Manicures for Progress

TEXT by River Wharton | PHOTOGRAPHS by KATHRYN BACALIS OF OUR LOVE IS LOUD



FOR DECADES, WITH THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE, we had stuffed our medicine cabinets and the spaces beneath our sinks with various compounds and chemicals. We had been promised a better life with cleaner dishes, clear windows, stainless stove tops, thicker hair, and eye-catching nails.

It wasn't that we were lied to, only we didn’t know. No one...

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