If there’s one thing I’ll remember about the year 2023, it might just be the resurgence of the French manicure. OK, so the classic nail trend never really goes away, but this year celebs embraced the French tips in a way that hasn’t been seen since the Y2K era.
One such celebrity is SZA, who attended the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards in New York City wearing a set of chunky French tips alongside her black and white collared dress. The nails in question were shaped into a long squares with a cutout dip in the centre of the nail and painted with a bright, eye-catching thick white tip. It appears she may have added a tiny hint of nail art to one nail, but until she drops detail shots (c’mon, SZA!) I’ll be over here zooming in as close a possible to see the mani from every angle. It’s a classic French mani, but it just hits in such a good way; sometimes the simplest looks make the biggest impact!
SZA poses in a black dress with a white collar. She wears her hair in curls and has a French manicure.Getty Images
The musician also sported another big Y2K beauty trend via her eye makeup, what with the pop of silvery-white shimmer at her inner corners. She wore minimal shadow across her lid, concentrating most of the colour near the bridge of her nose and accenting her eyes with a thick strip of black eyeliner and fluffed-out, glamorous lashes. SZA styled her long hair in shiny, tousled ringlet curls and finished off her red carpet look with just the subtlest hint of lip gloss.
This isn’t the first time SZA has opted for the French manicure. Over the summer, she showed off a bedazzled set she deemed “mild hoochie,” featuring a Playboy bunny, cherry, Jesus and dollar sign gem on each nail, complete with thick white tips. The ‘00s refuse to lighten their French manicure-wearing hold on the trend cycle, and you know what? It’s time to lean into it.
This feature originally appeared on Allure.
