Nail artist cries after seeing her work in Wicked

A nail creator said she cried aft seeing the nails she created for Cynthia Erivo for the Wicked movie connected the large screen.

Shei Osei, 33 from Basildon, Essex, worked alongside the histrion to make nail designs for her quality Elphaba, having known each different for 15 years.

She was besides asked to bash Erivo's nails for the greenish carpet erstwhile London's Southbank became the Emerald City for the premiere.

"I was capable to ticker it amongst everyone else... I cried. There are galore bits that I cried at," she said.

"I'm precise hard connected myself erstwhile it comes to my enactment and what I do. I was checking to spot if I had enactment it connected properly, did I signifier it decently and was the ombre good."

The 33-year-old started learning however to bash nails astatine the property of 14 earlier pursuing it arsenic a vocation astatine the property of 18.

She has built up a personage lawsuit basal including Candice Brathwaite and Maya Jama and has worked connected Erivo's nails earlier for Netflix film, Luther: The Fallen Sun.

She received the telephone from Erivo successful 2022 and soon started creating designs.

"As the communicative starts, Elphaba comes crossed a spot shy and a spot timid and not arsenic retired there, but she was capable to person these subtle greenish ombré nails which were inactive daring," she said.

"When Elphaba comes into her ain and she becomes much assured successful who is she erstwhile she gets to the Emerald City... she has that assurance and her nails archer that communicative too. It's much of a daring plan and much 'this is me, this is who I americium and you volition judge maine for who I privation to be'."

She created much than 35 sets of property connected nails, making definite they were each akin successful style, colour, signifier and plan with each acceptable taking up to 90 minutes.

"Cynthia extracurricular of Elphaba is idiosyncratic who enjoys getting her nails done... successful the movie I consciousness similar it tells the communicative of Elphaba but Cynthia tin inactive consciousness authentically herself passim the full movie," she said.

"We ever knew we wanted the nails to beryllium a portion of the film... she's touching the broom, she's putting her chapeau on. You would privation your nails to lucifer and look bully connected camera."

Since moving connected the film, she has received an "outpouring of love" and planetary recognition.

"Everyone says they don't wage attraction to nails, but successful Wicked they paid attraction to the nails. I'm grateful that my endowment is being seen and I anticipation this tin bring anticipation to different nail techs and different beauticians.

"These things don't travel overnight and if you support pushing on, you'll get determination successful the end," she said.