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«MANicure», as celebrities are clearing men’s nail polish

Fedez he is certainly not the first to color his nails. The rapper who recently launched his nail polish line Noon by Fedez, created with the brand Layla Cosmetics, a collection with a charitable impact, in favor of Fondazione Pangea Onlus which supports women victims of domestic violence and their children, regularly goes with her half to the nail artist Isabella Franchi, known as @unghiedellamadonna.

Fedez has only caught a very widespread trend among celebrities who want to normalize the use of nail polish also among men.

«It felt empowering “, commented the chef and judge of” Top Chef ” Kwame Onwuachi, who is a regular in colored glazes.

Talking about his first time with a manicure, he referred to the sensations he felt wearing colored nails, highlighting how much a choice is, not only aesthetic, but linked to the desire to feel good about yourself, and not because you have to try anything. to nobody. The celebrity chef is among those who have his nail polish line, Kwame Nails, for now in 4 colors including his favorite black which he called “Chef’s Kiss”.

The manicure is therefore officially genderless and breaks down any gender barrier. They are the spokespersons of this new aesthetic Asap Rocky, Achille Lauro and Damiano of the Maneskin, who prefer black nails, but also Harry Styles who instead chooses more creative nail art such as mismatched (ie uncoordinated nails). Ezra Miller, on the other hand, already known as the lipstick queen, she loves real artistic manicures that match the clothes she wears.

To kick off this playful trend, at the time not at all scandalous, however, were the icons of grunge and rock & roll in the distant 2000, inherited in turn by the pioneers of the seventies including David Bowie, Keith Richards e Lou Reed. Just think back to all the music videos that generation Z and Y experienced in the days of MTV. The singers Dave Navarro, dei Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shifty Shellshock, dei Crazy Town, Tom DeLonge, dei Blink 182, A.J. dei Backstreet Boys, they loved wearing it black and smudged, that is, with the “chipped” effect so hated by women and so damn sexy on men. Actors such as Johnny Depp, Jared Leto and the duo Todd Haynes e Christin Bale, both protagonists of the film Velvet Goldmine freely inspired by the life of Iggy Pop e David Bowie.

As for today according to chef Kwame Onwuachi, in the most liberal cities, nail art for men will soon become as common as wearing long hair or tattoos. Because it is an aesthetic habit that today requires more and more attention, thanks also to initiatives such as that of Trevor Wilkinson, from Clyde High School, Texas, who petitioned for kids to be able to wear nail polish at school too.

The boy, proudly of the LGBT community, had taken a suspension for doing so and after three days, thanks to his action to assert freedom of expression and break down an antiquated dress code, he was readmitted and graduated with a lot of manicures. multicolored.

The issue of colored nail polish for men is now fully entering a new area and is not to be understood as a form of demasculinization, but only as an opening towards something that is done for oneself, not for others, and which, if it feels good, it should not be judged.

To look at and study in the gallery: the most enviable manicures seen on him.

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