Manicure Madness: 10 Shining Examples of Notable Nail Varnish in Movies

"My fingernails tend to be characterized by creeping cuticles and the chipped remains of last week's nail lacquer, but when did you last see such realism on a movie screen? On the rare occasions when chipped nail varnish does crop up, it's a signifier of clueless adolescence, drug addiction, or sociopathy (and I swear none of these descriptions apply to me). Some of cinema's most dastardly villains sport nails of extraordinary length (hello, Ming the Merciless, Fu Man Chu, David Lo Pan and Casanova Frankenstein) but the best, most impeccable cinematic manicures are more moderate affairs."
—Anne Billson, in "10 Bad Dates with De Niro: A Book of Alternative Movie Lists" (2007), edited by Richard Kelly.

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