How Men in Hollywood Are Challenging Gender Norms Around Nail Art

Styles has continued to explore what self-expression looks like as he navigates Hollywood post One Direction. Alongside bold fashion choices, Styles also often experiments with beauty. "He seems to be more experimental since becoming a solo artist," Styles's manicurist, Jenny Longworth, previously told POPSUGAR. "Harry always has a good eye for colour and we tend to gravitate to the same kind of 'off' shades," she said.

That eye was on clear display when Styles attended the BRIT Awards 2020 wearing a pastel-purple nail polish that perfectly coordinated with his sweater. Talk about nailing the details.

Jonas also starting experimenting with his looks after his boy-band days. After welcoming his daughter with wife Sophie Turner in 2020 — and promptly dying his hair platinum blond — Jonas has since continued to experiment with his look, adding a myriad of tattoos to his collection. He started experimenting with nail polish in 2018 and has since showed up to numerous red carpets with a chic manicure to match.

Most recently, he turned heads at the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party wearing a black manicure with polka-dot accent nails to match his suit.

In 2019, Lil Nas X attended the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund wearing an all-white manicure to finish off his futuristic outfit. This marked one of the first times that he was seen out in public with nail polish on, but the musician has since attended numerous award shows wearing bright nail colours and bold designs.

The more that Kelly started to lean more into his alternative-rock sound, the more he started experimenting with his looks. One of the first times that he publicly wore nail polish was during his "Tickets to My Downfall" tour, and since then, he has been seen with various manicures, from three-inch acrylic nails to a pink evil-eye design. Here, he attended the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards wearing not only a black manicure but also a matching glove accessory that looked like it was holding his hand.

Porter is known for his showstopping fashion choices — remember that lampshade hat at the 2020 Grammys? — but he has also experimented with manicures as well. At that same Grammy ceremony in 2020, Porter wore a silver-chrome manicure, and in 2022 at the MusiCares Person of the Year honouring Joni Mitchell, he wore a glitter manicure to match his eye makeup. Most recently, Porter wore a a silver-glitter nail polish to attend the Dance For Life Dance Festival to fight against HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 earlier this month.