There’s a magic to the nail salon. Inside these closed doorways, amidst the odor of polish and rubbing alcohol, dialog flows, secrets and techniques are divulged. It’s ripe for gossip.
That additionally makes it an excellent atmosphere for a down and soiled dialog. “Mani Petty,” a brand new interview present by The Stranger’s sibling video manufacturing firm, Get Me Outta Right here, combines the sacred exercise of getting a contemporary manicure with a probing, irreverent interview.
Every set of questions corresponds to every finger: For the thumb: issues the visitor likes or dislikes. (“Crypto?” Thumbs down. “Dad-core?” Thumbs up. “Flat earth?” Thumbs down.) The pointer finger covers their profession. For the center finger, issues they hate. (“I assumed I used to be gonna must air out Mark Ronson.”) Ring finger, romance. (“This one lady instructed me she has a fetish for butter.”) The pinky, guarantees made, guarantees damaged.
For the primary episode of Mani Petty, which was launched this week, Grammy-award profitable rapper Trinidad James spilled about his beef (or lack thereof) with producer Mark Ronson, how he slid (unsuccessfully) into Doja Cat’s DMs, and the way his actual soulmate is Waffle Home. He’s additionally not a flat earther. Not that anybody thought he was, however, good to clear that up regardless.
That is Get Me Outta Right here’s second present they’ve launched this month. If nails aren’t your factor, there’s additionally their meals present, “Harry IRL.” (There’s a puppet concerned.) However for the nail followers, the intimate nature of getting your fingers held and adorned by a proficient artist (on this case, Karina from Capricorn Nails), results in extra soul baring, in accordance with present hosts and sisters Kayce Kirihana, 36, Pisces, and Tori Kirihara, 32, Sagittarius.
Kayce, a former basketballer, comes from the sports activities advertising world. Tori, a multimedia artist, comes from the nonprofit sector. Each of them had been born and raised in South Seattle and have all the time beloved getting their nails performed. They hope their present will break stigmas about who ought to and shouldn’t get their nails performed and, in doing so, make for some good dialog.
I sat down with the 2 of them to speak about Mani Petty, nails, Seattle, and how much manicure Invoice Nye the Science Man ought to get.
This interview has been edited for size and readability.
Inform me about Mani Petty. The place did that concept come from?
Tori: It was based mostly round the concept the locations the place individuals, largely ladies, discuss essentially the most and get essentially the most tea. That’s the nail store.
Kayce: We began off with the idea and our pilot was with our dad. It was a extremely cool dynamic and interview, and we have by no means actually sat down with our dad doing that type of factor.
Did your dad get his nails performed? Was that the primary time?
Kayce: He’ll go get pedicures. However he’s a public faculty instructor and a fitness center instructor, so he all the time coated it up. However this was enjoyable, letting us do his nails.
Tori: There’s such a stigma towards guys simply getting their nails performed. It is positively extra frequent now, however there’s nonetheless people who find themselves completely not on board with it. So we thought it might be a extremely cool idea to get individuals that you’d by no means even suppose can be down for one thing like this, however you see them being susceptible and opening up and stepping exterior of their consolation zone.
Did you develop up getting your nails performed? The place did that love of getting your nails performed begin?
Kayce: We went to Franklin Excessive College. Being within the metropolis and a part of that tradition, nails has all the time been a type of expression. We used to go to this place referred to as Johnny Nails on Rainier Avenue which was a staple nail store. [Editor’s note: It’s still there.]
Tori and I are very expressive in the case of our hair, our type, our vogue, our tattoos. Nails are simply one other approach of expressing ourselves.
Do you’re feeling just like the nail tradition in Seattle is beginning to preserve tempo with what is going on on in greater cities?
Tori: Extra nail locations are beginning to get hip with extra present nail tendencies and there is quite a lot of extra unbiased nail artists too within the metropolis.
Kayce: Rising up, it was such as you solely had the choice of a nail store. When you wished to get extra intricate designs, you then needed to search out any individual who specialised in that. You’ve got seen [trends] go from acrylics to gel to dips, and now it is like gel x is the brand new factor. The best way issues are going and shifting, nail retailers try to maintain up with that to remain in enterprise.
What would you like from the present? The place do you see it going?
Tori: Nails shouldn’t be one thing that lots of people are comfy with, however after they come to the present, the entire level is to be susceptible. Even the matters of the conversations that we’re having are like, “Hey, let’s get to know you in additional of an intimate setting and actually get you to open up.”
Kayce: We’re simply making an attempt to set the tone that this can be a protected area. We will discuss issues. We will get to know you and we will discuss why you suppose the earth is flat. Folks get to know us higher, after which additionally get to know our friends higher.
Talking of that, Kayce, do you suppose the earth is flat?
Kayce: It was a joke, however generally I believe, “What if? Properly, why is that this?” And so clearly, yeah, not one among my brightest moments.
Do you will have anybody who you want to see on the present?
Tori: We’ve got an entire listing of individuals we might like to see on the present. Musicians, artists, athletes.
Kayce: We’ve talked about Invoice Nye and Lucy Liu. [Basketballer] Angel Reese. Jordan Chiles, who’s from Washington. Rebecca Black. The spectrum is loopy.
What sort of nails ought to Invoice Nye get?
Tori: Clearly, some science issues. However I do suppose it might be cool to do some moments of present issues that he is performed which are actually cool.
Kayce: While you suppose Invoice Nye the Science Man, you suppose science, proper? However that is the great thing about the present; we’re getting individuals to open up and discuss issues that usually we wouldn’t learn about them. What if he is like, “I actually do not even like science, I like math.”
