Cynthia Erivo rocked a magical manicure on the 2025 Golden Globes. The actress—who has been blessing us with noteworthy nails all through the Depraved press tour—donned gem-covered acrylics on the ceremony, which occurred on the Beverly Hilton on Sunday, January 5. Every nail featured a special colour and design, complementing her crystal robe that was made customized by Louis Vuitton. (The plunging quantity featured intricate beading and an suave design on the waist.) Erivo’s nails had been dropped at life by her go-to nail tech, Los Angeles-based professional Mycah Dior—who was the brains behind among the tantalizing talons the actress donned on the completely different Depraved premieres final yr.
Erivo instructed E! on the crimson carpet the manicure took 5 hours, and Dior was type sufficient to interrupt down her course of. To create the “quartz marble design” that appeared under the stones on the coffin-shaped nails, Dior utilized two coats of OPI’s Reocurrin’ Gleam (a brand new 2025 shade) earlier than moving into with a matte topcoat, she defined in a press launch. Subsequent, Dior added a white ink pigment and dispersed it throughout the nail, creating diagonal and imperfect strains throughout.
Afterward, the manicurist used acetone to disperse the ink with a thick nail brush (or 3D brush), creating gemstone veins. She repeated that step a number of instances earlier than making use of hints of OPI’s Princesses Rule and Miami Beet to “completely different elements of the nail.” Dior adopted that step with OPI’s Alpine Snow utilizing a skinny liner brush to stipulate among the veins for “deeper dimension and depth.” Different shades used within the course of had been OPI’s Kyoto Pearl, Rated Pea-G, and Fiyero’s My Mani.
Erivo has lengthy been synonymous along with her nails—however her manicures had been particularly noticeable whereas selling Depraved. The nail artwork she donned each on the crimson carpet and within the movie had been each vital and intentional. Like her character Elphaba—who has been othered in her group, Erivo wished to have fun her personal emotions of otherness as a Black lady. (Did you discover how Elphaba’s manicures modified all through the movie?) Nail artwork—which has an extended historical past within the Black group—was a simple approach to notice that sentiment. Shea Osei, one other certainly one of Erivo’s manicurists, shared in a profile with Elle printed in November 2024 that nails are the “essence of Cynthia” and each she and the actress “wished to maintain that as a nod to Black ladies to remind them that they will do something and will nonetheless be accepted for who they’re.”
On the 2025 Golden Globes, Depraved took residence the Cinematic and Field-Workplace Achievement award. Erivo was nominated for Greatest Actress in a Comedy or Musical Movie—however misplaced to Demi Moore’s position in The Substance. Ariana Grande, who portrays Glinda, was up for Greatest Supporting Actress in a Movie, however misplaced to Zoe Saldana’s efficiency in Emilia Pérez.