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Brendan O'Connor

The rise of the Naked Nail

14 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What recent trends are influencing nail care choices?

0.031 - 12.297 Brendan O'Connor

Okay, a bit of breaking news now. It seems there's a backlash against big nails. Apparently acrylics, extension, nail art, all out. People are reverting to the so-called naked nail broadcaster, Africa O'Connell. Good afternoon.

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12.417 - 15.343 Aifric O'Connell

I don't know why you didn't have me on your newspaper panel for this.

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15.363 - 17.668 Brendan O'Connor

I know, yeah. These are the things that matter.

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Chapter 2: Why are influencers moving away from gel and acrylic nails?

17.648 - 20.452 Brendan O'Connor

Are you into your nails? I'm trying to look over now.

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20.572 - 23.896 Aifric O'Connell

I am, yeah. I've got really bad nails.

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Chapter 3: What does the term 'naked nail' mean in the current beauty context?

23.976 - 43.302 Aifric O'Connell

I've got like short nail bed, which is not something I felt I had to be concerned about, but it turns out you do. So I love manicure, but I never went big on the gel and the big, exactly. Because I was kind of like, how do you do anything? How do you type? How do you wash your hair? How do you go to the loo? Yeah.

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43.282 - 49.009 Brendan O'Connor

You know the sound of tapping on, I love the sound of talons tapping on a phone, yeah.

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50.13 - 63.165 Aifric O'Connell

Yeah, but I was like, so the closest thing I ever went to nail art or anything like that was like a French tip. Keep them real short. They're very round. They're a bit gross, to be honest. But I'd also have this massive bogey.

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63.185 - 71.299 Brendan O'Connor

You see, it's big nail has done that to you. I'm a bit gross, yeah. OK, so are you millennial or Gen Z, by the way?

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71.319 - 74.566 Aifric O'Connell

God bless you for asking that question. I'm very much a millennial.

74.707 - 79.878 Brendan O'Connor

OK, and explain to me the nail wars. Are the Gen Z's bullying and mocking the millennials again?

80.179 - 85.05 Aifric O'Connell

I don't think they are actually bullying and mocking the millennials. I don't think they think about us at all.

85.03 - 104.048 Aifric O'Connell

to be honest but millennial women seem to feel that we're being we're under attack because we have this thing where we're so attached to the things that we love and you know that became popular when we were coming up in our prime and we were the only show in town and all this yeah yeah yeah And it's hard to let go of.

104.228 - 118.628 Aifric O'Connell

So, but now, so you get all these articles written by millennial women who are saying, Gen Z will never take my, you know, gel, my acrylic extensions or whatever. They're not trying to, I don't think. I think they're not thinking about it at all.

Chapter 4: How are generational differences impacting nail fashion?

188.091 - 206.145 Aifric O'Connell

Nails around that, yeah. Exactly, and nail art and all this kind of stuff. But then you had celebrities like Hailey Bieber and Tate McRae showing up in beautiful outfits, but with barely their nails. And I think what they're doing is, have you ever heard that phrase, money talks, but wealth whispers? No.

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206.125 - 207.546 Brendan O'Connor

Yeah, this is a flex.

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207.566 - 231.268 Aifric O'Connell

This is a flex, right? Because what is more wealthy than health? Do you know what I mean? So it's kind of, if you get rid of the sort of glaring big colours, big extensions, all that kind of stuff, and you put the same kind of time and money into your healthy nails, you look wealthy rather than rich, which I think is what people are going for here.

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231.289 - 235.052 Brendan O'Connor

So it's a quiet luxury kind of... Quiet luxury, exactly. ...comes to nails.

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235.032 - 251.32 Aifric O'Connell

Exactly. So it's that thing of you want to look like you're doing, I don't know if you've heard of this clean girl aesthetic that is a huge trend on Twitter, on the internet. I'm stuck in 2009.

251.738 - 255.004 Brendan O'Connor

On Bebo. They're all doing the cream girl.

255.505 - 272.819 Aifric O'Connell

But they are. It's all about your skin. It's putting money into your skin. It's not putting big, expensive makeup and eyelash extensions. It's putting health into your appearance rather than makeup and stuff. But they're still wearing makeup, right? Of course they're still wearing makeup.

272.839 - 274.603 Brendan O'Connor

But it's just wearing makeup to look scrubbed clean.

274.643 - 281.52 Aifric O'Connell

Nothing more exhausting than trying to make yourself look like you're not wearing makeup. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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