STEALTH STATUS: What Your Manicure Says About U (it’s political)
this woman lives in a completely parallel universe to me like I have no idea what she’s on about with this lmao. my nails are short and unpolished for no other reason than that’s how I wear them.
I finished reading this article and I think I’m Immediately going to become an alcoholic to cope with the amount of damage it did to me
Absolutely baffling article. Author (a self-identified Zillennial) is fixated on the quality of being “chic” and “elusive” (as in a type of woman she calls the “Elusive International Hot Girl” aka the one who is constantly traveling, is (i’m paraphrasing) not interested in forming authentic friendships with the author, and (i’m guessing) probably on instagram constantly).
Author reads like a tryhard who would very much like to be an Elusive International Hot Girl herself but has realized that she does not qualify based on the required the social class or financial privilege, so she’s attempting to obsessively hack an understanding of it and gaslight the audience into thinking she knows what she’s talking about using a mix of trendy jargon and almost-academic terminology (“covert/overt status” “status hierarchy-political” ) applied in a very weird way that comes out [checks notes] utterly backwards and with the vibes of anxiously fawning to the audience to camouflage any definitive statements she might make.
In essence, she does not realize that the main quality she is lacking in this endeavor is sprezzatura, the presentation of elegant nonchalance. She also does not understand that famous quote about how clever people say a great deal in a very few words, but those of small wit take a long time to say utterly nothing of substance.
To save you the psychic damage: According to the author, truly truly chic Elusive International Hot Girls have bare nails (and drink whole milk). She also claims that “regular polish” (as opposed to gel) ranks at #2 of her hierarchy because of the luxury, leisure time, and money it takes to get a weekly manicure at a salon (or, she says, by summoning the manicurist to your house) – she has seemingly no awareness of people who paint their own goddamn nails.
that is all you need to know about this article. It is BAFFLING.
amhrancas 