On the track on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the celebs of the ladies’s 100m showed off greater than just their winning sprints. The certified “track bullies” stopped at a hair and beauty salon on their solution to gold, treating viewers to moments of beauty to drool over. From Britain’s Daryll Neita’s parted hairdo to the bejeweled stiletto nails of U.S. silver medalist Sha’Carri Richardson, they didn’t play any games with the face cards as beauty took first place.

Below, ESSENCE discusses the medal-winning cosmetics from this yr’s edition of the purple track.

Julien Alfred of Saint Lucy

Julien Alfred of St. Lucia won gold in the ladies’s 100m, bringing home her country’s first-ever Olympic medal. To have fun, she took off her nametag to pose for a photograph with pink, oval nails as her winning look. Brown lip gloss (think: Le Chouchou Lip Balm Eadem in “Boba Bouce”) epitomized black “French girl” beauty, while her slicked-back island-girl bun didn’t budge during her record-breaking victory of 10.72 seconds.

American Sha’Carri Richardson

All eyes were on Team USA’s Sha’Carri Richardson — known for her Flo-Jo-inspired nail moments — as she took silver in the ladies’s 100m. She first arrived on the Games in a red, white and blue ensemble (as did athletes like Jordan Chiles and Noah Lyles) for the opening ceremony, then become a blinding set of stilettos with black bottoms and an American flag-coloured coffin-shaped accent nail for the primary round.

Then, for the ladies’s 100-meter final, she updated her ensemble again, adding purple stilettos adorned with multi-coloured gems. The perimeter of the caps was outlined in black, echoing the form of the winged eyeliner she wore over her eyes. Instead of racing in a wig (hint: her throwing a wig ultimately yr’s USA Track and Field Championships) wore her hair extensions in a sleek ponytail, making her Olympic debut.

Briton Daryll Neita

Britain’s Daryll Neita was gunning for first place within the Beauty Olympics along with her fourth-place finish in the ladies’s 100m, along with her centre parting reaching right down to her lower back, which she tied right into a double ponytail resembling a French braid. In today’s women’s 200m semi-final, Neita got here second (just 0.12 seconds behind Brittany Brown of the USA), redeeming herself for gold when she swapped her oval mani no-mani for brief white nails just before the ultimate.

American Twanisha Terry

American Twanisha “TeeTee” Terry is the talk of the town, with fans anticipating her 4×100 relay after ending fifth within the 100-meter dash. However, because the island girl’s popularity grows, “Bora Bora“And”French curls” braids, Terry’s classic pigtails tied in pigtails won the gold medal. Fastened with a red Nike headband, her holiday braids reigned supreme on the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce from Jamaica

Although Jamaican track and field star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce withdrew from the ladies’s 100m race – because of a final-minute rule change (including other problems faced by athletes on the Paris Olympic Games)––her first moment of beauty won’t be forgotten. Not only did her lime green and yellow nails match the stripes on her Jamaican uniform, but her wig did, too.

Green and yellow streaks ran through her ironed lace front, turning her hair into an emblem of pride in her country. Her ends were tucked under a black headband as she ran 10.92 in the primary round. Regardless unfair circumstances which led to her withdrawal, the eight-time Olympic medalist’s attention to her hairstyle and nails didn’t go unnoticed.