Aesthetic · 05 / 12

Dark Academia

Ink at the cuticle, leather at the wrist.

Burgundy. Oxblood. A black so deep it reads navy under window light. The dark academia hand is the hand that takes notes in the margins. It is a hand that has been cold for an entire afternoon and didn't notice. The polish is matte more often than gloss; gloss reads commercial. Short almond, sometimes square. Never long. Length signals the wrong kind of leisure. This manicure is the only one in this library that looks better the more chipped it gets, because the wear becomes the patina. People who wear this manicure read aloud at parties. People who wear this manicure underline.