The word “gothic?” Black nail polish fits into the gothic aesthetic;
they don’t share your opinion that it’s not pretty.
(Just wearing black nail polish doesn’t create a gothic look, though.)
I think Lightbrite has a point about black standing out less on
someone with dark skin, and don’t understand how “tznius runs
deeper than aesthetics” applies to a question about aesthetics.
Lehavdil like how Jews wear black to a levaya the goyim wear it to remind them of death.
Huh? It’s non-Jews who wear black to levayos. We wear black all the time. 🙂 More seriously, black symbolizes mourning for Jews as well as for Western civilization – there’s a Gemara about how people weren’t allowed to lace their sandals in black, because it would appear to be presumptuously proclaiming one’s mourning for the Beis haMikdash.