Wish You Were Here- Beach Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today day on the blog we will be creating a fun beach themed nail design that is inspired by the Holo Taco vacation collection box. Also just recently my hubby and I went to Florida for our anniversary trip, it was very hot like most of the USA has been this summer and all we really wanted to do was be in the water. I personal love to be in the water especially if it is very hot outside and being in the ocean is the best, the ocean water in Florida was so nice and warm. To kind of relive our trip I decided to create this beach themed design, to say wish you/ we were still there.

Here are the polishes and nail art tools to create this beach fun nail design:

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

Polishes- Holo Taco- Purple Slushie, Holo Taco- Hot - Wire Pink, Holo Taco- Beach Please, Holo Taco- Never Tide Down, Holo Taco- Private Villa, Holo Taco- Private Villa, and Holo Taco- Lemon Sucker.

Acrylic paint- White, red, yellow and brown. 

Nail art brushes- Thin stripper and detail brusher and flat brush.

Other- Makeup sponge and water to clean off your nail art brushes.

Apply a base coat to clean dry nails.

Let that dry.

Polish- 

Thumb- Purple holographic polish (Holo Taco- Purple Slushie)

Index, middles and ring finger nails- Sand colored polish, this is your base color for the gradient (Holo Taco- Beach Please)

Pinky finger nail- Pink holographic polish (Holo Taco- Hot - Wire Pink)

Let that dry.

Gradient for the Ocean and the Sunset:

First we will start off with the gradient for the ocean and the sunset on the index, middle and ring finger nails. Take a makeup sponge with a sand colored polish (the same as your base color), then over lapping that color with a ocean blue, a pink and then a purple. 

Then dab the sponge on to all of the nails, you will need to repeat this step for each nails, two to three times. 

Once you have your gradient, take a flat brush with a very small amount of white paint on it and where the sand and ocean meet, dab the brush along the nail for a small wave.

Sunset on the Middle and Ring Finger Nail: 

For the sunset, first we will make the outline for the sun, take a detail brush with white paint on it and make a half oval on the middle and ring finger nail and try to get them to almost line up with the nails are next to each other. Then to make the refection in the water just smudge some white paint under the sun. I did make my refection a little to opaque, I think it would be better to thin the refection out more with water. 

Then let that dry.

Then go over the oval shapes for the sun with a yellow holographic polish. 

Umbrella on the Index Nail: 

Lastly we will make an umbrella that is in the sand. Take a thin stripper brush with white paint on it, near the cuticle make a large curve shape like a upside down U, then at the bottom of that U make three small curves, then inside the umbrella the shape should look like tear drops. 

Then the center part of the umbrella fill that in with white. For the side parts mix red and white, with more red in if for the two sides of the umbrella, then the center part that we painted white now go over that with yellow. 

Once your umbrella top is done, make a brown line that is kind of thick for stand of the umbrella that goes in then sand. 

Once your nails are beach ready apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last though your beach vacation.

Practice version of the beach design.

Hope all of you enjoyed this beach nail design and are having a good summer and trying to stay cool if you live somewhere where it has been super hot!

See you next time for more nail fun! 

Pride Rainbow Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating a rainbow design for fun and for pride month, even though it it mid of June, but you can do rainbows at any time. For this design of course we will be using the Holo Taco rainbow collection, which has twice the rainbow because of the Holo. 

Here are the polishes and nail art tool use to create this rainbow nail design. 

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

Nail Polish- Holo Taco Rainbow collection. 

Nail art tools- large dotting tool and stripping tape and 

For this design, on the index, middle, and pinky finger we will be creating the rainbow with a dotting tool. The ring finger is done with stripping tape and lastly the thumb is larger random dots.

Apply a base coat. Let that dry. 

Their is no base color under the rainbow polish.

Rainbow dots on the index, middle and pinky nail:

First poor a very small amount (you don't want to waste the holo) of each color of your polish on a nail polish mat or on a piece of plastic or foil. 

Take a large doting tool staring near the cuticle and make dots in a line across the nail. 

Staring with magenta, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. If your nails are longer you may need to repeat the colors.

Rainbow on the ring finger nail:  

On the ring 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, orange, yellow, green and lastly blue. Then before the polish dries quickly remove the tape, then polish over the area's that the tape was covering.

Random large dots on the thumb nail: 

Again poor a very small amount of each color of your polish on a nail polish mat or on a piece of plastic or foil. Do one color at a time for this or if you can do this fast you can poor all 7 polishes. But for me I was too slow so it was best for me to to each color one at a time. 

Take a large dotting tool with one of the rainbow polishes and make a large dot anywhere on the nail. I did one color at a time, for example I made a few red dots, clean the dotting tool off, then made a few blue dots, and just went through the rainbow of colors.

Once you have your nails 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 pride rainbow nail design!

See you next time for more nail fun!  

Holo Water Marble Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be doing water marble again, back in 2015 I tried water marbling for the first time and it turned out okay for my first try. So today we will try water marbling again. My original idea I got from when I was cleaning up my nails with these same polishes one time and it look really cool on the paper towel, but when I tried to do something similar it didn't work out to well. The whole idea was to blend three polish together, so then I thought water marbling the three polishes together, shown in the photo below, would work out better and that worked out perfectly. 

Here are the polishes and tools used to create this water marble design:

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

Polish- Color Club Halo's- Harp on, Holo Taco- Blue Freezie- Rainbow Collection, Holo Taco- Magenta Jelly- Rainbow Collection, and Holo Taco- Purple Slushie- Rainbow Collection. 

Not show- A plastic cup of water at room temp to water marble with, toothpicks, tape or liquid latex to put around your finger for easy clean up. 

Apply base coat, let that dry.

We will just be doing the water marble on the thumb, middle and ring finger nails. But as always you can do this on all the nails. 

For your base colors on the nails that we will be water marbling ( the thumb, middle and ring finger nail) polish with a silver holographic polish. It is best to use a light based color polish for your marbling. 

index nail a blue holographic polish and pinky nail a magenta holographic polish.

Let that dry.  

Tape off all of your finger that are going to be water marbled; your thumb, middle, and ring finger. 

Open all three of your polishes and have them ready to marble. 

Take a cup of water and with a fully loaded brush and dip your polish over the water (without touching the water) and create a bullseye with one of the polishes at a time, repeat this with all three colors. 

Then take a toothpick and and drag the polish to make a pattern, if you mess up on your pattern just clean off your polish in the cup with that toothpick and try again. 

Then once you have a pattern you like quickly dip your finger in the cup and back out again and your marble should come out on your nails.

Each nail will look different, which is the cool part about water marbling. 

Then once you have finished all the nails that you want to water marble take the tape or liquid latex off to reveal your design and if you still have polish on your fingers can clean that up with acetone and a clean up brush. 

Once you have your design just right apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last.

I think this water marble did turn out very well and it is great that the Holo Taco Rainbow Holo's do water marble! 

Hope all of you enjoyed this holo water marble!

Also if you want more detailed tutorial check out my first water marble post 

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Along with the Unicorn Frap design I did as well that also was a water marble.

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See you next time for more nail fun!

Holo Taco Rainbow Collection Another Look

Hello everyone! This extra post I have been meaning to do for a while while now, but I have not had a chance to do so. I took more photos of the Holo Taco collection on all of my nails unlike the review that I did back in July where I just polished them on all of the nails at once. So this post will just show all of the polishes on my nails to take a better look at them. If you want a full review check out my review here holo-taco-rainbow-collection.

 

Holo Taco Rainbow Collection

Holo Taco- Red Licorice

Holo Taco- Orange Drink 

Holo Taco- Lemon Sucker  

Holo Taco- Green Taffy 

Holo Taco- Blue Freezie

Holo Taco- Purple Slushie

Holo Taco- Magenta Jelly

Hope all of you enjoyed this picture heavy post with another look at the Holo Taco Rainbow Collection!

See you next time for more nail fun!   

Tropical Dreaming- Holo Sunset

Hello everyone! Today we will be creating one more tropical design, even though summer is sadly coming to a close, I still wanted to create one more tropical design using the Holo Taco Rainbow Collection polishes. 

   Tropical Sunset Nail Design

 Here are the polish and nail art tools used to create this bright tropical sunset: 

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

Polishes- Holo Taco Rainbow; Lemon Sucker, Purple Slushie, Magenta Jelly, Orange Drink, and Blue Freezie.  

Arcylic paint- Black, and yellow.

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

Other- Makeup sponge for gradient and a cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes. 

Tropical Sunset Nail Design

 

Apply base coat and let that dry.

 

Polish- 

Base colors

 

Thumb- Blue Freezie

Index, middle, and ring- Lemon Sucker

Pinky- Purple Slushie

 

Let that dry.

 

 

Tropical Sunset Nail Design

 

This design is very similar to the last weeks tropical design, we will just be using more colors for the gradient.

 

 

Purple, Magenta, Orange, Yellow, and Blue Gradient (Sunset)

 

First we will start off with the gradient with a clean makeup sponge, polish Purple Slushie at the top of the sponge, then Magenta Jelly, Orange Drink, Lemon Sucker, and Blue Freezie. It does look like their is a green polish added, but it is just the yellow and blue blending together.

 

Then dab the sponge on to the nails, to make the polishes blend into a gradient like sunset. You can repeat this step another time if you feel like your gradient is not opqaue enough.   

 

Once again for this design I did apply a top coat before I did the design just to smooth out the gradient, then after I did the tropical design I did apply another top coat.   

 

 

Tropical Sunset Nail Design

 

Tropical Design 

 

Once again I will not do a detailed description of this design, just a simple description.

 

Starting with the middle finger nail, the sunset, make a line in the middle of the nail and a sun on top of that line, then fill in your sun with yellow. Under the sun make a few small lines in the water, also make some more smaller lines in the sky. For a final touch add two small birds in the sky, by making two curved lines.

On the index nail make a oval for the land and add one palm tree on the small island. Also add a few lines under the palm tree for grass.

    

On the ring finger nail repeat the same steps like the index nail, just put the island and palm tree on the other side of the nail. For this nail also add a line in between the orange and yellow and some small lines in the water. Also for this nail add one small bird in the sky.  

  

Tropical Sunset Nail Design

 

Once you have your bright tropical sunset design the way you like apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it to last. 

 

 

Here is the practice design that I created. One thing I would have done differently on my final design on my nails is like my practice design I would have not had as much purple, I felt like I had to much purple in the sky and not enough blue for the water.  

Hope all of you enjoined this tropical design and hopefully soon we can all enjoy a nice tropical vacation and not just have it on our nails. 

 

Also check out last weeks tropical design as well.  Holo Sunset using Holo Taco Rainbow Polishes

See you next time for more nail fun!