S.S. Coachella: Getting My Nails Done With Sleigh Bells' Alexis Krauss
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| Alexis Krauss is all about the nails, girl. |
If you follow Sleigh Bells' Alexis Krauss on Instagram (@KraussingAround), you know what she's trying to say through fashion these days: It's all about your your nails, girl.
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Krauss has taken her love of nails a bit further than the normal rock star. She even invited Ria Lopez, her 24-year-old manicurist, aboard the S.S. Coachella.
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| Photo by Ian Witlen |
| Broward/Palm Beach New Times Music Editor Liz Tracy (left) and manicurist Ria Lopez. |
The Sleigh Bells singer lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where Lopez's mom owns a shop, Maritza's. "One day, I just popped in," Krauss says, "and we initially started doing very traditional manicures, and then I would come in and go, 'Can you try this?' And Ria just kept getting more adventurous and creative.
"We spent more and more time together, and then I would bring her on photo shoots, video shoots. Now she just has her own totally unique thing going."
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| Photo by Ian Witlen |
Lopez, with the crew of the Celebrity Silhouette, is sawing down the gnarly nails of S.S. Coachella cruisers and making them gorgeous. Lopez's options are exquisite. There was a little dripping, inverted pentagram for the metalheads; an eye in a pyramid, presumably, for the Egyptians; a peace sign and an orange yin-yang that, honestly, made me wish I weren't such a nail biter.
I brought my press-on nails called "Deceptions" and glued them to my poor hands and asked Lopez to go at 'em. She was game, painting all over my odd-fitting plastic claws. Nia was still working away long after the 1 p.m. cutoff time, even as a group of lady boaters moved over to the "Boats and Crafts" table to make things like snazzy sailor hats with plastic flowers on them.
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| Photo by Ian Witlen |
"She's always coming up with ideas, and a lot of times I'm literally like, 'Whatever you want to do; I trust you.'" Krauss says of Lopez. "But then we're always referencing fashion, patterns, album art, you name it."
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