Within the music video for her music “Cobra,” which dropped in November 2023, Megan Thee Stallion kicks off her new period by crawling out of a snake’s jaws. The rapper has embraced the snake motif for the newest chapter in her profession to characterize rebirth. “Like a snake sheds its pores and skin, we should shed our previous again and again,” she says within the video. Snakes aren’t only a central theme in her artistry — they’re additionally the inspiration behind her newest manicure.

Megan gave us a glimpse at her snakelike nails in a teaser video for her forthcoming birthday photoshoot, however now we get to see them in all their scary but horny glory in a handful of close-up pictures. “I’ve actually been into my new fang nails recently,” the “Hiss” rapper wrote on Instagram. Her nails, created by her go-to nail artist Coca Michelle, are paying homage to a serpent’s fangs with dramatic, razor-sharp factors.

The nails themselves are thicker on the base and almost translucent in shade, trying as if she actually positioned a snake fang immediately atop her fingernails. She’s worn them in a couple of incarnations as of late, together with a extra impartial set with a number of shine, one with delicate trace of reddish shade on the base of her nail, and one other with a barely darker brown tip. I occur to be afraid of snakes, however I am unable to cease observing these nails regardless of my concern, they’re that cool.