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Anyone who grew up in a school with uniforms and harsh restrictions might find this product intriguing. I myself went to catholic school until Jr. High, luckily I escaped the evil nuns after that or I’d have spent my teen years in gray plaid skirts. Which anyone that knows me these days knows that me in that little color is not going to happen. I’d have spent my days in detention, pushing the rules. However, a few girls in the UK decided to be smart about their pushing of the rules.
They found a way around them, you’ve got to love those loopholes. They created a nail polish that disappears when it is out of the sunlight and then reappears in the sun in a bright red. The school doesn’t allow any form of makeup (which is friggin insane), so any nail polish is absolutely not allowed.
Although makeup rarely finds its way onto a tech blog, a group of girls inventing a new form of nail polish to fool their school is just too good to pass up. Now hopefully someday there will be disappearing hair dye to match and maybe schools will lay off their silly crusade to make everyone look like everyone else.
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Why is it insane that a school does not allow any form of Makeup? I’m an adult and I’m expected to maintain a certain professional look when I’m at work so I hardly see it as repression of a kids freedom of expression. The usual scheme in the UK is that no student is allowed to wear makeup until the final year of standard education, when they reach 15/16 yrs old. Even then they tend to require that it be subtle and not too full on. There is nothing stopping them going stupid with the stuff on their own time out of school. Post 16 is classed as Further Education and many / most education establishments allow students to dress as they choose.
Hats off to the girls behind this - I’m certainly a fan of innovation and I suspect it has helped their education.
@Chris- Because some people who went to Catholic school as children feel it’s constantly necessary to defy conventions for whatever reason, then at a certain age that mature and grow up. That aforementioned attitude would be classic “tweener.” Just like my Uncle said about hippies, eventually they all grew up and became CEO’s.
Eventually Abby will get a corporate job and wear suits to work, and they will be gray, blue, and black, the thought of red nail polish will abhor her, and anything pink will be thrown into the trash can.
/shrug.
Either that or she’ll turn into the “cat lady”
Although a great bit of this is poking fun, there is a certain amount of truth in it.
While it’s a creative way to circumvent The Man, UV nail polish isn’t new. When I was in HS, i had some that changed colors in the sun.