Some of our friends pointed us to this article entitled “Fake fingernails sum up weird modern femininity” written By Claire Harvey, 24th August 2008, over at news.com.au. Here is the link for the full story and people’s comments
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24232394-5007146,00.html
It starts off something like this …
IF THERE’S one accoutrement that sums up the weirdness of modern femininity, it’s the fake fingernail.
In the pared-back grunge of the 1990s, when even lipstick faded to beige, it seemed safe to assume false talons were on the way out.Soon, they’d be a boomer relic, reserved for ageing suburbanites, the odd transvestite and Flo-Jo, using one curved claw to stir her Bovril in the nursing home dining room. But now the whiff of polymer resin wafts through every mall.
Tiny nail sweatshops line the shopping strips, full of little Asian ladies with their heads bent over the plump pink paws of young middle-class women, using a potent chemical clag to attach gel or acrylic nails.
A very good read I must say as there are a mirage of such opinion everywhere. And we do acknowledge the pros and cons of having your nails done. No doubt about it. We don’t find it offensive or anything but rather amusing when we read between the lines. Obviously Claire is entitled to her own opinion and so is everybody else. We are living in a free democratic country after all. Freedom of choice and freedom of speech are extremely important and we certainly subscribe to that. If you don’t like fake, go for a natural care. If you don’t like to pay for it then you can do it yourself at home. This is what we love about a country such as Australia :-). You have choices!
Although we must say that the story is rather incomplete because Claire did not quite touch on many other reasons why people want or need fake nails. Equally important also are the quality of artificial nail enhancements which looks so natural that people cannot tell they are fake. That is another point of difference between the so called “sweatshops” but we prefer to call it “nail salons” 
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