Beauty standards Hungarian women have to follow

Beauty and grooming standards are a universally acknowledged yardstick for measuring how attractive or upstanding a person is. It is not quite known how many people agree with them, but they do exist and most people follow them, which is good for them. However, what makes these beauty standards what they are? That is a question we are not going to answer here, but we will start a conversation and hope to get to the answer eventually.

Last summer, my Instagram was all of a sudden filled with these pretty people getting their nails done very fashionably with all kinds of designs, French manicures, Gold foils, Glitter, Monochrome, the works. So, I texted a friend and asked her what was going on, and she listed all of the reasons, as if it were a sales pitch: your nails do not chip, they do not break, it is life-changing, and like a loyal customer, I was sold.

She was not wrong, I did not need to worry about a lot of things. But the thing is, I was not worried about them in the first place, but I still got it because everybody else did, and it looked pretty.

Two months into this nail fiasco, I went on vacation to explore other parts of the continent, with a fresh set of nails, of course. But to my surprise, no one in Greece or Italy cared for my new nails. In fact, they judged me for it, for my vanity. So, what made these bigger tourist magnet countries reject the nail trend, and how did a country in Eastern Europe, extremely underrated, adopt a fairly American concept?