For Park, the pendulum has swung in the other direction. “Lately, I’ve been into softer, classic nail shapes and more muted, nostalgic nail art,” she tells me over coffee in Seongsu-dong. As such, she’s been favoring shorter, rounded off tips over super sharp or pointed shapes and utilizing good ol’ fashioned scrapbooking techniques to craft her designs. “I cut out specific words or images from scraps of paper and paste them onto the nails,” she explains.
