The straight-combed, long black hair, the puffy eyelashes, the blush, and all the pomp and circumstance. It might take a few hours for Bruna Nunes to dress up and put all her make-up on, but she'll do it regardless – even if it means arriving a bit late to our Zoom interview. “If I'm not wearing my eyelashes and my hair is not clean and combed, I can't show up in any video,” she laughs. Flaunting 600,000 followers on Instagram and posting selfies here and there, Nunes could be a trapstar, a famous actress or a model. But instead of catwalks, her runways are the roads of Brazil, which she tears down on a motorbike – and often on just one wheel.
“I'm a favela girl, I'm tough, I'm a ,” says the 24-year-old biker. A grauzeiro or, which translates to ‘wheeling’ in English. But is more than doing stunts on a motorbike, its front wheel pulling high in the air. In Brazil, over the past few years, has grown into a youth phenomenon in the favelas and low-income neighbourhoods, leaving tracks across fashion, music, social media and even gaming.
