You won't be able to look away.
Maria Ortiz exclaims, and at once, she and the dozen or so women around her hold their hands up and smile for the cameras. It’s a Sunday afternoon in Newark, NJ, and a group of friends have gathered in a tiny salon that smells of both chemicals and catered Spanish food. In a flurry of flash photography, the friends pose, showing off what they all have in common: their brightly painted and blinged-out fingernails, grown so long that they curve into wide arcs.
Nails like these are a conversation piece, and it takes a self-realized woman to deal with the attention. “I can’t go anywhere without people taking pictures,”says Kathy Jordan, 53. “I get a lot of comments, but they’re almost all good ones.” Jordan was raised in a small town in Mississippi, but says that moving to New Jersey and growing her nails for the past 20 years has made her more open-minded about everything. “It’s a big change, a totally different lifestyle,” she says.
Every woman I talk with is as unique as her manicure, but they all field the same queries and comments from strangers every day. And while much of the attention is positive, it’s not without its drawbacks. “Sometimes I get upset at some of the questions,” admits Tammy “First Lady” Dunmore, a 44-year-old minister’s wife. “The conversation is not always pleasant. Not everybody understands our world, so we just try to educate people.
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