Straight guys wearing nail polish

The recent rise in popularity of “male polish” isn’t anything the world hasn’t seen before, and men have been coloring their nails for thousands of years. Nail polish in ancient Babylon is.

As Garrett Munce, the author of Self-Care for Men told The Guardian, men wearing nail polish has long been viewed as subversive, and has often been associated with certain music scenes like punk and emo. "Subcultures that generally embraced it all have one thing in common: to rebel against accepted standards," he said.