What I wore on August 2025?

I know my tutorials have taken a hit lately, but that doesn't mean I don't paint my nails. The heat and real life circumstances made me have no time nor inspiration so please excuse me with these four manicures I did all over August. Spoiler alert, they're from Holo Taco. I'm not sponsored. But I should be.

First manicure of the month was on August 6th, in which I wanted something simple and darker but I didn't have much time so I went for the most basic trick of the book: add a topper and call it a day:

Multichromes with linear holo make my brain happy because it always has something to do in different lights, so that's what I tried here!

The polishes are Holo Taco's Chameleon Coat and Holo Taco's Linear Holo Taco. Fun fact, FOMO added a second bottle of Chameleon Coat to my cart when it was getting discontinued and I realised I don't wear multichromes often enough because that first bottle is still not empty, so this was an attempt to let that happen! Don't get me wrong, I like it a lot, it's just that I can't fit it in nail art, most of the time!

Then I had another betrayal. My thumb nail broke. Yes, another nail break. I swear I'm cursed. I did what I could to save this, and honestly, I think I served. I could round the shape of my nails without sacrificing length and one of the things I do when I reshape my nails is getting a simpler manicure, just to test the waters. So, on August 11th I did this:

This is Holo Taco's Peridon't Bother Me with some AliExpress stickers. I learnt from my last attempt with these stickers that top coat just flakes off of them, so I place them over my top coat firmly, but they weren't able to stay in position, so further experimentation will be required. The issue is that I kind of don't want to place stickers on my nails to just be a bad manicure, so let's see when do I do that. The combination is amazing, honestly. Peridon't Bother Me with some black just speaks to my heart, but I don't think I can freehand with black on top of it. It's just too much.

I had a family reunion on August 16th, and they already saw my nails on the 15th, so to assert dominance as the nail guy in my family, I had to change my nails, you know. Also, they didn't go well with my outfit. I wanted to go for some sort of mint-chocolate ice cream look with layers but the plan got derailed halfway through and I ended up with these:

 

The polishes are Holo Taco's Mint Mojito topped with Holo Taco's Black Flake Taco and then Holo Taco's Reflective Taco. Originally I was thinking of making this manicure matte, believe it or not: The velvet visual texture you achieve with matte linear holos is exquisite, and the reflective glitter still twinkles a bit under the matte top coat, so I thought it would give it the look of ice cream on my nails. But I just liked the results in glossy too much to dare and mess it up. I'm a coward.

 

My last manicure of the month is what I'm still wearing, though it will be changed soon. I was starting to get bothered with myself with my lack of actual nail art, so I just did these on August 25th:

 

This is a gradient between Holo Taco's Not Pressed and Holo Taco's Born Ugly. Those two olive murky greens spoke to my soul and they look amazingly together, and I love green in all versions. Topping it is Holo Taco's Lunar Unicorn Skin, which I got because of the green shift and it being warm toned, while Galactic Unicorn Skin's green reads more apt for cool toned greens to me. I don't know, my brain works like that, it's only a problem if I let it become one, in the meantime, shinies.

And those are the manicures I have done this month. For next month, I'd love to force myself to not rely that much on my Holo Taco drawer but I don't know how feasible will that be! Let's see together!