What I wore on July 2025?

 I already told you what happened, so I won't hide it: I broke one of my nails. I won't show pictures of it in this post, but it was a very bad break on one side of the middle nail on my right hand. I patched it for the wedding I had on the 12th, and kept it for a bit to let it grow.

So this month I decided to not do complicated nail art just to ensure that if the patch fails, I could easily repaint the same thing, and that's what I did. Believe me, that nail was repatched and redone easily 5 times, but the first time I painted these nails was July 1st, just changing the month:

I am using Essie's Snow White collab, specifically the shades Seize the Crown as the background and Good Things Glow for the outline. If you're wondering, that's my left hand, which stood unbothered until I removed this manicure. The right hand had more fixes than I'm willing to admit until it finally broke off on the middle and I built a repair on top.

That held great, and it allowed me to do my Wedding nails for that event. I painted these the night prior to the event, on July 12th!

I knew these were the last nails I was going to wear with this length and shape, so I held onto them as much as I could while they still looked good. And good they looked up until I changed them on July 22nd. I shortened them, after checking that the break was above my hyponichium and I was not risking pain, and stood there, filing while crying on the inside. To cheer me up, I just went with neon green:

 

You can tell that I was so done that I just didn't care about the lumps I was putting on my nails at that point. I just needed this manicure to be done and forget about this traumatic filing experience. The polishes I used... I mixed them myself on stream, actually! These are the neon green topped with the glow in the dark green topper I made in this video! 

 

 

As you can tell, I probably didn't mix the neon well enough and there's a couple of clumped pigment, but better shaking should resolve the issue and the formula is really good after that. I'm impressed at the result and I might go for this, I still have much (like... 2 grams?) neon green pigment laying around so I have enough to last me... at least three years. For a normal person, a lifetime, but neon green is probably my default.

 

The glow in the dark doesn't integrate that well, sadly. The glowing pigment sinks and traps the mixing balls, to the point that I need to insert a tool to start manually shaking it and integrating it into the formula, and it needs vigorous shaking between each nail to avoid pigment sinking, but after those estipulations, it worked great. It even glowed when not charged with black light so I'd consider it a victory for me!

 

The poorly executed painting job bothered me, so I changed these on July 28th. I notice that in this short length, even wrapping my tips, I have lots and lots of chipping on my tips, anyways, so I went for something I've never done before: a skittle manicure. I wanted five polishes that were the same colour but had different finishes, and I landed on:

 

These are Holo Taco, with one exception being my thumb, which I mixed myself with Holo Tacos, so it technically counts. Let's go from pinky to thumb then:

 

On my pinky I'm wearing Green Screen.

On my ring finger I'm wearing Everything is Pine.

On my middle finger I'm wearing Foiled Again, and I can tell you that yes, all my frosted metals have had issues with the stability of the formula. Mine is more yellow leaning than the original. And I don't dislike it whatsoever, don't get me wrong, but this formula is the least stable I've had in a nail polish ever, this bottle is from this last Black Friday and was opened for the first time to swatch it on March!

On my pointer I'm wearing Green Taffy.

And finally, my thumb is sporting a mix of Lite Link with a couple of drops of overthinned Green Taffy, my previous bottle of it. The proportions are not exact but in my mixing video you can see that mix too, the amount of green into Lite Link barely affected it aside from shifting the base colour from blue to a green. And I'm obsessed with this mix.

 

As per the writing of this post, I'm still wearing these nails. Expect shorties for August because it's what I have, and thanks for reading! I have many polishes I want to use this month but will I have the nails to do so?