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Men's nails...Small but big!

In this day and age, men apply nails. It's art or identity...Importantly, is it heavy on anyone's head?

Male nails will alter your brain chemistry

(Men's nails... change the chemistry in your brain)

In the old days, men had to "rough hands, black nails."

To be called..Manly, really!

Like if you didn't scrape the wall or

Repair the engine every day. You're not man enough.

But when the world changes...

And the strongest change is not the economy, not politics.

But "a man's nails."

Yeah... nails!

From before, there were ears and teeth.

Now it's "communicate identity." Yes, sir.

🖤 black = I didn't ask anyone for permission

🩵 clear = I take care of myself, but don't declare

💖 paint = I'm not in the frame you created.

And what does it affect in the head of the unknown?

It hits "old beliefs" in full force.

Some men see and then get frustrated.

Not because of the nails.

But because it made him wonder

"What he always believed... was it?"

Some women see and then care.

Not because of beauty

But because it conveys that...

"This man is brave enough to be himself.

Without asking the world for permission. "

Some damn society

Because it's out of control.

And your brain... it starts rewriting quietly.

You started questioning that...

❓ is masculinity?

⁉️ who determined it?

❓, why do we have to believe along?

A small thing called a small but big nail.

It's big enough to shake the whole mind system.

In the end, it's not about nails.

It is...That a man

"Stop asking for permission" to be yourself.

And that's...

Is what really changes the chemistry in the brain of the whole world.

Not nail color...

But it is "freedom" that you dare not pick it up yourself.

It's me...Why care first! 🖤

# Famycomesfirst # daddytattoo 1969 # blackoutinkbkk # Lemon 8 Howtoo

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