As many of you may recall, I have a rather strong aversion to nail polish. I mean, it just drives me batty. Particularly on the fingernails (I am not fond of toenail polish, either, but it’s so ubiquitous that I have become desensitized). It is worse when the nail polish is particularly designy. Black is the least unacceptable, red is next, some other solid color after that. Then the recent trend of painted tips. Then designs.

A friend’s girlfriend – of whom I am extremely fond – has taken to painting her nails in very conspicuous ways. Designs. Glitter. And then showing off her work on Facebook. Which wouldn’t bother an ordinary and sane person. Which I am neither.