"When you walk into a nail salon, you walk into a living history that fills the air alongside all the acrylic particulates. There is a racial hierarchy you walk into, a play that you participate in over and over again in salons across America, one that compresses race, immigration, exploitation, and solidarity into something that looks innocuous."
https://www.allure.com/story/arabelle-sicardi-house-of-beauty-nailing-the-landing-excerpt
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