Branded Nail Art and Katy Perry’s VMAs Manicure: If Everyone Jumped
Enough about Katy Perry’s one-sleeved, drawn-on tattoo, Olympic figure skater, Bjork swan dress-like ensemble (is it bad if we kind of dig it?) from Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards. Let’s talk about the far more interesting thing she wore to everyone’s favorite train wreck of an awards show: her fiancée.
That’s right folks! Perry had images of funnyman beau Russell Brand’s face painted on her finger nails for the occasion. {E! Online} She told Ellen DeGeneres in a post-show interview that she did it because he could not attend the VMAs with her since he was shooting an upcoming movie in New York.
What do you think? Awwwww! Or Whaaaaaaat?
We weren’t sure what to make of it, but Ms. Teenage Dream (and Rolling Stone’s September cover girl) did cause us to wonder what else you could have painted on your nails if you really wanted an original manicure.
Turns out the latest trends in nail art are a direct reflection of a younger generation’s obsessions – specifically, technology and junk food.
It seems the newest in nail art is having the icon for your favorite Internet browser painted on. Apparently blogger Mamipeko decided to request browser icons be painted on her nails, and the manicurist she went to delivered, using a nude polish as a base and detailing the icons for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera. {Walyou}
Considering the information generation’s obsession with technology and the Web, we figure it’s not unlikely that this idea will catch on, especially since news has spread through the blogosphere. Many others have already followed suit, requesting the Apple icon, Super Mario Brothers images and the Twitter bird as part of their manicures. {Walyou}
This could take the "I'm a PC" thing in a completely new direction
And if you think that is crazy, get this: photos of a set of manicured nails painted with the logos for various snacks and sodas have been circulating the blogosphere of late as well. You can brand your hands with Doritos, Oreos, Goldfish, Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper if you so choose. {the gloss}
Since much has been made of the importance of appealing to generation Y for any business to remain relevant into the future, we can’t really say technology and junk food nail art is such a bad idea. And compared to Lindsay Lohan’s manicure meltdown, the latest nail expressions are pretty harmless. Besides being obsessed with snacks and the Internet, the current younger generation does seem to be particularly inclined toward wearing T-shirts, handbags, sweatpants and other apparel with brand logos plastered across them, which is another point in this type of manicure’s favor. We can, however, point out that if you are a grown, respectable woman this is one trend to highly consider skipping. Unless of course you’re Katy Perry.
