These Manicure "Match" Photos Are Genius

Lilian Min
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Photo credit: @Katyaa_
Photo credit: @Katyaa_

From Cosmopolitan

This goes out to anybody who's ever looked at their fresh new nail color and thought, "Wow, that looks exactly like [this super-specific thing], I should take a picture comparing the two," but never actually took the picture. Because Twitter user @alinamarie____ has introduced the world to the "match" manicure photo, a surefire way to both show off your finger art and humor the internet in return:

Though the tweet first went up in January, it started going around again in the past couple of days. And for everyone who's asking: yes, she matched her millennial pink nails to a piece of ham, but isn't it a perfect match? It's the kind of weirdly-satisfying phenomenon the internet loves.

She upped the ante with what looks like a dog food color match:

But the best part of all this? The original tweet, once people got over the whole ham thing, inspired a bunch of other people to post their own manicure matches:

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