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Uh What: Scorpion Manicures
If you need any proof that women are tough as hell and wickedly creative, here’s a daring beauty trend you may have missed: lethal insects attached to your hands!
The “Scorpion Manicure” reportedly got its start last year in Durango, Mexico, where visual artist Lupita Garcia works the bodies of dead scorpions into her sculpture and paintings. After trying in vain to find a use for the smaller and less artistically valuable baby scorpions, Garcia approached Rocío Vidales, the owner at Miss Uñas beauty parlor, about an edgy new design.
Though smaller scorpions might seem less threatening, the local Centruroides Suffusus species can kill an adult human in under 20 minutes while measuring a non-whopping 4cm long. Over 1000 people were killed by them in Durango in 2015.
This in mind, the trend is intriguing. The animals thrive locally, and are featured in many souvenirs and on adventurous menus, but this is a new adaptation of the toxic creatures. They remain poisonous after death, but are rendered more harmless after being shellacked with enough nail acrylic.
The manicure has drawn customers from states away and sparked similar trends throughout Mexico… as well as some outrage online. Perhaps it’s the powerful metaphoric value, perhaps it’s a grosser yet less disappointing version of the cronut. Regardless, let it not be said that beauty is only a search for aesthetic pleasure. Sometimes it seeks to entomb the bodies of our deadliest enemies.
More background and details in this (Spanish language) video.
http://www.core77.com/posts/57647/Uh-What-Scorpion-Manicures