The BBC now informs us that if you don’t wear nail polish, you are racist.
Nail art’s historical and creative roots are linked back to black, Latino, and Asian communities and the suggestion that bare nails are now a sign of high status could stigmatise bold manicures, they say.
“That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities,” beauty journalist Kristina Rodulfo tells the BBC.
On the other hand, if you do use nail polish, then you’re guilty of appropriating “culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities.”
The only solution I’m seeing is to amputate your hands and avoid the whole sorry conundrum.
Okay, I’ll now go back to experiencing the blankness and sameness of my racialized existence.
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