Wedding Holographic French nails tutorial

This week I had a wedding to attend and not much time to do an innovative groundbreaking tutorial, so let's review what I did on my nails to go there. I wanted to wear my nails in an appropiate way with a polish of the shade of my shirt (or dress, for you) but with a bit of an extra nail art. The solution is the most classic of nail arts, french nails, but with an extra curvature to make it look more elongated and elegant:

 

I opted for a shiny, festive yet elegant look with a deep french. I achieved this with nail vinyls that are shaped like that instead of the regular ones. Let's review my choices after we see the polishes I used:

I used these three polishes:

• Holo Taco's Mint Money
• Holo Taco's Everything Taco
• Holo Taco's Circuit Breaker

So, I wanted to match my shirt, which was a mint green that looks almost exactly the same as the colour my Mint Money tarnished to. 

 

I've seen debates about Holo Taco's frosted metals tarnishing and that some do more than others. This Mint Money bottle is my second one, and the first one tarnished in the exact same way. The bristles from my bottle lost its colour into the base and they look brown right now. This only affected ever so slightly the base colour of my polish, and my previous bottle for comparison got worse with time, but never off of a mint shade.

 

My bottles of Gift Receipt and Frozen Benanas also did the same. Specially Gift Receipt, the silver frosted metal. If I leave that bottle without shaking for a bit, the top liquid is brown. But shaking it up makes it integrate and the product looks silver. The flakes may feel a bit smaller, too. Frozen Benanas did change its base from a very yellow gold to a more neutral-warm gold, which I personally prefer! With Foiled Again and Blacklisted, my other two frosted metals, I don't have data.

 

But I DO have two bottles of Foiled Again, one opened and one never opened. Maybe I'll get back to you in some months to run experiments on it!

 

Anyways, get your base to opacity, I'd suggest to use the same shade as your shirt or dress:

 

 I added a coat of Everything Taco because I felt like it was festive and Mint Money could have a bit of fun with some holo and iridescence!

 

 

Remember the rules of nail vinyls: Always quick dry top coat, always wait for it to be dry. Depending on the quality of your top coat, this can be from 15 minutes to an hour or more, so I wouldn't skimp on the quick dry part for this step. After that, proceed into putting your nail vinyl in the desired spot to leave your french available to paint:

 

Secure it firmly. I did a second press after that picture because those sides were touching the table below! Then, proceed painting your other polish and remove the vinyl as soon as possible. Don't let it dry. That's why you don't have a pic of that mid process, actually.

 

Because my shirt was light, mistakes with the positioning would be less evident. Also, I'd say that a silver linear holo is a nice way to add a bit of extra to your french tips without it being white. You can't see the holo flash there because of the position of my light and the cast shadow of my camera on the tip of the nail, but I can assure you it is holographic.

Wait, why assuring you when I can just show you? I already told you, I wore this for a wedding! Have pics of the nails! My right hand has a broken and reconstructed nail, but my pics are from my left hand, no issues! And also, my swatch sticks are square, my natural nails are almond. I think.

 

 And now, with a bit of flash!

 

Anyways, those were my nails, I won't show you the rest of the fit or anything, but I had fun at the celebration and I'm so happy my friends are happy marrying each other, I don't have anything extra meaningful to say here aside from congratulations!

 

Next week my post will be in time. I hope! Thanks for reading and I hope you found my secret recipe for elegant appropiate nails and glam up the polish that looks like your dress!