Ten thousand fake nails become gowns for Safiya Nygaard's Holo Taco launch
Made with designer JoEllen to celebrate a celestial gothic polish collection, the eleven-day-old dress video has passed 3.4 million views.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
We Made Dresses Out of 10,000 Fake Nails
Safiya Nygaard posted nothing new, and the channel hardly noticed, because the dresses were still doing the talking.
"We Made Dresses Out of 10,000 Fake Nails" went up eleven days ago to mark the release of a new nail polish collection made with Holo Taco, the brand founded by Cristine Rotenberg, better known on YouTube as Simply Nailogical. The collection is billed as celestial and gothic, which suits a channel whose about text is a row of bats, moons and aliens. The team painted ten thousand press-ons by hand, and JoEllen, the dress designer behind Firefly Path, helped turn them into gowns. The tags even point at Kendall Jenner, a nod to the nail dress that inspired the stunt. It has passed 3.4 million views and is still gathering far more each day than anything else on the channel.
Two older videos keep it company. Her trip to the chair of Syedewa, a Malaysian makeup artist the description says has worked for the country's royal family, is ten months old and still drawing steadily. So is her investigation of AI-designed gowns bought through Pinterest, where JoEllen also appears, this time as the expert examining what arrived in the box. Nearly six million people have now watched Safiya get scammed so they would not have to.
Among fashion and shopping channels of similar size, Sophie Silva, Vlad and Chris, HopeScope and Vogue are all busier than usual, while AlishaMarie is having a calmer stretch. With 10.2 million subscribers, Safiya sits third in that group, and her nail gowns have a rare head start.
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Cristine Rotenberg, co-founder of Holo Taco, built her YouTube following under which name?
Rotenberg became known for her holographic polish obsession on her channel Simply Nailogical, which led to the founding of Holo Taco.



