If Good Morning America is to be believed, women are frantically running to their local salons to demand a new style of manicure that will make PETA weep: snakeskin manicures and pedicures. Yes, for $100 bucks a pop, a salon technician will cut bits of the actual skin of a snake into the exact shape of your fingernails and stick them on for a unique, grandiose look. The practice can be traced back to a Texas salon which described its implementation of said snake-nailing thus: “When we first did it on actual customers their first reaction was ‘Ew!’ and then they said, ‘Let me see that.'” Consider me sold.
Another supposed craze is the “Missoni Manicure,” which is really just a series of zig-zags on each nail in the style of the brand’s motif. I can sort of understand paying $100 for someone to stick snakeskin on your nails — that seems pretty complicated. But $75 for zig-zags? Please. You can buy bottles of polish with thin brushes to make the exact same thing for $4 at your local drugstore. For pattern inspiration, just turn to sites like Hey, Nice Nails!, nailsnailsnails, and F*ckYeahPrettyNails. And use that $70 to buy a snake or something.
