Storm Reid on the Secret Magnificence Component of Her Euphoria Character | Interview

Being within the solid of Euphoria amongst characters with imaginative make-up whereas having a extra low-key, teen look, Reid admits she was a bit jealous. Fortunately, her character, Gia, is poised to have her personal vibe in seasons to return. Whereas watching season one, you may not have seen that Gia’s nails have been her particular manner of exploring magnificence and self-expression. “We made certain she modified her nail seems. I had like nails like this,” Reid says earlier than holding up her arms to the digicam on Zoom, exhibiting off lengthy, sparkly acrylics adorned with smiley faces, clouds, and flowers. “It is simply these small, minute particulars that make your character who they’re.” Reid hints that is solely the beginning of what Euphoria‘s crew has deliberate for the way forward for Gia. 

Gia’s love of nail artwork performs off of Reid’s personal curiosity in it. She’s continuously searching for new inspiration on her Instagram Discover web page and TikTok to carry to her nail artist. (She even noticed Maybelline New York’s Sky Excessive Mascara all around the latter and went to purchase it at CVS that night time, solely to search out it offered out.) When she was youthful, Reid reveals she not-so-patiently counted down the times till she might lastly get acrylics. “I used to beg my mother for them, and he or she’d be like, ‘No, you are too little,'” Reid remembers. “For my 13th birthday, I used to be in a position to get brief, tiny acrylics. Then, they’ve advanced into concepts like [the nail art I have now], however I’d by no means dare to go longer than this as a result of I simply do not suppose I might have the ability to function.” Her ideas are a very good inch lengthy proper now, so I utterly perceive that call.

Additionally at 17, Reid has discovered to not be defeated by her pores and skin each time it breaks out, particularly since she has temperamental, delicate pores and skin. “Breakouts could be onerous as a result of no one desires a breakout. However I’ve discovered to embrace it and take care of it,” she says. “I do know, as a youngster, we escape, and there is nothing we are able to actually do about it. So I am studying to like my breakouts.”