ERROR:
subscribe to beauty blog via RSSAn American Stripper In London: New Nail Art Styles Take Over LFW
February 22, 2010 12:06 pm
The underground nail art revolution happening in East London has made its way onto the catwalks this week, oftentimes stealing the limelight backstage. Mirroring the Twitter acronyms like N.A.L.G.O.—i.e., “not a lot going on”—that showed up along with some less polite shorthand on T-shirts at House of Holland, London’s reigning nail art ambassador, Sophy Robson, used two base color varieties for Holland’s presentation—matte white or black—topped with contrasting colored lettering. As for the nearly curled-over talons, she called them a tribute to Flo-Jo (who doesn’t love a fashion-meets-Olympics reference?) Over at PPQ and Nasir Mazhar, fingertips were left in the hands of Sharmadean Reid of WAH Nails fame. At the former, Reid dreamt up a new take on the classic French manicure, applying long gold metallic tips halfway down the nail bed, and filing them into an almond shape because, as she says, “square nails are so not cool.” At Nasir, she coined the “American Stripper” nail, inspired by “decadent” styles that ranged from long matte black spirals to two-toned varieties, painted black on top and red underneath, like a Louboutin shoe. The most outrageous and least practical nails showed up at J.Maskrey, where the designer created a glitterati of tips with Elegant Touch, debuting four different styles that included crystal embellishments that dangled down models’ hands and matte gray lacquers with embedded black beading. Ladies, to your Bedazzlers.
tags: J.Maskrey, LFW Fall 2010, Nails, Nasir Mazhar, PPQ, Sharmadean Reid, WAH Nails
