You don't often walk into a bright green room studded with disco balls to nerd out about musical theater and manicures. But that was the case at the launch of Wicked x OPI nail polish collection in New York City, where Cynthia Erivo kicked off the collab with a bejeweled talon manicure befitting Elphaba, the iconic character she portrays in the film adaptation.
“Right now, our base color tends to be green,” Erivo tells me at the event, adding that her favorite shade in the collection, out October 1, is “Ozitively Elphaba,” a shimmery forest shade named for her iconic character. As for the particular manicure she wore to the launch event: “[My nail artist] said she wanted something a little bit more autumnal and sexy. And I was like, I like that vibe. I love jewels on my nails. I like to make them extravagant.”
