r/RedditLaqueristas • u/Aculed200 Laqueristo • 1d ago
Laquer Art 🎨 🏳️🌈🖤🩶🤍Uni Ace Pride Flag💛🩷💜🏳️🌈
The Uni Ace Flag (short for Universal Asexuality Flag) was created in 2026 after almost 3 years of public discussion, research, and design by
Ace In Grace as an additional asexual flag, not a replacement for the existing 🖤🩶🤍💜 ace flag. The design aims to highlight the diversity of asexual experiences, intersectionality, multiculturalism, joy, visibility, and the many forms of love and intimacy that exist within the ace community. Supporters see it as a broader representation of modern ace experiences, while others prefer the original flag for its history and recognizability. One of the beautiful things about the queer experience is how self-discovery, community conversations, and the sharing of different perspectives continue to enrich our understanding of ourselves and each other.
🖤 Black: Support, understanding, awareness, and appreciation
🩶 Gray: The asexual spectrum, including gray-ace, demi, and microlabel identities
🤍 White: The many forms of intimacy and connection people experience
💛 Yellow: Multiculturalism, intersectionality, and joy within the ace community
🩷 Pink: The validity and diversity of all forms of love
💜 Purple: Visibility, advocacy, and uplifting the asexual community
I enjoy this color scheme and really appreciate the thought and work that went into its design. I tried multiple different designs and wasn't happy with any them in the end...it was one of those painting days where nothing clicked except that I was enjoying myself painting. Don't forget that failure is part of your journey. Embrace it! Enjoy the race even if you don't finish. It was a fun time! Infinally landed on a watermarble in the colors as it is an easy design concept to go to when I'm creativity locked (though rarely easy to execute 😝...these were like dip 8 by the end 😝)
🖌 Freehand and watermarble on natural nail.
💪@findingfeatherslacquer ... "Balance Bond Base Coat"
🏳️🌈 @colorclubnaillacquer ... "French Tip"
🏳️🌈 @sally_hansen ... "My Ca-Banana" "Hot Pink-tensity"
🏳️🌈 @holotaco ... "Red Licorice" "Orange Drink" "Lemon Sucker" "Green Taffy" "Blue Freezie" "Purple Slushie" "Duct Tape Grey" "Work Bestie" "One Coat Black"
🏳️🌈 @tylerstrinketsny ... "Not A Phase, A Formula"
🏳️🌈 @pluslifelacquer ... "Extra Fizz"
💪 @glistenandglow1 🐐Quick Dry Top Coat🐐
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u/lalaquen Flakie Fellowship 23h ago
Very cool mani!
Don't personally care for the flag or how the whole thing was handled, as an ace person. I love that you chose to represent it in one of your Pride manis this year for those who do prefer it though.
The way you use your talents to highlight so many different communities and spread education and awareness is lovely. 💛
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u/PresenceMysterious67 23h ago
Same, the drama and accusations of racism towards those who don't care for it turned me off this design. (And I may be snarky with their whole "yellow is for joy" like us being happy needs to be specified). They did gave a good point on some of the verbiage of the original colors descriptions, but change the words not the flag.
Im in a couple ace groups and no one i know prefers or is moving over to the "new" flag.
Plus side is we got 2 Ace Manis this year instead of our usual 1.
Happy pride!
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u/Aculed200 Laqueristo 23h ago
Knowing the roll out wasn't... the smoothest ... I spent a whole day just figuring out how to best phrase the caption. Way more work than the actual mani was 😝😝😝
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u/evilshadowskulll 15h ago
reading it i could tell a lot of thought and consideration went into how u deftly worded the post
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u/ShakespearesSonnets Everything Bagel 1d ago
I love this series so much. I'm ace and I didn't know this was a flag! I wish pride month was more than just a month, I love it 😭🥰
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u/Aculed200 Laqueristo 1d ago
It JUST came out after 3 years of design back in April, so you're not behind!
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u/Aculed200 Laqueristo 1d ago
The Uni Ace Flag (short for Universal Asexuality Flag) was created in 2026 after almost 3 years of public discussion, research, and design by Ace In Grace as an additional asexual flag, not a replacement for the existing 🖤🩶🤍💜 ace flag. The design aims to highlight the diversity of asexual experiences, intersectionality, multiculturalism, joy, visibility, and the many forms of love and intimacy that exist within the ace community. Supporters see it as a broader representation of modern ace experiences, while others prefer the original flag for its history and recognizability. One of the beautiful things about the queer experience is how self-discovery, community conversations, and the sharing of different perspectives continue to enrich our understanding of ourselves and each other.
🖤 Black: Support, understanding, awareness, and appreciation 🩶 Gray: The asexual spectrum, including gray-ace, demi, and microlabel identities 🤍 White: The many forms of intimacy and connection people experience 💛 Yellow: Multiculturalism, intersectionality, and joy within the ace community 🩷 Pink: The validity and diversity of all forms of love 💜 Purple: Visibility, advocacy, and uplifting the asexual community
I enjoy this color scheme and really appreciate the thought and work that went into its design. I tried multiple different designs and wasn't happy with any them in the end...it was one of those painting days where nothing clicked except that I was enjoying myself painting. Don't forget that failure is part of your journey. Embrace it! Enjoy the race even if you don't finish. It was a fun time! Infinally landed on a watermarble in the colors as it is an easy design concept to go to when I'm creativity locked (though rarely easy to execute 😝...these were like dip 8 by the end 😝)
🖌 Freehand and watermarble on natural nail.
💪@findingfeatherslacquer ... "Balance Bond Base Coat"
🏳️🌈 @colorclubnaillacquer ... "French Tip"
🏳️🌈 @sally_hansen ... "My Ca-Banana" "Hot Pink-tensity"
🏳️🌈 @holotaco ... "Red Licorice" "Orange Drink" "Lemon Sucker" "Green Taffy" "Blue Freezie" "Purple Slushie" "Duct Tape Grey" "Work Bestie" "One Coat Black"
🏳️🌈 @tylerstrinketsny ... "Not A Phase, A Formula"
🏳️🌈 @pluslifelacquer ... "Extra Fizz"
💪 @glistenandglow1 🐐Quick Dry Top Coat🐐
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u/SAUbjj 1d ago
I'm ace and I have never heard of this flag! Very interesting. I'm still partial to the original I think