{"id":275408,"date":"2025-11-21T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275408\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:50:06","slug":"wicked-for-good-nail-artist-hopes-success-will-boost-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275408\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked For Good: Nail artist hopes success will boost craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since starting a career as a nail technician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgej37z55y2o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the age of 18<\/a>, Ms Osei has built up a celebrity client base and created nails for film and television. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After knowing Erivo for more than 15 years, she received a call in 2022 asking her to create nails for the upcoming Wicked film, released last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For that movie, she created more than 35 sets of press-on nails, with each taking up to 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was hired again to create new designs for the sequel Wicked: For Good, released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The nails tell a story, along with her character Elphaba. It definitely defines growth and confidence,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Her nails go from being short to a bit longer and the colour changes and it gets a bit more daring\u2026 it just flows seamlessly together with who she is as Elphaba.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since starting a career as a nail technician at the age of 18, Ms Osei has built up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-275408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}