Black Beauties to Watch at the 2024 Paralympics – Essence

This season we saw a couple of beauty wins for Team USA – Coco Gauff’s white bow, Jordan Chiles’ stylish eyeliner and star nails about Noah Lyles–– 2024 Olympic Season didn’t end with track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson winning gold.

The opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games took place in Paris yesterday, marking the starting of every week filled with beauty-related events for athletes.

From athlete Brittni Mason’s eyelash extensions to volleyball flag Nicky Nieves goddess braidshave a look at 5 Paralympic athletes price watching at the Games.

Brittany Mason

At the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Team USA sprinter Brittni Mason won gold in the mixed 4 × 100-meter relay and silver in the 100 and 200 meters, wearing the red, white and blue colours of the French relay team.

This 12 months, she returned to the Games with a brand new manicure — she wore a non-icure with white and gold accents — in what could also be a transparent reference to the medal she trained so hard to earn.

Nicky Nieves

USA Volleyball team middle blocker Nicky Nieves withdrew from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to illness after winning gold at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Now, she’s back to win one other gold — and deliver jaw-dropping moments of beauty along the way.

Nieves, who’s seen at the team’s media summit, wore her pigtails in flowing ponytails but modified her search for the Games, sporting trendy blonde pigtails.

Femita Ayanbeku

World championship bronze medalist Femita Ayanbeku is a Haitian-Nigerian-American sprinter on the U.S. track and field team. A Paralympic veteran who has worn a prosthetic leg since losing the lower half at age 11, she has competed in 2016, 2020 and now at the 2024 Games in Paris. Ayanbeku is a talented athlete whose long, brown dreadlocks fly in the air as she runs.

Arelle Middleton

Arelle Middleton, one among the youngest athletes at the 2024 Paralympics, is 16 years old and competes in each track and field (as a shot putter) and wheelchair basketball.

In her first Games, Middleton wears her hair in a half-braid with gold barrettes to have fun the medal she plans to win by competing in F64 classification its events.

Whitney Dosty

Whitney Dosty of Team USA is a ballerina turned volleyball player who won gold at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Like Nieves and Middleton, braids are also in season for Dosty. She chooses a set French braids in honor of the Paris Games. Meanwhile, her iridescent nails put white in the red, white, and blue.