Nail Polish remover – daily writing – 20 April
Apr 19th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily WritingVarnished nails in showroom polished red need to be retouched re-coloured. Solution: nail polish remover. Death in a bottle for the hardened layer of acetate. A clear and present danger. She twists the top of the bottle. The polished nail hears it as a death rattle, the shaking of a cobra’s tail. The top separates from the mother ship in a lunar module dance. Whisps of deathly acetone orbit into the air, she wants to drink in its sweet alure the way she likes to take the top off marking pens and sniff – but that’s a dangerous game. She dabs the end of the brush in the thick sticky fluid and then applies it to the car bonnet finish on each finger.
Wait five minutes
With a damp cloth she begins to wipe away at each nail, the sunlit perfection hidden below appears her hand is a ray of sunshine by the time she has finished. Some touch ups with the acetone which seems cold on her skin as she brushes the hardened bristles against the cuticles around the nail. A quick polish with the cloth and she’s ready to apply the new coat of paint, today it’s a shade somewhere between pink and mauve. She shakes the tiny bottle and the air fills again with that biting smell that lies somewhere between turpentine and methylated spirits….
