"Naked Nails" For Me Mean "Unemployment Nails"
This gworl knows how to seek out a trend, huh?
Over the summer, the girlies were going crazy over TikTok’s "#NakedNails trend — myself included. Little did I know, my ass would be joining in on this look in a totally different meaning.
When I wrote the piece in July, it was really a fun nod to the “quiet luxe” era that has been ruling our beauty conversations over the past year or so. Sofia Richie, Selena Gomez and Nicola Peltz Beckham go out one or two times without nail polish and the next thing you know, an army of tween and adult women, men, boys and girls are going crazy behind what people with no job do on a regular. (EL OH EL.)
Normally, I go polish-free in the winter time to give my nails a break from a summer of weekly/bi-weekly gel manicures. (S/o to Glosslab.) After the holidays, my nail beds are usually fried and so sensitive to the LED lamp that I’d just rather go without during the colder months to build my nail beds back up ahead of spring.
However, this time, I need to conserve my coins while I lay the foundation for this new freelance journey. So fuck “Naked Nails” it’s giving “Unemployment Nails” around this way. Still very much so luxe.
I must say that the vain part of me does miss a bit of gel. During the pandemic, I wasn’t one of the ones that picked up the skill of knowing how to do my own manicure. Of course as a beauty editor, I have all the tools at home, but you’re talking to someone that can barely draw inside the lines, why would I risk hurting myself trying to give myself a full DIY manicure?? Let’s bfrfr.
During this transition of scaling back, one thing I won’t scale back on are my 2x a week haircut. I don’t mind serving “Unemployment Nails” in exchange for a hairdo. Let’s keep it a buck, you’re looking at my beautiful waves anyway, right?
