The BBC is catching heat for an article claiming that the trend of leaving fingernails unpainted is a racist way of pushing “white supremacist standards of beauty.”
The national broadcaster interviewed Paloma Buddemeier, a London nail salon owner, who shared that more and more customers are asking to skip the nail polish after their manicures, a fashion trend synonymous with “quiet luxury.”
But the BBC claimed that nail art is “linked back to black, Latino and Asian communities,” and the viral “bare” look could “stigmatize bold manicures.”
Read more at: https://nypost.com/2026/09/28/world-news/bbc-roasted-for-linking-unpainted-fingernails-to-white-supremacy-in-woke-article/
#barenails #whitesupremacy
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