r/simplynailogical

I was nottt expecting to love Oat Couture so much when I tossed it into my last order. Now it’s my new favorite neutral! It’s hard to find nudes that are cool toned enough for my skin tone, and this one hits the target. Picture 1 is direct sunlight, picture 2 is more indirect.

Comparison photos from the new collection.

Base coats; Long lasting base coat, Sticky base

Purple hand; Work bestie covered with - Dont be jelly, Flash drive

Blue hand; DavidsTeal covered with - Wade a minute, Lite link

Toppers; Silver flake taco, Flakie holo taco

Top coats; Glossy Taco, Gel top coat

Ordered to shipped within less than an hour. I'm gobsmacked.

I’m tempted by the green and pinky-purple but the other two colours and the topper really aren’t doing it for me personally. Maybe I’ll like them better when we get proper product pictures.

Hey everyone, noticed the rewards and birthday polishes quietly updated this week and thought I would share!

Based on the request post that u/purple_creme5450 made the other day asking how to make Thirst Trap cooler toned and darker, I decided to do some frankenpolish experiments.

First pic: the result in direct bright sun.

2nd pic: in my bathroom light with flash.

3rd pic: frankenpolish next to original thirst trap in my bathroom.

In the sun it looks more pinky red, and inside it looks more dark classic red.

What I did: I had a half empty bottle of thirst trap. I added a small pour of devil’s advocate (maybe around 30 drops), about 10 drops of Silent Night blue crelly, and about 10 drops of a cirque black jelly. If you didn’t have Cirque, you might be able to use a holo taco with a black jelly base like Waste of Space, but you’d get some of those iridescent flakies in it. You could also experiment with Just Vamping.

Overall it still gives the same metallic microflake finish, but the original pigment coverage is broken up ever so slightly. I only did 2 coats. With 3 coats it might not be apparent at all. But unless I’m looking at my nails up close, the overall metallic effect is the same.

I’ve been wanting more reds from Holo Taco and I am very happy with this result. I’m glad the other redditor asked this question, because I wanted the same variation on Thirst Trap.

I might try this again with the other metallic microflake finishes to see what other fun variations we can get. Esp purple or magenta - since that’s currently a gap in the metallic microflake rainbow. The lime green we are getting tomorrow will help fill it out too.

If anyone has any other experiment requests, let me know! I may not get to all of them but I love mixing polish and making a version that works for me. I have most of the Holo Taco collection (at least what was sold since Safiya) to work with for experiments.

Also, if anyone is interested in mixing their own polish, check out r/frankenpolish where we get up to fun mixing experiments and/or DIY polish with raw pigments.

P.S. please don’t mind the less than perfect application.

This one is a birthday mani for one of my best nail friends on instagram, a "tie dye" swirl of the Holo Taco retro jelly collection. Me being me, I bought two of that collection and mixed a whole set of 5 tertiary colors...because Jeremy needs MORE colors! Using them, I freehand blended some swirls and did a heart feature for my girl. I haven't painted in over a week because of work, and of course got sick the minute I was done with last week...but there are very few people I'd come out of my coma for, and that's my babe.

🖌 Freehand on natural nail

💪@findingfeatherslacquer ... "Balanced Bond Base Coat"

🌈 @holotaco ... "Life In Plastic" "Box Office Bomb" "Hi-Def" "Be Kind Rewind" "Anti-Hero"

💪 @glistenandglow1 Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

Ive been trying out layering recently to get the most of my polish collection.
This is Touch Grass (2) coats as base color
And Blowing Bubbles ILNP on top.
Feat, Rocky!

mooncat hardcore basecoat

glisten and glow qdtc

im using my glisten and glow since I wont support them knowing they collabed w Victorian Varnish

I normally capture polishes in direct sunlight, but imo, this polish truly shines in the shade. You can see the beauty of all the iridescent flakies this way. Definitely my favorite of the royalty collection!

first two show the full graphic, last two are the other two nail colors!

I got Sunken Secrets as a reward during the sale, and the holo in it seems much weaker than the other Dark Rainbow polishes I have. In the photos, Amber Apathy, Burnt Bridges, and Crimson Void are without topcoat. I topcoated Sunken Secrets swatch to see if it would improve the weak holo situation, and it did a little but not much. Is this normal or did I get a bad batch?

New mani for the week and I am loving this color!!

Hi, it's me - the one you convinced to get Existential Crisis with my rewards points! It's soooo beautiful and so shifty and looks so different in every type of lighting! I love it! Thanks for the solid recommendation!!