To my horror, The New York Times has recently decreed that chipped nail polish is in! And if it’s in the paper of record, it has to be true, right? To this, I say NOOOOOOOO! Say it isn’t so! Why, why, why?
The trend is supposed to symbolize a nonchalance about one’s appearance. You can walk around with a $5,000 handbag and a $600 pair of shoes, but the unkempt nails announce to the world that you actually don’t care that much about your appearance, that the whole look is unstudied and effortless and oh so cool. But I ask you, is it cool to have ugly hands? If you have beautiful hands with long, tapering fingers, chipped polish will diminish their appeal. If you have so-so hands with short, stubby fingers, chipped polish will only accentuate those flaws. Besides, the hands will look dirty. Who would want to touch them or be touched by them? Chipped polish, in other words, is just plain gross.
Celebs like the Olsen Twins and Lindsay Lohan, undisputed paragons of good taste (ha, ha), are credited with sparking the trend. I will never for the life of me understand how something can catch on even when it is absolutely, unequivocally HIDEOUS and UNFLATTERING. Why do people always have to jump on the bandwagon? There’s enough ugly stuff out there so please, I beg you, stop the insanity!
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Like the NYT article said, let’s just hope this nasty trend doesn’t reach the toes! Eeew.
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