It's a sign - that's what happens when you have too much nail polish on your nail polish brush.
Never do that.
What's up, my toes? It's Jonathan aka the Toe Bro and
here was something a little different, I hope you guys enjoyed seeing Lori, the Meticulous Manicurist,
react to my video doing an ingrown toenail surgery.
It was pretty amazing that we had the opportunity to share one patient.
I got to do the ingrown toenail surgery and now she's the one who gets to make the toes look all pretty and beautiful.
So, part one was me doing the procedure.
She actually got to post a video of her reacting and she should be posting a video very soon of her procedure and
I got the chance to get a little sneak peek before and I'm really curious to see how she does with these toes.
I'm really making sure I don't have the toes above my head because I want to be a toe head.
You guys call me toe head-- there we go.
I don't want to be a toe head like that.
I'm actually just the one toe, I'm the big toe.
Or maybe a baby toe, who knows?
Nails after a nail surgery aren't always the prettiest - there's a lot of trauma that happens to them,
the nails sometimes gets lifted during the procedure,
acid that we use to stop the nail from grow is very, very strong so we get changes to the skin.
This is pretty cool for you guys to see something on how the toe looks after an ingrown toenail surgery.
So, I'm just going to put her video on.
If you haven't already checked out her channel, please check Lori's YouTube channel, it's amazing,
I've been following it since maybe around 20 to 30,000 subscribers; we've been actually messaging each other before
and it's amazing to see both our channel to grow so much over the last year,
so, it's really awesome that we can support each other
out there so I'm curious to see how everything is doing, I have my laptop here
and
let's see how she can make these toes pretty.
Ok, so, let's turn on the Meticulous Manicurist's video and see what we got going on.
"-Are you one of the people out in the world who assumed everyone else has nicer feet than you do?
Do you hide your feet because you don't want anyone else to see them?"
Hm-mhm. "-Did you know there are more people in the world
who have not so normal-looking feet and toenails than normal-looking feet and toenails?"
Feet, oh my God. "-And what's the definition of normal or pretty feet?"
Yes, I'm curious to know. "-I'm here to tell you each and every one of you that I am going to share a story with you
about Jalisa who not only travelled 4 hours to have her ingrown toenails removed from the Toe Bro
but then drove an hour to see me--"
Unbelievable, she is a trouper to travel that much. "--possible illusion of symmetry applied to them.
I hope you enjoy this reconstruction--" Oh, there's a little point of view action going on there.
"--more confident in the way your feet look and, after you're done, be sure to go visit the Toe Bro's YouTube channel for the ingrown toenails--"
I still can't believe my name is the Toe Bro or my channel name is the Toe Bro. [laughs]
Ah...
It started as a joke
on Toe Bro and here we are.
And there's pretty Lori.
Pedicures are something--
it takes so much skill to make a nail look pretty so it's pretty amazing what all that you nail techs can do out there.
I just chop and file down and--
and you guys have a lot of work to do.
"--your nail walls that nail grew down deep inside of those but, when you remove that nail,
the nail wall kind of disappears so see how this nail is just kind of sitting there and it's not curving downwards?
It's because it's not growing from the base out here.
So, it will look normal."
I'm gonna pause it. So, big thing about this side there -
you see how there's two yellow bars on either side?
That's because when I'm separating the nail from the nail bed,
I always separate a little bit beside it because, if I don't and I put that
tool to actually cut the nail, sometimes the whole nail can lift
so I just create a little bit of more separation, that way when I go in with the tool, everything is a little bit more controlled
and so that's why that the sides look a little more yellow because they were separated but, like Lori said, everything is
sealed shut on the side, no more new nails growing in so that's why that the nail bed isn't the same as normal.
"-So, you want me to shorten it
down to about there?"
Age old question: how long-- how long-- how short you want the nails?
Aw, and the patient - she's such a sweet girl
to put her faith into us.
It's amazing the tools that Lori uses is very different than mine - hers, as you can see, much smaller much, more precise
to make small little cuts and make everything a little bit
cleaner edge;
mine - big thick nails, we just want to trim them down.
So, right away, that-- just trimming the nail straight across makes it look so much better.
If she didn't have this pedicure done today,
over the next year as a new nail grows in,
it'll grow completely pink and attached
and that old damaged part will just grow out.
"--dead skin anywhere, I need to disinfect the nail plate and apply primer."
Primer on a nail, look at that, it's, like, painting.
Look at-- it's an actual art.
Look at that goo.
I've never done that before, this is crazy.
Look how well it just
covers
the whole lifted area.
That is so cool.
Is that gel?
Acrylic?
Look at that.
You just put the glob on, move it around but, oh my gosh, that is skill.
Yep, done.
Thousand times better.
Is that the primer or is that the actual
acrylic nail?
Little touch-up.
So, before the patient went to see her, she
sent me pictures to make sure that everything was healed and closed and ready to--
ready to be done so I gave her the a-ok.
Did she cure it?
How that thing turn hard so fast?
I'm a total noob in this area, I don't know what the heck is going on
but it looks amazing,
it literally just put one smooth coat on everything, looks like one complete nail.
Hmm, a Dremel tool, I know a little bit about that.
It's amazing, different industry,
same tools, same concept.
Wow, see this is the hard part of about Lori's job is-- and all you nail techs - it's so hard to make a nail look pretty,
it takes a lot of work, there's so many fine details that the truth is, as a-- as a foot specialist,
we don't really focus too much on-- on the aesthetic portion.
That look-- that looks amazing.
More gloop.
Ah, covering the corner up.
The most important part for the patient that everything was completely healed and sealed;
everything, you know, just had to take time to grow out.
This skill - steady hands, Lori.
And look at Lori's nails, little nice and pretty too.
Maybe I should get mine done.
I can see, it's a nice full nail now. That looks nice,
looks pretty.
I'm curious to see how her setup is; I'm guessing is just a camera right on top.
So, yeah, it's-- it's amazing, like, it's, like, nail work -
building up, filing down.
I just tear down.
To think that a-- a month ago,
she was being injected, nails being ripped out of the side, acid putting on and,
one month later, she's ready to have a pedicure so it's
awesome that she's getting this done and
looks really cool.
I'm really curious to see if anything was cured
to make it harder, or is it just with time that it just cures,
cause I've seen some products with a UV light. "--wipe off this brush well enough.
You should never, ever, ever have that much polish on your brush, it's ridiculous, it's running all over the place and I'm freaking out right now."
I hate when I get too--
It's a sign - that's what happens when you have too much nail polish on your nail polish brush.
Never do that.
All the machines turning on and off.
It's a nice-looking nail, it looks pretty.
Toe Bro approved. [laughs]
I'm really curious to see how the other one is; this nail looked pretty good, you can see the damage was
relatively controlled, separate on either side-- oh, here we are on the second one.
You can see a lot more nail was left. "-I was trying to zoom in so close
so you guys had good quality and her big toe nail got out of frame so you didn't see me trim it off--"
Ah, I see. "--but there was a little piece on the left-hand side
of the toe that was detached enough that I felt that I needed to trim that off."
Yeah, the nail was really lifted on that side during the procedure
and, unfortunately, it's-- so much got lifted up.
So, if she didn't trim it off, again,
you just-- they lifted, the new nail comes in and then the old nail just keeps growing out.
"-Some of you might be looking at this toe nail thinking, 'wait a second, is that all the way healed?
Should she really be getting acrylic applied at the surface of this nail?'"
Should she?
"-But it is." It is.
"-She did call Jonathan, the Toe Bro--"
Loading! Oh.
Oh my gosh, these reaction vids are not easy to do. Now-- now my video's loading.
Ah, the internet cut out.
I gotta wait for it to load; one second.
Okay, Wi-Fi just came back on.
Oh my gosh, what a day, here we go.
"--it's like a scab, it's just that color because of the fluid."
It is a scab
and that-- yeah, it's so, like, liquid that all
closed up
but you can see there's no liquid coming out so everything's looking pretty good.
I'm sure that's scary for people that trim off their cuticles, all that dead skin there.
But as long as you're gentle
and you know how much to cut,
you'll be good. See, look how nice that looks.
So that's completely healed - four weeks,
four or five weeks, all done.
It takes so much time to do a good pedicure,
I really applaud you, Lori. "--nice and healthy and I'll make them nice and pretty. [laughs]
Client: Yes! [laughs] That would be good."
That-- [laughs]
that's right. "-I don't know what happened to that portion of our conversation--"
I-- I just beat 'em up and she fixes 'em up. "--about how many comments I get from my viewers
that, 'do you know who the Toe Bro is?' If you don't know who the Toe Bro is,
find his channel. He's got a lot of amazing content, he's a super kind--"
Aw. "--compassionate chiropodist in Canada.
You'll like his content so go visit his channel but, anyway, the viewers say that they think that we should have--"
And if you guys haven't checked out Lori channel, go check her out at The Meticulous Manicurist."
"--he can make everybody's feet healthy and then I can make everybody be pretty and I think it's a--"
I would love that-- to have that in my office where I just trim the nails and I take off the the major bulk
and then we got Lori to fix them up and make them look pretty.
"--please click the share button so more people can find me and the Toe Bro.
We're just two people in North America--" It looks amazing just putting on that
glob and then, with skill, even it out, it's-- it's amazing, it looks great.
Look at that, touching it up, knowing how much to put it, that is hard work.
I think Laurie would agree, like, we couldn't do this without you guys so we're so thankful--
I'm speaking on her behalf, by the way - we're just so thankful to have you guys as supporters and
that's what makes us keep putting out content so thank you for--
for still watching our videos.
I think I should try doing a pedicure,
I think I should try to copy one of her videos and try to do a pedicure.
I think that would be pretty embarrassing
and a big fail on my part, I don't think I could do a very good pedicure.
Maybe I could do the drill work, I could do the Dremel tool, that should be okay.
"-If you're wondering what I'm using - it's the Cross Cut
Fine
cone tip and all the tools--"
Cross Cut Fine, yeah.
See, I don't use anything dry like this, I always have water because my job is to take as much of the nail off as possible
while hers is just trying to file it out so she's actually - I can tell - it's a lower speed than mine
so it should hopefully generate less-- less heat, less friction.
It is how-- is this how you guys watch my videos? [buzzing sound]
My sterilizer! [laughs]
Okay, pausing to get what-- to turn it off - one second.
That's my sterilizer room so that's where I clean all these-- just wash them, ultrasonic, package them,
throw them in the autoclave.
Okay, here we go.
We're gonna keep going.
No, is this a lot of precision, a lot of work.
It's like a kid's room -
it's so easy to make so much mess
and it's so quick
and so much work to tidy room and organize it so I'm the one who is just the little kid throwing my stuff around, making all the mess.
And poor Lori is the responsible and cleaning everything up.
Sorry, Lori, for leaving a very messy room for you
but
it looks good to me.
I've tried putting nail polish before on my wife's nails and I-- it was horrible.
I told her, "I could do it, don't worry, let me try, let me try"
[laughs]
and she had to take everything off because I just went all over the place.
I think I got to work on my skills, guys.
I'll be the Pedicure Bro.
That's--
trademark: Pedicure Bro.
It looks so easy to put on the nail polish but I know it's not. "-This is the toe nail before she had the ingrown toenail removed.
This is the healing process.
Almost healed."
Wow, yep. "-And then after I finished.
And then the other foot." Boom.
"-This is before she had removed - the healing process and after."
You can see how deep and how much dead skin was building up on the sides.
"-Thank you so much for taking time--"
So, the way Lori made the width of the nail - that's pretty much how long her actual nails gonna be.
Well, guys, hope that was something different.
I applaud you, Lori, for all your skill and amazing work to tidy up that
messed up nail. I'm sorry
for leaving it lifted but it was no challenge for you, just like I have thick nails to cut, you had this lifted
damaged nail and you did no-- you-- you had no problem doing that so congrats on that.
You make me want to try doing a pedicure, so, if you guys are curious to see the Toe Bro try to do a pedicure or copy some of this nail art,
let me know - put a comment below.
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Again, just want to thank you guys for all the support. It's been a while since I've been actually on the camera like this.
We're nearing 300,000 subscribers - unbelievable -
18 months and here we are.
I gotta give you guys an update soon on my toe - it is growing out.
Very curious to see how you guys think of my new toe.
Thank you for all my toes out there, really excited to be sharing this journey with you.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for that.
Toe Bro out.