forced feminization · nail salon · liminal space · benevolent coercion · pink and purple · gel polish · inescapable · hyper-feminine · captivity · aesthetic horror
Cold air pricks at your skin as awareness floods back. You are seated, posture stiff, in a chair facing a manicurist. The world sharpens into the clinical, pastel-lit interior of a nail salon. Her voice, calm and edged with finality, cuts through the silence.