I saw 2 boys in unrelated situations wearing nail polish at the elementary school I work at today, and that makes me really happy.

@Sparrow my schools' dress codes forbade nail polish for everyone :c i didn't get shit for wearing eye shadow even before i came out as trans, at least

@kit @Sparrow I had an extensive collection of dark/black nail polishes in HS... First time I wore one to school my preferred reacher gave me a bunch of hell "Did you hit your hand with a hammer, but really whats up?" sort of shit.

He kinda stopped being my favorite that day :x

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Ew, fucked up. :(

Yeah I'm really really glad these kiddos can wear nail polish and not get shit for it. Maybe it'll be harder when they get to middle/hs but I hope not!

Also one of the boys wore blue on one hand and red on the other, which was just damn cute imo.

@Sparrow @IrisKalmia ah nice, i like to alternate between two colours (which due to maths means any one finger has both colours across both hands!) when i do mine

@IrisKalmia @Sparrow also sometimes when one finger chips off more than the rest i'll scrape the rest off and paint that in a yet-unused colour and get this kinda patchwork look

and then after a while i want it to be more cohesive and i do 'em all one colour :p

@IrisKalmia @Sparrow oh no tho that look is cool

i mean i guess a few times i did just paint over *only* the chipped off parts but most of the time i redo the whole finger if chipped≥0.5(nail_area)

@Sparrow @IrisKalmia and recently i realised that when some nails are getting long enough that they bother me, that doesn't mean i need to cut all of em

so i now keep my index and thumb nails shorter (tho still considered long by some) while the rest get to be kinda big claws :3

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