Unsurprisingly, Simone has a large following on TikTok. Her 1.5 million followers cannot get sufficient of her candid behind-the-scenes movies about her apply periods, her marriage to Jonathan Owens and her magnificence routine.
In a current TikTok, which accrued over 650,000 likes, she reveals her “women model of GTL” within the run as much as the Games. For the uninitiated, GTL is an acronym for ‘gymnasium, tan, laundry’, a person’s day by day ritual that first featured on the TV present Jersey Shore.
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In the video, captioned “a women model of GTL, hahahaha hair, nails, wax & lashes… for apparent causes I didn’t movie my wax appt & I do my very own lashes so there’s that. ❤️ #paris #olympics”, Simone talks by way of her pre-Paris prep.
Her first cease is with “my woman Jaz”—a.okay.a Simone’s long-time skilled hairstylist, Jazmine Johnson—and we see Simone having her hair washed earlier than her tape-in extensions are refreshed. “It simply has a bit extra versatility so I can pull it up in a bun at any time when wanted so when I’m flippin’ round, nothing is misplaced,” Simone says. “Well, hopefully,” she provides.
She then switches to a shot of the completed end result: shiny, lengthy, chest-length strands. “I really like when it is bone straight,” she says with a playful smile to digicam.
Next on the schedule is an appointment along with her nail artist Jasmine, who creates a brief, oval nail form that includes embellished French suggestions and a tiny glowing silver crystal on the base.
While Simone reveals that she does her personal lashes, she would not go into any extra element on this TikTok. But in a earlier “GRWM Olympic Trials” video, she shared her contour approach, in addition to a close-up of her fanned-out, fluttery lash extensions earlier than declaring, “I’m going to attempt winged eyeliner,” which added delicate definition to the general look.
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In the Netflix documentary Simone Biles Rising, she talked candidly about struggling to adapt to gymnastic’s Eurocentric magnificence requirements. Simone recounts adverse feedback she has acquired about her look, together with one comment that her hair regarded ‘crunchy’, and admits, “I feel the wonder commonplace, every little thing, is simply an excessive amount of.”
If something, Simone Biles has proven that she’s doing magnificence—in addition to gymnastics—on her personal phrases. And she’s profitable at each. Simone is probably the most embellished gymnast within the historical past of the game and we will not wait to see the silver on her nails flip to gold on the medals podium.
This submit was initially revealed in Glamour UK.
