What I wore on February 2025?

 New month, who this? New nails, for sure. But we'll get to that! This month I did my nails substantially more than last month so this post will be a bit more complete, I hope!

First manicure of the month was on February first, actually. You could check that post of last month when I was already stating that the manicure had a couple of chips, and I needed a new manicure. I also noticed that I was using so much of Holo Taco so I went for another brand this time just for a change. And the manicure didn't live up to expectation:

I used Pull & Bear's Galactic Green and Today is Vibrant. Well, that was the problem: the gradient was not as vibrant as the polishes on their own. So, let me explain: I did a gradient from the green to the black, but both polishes had a silver shimmer in it to give it the metallic look. And when you use a sponge to gradient, the base and the coloured pigment gets absorbed but these kind of pigments stay on top, so the formula is changing already! I tried to save it with a dotticure on a side of the nail using the opposite colour. You can tell how vibrant the black looks on the dots compared to the tip of my nails! I might revisit this idea with crèmes to avoid this kind of washing down the polish.

My next manicure was me trying out another technique for myself! On February 8th, I had several nail stickers and sheets and I needed some neon green. I will tell you, neon green is the shade I've used the most in my life, literally several bottles emptied over the years. This one I'm using right now is from Deliplus' last year Neon release, and it's my second bottle of it. I need it on my nails. So I found this one of a honeycomb on my collection, and got high retrofuturism hacker vibes, so I went for it:

I will say that the sheet was not the best quality, it was a little bit too thick and it rippled on me a bit. I did the best to hide it, but honestly I can see so many mistakes of it laying flat. I will also say that my top coat didn't stick to it, at all. It was literally peeling off of it! I have to investigate and see what's going on. I'm a scientist, after all.

I even put on some fishnet gloves for it because it was giving tech femboy, and... yep I redid the pics:

Hey, I am not a professional nail vlogger, you can tell. But hey, maybe with time.

And here I want to introduce you to the drama, the trauma. I broke a nail. It was on the right hand but I am not like those other girls (nail bloggers) that have different manicures on both hands, even though, should I? Anyways, I had to basically cut them short! And as I cannot be seen without nail polish NOR nail art this year, I did something quite simple on February 13th:

Yes, I've already showed you on my Scalloped clouds nails tutorial how I did exactly these nails with three quite inexpensive polishes from Wild & Young. I honestly like that brand a lot, they're quite consistent in quality, interesting formulas for 1€, 1,5€. It allows me to get polishes that are similar not the same to just experiment a little bit more! These three are their Nº331, Nº416 and Nº500!

On February 18th, I had a bestie day with my bestie and we both decided: what if... we watermarble. And we did! She used three different polishes and I wanted to go for a more muted palette, so I chose Holo Taco's Modest Moss, Head Hunter and Foreshadow to give it a pop of hue contrast. The results? Judge by yourself:

It gave me such a strong camouflage vibe that I had to put a matte top coat. You can tell I still don't know how to draw in the bullseye, and I had issues dipping, but mostly on the other hand. It's my second time, so don't expect a tutorial of this soon. I want to practice way more before dropping (hah, see what I did here) a tutorial on it! Maybe some other kind of experimental post, but again, I'm not qualified.

Last manicure of this month is again another non-surprise. I had a chip, I needed something to cover it up, so new manicure on February 25th, the last of the month and the one I'm wearing as per the writing of this post. It's the Distressed Reciprocal gradient I did the last tutorial on! My actual nails have a slight difference, though. I used Holo Taco's Not Milky White and Monstera, but I topped it with a coat of Holo Taco's Celestial Lights to give me a better chance to hide some rougher texture I had on a couple nails trying different ways to do it:

I think it was successful at that. I'm quite happy with this manicure so far but when you're reading this post, I may have other thing on my nails. What will I present you next month? I still don't know!

Again, if you want some tutorial on other look that I did that doesn't have it or suggest some looks, please do let me know! I have several things planned for tutorials that are relevant in some seasons so the things in between get a little muddy as I don't want to release four tutorials explaining the same technique with different colour combos, I want them to have some twist. Same with my own nails.

Thanks for reading, and see you next month! Or sooner, if you follow my tutorials!