Time stamps aren't loading huehuehue 00:00 intro 00:46 brush details 01:18 Private Villa 02:02 I'm rover it 02:43 solo mission 03:35 tax haven 04:22 inkwell 05:16 bottle service 06:13 secret society 06:57 ivy league 07:42 starry-eyed 09:40 never tide down 10:46 late checkout 11:47 curfew crasher 12:50 existential crisis 13:52 alien infatuation 14:43 waste of space 15:34 LITE MODE START 15:55 sunset simulation 16:46 lite link 17:38 wireless mode 18:33 flash drive 19:23 lite mode final thotts 19:44 MAGNETICS START 20:32 love spell 21:54 zyler cat eye 22:54 menchie cat eye 24:09 wicked potion 25:24 twice in a blue moon 26:40 final thotts and collage
Thank you for continuing to sing the praises of the Lite Mode collection. The polishes are so bright and happy, especially my favorite, the discontinued Encryption Key. I do hope Cristine brings out some more bright shimmers.
I am so glad I got encryption key before it retired! Lite mode is underrated, almost like the frosted metals bc in person it's looks soo much better or impactful
I'm so glad I got Bottle Service last year because even just watching you swatch it, I melt. So gorgeous. I picked up several of the dark academia shades for the sale. Thanks for the video! Super helpful!! 🎉
Ohhh, I'd kill for a gray with different colored rainbow set, I'm such a sucker for grays with pretty shimmer. Now, a moment of silence for my dumb ass taking Alien Infatuation off my list at some point last week and not realizing til after my purchase. 😭
There is something about a grey polish with a colored shimmer that is so nice. Do you use shimmer toppers? It doesn’t have the depth of a built in shimmer, since the bases tend to lean crelly or jelly for the layered effect, but the shimmer toppers over a grey crème is still a great combo.
@rachelspencer9456 I don't use toppers often (just ignore my profile pic, ok 😆). They look so amazing on everyone else, but on my own fingers it looks wrong if I don't manage to cover the base color perfectly. I know no one else can tell but I can.
I was kinda sad about Starry Eyed because of the lack of stars in it. I love the color so I had been really excited about it. I had some holo star nail glitter in a set I have, I dumped a bunch of the stars into my bottle. It worked great, but it shouldn’t be needed and I only added them because I already had the stars. I won’t rebuy it.
Fellow Tax Haven lover here! I love the duochrome effect and the color is gorgeous. I find Overshadowed to be Tax Haven's blue/grey sister if you're thinking about picking her up.
I picked up Midnight spark, Zyler, Zyler cat eye and I got Missed-shift as a birthday polish. I am very nervous about zyler cat eye tho. I actually have destashed the entire first magnetics collection😅. But i really like zylers color as is. I also really liked the blue of the og magnetics, I was just so mad it would not magnetize so I had to get rid of it😂
I have Zyler at eye and it's SO pretty! Dries fast so get the magnet on it fast...but it's a good one! I ordered Menchie cat eye this time in the sale❤
Love the vid! I picked up Lite Link and Wireless Mode among (a bunch) of others during the sale. Can’t wait to play with them! As a side note, there is still some older stock in less-well-selling colours with the skinny brush floating around in the HT warehouse. I got the OG linear rainbow collection this summer and found skinny brushes in Orange Drink, Yellow Sucker, and Green Taffy, as well as Zyler the Cat. NBD, I have a bag of KBshimmer paddle brushes and just swapped them out 😊
@ Happy to help! And I really appreciate your discussion of the magnetics. I avoid them because I have cerebral palsy, and doing regular manis already requires patience and lots of clean-up. There’s no way I could stay still long enough to magnetize 😂 But I am dragging one of my besties into nail polish, and she added several to my (second 😳) Black Friday order. She’s getting Twice in a Blue Moon and Sacrificial Lacquer, so I’ve sent her some how-to vids and unmagnetized swatches. I’m so glad to hear they look good unmagnetized! Also I love her for adding to my Royalty points 🥰
I finally got glow in the dark taco in the sale! Plus black flake taco, cosmic and sonic unicorn skins, freebies with my points (jam session, greige and aurora unicorn skin) nightshade, silver flake taco and secret society. I'm international so i only do a couple of orders a year (at most) but when i get a HT package i want that thing too heavy to lift
I neeeed more colors in Bottle Service’s formula!! idk if I’m Rover It is technically one of them, but still. Need moreee lol 🤤 It sucks Starry Eyed is one of those “go girl give us nothing” polishes, I really hope they retire that one and give us a star shaped glitter topper instead!! It would be so cute ⭐️ appreciate you swatching & reviewing all of these 🙂↕️
I ordered, purple slushie, alien infatuation, GITD topcoat, Ivory Tower for new additions and backups for one coat black and party of one purple. I have late checkout and love it.
Late check out is gorgeous. Alien infatuation and waste of space are already on my wishlist. I purchased sonic unicorn skin from the sale. It was 20% off. I haven’t found anything on the site that is 25% off.
My budget was off by several dollars because I thought that more polishes would be marked down 25%! But you're right, there aren't many. All that I've found so far that actually have the full discount applied is the original Holoday glitters, and most of the Vacation collection. I think this indicates that people really don't buy glitters! Tough sell, I guess. Most of what I picked up was only 14-15% off. Somewhat disappointing. But I hadn't ordered since the "Loyal-tea" sale in April, and my wishlist had to be dealt with lol
@@tabularasa This is my 1st HT sale. I gave into fomo with Teal No Lies, but it ended up being a patchy, gummy mess even after adding thinner. I'm being more cautious this time and sticking with polishes that aren't brand new to the catalog.
i ordered a lot 🙈 peely base, glossy taco, reflective taco, everything taco, borde meeting, midnight spark, never tide down, bring me the teal, foiled again, amber apathy, tax haven and burnt bridges 😅
Thanks for the overview. I picked up a lot of basics and some backups from the Dark Academia collection. I decided to but “Favourite Sister” and “Disco Dust” some polish thinner and a mat. I am living in two cities so I need a mat in my second city.
Linry, can you explain why/how magnetic pigment can disperse three to eight hours later? Like how do the particles continue to move after drying? I only have a few magnetic polishes that I picked up earlier this year (and none from HT), so I'm not super experienced with them. But when I did finally dive into the magnetic pool, I did my homework and tried to make sure I was doing all the right things during application for a good result. I do two coats unmagnetized, then the third coat magnetized for at least 90 seconds, and then another 90 seconds during application of top coat. I get minimal dispersion as the QDTC dries and the layers underneath fully cure, like a very slight spreading of the cat eye line, but other than that, it stays pretty tight. And it definitely doesn't move at all after drying. I've been curious about this, and you mentioned it, so I'm asking! Shame that those ones stain so much! I found that Private Villa turned my nail beds pink too lol I learned to double up with that one. Fun video, lots of goodies! I look forward to what I expect will be your HT linear holo bonanza. It's still my favorite formula from HT. That and crushed holo 💅
It can take many hours for the full thickness of a manicure to dry, even if it is touch dry. It'll be slower if it's cold or humid, or you paint thicker layers or have longer nails etc. In that time the magnetic pigment can disperse.
@@mulierwulf9652 I've discovered that humidity can really affect polish (living in the PNW lol) but I didn't know that cold can really slow things down too. Maybe I've been lucky. Thanks for the input!
Ok so there is a difference between your polish drying and your polish curing and this is why magnetics will disperse for up to 24 hours after application. When your polish dries (feels dry after you finish your mani) solvents have evaporated from the polish, so you can gently touch the polish and it wont smudge HOWEVER the polish is not cured. You know how you can still get sheet-marks in a polish hours after you finish? This is because while the solvents have evaporated, leaving your polish "dry" the chemical reaction that cures the polish has not yet completed. A polish becomes cured with the nitrocellulose monomers within the polish bond together to form a large net (polymer) which results in the polish being a single flexible film. This is why the magnetic particles can still disperse after drying, the particles are not yet trapped in the polymer matrix. Now in gel polishes the curing process needs extra energy to happen (the lamp) but is completed faster - hence gel magnetics stay crisp compared to regular polish. Hope this makes sense.
@@Sibiohan Ooh, science! Fun to think of all that bonding happening under the surface for so many hours afterwards! Very thorough explanation, thank you so much 💅
I got electrostatic, iron violet, scattered holo topper, galactic unicorn, gift receipt, and curfew crasher as my bday polish for the BF sale! Also a glossy topper and smoothing base too, gotta load up on essentials.
I overdid it with the sale, but I did not pick up any of the new collection. I got the pastel linear holos, Tax Haven, Secret Society, Zyler the Cat, Wireless Mode, and Late Checkout.
I can't believe Never Tide Down doesn't stain your nails! I swear I have blue on my nails for WEEKS after wearing it. Gotta double up my basecoats for that one.
I’m Rover It is honestly as close to my favorite color that I have found in a polish. I really love it. I like it against my skin tone so thankfully that’s not a problem for me. Honestly though, I would wear it anyway since I love the color so much😂.
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00:00 intro
00:46 brush details
01:18 Private Villa
02:02 I'm rover it
02:43 solo mission
03:35 tax haven
04:22 inkwell
05:16 bottle service
06:13 secret society
06:57 ivy league
07:42 starry-eyed
09:40 never tide down
10:46 late checkout
11:47 curfew crasher
12:50 existential crisis
13:52 alien infatuation
14:43 waste of space
15:34 LITE MODE START
15:55 sunset simulation
16:46 lite link
17:38 wireless mode
18:33 flash drive
19:23 lite mode final thotts
19:44 MAGNETICS START
20:32 love spell
21:54 zyler cat eye
22:54 menchie cat eye
24:09 wicked potion
25:24 twice in a blue moon
26:40 final thotts and collage
Curfew crasher is my favorite! But the entire vacation collection is amazing!
that collection was such a banger
Thank you for continuing to sing the praises of the Lite Mode collection. The polishes are so bright and happy, especially my favorite, the discontinued Encryption Key. I do hope Cristine brings out some more bright shimmers.
YES I love them so much I need more BRIGHT colors from holotaco!
I am so glad I got encryption key before it retired! Lite mode is underrated, almost like the frosted metals bc in person it's looks soo much better or impactful
I'm so glad I got Bottle Service last year because even just watching you swatch it, I melt. So gorgeous.
I picked up several of the dark academia shades for the sale. Thanks for the video! Super helpful!! 🎉
Dark Academia was so good! not a single miss!
Ohhh, I'd kill for a gray with different colored rainbow set, I'm such a sucker for grays with pretty shimmer. Now, a moment of silence for my dumb ass taking Alien Infatuation off my list at some point last week and not realizing til after my purchase. 😭
There is something about a grey polish with a colored shimmer that is so nice. Do you use shimmer toppers? It doesn’t have the depth of a built in shimmer, since the bases tend to lean crelly or jelly for the layered effect, but the shimmer toppers over a grey crème is still a great combo.
@rachelspencer9456 I don't use toppers often (just ignore my profile pic, ok 😆). They look so amazing on everyone else, but on my own fingers it looks wrong if I don't manage to cover the base color perfectly. I know no one else can tell but I can.
I was kinda sad about Starry Eyed because of the lack of stars in it. I love the color so I had been really excited about it. I had some holo star nail glitter in a set I have, I dumped a bunch of the stars into my bottle. It worked great, but it shouldn’t be needed and I only added them because I already had the stars. I won’t rebuy it.
such a disappointment I hope holotaco learns from it because I got the polish for the stars I WANT STARS lol
Agree! I'm wearing it right now and had to fish out stars and place with a toothpick...which wasted a bunch of polish!!! BUT the color is verrry good
Fellow Tax Haven lover here! I love the duochrome effect and the color is gorgeous. I find Overshadowed to be Tax Haven's blue/grey sister if you're thinking about picking her up.
@@tamar4716 that's a good recommendation, back on the wish list it goes.
I picked up Midnight spark, Zyler, Zyler cat eye and I got Missed-shift as a birthday polish. I am very nervous about zyler cat eye tho. I actually have destashed the entire first magnetics collection😅. But i really like zylers color as is. I also really liked the blue of the og magnetics, I was just so mad it would not magnetize so I had to get rid of it😂
I have Zyler at eye and it's SO pretty! Dries fast so get the magnet on it fast...but it's a good one! I ordered Menchie cat eye this time in the sale❤
The villager “EH” 😂
Love the vid! I picked up Lite Link and Wireless Mode among (a bunch) of others during the sale. Can’t wait to play with them!
As a side note, there is still some older stock in less-well-selling colours with the skinny brush floating around in the HT warehouse. I got the OG linear rainbow collection this summer and found skinny brushes in Orange Drink, Yellow Sucker, and Green Taffy, as well as Zyler the Cat. NBD, I have a bag of KBshimmer paddle brushes and just swapped them out 😊
nooooooooooooooo thank you so much for the info!
@ Happy to help! And I really appreciate your discussion of the magnetics. I avoid them because I have cerebral palsy, and doing regular manis already requires patience and lots of clean-up. There’s no way I could stay still long enough to magnetize 😂
But I am dragging one of my besties into nail polish, and she added several to my (second 😳) Black Friday order. She’s getting Twice in a Blue Moon and Sacrificial Lacquer, so I’ve sent her some how-to vids and unmagnetized swatches. I’m so glad to hear they look good unmagnetized! Also I love her for adding to my Royalty points 🥰
I picked up A LOT, but the two I'm most excited for are Secret Society and Sunset Simulation!
I hope you love them as much as I do!
More companies need to make glitter/flaky jellies, they have such a nice depth to them.
yesss 100% I just wish they sold better come on people big glitters are in!
I finally got glow in the dark taco in the sale! Plus black flake taco, cosmic and sonic unicorn skins, freebies with my points (jam session, greige and aurora unicorn skin) nightshade, silver flake taco and secret society. I'm international so i only do a couple of orders a year (at most) but when i get a HT package i want that thing too heavy to lift
what a great haul I hope you love them all
Cute top! 💚
I neeeed more colors in Bottle Service’s formula!! idk if I’m Rover It is technically one of them, but still. Need moreee lol 🤤
It sucks Starry Eyed is one of those “go girl give us nothing” polishes, I really hope they retire that one and give us a star shaped glitter topper instead!! It would be so cute ⭐️
appreciate you swatching & reviewing all of these 🙂↕️
yes 100% I NEED more Bottle service colorssssss. gosh I can't get over the starry eyed disappointment. The color is nice but I got it for the STARS
I ordered, purple slushie, alien infatuation, GITD topcoat, Ivory Tower for new additions and backups for one coat black and party of one purple. I have late checkout and love it.
such a great haul! GITD is too much fun imo!
Late check out is gorgeous. Alien infatuation and waste of space are already on my wishlist. I purchased sonic unicorn skin from the sale. It was 20% off. I haven’t found anything on the site that is 25% off.
My budget was off by several dollars because I thought that more polishes would be marked down 25%! But you're right, there aren't many. All that I've found so far that actually have the full discount applied is the original Holoday glitters, and most of the Vacation collection. I think this indicates that people really don't buy glitters! Tough sell, I guess. Most of what I picked up was only 14-15% off. Somewhat disappointing. But I hadn't ordered since the "Loyal-tea" sale in April, and my wishlist had to be dealt with lol
@@tabularasa This is my 1st HT sale. I gave into fomo with Teal No Lies, but it ended up being a patchy, gummy mess even after adding thinner. I'm being more cautious this time and sticking with polishes that aren't brand new to the catalog.
@@dtrick924 sounds like you might have had a batch issue! I would contact holotaco support
i ordered a lot 🙈 peely base, glossy taco, reflective taco, everything taco, borde meeting, midnight spark, never tide down, bring me the teal, foiled again, amber apathy, tax haven and burnt bridges 😅
I got amber apathy as well lol!
Thanks for the overview. I picked up a lot of basics and some backups from the Dark Academia collection. I decided to but “Favourite Sister” and “Disco Dust” some polish thinner and a mat. I am living in two cities so I need a mat in my second city.
Linry, can you explain why/how magnetic pigment can disperse three to eight hours later? Like how do the particles continue to move after drying? I only have a few magnetic polishes that I picked up earlier this year (and none from HT), so I'm not super experienced with them. But when I did finally dive into the magnetic pool, I did my homework and tried to make sure I was doing all the right things during application for a good result. I do two coats unmagnetized, then the third coat magnetized for at least 90 seconds, and then another 90 seconds during application of top coat. I get minimal dispersion as the QDTC dries and the layers underneath fully cure, like a very slight spreading of the cat eye line, but other than that, it stays pretty tight. And it definitely doesn't move at all after drying. I've been curious about this, and you mentioned it, so I'm asking! Shame that those ones stain so much! I found that Private Villa turned my nail beds pink too lol I learned to double up with that one.
Fun video, lots of goodies! I look forward to what I expect will be your HT linear holo bonanza. It's still my favorite formula from HT. That and crushed holo 💅
It can take many hours for the full thickness of a manicure to dry, even if it is touch dry. It'll be slower if it's cold or humid, or you paint thicker layers or have longer nails etc. In that time the magnetic pigment can disperse.
@@mulierwulf9652 I've discovered that humidity can really affect polish (living in the PNW lol) but I didn't know that cold can really slow things down too. Maybe I've been lucky. Thanks for the input!
Ok so there is a difference between your polish drying and your polish curing and this is why magnetics will disperse for up to 24 hours after application.
When your polish dries (feels dry after you finish your mani) solvents have evaporated from the polish, so you can gently touch the polish and it wont smudge HOWEVER the polish is not cured. You know how you can still get sheet-marks in a polish hours after you finish? This is because while the solvents have evaporated, leaving your polish "dry" the chemical reaction that cures the polish has not yet completed.
A polish becomes cured with the nitrocellulose monomers within the polish bond together to form a large net (polymer) which results in the polish being a single flexible film. This is why the magnetic particles can still disperse after drying, the particles are not yet trapped in the polymer matrix.
Now in gel polishes the curing process needs extra energy to happen (the lamp) but is completed faster - hence gel magnetics stay crisp compared to regular polish.
Hope this makes sense.
@@Sibiohan Ooh, science! Fun to think of all that bonding happening under the surface for so many hours afterwards! Very thorough explanation, thank you so much 💅
I want existential crisis! ❤❤
I got electrostatic, iron violet, scattered holo topper, galactic unicorn, gift receipt, and curfew crasher as my bday polish for the BF sale! Also a glossy topper and smoothing base too, gotta load up on essentials.
I only buy magnetics that look unlike anything you can achieve with other finishes. It needs to be worth the extra magnetising time!
Alien Infatuation is 100% my fav HT polish i own.
Late checkout is almost a Mc dupe for House of hades.... ❤ them both!
I overdid it with the sale, but I did not pick up any of the new collection. I got the pastel linear holos, Tax Haven, Secret Society, Zyler the Cat, Wireless Mode, and Late Checkout.
such great picks! I hope you love them as much as I do!
My bottle of Starry-Eyed is the opposite, it is FULL of star shaped glitters, I usually end up with 3 on each nails when I do two coats!
finally someone else who dislikes magnetic polish. I feel seen
so seen we are on the struggle bus together
Girl I bought a circuit breaker a month ago and it came with the skinny round brush. So it does apparently still happen.
Lite Link, Wireless Mode, and Flash Drive are calling to me....
yeeeees now give us more holotaco
I can't believe Never Tide Down doesn't stain your nails! I swear I have blue on my nails for WEEKS after wearing it. Gotta double up my basecoats for that one.
do your magnetics disperse in the velvet style?
I’m Rover It is honestly as close to my favorite color that I have found in a polish. I really love it. I like it against my skin tone so thankfully that’s not a problem for me. Honestly though, I would wear it anyway since I love the color so much😂.
Honestly it looks so beautiful on so many skin tones I just hate it on mine lol. I'm so happy you love it!
Linry, does your Starry Eyed smell like wheeed? Because mine does so I can barely stand to use it! :/ Great video by the way!
noooo lol wuuuuut does the smell linger when it's dry?!
@@WoWLinry Yes, it does linger. It's quite terrible. I'm afraid to wear it again even though i LOVE the color. 😢
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