
While we saw a number of beauty wins from Team U.S.A. this seasonโโCoco Gauffโs white bow, Jordan Chilesโs stylistic eyeliner, and star-spangled nails on Noah Lylesโโthe 2024 Olympic season didnโt end with track star ShaโCarri Richardsonโs gold-winning manicures.
Yesterday, Parisโs Paralympic Games kicked off their opening ceremony, marking the start of a week full of more athlete-beauty moments.
From track and field athlete Brittni Masonโs lash extensions to volleyball flag bearer Nicky Nievesโs goddess braids, take a look at 5 paralympic athletes you should watch at the Games.
Brittni Mason

At the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Team U.S.A. sprinter Brittni Mason won gold in the mixed 4ร100 meter relay and silver in the 100 and 200-meter wearing red, white and blue swirled French tips.
This year, sheโs returned to the Games with a new manicureโโshe wore a non-icure accented with white and goldโโwhich may be an explicit reference to the medal sheโs been training hard to win.
Nicky Nieves
Team U.S.A.โs volleyball middle blocker Nicky Nieves withdrew from the 2020 Tokyo Games due to illness after winning gold at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Now, sheโs back to claim another goldโand show off knockout beauty moments at the same time.
Seen in blown out pigtail buns at the teamโs media summit, Nieves switched up her look for the actual Games, pulling off the trending blonde goddess braids.
Femita Ayanbeku

World bronze medalist Femita Ayanbeku is a Haitian and Nigerian-American sprinter for Team U.S.A. track and field. The Paralympic veteranโโwhoโs worn a prosthetic leg since losing the bottom half at age 11โโhas competed in 2016, 2020 and now, the 2024 Games in Paris. A talented competitor, Ayanbeku is hard to miss with her long, brown locs going airborne as she runs.
Arelle Middleton

One of the youngest competitors at the 2024 Paralympics, 16-year-old Arelle Middleton competes in both track and field (as a shot putter) and wheelchair basketball.
At her first Games, Middleton wears her hair in a half-braided updo with gold clasps, to honor the medal she plans on winning, while competing in the F64 classification of her events.
Whitney Dosty
Team U.S.A.โs Whitney Dosty is a ballerina-turned-volleyball player who won gold at the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo. Like Nieves and Middleton, braids are in season for Dosty as well. Sheโs opting for a set of French curl braids in honor of the Paris Games. Meanwhile, her opalescent nails put the white in red, white and blue.