- [Maya] Hi, Nina!
- Hi, baby!
- [Maya] I got my first acrylics!
- Like your Nina!
(laughter)
- [Maya] Nina!
- So, I'm about to do something
that is a little bit out of my comfort zone,
and it's getting acrylic nails!
And I brought someone with me!
- I'm so nervous, like,
these are my basic nails, they're all gross and dirty.
- I know, mine too!
I was watching Yvett, her Instagram,
and I was like, yo, this lady does nuts nails,
it looks so bomb, they're so long,
they're so, like, intricate, and I'm like,
'Maya, do you wanna get nails with me?'
- My Nina, my diaz, all have like
those long nails so I've grown up seeing them,
and whenever they like scratch me like that
I'm like 'awh, feels good.'
But I play instruments!
- So it's hard--
- So it's difficult, you can't have long nails.
- So I, actually, am not getting
acrylics for the first time.
But, I haven't got acrylics nails
since I was in high school.
So it's really funny that I'm coming back
full-circle, 12 years later.
I feel like my hands are like born-again virgins.
(Maya laughs)
How do you feel, are you excited?
- Yeah, I'm also really nervous.
I'm afraid that I'm gonna fall in love with them.
(Julissa gaps)
- And then you're gonna always want them!
- What's gonna happen to my music career?
- We're gonna go do this,
and I'm really really excited.
I cannot wait to see what they look like.
- Hi I'm Yvett Garcia, and today
I'm gonna be doing Julissa and Maya's nails.
I've been doing nails, technically for about like 15 years.
So, when I was 14, my mom and I moved to Mexico,
and she just wanted me to do something
other than school so that I didn't get in trouble.
And I just chose beauty, and out of everything
I think nails was definitely my favorite.
I was like a side thing, kinda like a hobby.
But about seven years ago it turned into like
my actual career, like a full-time job.
To be honest, when I was living in Mexico
a lot of people already had all these crazy nails
with like the bling and everything.
And with time I feel like I just kept doing it,
and then eventually caught up here.
- Um, it varies, but I'd say I'd leave it at about two hours
because I like to take my time.
Even if it's a simple set, you know,
because it's like a whole session thing,
you're talking and you're, you know,
with your client and stuff.
- [Interviewer] Cool, we'll we're excited!
- Oh I'm excited too.
Hi!
You're nervous.
- I am nervous!
- That's okay.
- So I have never had acrylics done before,
the only thing that I've had are like gel nails.
- Yeah.
- And I recently like just took them off.
My friend like, just, put regular nail polish on me.
- I'm not even gonna lie, I'm really nervous.
I have not changed this color,
on my nails, in four years.
- You get the same color every time?
- Every single time.
- Let me see, is that OPI Funny Bunny?
- You know it!
- [Maya] Wow!
- You're good!
- That's a classic though, that's an easy one.
- I totally stalked your Instagram.
I really like these nails,
I kinda like the solid, like, blue,
like light blue kind of look.
- You like the matte too?
- Yeah.
- Okay, cool.
- Can you put a little like bling on it, I don't know.
(laughter)
- She's like okay well just add a little something
so it's not so scary.
- Yeah just, I love glitter,
like I love that iridescent, type of thing.
- We could use like the little fairy dust,
we could maybe do one with like that little fairy dust.
- Oh my God, okay.
- As much as I want to, I'm gonna step outside
my comfort zone and I'm gonna do like
a different color.
Those chrome ones were everything.
But I don't know about the pointy?
- [Yvett] The pointy, okay so you definitely want like
the coffin shape.
- Clearly, I deserve some bling
because I'm a confident woman, so I need it--
- We're gonna do some big bling, not big like gigantic,
but we'll do like--
- You know what, I'm just gonna let you take it away.
- [Yvett] Just do whatever, okay.
That sounds fun, that sounds fun.
You've got really nice nail beds though.
- Thank you, that's what, every time I go
to the salon they're always like--
- Because you do have nice nail beds!
- [Julissa] Oh, bye-bye Funny Bunny.
- My mom used to be a hand model.
- Oh, wow.
- I didn't get her hands though,
I got my dad's hands and then her nails.
- Okay well at least you got her nails.
So right now, I've took off your polish,
and then I'm gonna go ahead and prep the nail.
So I usually try to file, just slightly,
to kinda like, well in your case
take off a little bit of that gel you have.
But then also you wanna file your natural nail
so that it takes off the oils on your nail bed.
- My nails are always done.
- [Yvett] That's good.
- Yeah, I'm like one of those girls.
I'm like 'I need to have my nails done',
cause if not I feel like my hands don't look pretty.
- Oh your nails are really thick.
- [Maya] Could I be a nail model?
- You really can,
you really can.
- Okay, new career path.
- Your nail we're gonna do different,
we're gonna do yours with forms.
- What is that?
- So instead of the plastic tip,
you build up a nail with acrylic only.
- So what are we doing here?
- So right now I'm gonna go ahead and add the tips,
and then we're gonna cut them, obviously.
Or you can leave them this long, it's up to you.
So then you fit it underneath your nail, like so.
And then in a way I'm gonna build the acrylic on top of it.
- So that doesn't stay, it's just for--
- [Yvett] It's just kinda like a base.
- Got it!
- Just to hold the acrylic.
- I've never seen this.
- This was like the original way of doing nails,
until like the tips came out.
But now they're definitely coming back
because they give you like a different look.
- You have to pick it out for each nail.
- Um, I don't have to pick out each nail
'cause most of the time this one marries that one.
So I just have to--
- Just this one please
(laughter)
just kidding that's gonna hurt.
- Does this style take longer than Maya's style.
- It does, yeah, it does take a little longer.
- I feel like a witch.
Ahhh, ah ha ha ha!
- Ohh!
(laughter)
- Are they gonna be this long?
- No.
This is where you chose like the length.
- I feel like I'm gonna become a different person.
- Look at her, even the way you wave now is different.
Who are you, girl?
(laughter)
Boujee!
- Okay, how long do you want them?
'cause they're gonna get shorter anyway
once I file.
And then you're gonna get like more of a coffin shape.
- Okay.
- This like whole thing feels like when,
when I'm at the gynecologist, and she's like
putting it in my vagina, and you're like
'what you doing, girl?'
(laughter)
- That one opens it up, this one closes it down.
- I have a question.
- Go ahead.
- Um, you know, when, when you have long nails,
how do you go to the bathroom?
(laughter)
- I get that asked a lot, like a lot.
- Come on, at least say 'wipe'.
(laughter)
- You just use more toilet paper, that's it.
That's the key.
I mean, I use like this part of my hands,
and I've had my nails longer.
- I know you talk about something,
put a lot of toilet paper.
But, I don't see, how, I don't know.
(laughter)
- Do you, like, wrap it around your hand?
- [Yvett] Mmm, hmm.
- Like.
(laughter)
That's disgusting.
- How long did you say this lasts?
- These are good for like three weeks.
Without usage your nails grow fast, right.
So like in three week if you wanna keep them
you just have to do your fill.
And you can't rip these off,
because if you rip these off, or try to just
peel them off they will mess up your nails really bad.
- [Julissa] So should we come to you to take them off?
- Yeah, if you want to, yeah.
See how your nails click with each other.
- I know.
Oh yeah!
Oh!
Oh hey!
Hi!
- Um, hello!
(laughter)
- I didn't tell my roommate that I was doing this,
I'm gonna go home and be like 'hi!'
- I just wanna get into an argument with somebody
and I'll be like 'listen, do not tell me that I-'
- I can still slice somebody with these, right?
Like if somebody looks at me weird, or wrong,
I can still claw them?
(laughter)
What's this?
- This is primer, so this is what's
gonna keep the actual acrylic on your nail.
So now we're gonna do the acrylic.
- Oh, like, paint them?
- No, like the acrylic part.
- Oh, I-
- These aren't acrylic, this is just a plastic tip.
This is the acrylic, so acrylic nails is this,
what I'm doing right now.
- Ohh.
- [Yvett] So this is the part
that's gonna build out the nail.
- This looks so smooth, and like, seamless.
It looks like my actual nail.
(laughter)
- Maya's already tripping.
- So for the chrome too, the base is black.
So I'm gonna do them all pretty much black.
- So we're going for a look that's like
cute and flirty, very girly.
- Do you ever do regular polish?
- Nope, never.
It takes too long to dry, it's too much of a process.
It's harder to do certain designs.
- What are some of the do's and don'ts
when you have these nails, like just to function everyday.
- Don't use them as tools,
'cause I know sometimes you have the nails
so you wanna like clean stuff with your nails,
like don't do that.
- Wow, they look so cute!
I think I'm gonna, like, go somewhere with these.
- [Julissa] Whoa!
That is so cool!
- Right, it's like mesmerizing.
- Oh my God, it's insane how it just changes like that.
- What are you thinking of for the rest of them?
Does it just come to you like in the moment?
- Mmm hmm.
- I like that.
- I'm gonna add a little bit of
cute little bling on the cuticle area.
- She's gonna put some bling on it!
- Will the bling come off at all?
- No, no no.
- Oh my God!
(laughter)
- [Yvett] Don't tell me to do what I want.
- [Julissa] Ahhhh!
- But this is simpler bling, I can do bigger.
- How do you come up with the designs?
Like it's just whatever you feel?
- Yeah, sometimes it's just like whatever
I'm kinda going with, you know,
especially with stones it's like a little puzzle.
I usually ask for people to show me an idea
of what they like on my page already.
So I can kinda see where your style is.
- And it's the middle finger too,
so don't fuck with me.
- It's so pretty!
It's sparkling, like my personality.
- This is so intense.
- I feel like this is what it's like
when you have a ring, and you're like married.
You're like.
I'm gonna like not do any work,
so I'm just gonna be like 'look at my nails!'
- Damn it, you're wiping hard and they're not moving.
- Oh no, they're not gonna move.
- I have never been, like, that girl
to get nails or anything like that at all.
It's like not me, but the style of this is me.
- You're all finished.
- Ohh my God.
This is crazy!
- Oh my gosh, thank you so much!
- [Yvett] So cute, they do look like you,
you look so pretty.
- I'm really happy I finally went out of the box.
(speaks in a foreign langue)
- You knew what my style was,
you knew like how crazy to go, and like, you know--
- Yeah because I didn't wanna scare you,
'cause that's another thing,
you don't wanna do just everything on somebody
because not everything is for everybody.
- I wanna hold you hands.
(laughter)
- Let's get in the car.
Y'all, these nails are lit!
- It's the day after our transformation,
I slept through the night like this.
Also, listen, the wiping situation
when I go to the bathroom, isn't that bad.
- I have literally been trying to take out my contacts
for the past five minutes.
These motherf****** aren't letting me.
- This is what it looks like when I drive!
Ding ding ding de ding ding ding ding ding.
- I cannot take out my card and put it in
like how you're supposed to, you know,
you're supposed to leave it in for like
two seconds and then take it out.
I had to ask somebody to help me.
- You can't open it?
- [Maya] I can't open it.
(laughter)
- I can't type, it's so bad!
I took forever to get ready this morning.
These nails are not easy,
I guess you have to get used to them
because putting on my jeans, I had to take my time.
And I think these are slowing me down.
- I, actually, to be honest,
was dreading getting these because I'm like
'I have a lot of things to do, I am very busy,
'like I need to move quick.'
- Initially obviously I thought about in a negative way.
I was like 'what the hell, these are so slow,
'how do people move?'
- It's taught me to slow down.
- And then I was like 'wait, you know what,
'this is probably a good thing'.
It's okay to go slow.
- I could do everything that I thought
I couldn't do with these.
- I also like this.
Like when I'm talking now I'm like
'yes bitch, because yes, because yes, because yes'.
(laughter)