Busy girls are dropping traditional manicures. Is it just recession-core, the Carolyn Bessette effect, or something more?

Women have always gone grey, (fact-checked).

What feels different now is not grey itself, but what it represents.

Ramadan. Lent. The Lunar New Year. Eclipse season. All arriving at once. The symbolism working overtime to get our attention.

After years of “clean girl” minimalism and barely-there beats, the forecast we’ve been predicting is finally here