"I would say that a person who adopted an old-fashioned or outdated nail style might be a person who is kind of like an ostrich that puts their head in the sand and doesn’t want to see the distractions around them," says Michael Christian , an image consultant based in Yonkers, New York. "Someone who wants to dig in and not look around and think about the past, when things were a bit better for them." Adds Carol Davidson , a New York City-based image consultant, "She's part of this state-of-the-art technology, and then she's got this manicure that's so outdated. When she would speak, she spoke a lot with her hands. That was always on display, so I do think that the image and appearance was intentional."