00:00The BBC is facing backlash over, of all things, a story about manicures, where the outlet dubbed
00:05the little or no nail polish trend as racist and classist. The article is titled How the
00:10Bare Nails Trend Became a Class Issue. The famed British news outlet has found themselves a subject
00:15of criticism for a recent article deeming bare manicures racist and classist. There's been a
00:20recent trend of bare nails this season, meaning nails that are either totally devoid of polish
00:24or nail art or with barely there neutral polish. This trend, according to a recent article,
00:29titled How the Bare Nails Trend Became a Class Issue, has been relegated to a status symbol
00:35of the white elite. One beauty journalist quoted in the piece referred to the bare nail trend
00:39as promoting a quote, kind of sameness and erasure of culture and its identity that is so important
00:44to black and brown communities, and added that examples of this quiet luxury aesthetic quote
00:49are almost always white women or celebrities, and they'll often conflate class and taste
00:54with that bareness. The story, well, it didn't land well with much of the public who've slammed BBC
01:01for politicizing nail polish or lack thereof. The social media response has been swift with many
01:06labeling the story absurd. One ex-user wrote, thank goodness the BBC has alerted us to the fact that
01:11saving money and leaving your nails plain is actually elitist and oppressive. Another listed their reason
01:17for going no manicures as being expensive and damaging to natural nails before adding, quote,
01:22but according to you, I'm a white supremacist. And then there's this one. I've never had a manicure
01:27in my life, so I guess I'm literally worse than Hitler now. One thing that can't seem to be argued
01:31with is the trend itself. Bare and neutral nails are the viral nail of choice at the moment. The BBC
01:37article asking whether bare nails are classy or classist did note that there may be a simpler
01:41meaning behind the trend, saving time and money or just simply enjoying the look.
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