It’s not every day that a celebrity walks you through the breakdown of their nail look, but over the weekend, Lili Reinhart was kind enough to give her fans a guided tour of how she achieved the manicure she wore in her new movie, Forbidden Fruits, to celebrate its opening weekend.
Forbidden Fruits is very The Craft meets Mean Girls, but instead of pink, Reinhart’s character is more of a red kinda gal—both in hair color and nail polish color. (OK, and in bloodiness, too. This is a dark horror comedy, after all.)
“This is how we did my cat-eye nails for the movie Forbidden Fruits,” Reinhart starts her TikTok, which gives a view of every step of her manicure, rumored to have been done by her go-to nail artist, Erin Leigh Moffett. First, she shows us the manicure she was starting out with and how that mauve-y nude color was removed.
“Then I told her that I wanted two short nails on one of my hands,” Reinhart says, referring to her right pointer and middle fingers. “And if you don’t know why, someone in the comments will tell you.” You may already have a pretty good idea without checking the comments or seeing the movie, but if you’re truly clueless and don’t want anything spoiled for you, don’t read the comments (or ask any of your more sexually au courant friends).
“We did some gel builders so my nails could stay strong throughout the filming process,” she continues. “Then we went in with a layer of a reddish pink as our base. And then we added the silver sparkly cat eye on top of that pink layer and used this little magnet to get that cat eye effect.”
Instead of stopping there, “We then added a jelly kind of red on top, so they’re sort of looking like candy apples at this point to me,” she says, “which is intentional, and fitting, because my character’s name is Apple.”
Check out the step-by-step in her TikTok below.
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