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Hi friends! Thank you all for the warm welcome back on the last post! It’s good to be back 🙂 For today’s blog post, I am sharing the new Off The Deep End collection from Holo Taco! This collection features a new formulation for the brand, jelly bases with iridescent flakies!
Unrelated to this release, I am currently hosting a giveaway over on my YouTube channel to celebrate reaching 11,000 subscribers! If you would like to enter the giveaway, I have Gleam widget at the end of this post to enter.
Live Swatch Video
Holo Taco is a US based nail polish brand. Their polishes are in 12ml bottles, 10 free, cruelty-free, and vegan.
Note: for all of the polishes in this release, I have them swatched in 3 coats over the Holo Taco Peely Base and Long Lasting base coats. I used the Holo Taco glossy top coat. As all of the polishes dry down textured I recommend pairing these with multiple layers of thicker top coat or even a glitter smoothing top coat if you have one!
Big Reef Energy
Description: Iridescent flakies in a coral red jelly base with gold scatter reflective glitter
I really loved that despite this having coral in the description, it doesn’t lean orange! I sadly was unable to see the gold reflects in this one.
I found my nail line to be pretty minimal on this one. The flakies largely distract from being able to see your nail line super strongly.
Crashing Out
Description: Iridescent flakies in a royal blue jelly base with silver scattered holographic glitter
This is that fun shade of royal blue that I have a serious issue with. And by serious issue I mean I can’t stop buying them. Love how it paired with the flakies. The holographic gave it a beautiful sparkle.
Don’t Be Jelly
Description: Iridescent flakies in a magenta purple jelly base with pink scattered reflective glitter
I found Don’t Be Jelly applied surprisingly patchy on the first coat but it builds up really well in 2-3. As long as you don’t mind that you don’t get the exact shade of a warm pinky purple on the nail that you see in the bottle, it’s passable in two coats.
Similar to the other reflective glitter polishes, I wasn’t able to see the colored reflects but I could see silver reflective particles.
My friend Linry had wanted to know how this one compares to Mooncat’s The Diabolical Mojo Jojo. The flakie colors between the two are different, TDMJ has shimmer and black flakies.
Made Me Ink
Description: Iridescent flakies in an indigo jelly base with silver scattered reflective glitter
The flakies in this one make it look MUCH more blue than the base color on it is. On the first coat the base almost looks purple but once you start building it up in stays firmly in the indigo/blurple category.
Out of all of the reflective glitter polishes, this one had the most obvious reflectiveness.
Wade A Minute
Description: Iridescent flakies in a teal aqua jelly base
Wade A Minute was the only polish in this release that I felt that I needed all 3 coats to cover up with patichness. I had initially thought that the patchy application was due to my choice in base coats (Holo Taco Peely Base) but I tried it with their Long Lasting base and Sweet & Sour Lacquer’s Smicky Sauce and had the same experience with all 3 base coats.
Despite the patchiness, I loved this color! The flakies are pretty big in this one so they behave close to chunky glitters but with less texture.
What A Catch
Description: Iridescent flakies in a bright pink jelly base with light green scattered reflective glitter
While I wasn’t able to see any green reflects in person, looking at my photos I can see a tiny bit of green peeking through. My eyes weren’t able to pick it up but I could tell that there were in fact reflective glitters in the polish.
Final Thoughts
I am sure I’m not the only one who loves it when Holo Taco does more indie nail polish style collections. I’m honestly a little surprised that this is their first go at a collection of flakie polishes. They did a fantastic job with them. The bases across the board were on the thicker side but nothing abnormal for flakie bomb style polishes.
I do with the reflective was a bit more in your face, I am not 100% sure if the reflective was supposed to be so delicate or if I suffered a batch issue. I did contact Holo Taco just in case the reflective was supposed to be more pronounced so I will update when I hear back!
My top picks from this collection are, Crashing Out, Wade A Minute and What A Catch. Let me know what you thought of this release!
Giveaway
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Sale Information
The Off The Deep End collection is available right now on the Holo Taco website. This release is not limited edition so it should be around for quite a while! Holo Taco ships worldwide from the United States.
Holo Taco polishes are also available online and in select stores at Ulta.
Pricing: $14 each for 12ml bottles
$78 for all 6 polishes
Holo Taco
12ml, 10 Free, Vegan & Cruelty-Free
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Comments (68)
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March 22, 2025 at 3:44 pm
I’ve been on a big flake kick lately, so I really like this collection, especially Made Me Ink. Came straight to your review after watching the launch. I like that the glitters are sparse because I’m not the biggest fan of reflective glitter and I like to add my own scattered holo topper.
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March 22, 2025 at 3:21 pm
This was an exciting release! I’m between What a Catch and Made Me Ink. I promised myself to go on a more.. “controlled” buy this year considering the rebound from my last year’s no-buy completely negated ever going on one. But I’ll wait a bit like usually do for first impressions and reviews to come in, if they sound really good I might pick one up during the Loyalty release but more likely I’ll pick one up during Black Friday sales. My wishlist on the HT site is getting out of hand, always fun to build it up and pare it back down.
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March 22, 2025 at 3:19 pm
Thank you for writing such a great review! I love flakies, though I wish they did more varying colors in the collection.
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March 22, 2025 at 3:11 pm
Congrats to the 11k. 🥳
I love your bubbly energy and your honest reviews. 🙂 -
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March 22, 2025 at 2:49 pm
Ooh, Ive been looking forward to these types of polishes from Holo Taco. Excited to try them out myself
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March 22, 2025 at 2:31 pm
love being able to drag to compare the polishes! happy blogging hfhf 🙂 and congrats on the 11K!!!
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March 22, 2025 at 2:24 pm
I am so excited to do a lazy rainow gradient with these flakie bombs! Thanks so much for the swatches and honest reviews.
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March 22, 2025 at 1:50 pm
these are very pretty! i am usually not a big fan of blue but i am surprisingly in love with both of the blue shades in this release. your photos look better than the ones holotaco has on their website.
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March 22, 2025 at 12:56 pm
These are all so juicy and the depth from the jelly base and flakes is stunning! I was on the fence about this collection leading up to seeing the swatches today, but I think I gotta get it. Like you said in your video, I also love when HT leans into the more “indie” nail polish brand aesthetic like they’ve been doing the last two years (starting with the Vacation Collection in 2023). I think Wade a Minute and Don’t Be Jelly are my favorites, but my favorites almost always change whenever I get a collection in (or more accurately, on) my hands!
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March 22, 2025 at 12:54 pm
My fav is Wade A Minute but it was a tough call. I wish What A Catch had more gold v. orange feel, but I get why that is. When I pick these up, I’ll probably later a flakey gold topper on that one. Any suggestions?
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March 22, 2025 at 12:42 pm
i’m a bit conflicted on how i feel about this collection 🙁 it’s so pretty and i loooove big chunky flakes, but i wish it was less blue-purple heavy and i think it’s weird that most have super small amount of reflective glitter, but in random colors (????) and two just don’t have them. one of which has holo and one has nothing!? i wish they all had holo but… you know me… i love holo lol
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March 22, 2025 at 11:54 am
I already purchased before seeing your review, but now I feel good about my purchase lol.
I’m most excited for Don’t Be Jelly, Wade a Minute and What a Catch 🙂Thank you as always for your swatches.
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