As a guy, I’m not really knowledgeable on the subject, but I’ve always thought tznius is more about the inside than the outside. Obviously, keeping to the halachic standards outlined in the Mishnah Berurah and other places is a necessity that cannot be bargained with, but I think people miss the other side of it. I believe it to be more about how the person (I say person because on a certain level it applies to men also, but that’s a different conversation) conducts themselves in general and acts with an internalization that she is a Bas Yisrael and behaves to such a standard, than whether the her nail polish is black, pink, or non-existent or whether her hair is in a braid, ponytail or let down, etc. and I think that’s a mindset that’s lost to today’s detail oriented, permissible/non-permissible world of tznius.
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