What I wore in June 2025?

Welcome to possibly my shortest post here, because I committed heresy and only did two new manicures last month!

Starting on June 6th, I got gifted a neon green polish in a very interesting colour way in my collection. It is totally drugstore, it's actually a nail polish sold in Lidl:

It's Cien Neon Splash in Sea Green, and I've been told that this one is not even close to be the brightest, but it was green. I love it.

I did a cartoon manicure, so you can see where the last tutorial comes from:

 You can see that I added a shadow of a darker teal, but my shakiness made me skip that step for my tutorial. All these polishes are from local drugstores and dollar stores, so it's no use naming them! I also can tell you that this manicure made me realise that my nails grow in very unappealing ways when I let them go oval, like curving differently and such. I had my grandpa's birthday to attend on the 15th, so I changed my nail shape.

If oval is not working due to the sides... what if I don't have those sides? And that's how I ended up with almonds. For nail art, I was thinking of doing something with gradients and, well, you have already seen that tutorial, it's the same exact scaled gradient that I posted last month using Holo Taco's crushed holos:

 

I think this nail shape looks quite nice on me, and it also helps me prevent chipping, somehow. This mani lasted until the end of the month without noticeable chips! But sadly, I will tell you that... one of my nails broke.

It's on dominant hand, and as I take pics of my non-dominant hand, you will probably not notice, but I am currently holding it back with glue and teabags to attend a wedding this weekend. Pray for me, because the break is deep and it exposes my hyponichium, but this is a temporary solution and I feel it's pressuring my nail plate, so I'll probably cut them short after it.

 I'm at that point in which I like them long but these breaks not only get to my nails but also my heart, and I'm afraid of messing up my nail matrix, so I may consider letting them short and tidy, probably in an oval shape, but I don't have that decided and to shape them I'll have to wait for that traitor growing out enough to let the free edge be manageable.

In any case, I have been wearing the same manicure since July first. Spoilers: I'm using polishes from a recent collab of a mainstream brand!