The Taylor Swift Manicure That Has Unsettled My Spirit
The Friday Post.
A shorter Friday post this week. There’s a chat in the Substack app about the situation between Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj. On Sunday I’ll start a live chat about the Grammys too.
When Taylor Swift embraced her football boyfriend after his football victory at the football game last Sunday, I could only think: “Oh my God. Those nails.”
They are boxy square nails of medium length, in the color bedazzled vomit or glitter jaundice. They are thick with alternating layers of glitter and polish. (Just a regular glitter polish would have accomplished this, I’m guessing.) I assumed they were press-ons because her Eras tour manicures were Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat nails, or whatever you want to call it when each finger is a different color. (If you’re wondering what specific outfit this matched: none very well.) But that manicure appeared to be her natural nails,…
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