The one nail colour an expert says will never come back into fashion.
“You probably guessed it — it’s full colour white all-over nail polish. And when I say white, I mean stark white.”
Milky white polish gals, you can breathe a sigh of relief.
“It’s not a vibe, it’s not very nice, it looks tacky. I can guarantee that you’ll have a client, she likes it for all of like two days and then realises it looks like Tipp-Ex and it looks cheap and it looks nasty,” she said.
For the uninitiated, Tipp-Ex is basically like Wite-Out.
“At the end of the day, as a nail tech, I do not want you to be walking around with nails that ultimately I don’t like. Because my name and reputation is against those set of nails. And I don’t want people to think my nails look cheap and tacky,” she added.
Here’s the full video below:
@catrina.mayfieldmani Gonna ruffle a few feathers with this one. Any other nail techs refuse to paint certain colours/designs? I wanna hear them! #nailtech #naileducator #unpopularopinion ♬ original sound – catrina.mayfieldmani
“I don’t know how I’d feel if my nail tech refused something I was paying for,” one person commented.
Another person wrote, “As a nail tech… I’ll do any colour/style my clients pay me to do.”
Ooft.
In a follow-up video, Mayfield addressed the commentary around her viral post, reminding people that as a self-employed nail tech, it’s okay to uphold a boundary when it comes to client requests.
“Being a nail tech and a beauty service provider is so much more than what you’re getting paid,” she said.