When Heather Buzzell saw the video of a federal agent in Minneapolis running toward demonstrators only to slip on ice and fall on his backside, she was inspired.
“I just thought, ‘How funny would this be in nail art form?’ Almost as if it was a comic in a newspaper,” she said.
The next day, she painted a miniature rendering of the incident — featuring the moment the agent fell and a photographer who captured it — on a single press-on nail. When her freehand composition was complete, she layered on a coat of black gel polish that turns transparent when heated, to unveil the scene. Then she uploaded a video of her process to her social media pages; her Facebook reel has since garnered more than a…