As her current appreciation for the humble ballet flat has proven us, Jennifer Lopez is all about balletcore. Nonetheless, her tackle the pattern is a bit more, effectively, J.Lo.
Whereas taking the stage to just accept the Maverick Award for her film Unstoppable on the IndieWire Awards on December 5, Lopez confirmed off a brand new mani that paid tribute to the fashion in each its design and form. Whereas she loves a coffin tip, and that is what that is, we will name it by its different identify—the ballerina.
Lengthy with a square-shaped finish, her nails featured a wash of nude jelly coloration paying homage to pointe sneakers… if pointe sneakers have been the colour of jazz sneakers. (See what we imply? She does her personal factor.)
The celebrity’s go-to manicurist, Tom Bachik, broke down the look in an Instagram submit, dubbing it “Jen’s Bare Mani.” First, he used his official Tweezerman Nail Care Set to prep her nails (and prep he did, there’s not a cuticle in sight right here). Subsequent, he painted on a layer of Aprés Nails’ sheer nude Perhaps… “for a light-weight peachy pink nude” earlier than sealing off the look with the model’s Non-Wipe High Coat. For what it is price, Angelina Jolie additionally used Perhaps… for a current mani. The buildable nude might need to battle cranberry to be dubbed the colour of the season, but it surely has an actual shot.
Bachik’s final step—as ought to all the time be the case, however particularly for a winter mani—was rehydrating the cuticles. His product of selection was Chanel’s Huile de Jasmin. And taking a photograph, after all. On his Instagram, Lopez fashions her manicure towards her skintight crystal New Arrivals robe whereas clutching a equally glowing clutch.
The remainder of her look included a glamorous softly waved blowout by hairstylist Lorenzo Martin and a signature glow and dramatic shadow look courtesy of make-up artist Scott Barnes.
“This award actually does maintain a particular place in my coronary heart as a result of the phrase maverick, and I appeared it up, I needed to have the actual definition, okay? It means an individualist, a non-conformist, a free spirit, an authentic, a trendsetter, an eccentric, an outsider, a insurgent, a dissident, a disrupter,” she mentioned in her acceptance speech. “However significantly, what a phenomenal factor to be acknowledged for, for charting your individual course.”
And so she does, in her profession and in her glam. It truly is a phenomenal factor.