00:00The BBC is facing backlash over a story about manicures, where the outlet dubbed the little
00:05or no nail polish trend as racist and classist. The article is titled, How the Bare Nails Trend
00:11Became a Class Issue. It asks whether this season's bare nails trend is a status symbol
00:16of the white elite. One beauty journalist quoted in the piece noted that examples of this quiet
00:21luxury aesthetic, quote, are almost always white women or celebrities, and they'll often conflate
00:28class and taste with that bareness. She went on to suggest that since nail art is rooted
00:33in Black, Latino, and Asian communities, that bare nail equates to the erasure of culture.
00:38The story, well, it didn't land well with much of the public, who've slammed BBC for
00:44politicizing nail polish or lack thereof. The social media response has been swift, with
00:48many labeling the story absurd, accusing the outlet of pushing a left-wing agenda. One
00:55goodness, the BBC has alerted us to the fact that saving money and leaving your nails plain
00:59is actually elitist and oppressive. Another listed their reason for going no manicures
01:04as being expensive and damaging to natural nails, before adding, quote, but according to you,
01:09I'm a white supremacist. And then there's this one, I've never had a manicure in my life,
01:13so I guess I'm literally worse than Hitler now.
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