Leopard claws
BROOKLYN, NY.
A spectator at the Mermaid Parade. Those nails aren't fake and they're not part of a costume, they're her actual fingernails.
Her thumbnails are so long they coil like corkscrews. It's amazing to me that she can handle a phone and a camera.
The nails are decorated with leopard-print polish. (Click on the image to see a larger view.)
Some girls should not wear skinny jeans and she is one of them.
Posted by: Doug | June 22, 2009 at 01:24 AM
Wow. I've seen some corkscrewed fingernails, but hers pretty much take the cake. A bit like the Burmese women with the brass-hooped, elongated necks or Chinese women with bound feet. So, we've got the pants that required some tugging, the shirt sleeves through which the nails had to be carefully threaded, the i-pod and cell phone with their little buttons, and, God help me, or her, the shoelaces!
Posted by: cfrost | June 22, 2009 at 02:00 AM
Ok, how does she finish up in the bathroom?
Posted by: madmatt | June 22, 2009 at 09:57 AM
Ok, how does she finish up in the bathroom?
I was thinking that myself...bidet maybe? Either that or a scrub brush. I don't think it's possible to do with with those nails otherwise.
Posted by: Count Zero | June 22, 2009 at 03:35 PM
Wow. I've seen some corkscrewed fingernails, but hers pretty much take the cake. A bit like the Burmese women with the brass-hooped, elongated necks or Chinese women with bound feet. So, we've got the pants that required some tugging, the shirt sleeves through which the nails had to be carefully threaded, the i-pod and cell phone with their little buttons, and, God help me, or her, the shoelaces!
Not to mention to chalky old white guy with shorts and black socks. Tacky!
Posted by: Count Zero | June 22, 2009 at 03:38 PM
On the one hand, I can admire the dedication that allows her to cultivate those nails.
OTOH, all of the comments above (except the rude and pointless one about "skinny jeans"), plus I wonder about the mental state that allows someone to develop such an all-consuming obsession with something as pointless as ridiculous fingernails.
Posted by: Dr. Psycho | June 22, 2009 at 04:58 PM
I wondered the same thing. I wonder if she can hold down a job with those nails--no pun intended.
Posted by: Lindsay Beyerstein | June 22, 2009 at 05:13 PM
I wonder if she can hold down a job
Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software. Amazing program. You can do everything you want to do on your computer while wearing a straitjacket; should you care to do so.
Posted by: cfrost | June 22, 2009 at 07:44 PM
Dr. Psycho, those fingernails are nothing if not pointed.
Posted by: Alon Levy | June 22, 2009 at 07:55 PM