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This Chipped Nail Polish Trend Just Doesn't Do It For Me
So, OK, I don't mean to be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get this whole chipped nail polish trend.
Girls are showing up with raggedy, eighth-day-after manicures and streaky, slapdash polish jobs and I'm supposed to think they're cool? The New York Times proposes lots of plausible reasons that women are coveting this unkempt look—it screams "I'm too busy/fabulous/tending to my Blackberry/playing guitar in a garage band to worry about the bourgeois perfect mani"—but to me, chipped-nail-polish-as-fashion-statement just seems arrogant, lazy, and uncreative.
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