

Lastly on the thumb paint the word love with the O being a heart.

Valentine's Day Nail Design 

Once your nails look yummy enough to eat apply a thicker top coat to just the pink glittery nails and leave the chocolate nails with just the matte top coat.

Hope all of you enjoyed this valentine's day nail design and have a good Valentine's Day as well.

See you next time for more nail fun!

Holo Taco's Menchie and Zyler The Cat Polishes

Hello everyone! Today on the blog we have another collection/ polish duo from Holo Taco, Menchie and Zyler. These polishes did come out in mid August because Holo Taco keeps releasing new polishes every month and I of course keep buying them, it has been a little hard to keep up with my reviews. But have no fear if you do want these polishes as of typing this post they are still available.

Holo Taco's  Menchie and Zyler 

 

This collection/ duo has only two polishes in it unlike most of Cristine's/ Holo Taco's other collections. Also all of her other collection's would come in a special collection box, these polishes did not, they did come in a different box that has a cat shape cut out and when you put the two polish boxes together they make a holographic cat.

Also a side note these polishes are named after Cristine's cats Menchie and Zyler. Zyler is her first cat and Menchie is her secound cat that she got after she started dating her boyfriend Ben.

 

 

Let's take a look at these polishes, first we will take a look at Menchie.

Holo Taco's  Menchie

 

Menchie the cat is described on the Holo Taco's website as a baby pink holographic polish, that is packed with different size sliver and pink holo glitters that are in a clear base.  

 

This polish applied well for me in two coats, these polishes are not meant to be toppers they can be applied as a full coverage polish, but you can always just apply one coat over a polish as a topper if you would like.   

 

Holo Taco's  Menchie

 

 Lastly but not lest is Zyler.

 

Holo Taco's Zyler

 

Zyler the cat is described on the Holo Taco as a rusted orange holographic polish, packed with different size copper holo glitters, also this polish is in an orange tinted jelly base. This polish also applied well in two coats.

Holo Taco's Zyler

 

In conclusion these polishes are really pretty and did have a good formula, for a glitter polish you might think they would very thick, but that was not the case for these two polishes.  

 

Due to these polishes being very glitter, I did soaked them off kind of like you would with gel polish minus the buffing off the top layer. What I did was took cotton and foil with regular acetone and raped them around each finger and let them soak for five minutes. I did still have to remove a little of the polish that was left over with a cotton ball, but for the most part this did take off most of the glitter. 

 

Holo Taco Menchie and Zyler

 

As stated above Menchie and Zyler are still available on HoloTaco.com.

 

Menchie & Zyler Duo  $26.00 USD for the two polishes 

 

Zyler the Cat $13.00 USD

Menchie the Cat $13.00 USD 

 

 

Also for the first few week a portion of the sales of these polishes were donated to PetSmart charities, Holo taco actually raised $50,000 for PetSmart, which is really awesome!   

Hope all of you enjoyed this review of the new Holo Taco Menchie and Zyler polishes! 

See you next time for more nail fun!