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Some Very Extreme Nails
New York magazine
|January 30 - February 12, 2023
A portfolio of Mei Kawajiri's creations.
MEI KAWAJIRI'S PROCESS is magpie bricolage; she uses objects like salt and pasta when she creates nails, and she steals shapes and colors too. A dark green foamlike design was inspired by a matcha shop in Japan. When a pink puffy couch caught her eye while scrolling through Instagram, she created ten teeny-tiny nail-size versions.
Kawajiri grew up in Kyoto and started as a painter; at 19, nails became her chosen canvas. At 21, she moved to Tokyo to work at a salon. Two years later, she opened her own shop in Harajuku called Foxxy.
This story is from the January 30 - February 12, 2023 edition of New York magazine.
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