Story Parker is kind of new to the YouTube beauty guru scene, but her passion for cool and quirkily-painted nails leads her to create a manicure channel nonetheless. Her first view videos go over quite well, until she starts receiving gory trinkets in the mail, losing periods of time, and repeatedly seeing a tall, thin someone out of the corner of her eye....
As she records and investigates the increasingly unsettling occurrences that seem to be following her, Story finds herself embroiled in the elaborate workings of a pharmaceutical company called Ajax, whose pill "Vivirten" is supposed to prevent patients from seeing the Slender Man, but which sometimes has the entirely opposite effect.
Keratin Garden was another addition to the Slenderverse, and notable for being one of the few 'Verse contributions to feature a primarily-female cast. Unfortunately, after an extended hiatus (beginning in 2015), the series was officially ended by its creator.
This show provides examples of:
- Arc Words: References to The Iliad appear everywhere, from its ISBN number being used as part of a code to a note on Story's refrigerator to "call Ajax Pharmaceuticals".
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: In No. 22: Sleepwalking the Black Dog claws Story's face pretty badly, but aside from wearing a pair of band-aids in the next episode, the wounds are never mentioned or even visible again.
- Crossover: With Whispered Faith in episodes 27 through 30.
- Deadpan Snarker: Story has her moments, especially in the comments."Viva9626":
Why did you film in the shower???Story: did it for the vine - Distaff Counterpart: Could be viewed as this to Marble Hornets, but has a unique enough concept to stand on its own.
- Don't Ask, Just Run: Lee to Story in episode 27, right before she's attacked by the Rake.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Slendy shows up very briefly in both the mirror in No. 8: Power Outage and in Lailah's backseat (with his head jammed sideways against the ceiling) in No. 10: Lailah.
- The Black Dog is back as of No. 42 - The Colorado River.
- Gory Discretion Shot: When Story wakes up after her first run in with Ajax, her camera lens is covered in blood. She follows the trail to the source and the screen blacks out for a second while she retches at whatever it was.
- Hellhound: The Black Dog.
- Hero with a Unique Name: Who names their kid ''Story''?
- Incurable Cough of Death: Par for the course in the 'Verse.
- It's All My Fault: Story blames herself for causing the death of the Ajax security guards.
- It's Probably Nothing: The girls assume that the creepy tall dude peering through their window is one of their brothers playing pranks.
- It's Quiet… Too Quiet: Word-for-word in No. 30 - Exegesis.
- Meaningful Background Event: Pretty much a requirement given the subject matter.
- Reincarnation: Towards the end of the series, Story discovers that she is the most recent incarnation of a woman who has been reborn throughout time — and that all of her past selves also had trouble with the Slender Man.
- Sanity Slippage: No. 15.
- Shout-Out:
- In No. 6: Sleepover, Lailah wears a T-Shirt that reads "Grey Wind & Lady & Nymeria & Summer & Shaggydog & Ghost."
- Might also double as Foreshadowing to the Black Dog that starts appearing as of Episode 22 (Smoke Alarms).
- Nikki has Harry Potter cutouts all over her walls and listens to Mumford & Sons.
- In No. 6: Sleepover, Lailah wears a T-Shirt that reads "Grey Wind & Lady & Nymeria & Summer & Shaggydog & Ghost."
- Team Pet: Darwin.
- Teleportation Sickness: Story vomits blood after being teleported back to Texas by the Slender Man.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted in No. 18: Back Home when Story says she spent a month at a mental health retreat and spoke to some professionals about what happened in No. 15.
- Villainous Rescue:
- Slender shows up just in time to save Story, Lee, and Mo from the Rake and its cultists.
- He does it again in No. 32 - Option 1 when Story gets captured by Ajax.
