We've been all over the accent/statement nail trend like a rash for the last few months, opting for the most part to make the ring fingers the stand-out star of this particular manicure trend. Now, though, there's a new pair of nails on the block vying for our attention. They didn't go through billions of years of evolution only to play second fiddle to fingers, dammit, so why not give the nails of those opposable thumbs some love?
The business of doing something a bit different with the thumbnails came to my attention in a big way a couple of weeks ago in London. The girl sitting beside me in WAH Nails opted for penguins on a black background on her thumbs, in total contrast to the neutral beige on the rest of her nails. I confess that I was a wee bit bewildered by her decision... until I noticed her using those newly decorated digits to operate her phone.
Cue an "a-ha!" moment - if you're going to go to the trouble of doing an accent nail, why not put it somewhere it's going to be noticed every time you send a text or tap in a telephone number, right? Even though the fancy thumb has been, eh, imaginatively dubbed the "iNail" by some and "BlackBerry bling" by others, I still really likes it!
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What do you ladies reckon?
