Gen Z woman's short-nail theory sparks viral debate
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TikTok user Ashley Shim told Newsweek: "It's easy to feel like that's the normal standard—that everyone should have long nails."

Apparently short nails are a fashion statement now as opposed to a thing that just happens because you work with your hands too much and your thyroid is underactive - uh, I mean they’re totally short because I AM A CONFIDENT WOMAN. But I’ve always envied women with naturally long nails, and enjoy looking at other people’s professionally manicured nails.

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    I don’t want to be super annoying, but I wanted to gently suggest that we not drive traffic to Newsweek because of its right-wing agenda:

    In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had “taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders” since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine’s elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer’s opinion section and podcast.

    The article is basically just coverage of this tiktok video.

    The video is pretty short, in it a woman says:

    really unpopular opinion, just hear me out: girls who wear their nails super short, you know they don’t give a flying fuck, you know they don’t care. You know they’re living their best life. Just know she’s a baddie and she’s really freaking confident.

    EDIT: and to answer, I love having long nails, but I do a lot of work with my hands (cooking, cleaning, gardening, etc.) and they can be annoying - inevitably I grow mine out as long as I can and then they become a problem. I like to get gel manicures on occasion, and it’s always so upsetting when a couple weeks later the gel is flaking - I wish there were better solutions for my nails (pedicures tend to last much longer, probably because my toes are safely tucked away in shoes or socks most of the time, not getting banged up in the world).

    oh, and I’m a lesbian that plays the bass, so … you know, some of those nails are going to be kept a little shorter 😉