What I wore on January 2025?

 Today we're having a more relaxed post, as I won't be basically teaching anything but just showing what I was wearing on my nails during this month of January. I will not make a full on tutorial on any of the looks but I will share glimpses of the process behind the nails. Don't hesitate on telling me if you like one of these looks enough to make a full on tutorial, it would be extremely helpful as I'm not the best with coming up with ideas!

First off, this is a bit of cheating but I will count the nails I started the year with, even if I painted these last year:

 The manicure is simple layering of several different shiny effects. I like passing years with the shiniest and sparkliest nails possible, and this year I decided to layer over Holo Taco's retired Everything is Pine, a green holographic glitter. I sealed this polish with a top coat to help create a slightly smoother surface, as glitter tends to suck up top coat, so I didn't want my toppers to be the ones suffering this.

Over it, I have put Holo Taco's Everything Taco, to cover myself with iridescent flakes and more holographic. I also wanted a bit of shimmer, for those low lit situations, so I added a bit of Holo Taco's Celestial Lights on top. And it's not shiny enough if it's not reflective, so I layered Holo Taco's Reflective Taco. And sealed this monstrosity again with another layer of top coat.

 On January 11th, I decided it was time for a change and I was kinda obsessing over Alien Infatuation by Holo Taco, so I tried to make some nail art with it:

I wanted to keep it in that grey tone, so I played with matte versus shiny. Over Holo Taco's Alien Infatuation I applied a matte top coat, and freehanded details with Holo Taco's World's First, as I wanted to make the two greys clash with the sheen. I honestly don't even know how that style of nail art is even called, those swirls across the nail in chrome, specially on lighter colours. It's something I see quite a bunch and it was my time to attempt it for the first time. And honestly, I liked it but it felt like it's not my usual style.

I got some rhinestones these holidays, too, and these particular ones were quite close in tone to the shimmer in Alien Infatuation. You might not notice, but I would love to have a shimmer or a flake like this polish has in it. Yes, I have green shimmer and flakies, but those are a more pure green, even leaning on cool toned. This shimmer is warmer, and that's basically the reason I wanted to play around with it now. I know, I'm quite specific with my polishes sometimes.

Rhinestones are not usually my thing, as they usually fall off in some days, and that bothers me, so that's why I changed it on January 18. I was feeling very adventurous, I had an incentive of trying watermarbling... so I went for it. Honestly, I am impressed with the results. It... worked!

 

 

 

Please don't pay attention to the photo with flash, it honestly threw off the tone so much that I don't even know what to do. Of course, I didn't have much of a plan, nor a technique nailed down, but it worked. And I have this stream saved in my computer. If I upload it in a place it won't get deleted, I will make sure to link it here!

 

I also used Holo Taco for this manicure, in particular Not Milky White, Here for the Payday and Green Screen. I'm so sad about those two crèmes, they're amazing and look amazing together, as you can see. I decided to top it off with Holo Taco's Linear Holo Taco, to maybe hide some imperfections? And add a little bit of a sparkle. It worked for the latter, if you could not tell, and I'm not even mad about it!

 

I'm writing this post slightly in advance, so I can tell you that at the time of this post getting uploaded, those nails are not on me anymore. I was too proud of them so I had to keep them for almost two weeks, please understand! But they're chipping hard and it's time to move on. Maybe I'll watermarble in the close future, it was fun!

 

Thanks for reading and letting me share my manicures this month! I wanted to improve my nail art game and honestly so good so far, I'm experimenting with new techniques to me and combinations I usually don't go for. I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to top myself every single manicure but honestly, I don't really know how I will make it in February. I hope to share it with you then!