Important Announcement: I am on my period.

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It’s almost over actually, but someone tweeted today that her mother asked her, “Are you wearing nail polish to announce to the world that you’re menstruating?”

To which I personally would have answered:

Fuck yeah.

I’m actually not as fond of nail polish as I am of red lipstick and black eyeliner. What I prefer having on my nails is a clean, natural French manicure. But I love wearing nail polish precisely because the world knows I’m menstruating. I love menstruating. It’s painful and messy and I love it. LOL PENIS ENVY. HAHAHAHAHA. Cis men and their patriarchy. You WISH you could give birth.

Color last month:


I tried to capture the bottle at an angle in which all composing colors can be observed. The primary color is a summer ocean teal, based on weak yellow and scaly green. On the edges of the bottle you can see the teal becomes deeper and turns into a gorgeous mesmerizing purple.

On nails in crappy morning lighting.
This does not do the color justice.

I may or may not do this every month.

the fatal feminist © Nahida S. N.

19 thoughts on “Important Announcement: I am on my period.”

  3. 1) Nailpolish to announce you're menstruating? People do this? It's the first I've ever heard of it.2) I am currently wearing black polish with a top coat of blue sparkles. I enjoy this combination because in the sun it give the blue-black impression like Veronica Lodge's hair in the Archie Comics.3) I am vastly jealous of your manicure. My nails usually look terrible because for one, I suck at painting my nails – shaky hands and no patience, and end up touching stuff – and for two I have a bad habit of playing my guitar with no pick and strumming with my fingers which tends to scrape the polish off my index and middle fingers on my right hand.

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  4. Muslims aren't supposed to wear nail polish because during ablution the water doesn't cleanse the surface of your nails (nailpolish acts as a barrier) and the ablution is incomplete. But during our periods we're not required to pray, so a lot of us wear nailpolish then.That sounds gorgeous. I love the darker bases with sparkles. I'm on the search for a blackened velvety red.My right hand never looks as clean as my left hand. =P Also, if I get a French manicure, I gotta pay for it, 'cause there's no way I can do it myself.

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  7. When you write "Muslims aren't supposed to wear nail polish because during ablution the water doesn't cleanse the surface of your nails (nailpolish acts as a barrier) and the ablution is incomplete" you make it sound like this is fact rather than interpretation/opinion. I would love to see an "I believe" or "I was taught" in statements like that.

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  9. On that note (about being careful with wording) what I'd actually meant was "commonly accepted in the Muslim community" because I don't even know if I personally see this as an obligation: there is so much to be said about the significance of the motions and the symbolized depth of ablution in purifying not only your body but your heart that I feel it's debatable whether or not nailpolish makes a difference on the shallow surface.

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  15. BTW, if you're right-handed, your left hand probably looks cleaner because it IS cleaner. Most people's non-dominant hands have more bacteria and crap on them because they use their dominant hand to clean it better when washing. Truefax.

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