On any given day, Maria Ortiz is the show-stopping core of a glittering circle of women, each more head-turning than the next. She is their counselor, soothing her courtiers from a kaleidoscope throne ...

Though the women meet at Zeyne's Unisex Salon in Newark, New Jersey, according to The Cut, they come from all over (including Brooklyn and Pittsburgh) for the manicures and community provided by the ...

Newark's Zeyne's Unisex Salon is the meeting place for the "Long Nail Goddesses," a group comprised of around 30 women with extremely long talons. The sisterhood has been making a name for themselves ...

NEW YORK -- At Maria's Nail Salon, women are united by an unbreakable bond: their long nails. Maria paints, decorates, and treats nails sometimes as long as 8 inches with their own unique style and ...

Maria Ortiz is the core of a flashy circle of women known as The Long Nail Goddesses. "We stop traffic. We feel like celebrities. We get pictures all the time, and we get all the questions in the ...

The word “goddess” may bring to mind the image of a strawberry-haired Aphrodite, the goddess of love and fertility, emerging from the sea on an ivory seashell. Or perhaps valiantly beautiful warriors ...