All about SZA’s bug manicure at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards.Photo:Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic; SZA/Instagram
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic; SZA/Instagram
SZA’s new manicure might make your skin crawl.
For Monday night’s iHeartRadio Music Awards, the singer, 34, donned a manicure featuring realistic-looking bug designs.
“🪲🐞🐝🦂📿🙏🏾got new bugs 🥹,” theSOSsinger captioned anInstagramcarousel that included snaps from her night out. For the award show, she wore a long-sleeve marigold dress with a plunging neckline, accessorizing with thong sandals and a handful of necklaces at varying lengths.
SZA won three awards at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards.Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images
Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images
The Grammy winner’s Instagram caption seems to point not just to her latest manicure but her longtime fascination with insects. In a 2018 interview withDazed, she opened up about being “really into bugs.”
“I’ve always been into nature, always been into categorizing s—,” she told the magazine. “I was always into outside. Like always trying to categorize leaves and rocks and s—. Bugs though, that’s a new comfort. Because I think once I got older, something about bugs became less like cool and more like ‘You gon’ crawl under my skin and lay eggs and Imma die’.”
She went on to explain that certain nature shows made insects seem scary, but her perspective has since changed.
“Now I’m really into bugs,” she said. “They have a purpose, I totally understand that. And they’re beautiful.”
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The singer also shouted out her “favorite bug page,”Insecthaus_Adi.
“He’s the largest exotic bug dealer in Germany,” she said. “In Europe, actually. His posts are like art. It looks like fashion. He actually ended up doing a collaboration with Gucci, randomly. But I had been following him for so long before then, but everything is so beautiful and super cinematic. Once you follow him, it shows you mad other people who are like that, and then now you’re just in this world of bugs and art.”
SZA took home three awards at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards; R&B song of the year for her hit “Snooze,” R&B Album of the Year for her sophomore albumSOSand R&B artist of the year. In February, “Snooze” won best R&B song at the2024 Grammy Awards.
source: people.com
