Neon Citrus nail tutorial

Today's tutorial is the awaited summer look I've been meaning to do for a couple of weeks already: we're going to do limes on our nails. You can do this nail art with different colours, like yellow for lemons and orange for... I don't need to continue that sentence, right? But I have green nail polishes, so I have limes:

  

It's a fairly easy free hand that only requires three polishes, two different shades of your preferred colour for the fruit and white! Mine are:

I don't expect you to find these exact polishes, as I found them in my local dollar store once, and the white was for a limited collection. Use what you have on hand:

• Yes Love 9 Days' #494
• Yes Love 9 Days' #508
• Deliplus' Base #860

Apart from that, a nail art brush will be required. We start with a the lighter shade to full opacity. That took two coats for me:

Now, let's build the citric. To do that, I start with white lines intersecting in a center point. For clarity, I do 4 lines in an asterisk, although I know citrics are not perfectly symmetrical:

 

Next step is drawing a circular shape with these inside. You can round a little bit the corners on the exterior part if you're a bit particular and neater with your lines. Mine are a bit on the thicker side because I'm still afraid of trimming nail art brushes, to be honest:
 

Right now, it looks like a random wheel inside my nail. The thing that will give it the final touch is the outside of the fruit, in the darker version of your colour. Bonus for neons: you're using it over white, so extra punchy result! Leave a white line around the design while painting your darker polish:

And that would be the final result of this tutorial! You can add as many as you want, or in different locations. I wanted to put it in the middle but leaving a thick french tip, I feel like in the photo, the differences between the two greens are not noticeable enough, but that's the neon part. Don't forget to apply a top coat to seal it in! 

Yes, I did take a pic of it with black light and it's fun yet disappointing? Again, the differences are not that great between the two greens, but the lights look really interesting:

I hope you enjoyed this and tell me which citric fruit you like the most! I don't really know what to do for next week but I'll come up with a plan!