What I wore on September 2025?

What a month, my September was. The end of it was so eventful that I could not just sit down to write this post last week, as intended. It was still quite hot, so my nail art mood was not there, but I did my best to still do something on the nails.

On September 4th I wanted to do something featuring Essie's This and That, so I painted my nails that shade and decided to pull the old reliable, black crackle polish. I used Essence's Cracking magic nail. The twist is that I carefully left my free edge free of crackle nail polish, which in terms, I didn't adore because in my opinion, it left my nail looking shorter:

Apart from that issue I mentioned, I am quite happy with this, but, nail polish companies, let's make crackle nail polish a trend again. In different colours. Please I beg on my knees. At least, white, I guess. I just need more of this.

My manicure started chipping so I changed it on September 9th, wanting to play with a nail polish I diluted myself to make a jelly, and a topper, in a jelly sandwich. The topper is one you've seen in a previous tutorial, it's the white glitter from that Duo polish I own. It was thick. It was sadly too thick and made it look weird.
 

Sadly, I have very few product left, as the topper was in a 3 mL bottle. I swear, the audacity of companies, it's not even a mini, it's a micro!

I got absurdly bored of this manicure so when it chipped just once I decided to change it. That was September 15th. I just sit down on my nail chair, which is my desk chair, my computer chair, my streaming chair and my everything chair, opened the drawer and said, no plan, let's go, I will have to change it in four days anyways. I wanted to go out of my comfort zone so I jokingly said that I would do animal print like a gyaru. I did animal print. Well, more like, I tried to do it. I wasn't in the mood for leopard, but zebra? Honestly I thought I could do it, but... judge yourself: 

I used very inexpensive polishes from Wild & Young, which retail for 1,50€ or 1€, I can't even remember. I used Nº537 as the base, from the Into The Party collection, and used Nº416 from the Moon collection as my gold. I run into some issues: first of all, the brush I used was... not ideal. I think it was more frayed than I admitted to myself back at the time and refused to change it. Also, the quality of the polishes are great but some of them are not as opaque and require one more coat than another 10€ options. That happened to the gold, so to achieve opacity I had to use too much, make my lines thick, and basically risking messing up way more. Which happened. Honestly looking back at this, it looks almost like a fantasy birch.

And why did I have to change my nails, you say? Because I was invited to another wedding this year! What a concept! I did my nails the night of September 19th to go there on September 20th. I wanted to do something slightly different from my bestie's wedding nails, but I was wearing mint too, so I didn't have much leeway:

 

I decided to play rebel and, hear me out, start with Holo Taco's Mint Mojito, a linear holographic polish, use Holo Taco's Mint Money, their frosted metal, as a topper, and that turned out beautifully. But I went maximalist, so I added a coat of Holo Taco's Everything Taco and Holo Taco's Reflective Taco. Did someone see the reflective glitters? No. I knew they were there. And the nails got complimented so I didn't do that bad. 

I wanted to keep this nails for a long time, so until the end of the month, but on September 26th I hit my hand and it was painful enough to warrant me to take off the manicure and assess the situation. I honestly though I broke two nails, and my computer also broke a couple days prior. It was painful, honestly. It hadn't happened, apparently, as I examined all of the nails and it looked like, at most, a close call, so I went on and did a gradient to make myself feel better:

I will acknowledge that my gradients were absurdly wonky and unblended, but my excuse is that Sally Hansen's Insta Dri's Thorn this Way and It's Giving have silver microflakies and they were disrupting a lot in my sponge making the gradient quite challenging. I also acknowledge that I need more practice, and probably should try building my blends with not a black and with smoother formulas, not a flake. But that's a problem for future me. I like my black to green era, the alt kid in me is thriving in this.

Or that I thought. Without any prompt, on September 28th, I felt absurdly dumb. One of the nails was, indeed, broken. You cannot see it in that pic, because it was on my other hand. It was just in a perfect angle that was obscured by my view and in two days it was just enough for it to look bent and broken. Took of the manicure immediately to reassess the situation... and shorten them all. I needed help with my mood, because my new computer was also being assembled so I just couldn't devote myself to streaming or anything like that. I decided to break the rules with toppers again. I used Holo Taco's Foiled Again as the base, and applied a thin coat of Holo Taco's Everything is Pine as a topper. The base barely lost any metallic tone, and the holographic glitter just made everything better, as it should:
 

And that was the last manicure I did on September. October will consist of manicures trying to regrow my nails, although I run into an issue after breaking my nail but it will become more relevant in next month's post. Look at me, leaving it at a cliffhanger. Thanks for reading!