Black women love nails. With a nail tech just a swipe away from us, we’re building manicures in 15-minute apps at home (yes, even in the humid, rainy seasons), and our wide array of home grown and celebrity brands mean that our apps are definitely packed with nail picks. And the pressure’s on to impress that manicure-perfect edge? Nope. No, that’s not on us. It’s on the nail techs themselves.

In a recent article on Niaka Hunt’s Refinery29 blog, the Editor at Large looked at nail art trends, nail salons, and conversation around beauty. She noticed that while nail bars are making a comeback, the art they offer is often still underrepresented: “there’s an underlying argument that it’s the manicurist’s job to handle the intricacies of the experience, not the client’s,” she wrote.

Because nail art is a small part of many manicurists’ duties, there’s a big assumption that it’s not worth the effort. Nail trends from the 21st century are more elaborate than ever — and black women love them. Hrush Achemyan’s Fenty X Puma nail line is raking in the critical praise, not to mention she’s also making a TV documentary about nail artist transformations.

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But while nail care trends hit all women of color hard — everyone loves nail polish — it’s the same for nail art. Whether it’s Beyoncé rocking a design on her nails with avant-garde nail art, Lupita Nyong’o stunning with nail art in her Vanity Fair cover story, or Zendaya looking so much better with nudes on her nails, there are a lot of opportunities for the culture at large to promote nail art for black women.

After all, as Niaka points out, black women are doing the majority of DIY nail art for self-expression, and they’re the ones who are being held back. But who has time to make a manicure these days, other than those who have been doing the work of creative professionals for years? That’s where the aforementioned home bars come in.

We’ve gotten our nails done like ladies for years (as we should have to get our nails done, remember?), and the nail experts we know will happily do it for nothing more than a mediocre fingernail job. If more nail techs let go of the hope that a black woman has to get her nails done, they’d realize that it’s really not about that. The difference is that manicures and other skin care essentials (think: moisturizer) aren’t on the same level of demand as, say, heels. But when black women ask for something designed by black artists and stay home instead, nails at home are the ultimate product of the idea that nail art shouldn’t belong to us.