When life your children hand you shedded snakeskin, give yourself a snakeskin manicure! That's what happened to 40-year-old nail technician Terri Silacci who "was dying to figure out a way to match her nails with the tote." And a new manicure craze was born, according to the NY Post. She told the paper, "It wasn’t until my kids brought [the shedded skin of a 4-foot python] home that I thought, ‘That’s it. I’m going to do it with real snakeskin.'"
Currently four salons in Manhattan offer the snakeskin manicure, "in which hand-cut swatches of snakeskin are applied to the nail bed and sealed between a coat of instant-drying Bio Sculpture Gel base color and a clear top layer." It costs up to $550 for a mani/pedi combo of this kind—and hundreds of New York women have already paid that kind of cash to get it done (which you can watch below!).
But what does PETA think? We've contacted them for a comment, but NYC salons say they get their skins from Hollywood snake handlers, and they all come from natural shedding. We'll update when we hear back from the animal rights organization, because certainly they'll at least be frowning upon such a practice.
