People visiting a handicrafts fair in Texcoco, outside Mexico City, were in for a surprise this year, as a stand offered a “scorpion manicure,” consisting of having a scorpion glued to one or two fingernails, as part of a new beauty craze hitting Mexico. Lupita Garcia, a scorpion artisan and enthusiast, started the trend a year ago in her home city of Durango, in the northern Mexico.