BBC says plain manicures are racist.

As an admitted pragmatist, I find this kind of report hard to explain. All that can be done is to lay out the case made by the BBC in this report, and let those exposed to it come up with cogent conclusions.

The British outlet has a pair of reporters covering a troubling, dangerous, and possibly hateful fashion trend. Women in larger numbers are getting manicures without brash coloring. The problem is a plain, natural appearance.

How the bare nails trend became a class issue https://t.co/2ztyWvUcrX

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) September 26, 2026

If you need a moment to recover from this dire information, I’ll give you the time…

Somehow, the concept is that, as opposed to getting flashy, garish colors or designs on their fingernails, more ladies are preferring a cleaner, unpolished appearance on their digits. That the preponderance of these salon customers are white is the start of the toxic trend.

“It’s crazy,” the owner of Wumman Spa in London says. In recent months, Paloma Buddemeier has watched a stream of people walk into her nail salon with the goal of looking as if they’d never been there at all.

https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-bbc-declares-plain-manicures-are-virulently-racist/