intentionally chipped manicures?!
A lot of my femme friends have gotten really into manicures over the last year or so (or maybe it’s just that I noticed?!) anyway I’m a pretty DIY sort of femme when it comes to getting my nails done, firstly I don’t like people I don’t know touching me at all, and then of course I’d rather save the $$$ especially now that my partner and I are home owners. That said, I know that for many of my femme friends it’s a super relaxing experience that makes them feel rejuvenated and beautiful, so who am I to judge!
That said, this evening ironically after an afternoon where I picked all of my nail polish off (so that I could repaint my nails tonight) I came across this article that I just couldn’t resist posting here—-it’s all about some new fashion trend where folks are paying money to get intentionally chipped nails i just don’t get it. I like in NYC which seems to me like the capital for diversity of manicures, I see everything from short neatly painted nails, to acrylics stretching longer than the woman in questions fingers as well as everything in between including intricate airbrushing etc. etc. etc. but this is still new to me.
My nails do a pretty good job of getting chipped on their own, I can’t imagine actually paying to get a chipped manicure?! Would any of you?????
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Melissa
July 26th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
oh…hell, no. {as my french manicured gell fills with sparley silver glitter stripe across the white click on the keys as I type this. *shudder*}
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Rie
July 26th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
As my friend Marina put it (when commenting an article about the hipster fad for shaved eyebrows), it’s an easy to tell trend whores from the rest of us.
Except, in this case, it’s not so easy to tell, is it?
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Miss Avarice
July 27th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Never. Not ever in a million years would I even consider doing something that looks so ridiculous! Mine chip on their own shortly after the manicure, it is a total waste of money! People pay money to refinish chipped polish, not to have them intentionally ruined! Ugh!
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Emily
July 27th, 2009 at 1:33 am
I can understand why it could be cool for a fashion shoot. I find fashion shoots which aren’t so focussed on perfection much more interesting and I guess this could help.
However, when it comes to my nails? Absolutely not. It’s already annoying enough that they chip on their own, especially with all the travelling I do (carrying suitcases is a guaranteed nail chipper) so I just cannot imagine paying someone to do this!
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Betsy B
July 27th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Well, I like the way chipped polish looks on me sometimes, especially if I’m really pushing trashy/scandalous that day, but I would never do this.
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Maudite Entendante
July 28th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Well, hey. Looks like I’m finally in style … at least during those few tense moments between chipping my nails and running for the nail-polish remover.
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