Who knows why, but this young man is intensely focused on his girlfriend’s manicure. They entered the salon together and he stuck right to her side as she picked out a color, took a seat and rolled up her sleeves.  He sat down at the manicure station with her and the girlfriend giggled and asked “is this ok?”

She looked as diametrically opposite to him as possible.  Pick a feature on him, reverse it, and apply it to her.  Body composition, hair, angularity of features …. you get the picture.  But under the skin, they seemed to be perfect soulmates.  Same regional accent, same general category of cultural orientation, same income bracket.  When put together with his paramour, there was a strange vibe in the heretofore placid nail salon.

He was so fixated on the set of acrylic nails being glued to his love’s fingertips that he failed to notice me taking his picture.

I dressed him up using Noir, plus a little cropping.  I tried SimplyB&W, but couldn’t get the tricky lighting to look right, but Noir has a few tricks up its sleeve to put the light exactly where you want it.

– the Daily Grunge