Matt Bernstein

She died before I was born.

But I was told by my mother that she had very thick natural nails.

Oh, great.

That I also have.

That, you know, kind of runs in the family.

So I'm very grateful to her for allowing me to be the long nail guy.

I get them done.

Yeah, I love it.

No, I was actually thinking about this, though.

It's like you do...

have to work a little bit harder I think in the political space to get taken seriously when you're also like you know a bit fruity when you're a bit fruity yeah a uh but you know when you're like a boy who's doing like glam and makeup all the time uh you know like I I get called like as a pejorative like I get called like oh you're just gonna listen to the second rate James Charles about politics and yeah but it's you know I love them

People like the ASMR.

Sure.

Well, so really at the very beginning, I was a photographer.

I wanted to be a working photographer.

Like I had my original plan was to be an artist.

And in college, like I would do odd jobs like shooting events, stuff like that.

Parties.

I did a lot of like flash party photography.

I was using Instagram as like a portfolio.