- Ah, good day everyone and welcome to today's video
where I'm going to be doing yet
another one star versus five star.
But, today we are going to be doing it nail version.
That's right, I'm going to be getting these nails
done by a one star place and a five star place.
Yeah, I'm really nervous but also excited.
I haven't gotten my nails done in a while
because I've been tryin' to repair them
and today we could be destroying them.
So, I'm gonna take a look at the one star reviews first,
give ya a little insight on this salon I found.
So, before we get into the actual written reviews,
I just wanna take a look at some of these damn photos.
Oh my gosh, I assume that this was a removal.
Could you imagine leaving a nail salon
and being like um I asked for a removal
and this what they left me with?
Cute tattoo, by the way.
These chicken claws, holy crap.
I can't tell if, like, their nails are super inflamed
or this French tip, which is not a French damn tip,
it's a French whole tip.
Like, is that pinkt he color they used or is it
just so inflamed and irritated?
Also, oh, damn.
That's crusty.com.
Oh, these are chunky yet funky.
I mean, it's kinda cool that they have these gold flakes.
(gasps)
This woman got cut.
Holy crap.
Yike-a-doodle damn doo, okay.
Honey, you better not chop these fingers off, thank you.
Why am I doing this to myself?
I don't fricken know.
Let's take a look at the actual reviews, though.
'Cause you know, maybe, just some bad pictures were on here.
I wish I could give zero stars, do not go to this salon.
The worst set of acrylics I've ever gotten in my life.
She didn't listen to anything I asked her
and shouldn't even put tips big enough for my fingernails.
I even showed her a picture.
She didn't know what she was doing.
What a joke.
Another one.
I would give this place a zero if I could.
It is the dirtiest run down place
that I have ever seen in my life.
The stool they put your foot on is cracked and hard.
The towels look filthy.
Oh, my god.
This place is not, like, clean.
I feel like I'm gonna get an infection.
(gasps in shock)
They don't even put any sterilization in the water.
They don't put plastic lining in the tub
that you soak your feet in.
The tools do not look sterilized.
If you want to get nail fungus,
go there for a kind of place that it is, the place.
I can't even speak.
If you want to get nail fungus, go there
for the kind of place that it is,
the prices are absurd.
Oh my gosh, why am I doing this to myself?
Oh my god.
Another one that says this place deserves a rating
of a negative zero.
When I first walked in I was already very skeptical
about staying because the salon looked pretty dead
and the workers just looked very old and tired.
Nevertheless, I wasn't going to judge a book by its cover.
Oh this is long.
I don't have time to read that whole damn thing.
Trust all the reviews and do not come here.
I wish I would've read the reviews before coming.
And here I am, little dumb old Joey,
about to go get a frickin' nail infection.
Okay, work.
I love you so much.
(smooching noises)
Let's go.
Also, hold up, before we go,
I am going to basically tell each nail tech,
because when I go to the five star I wanna give
the same exact description
that I give the one star of what I want.
All I'm gonna tell them is I want unicorn inspired nails.
This hand is going to be, 'cause it's my left hand
and I don't use it as much, is gonna be
the one star reviewed salon.
Make it as unicorn-iful as possible
and we'll see what they come up with.
Alrighty, guys, so I'm scared.
Why am I doing this? - I'm scared for you.
- My hand, what could happen?
Am I going to lose my fingernails?
- I hope I don't witness you losing your fingernails.
That would be scarring. - I think my biggest fear
is just getting cut because getting cut
on your, like, fingernails and your cuticles, it's painful
and it lasts and every time you, like, frickin',
like, touch your fingers on something it stings.
- I'm nervous for the sanitation, as well.
There were a lot of comments of sanitation issues here.
I don't want you getting any fungus.
- Oh, well, I have plenty of fungus in me
from all the frickin' candida I have, so, more friends.
- Enough fungus for you. - Okay, let's do this thing.
We're gonna be also filming, kinda, like, incognito
so the angles are gonna be. - Undercover.
- A little sketchy.
Mm, yeah, oh my God, we're like little undercover spies.
Fun!
Incognito, don't just hold your phone out like.
- [Blonde Woman] We're not in there yet.
- Takin' a selfie! - [Blonde Woman] We're not
in the store yet!
(dramatic music)
- [Joey] Hello.
Um, I have an appointment for two.
- [Salon Worker] Oh, oh, for manicure, right?
- [Joey] Yes please. - [Salon Worker] Okay.
- [Joey] Oh, it's for me. - [Blonde Woman] It's for him.
- [Salon Worker] Oh, just for you, one manicure.
- [Joey] Yeah. - [Salon Worker] Okay.
(tense music)
Little bit? - [Joey] Um, no.
Just, we can just trim a little bit but not too short.
- [Salon Worker] Okay.
Natural, okay? - [Joey] Yeah, natural
unicorn fingers.
- [Salon Worker] Okay, what do you think?
- [Joey] Perfect!
Do you have any inspo for the unicorn look?
- [Salon Worker] Uh-uh. - [Joey] I'll show you
a picture. - [Salon Worker] Okay.
- [Joey] Just like you're interpretation
of what a unicorn would be.
Like, rainbows, and. - [Salon Worker] Oh, you
wanna do color? - [Joey] Sure, I mean,
whatever you can do.
- [Salon Worker] (speaking in foreign language)
Five, five.
Okay? - [Joey] Yeah, go for it.
- [Salon Worker] Okay. - [Joey] Whatever you think.
(dramatic music)
Very colorful. - [Salon Worker] Nice, huh?
- [Blonde Woman] Thank you.
- [Salon Worker] Thank you.
(dramatic music)
Bye. - [Blonde Woman] Bye.
(dramatic music)
- Okay, guys, made it out of there alive
with my hand in tact.
Let's review what happened in there.
- As soon as we get in there,
there's an altercation between another customer.
- Literally, we were warned. - Yeah.
- That's exactly what people were saying
is, like. - She walked out.
- Unprofessionalism, yeah, the woman literally walked out
so basically what I got out of it was
she was trying to charge her extra for a nail.
- Yeah, she needed a nail fixed
and they're tryin' to charge her more.
- For something that they needed to fix
because they messed up.
- It was quite heated, too. - It was!
And the woman, like, I think she was the owner of the place.
- Yeah. - Was not having it.
- She went off on the woman and then she walked out
and she was like, "You need to have
"better customer service here."
- That's what the woman said? - Yeah, she
was like, "It's not about the money,
"it's about customer service."
- Oh my gosh.
I can't believe we actually caught that on camera.
- I know. - That must happen
all the time. - Yeah.
- God, these nails. - She was so sweet though.
I felt so bad. - I loved my nail tech woman.
So this is not, like, bashing her or anything.
- She was a sweetheart.
- She didn't know what a unicorn was
so I had to show her an example.
So, she decided to go with rainbow.
The owner, actually, chimed in was like,
oh, I know the unicorn.
So, she picked out the colors
and the colors aren't bad.
I think it's super cute.
I do have some blue nail polish on me.
- This one's a little bit scruffled too.
- Yeah, I actually don't when that happened.
- It's when she touched them.
- [Joey] She touched them!
That's when it happened!
She tried to see if they were dry and she ruined 'em.
Yeah, so she touched them to see if they were dry
so the green and purple.
So, this one was super duper chunky
when she put it on I was like, oh, yikes.
And then she put a clear coat on to cover it up.
Lookin' up close, these really aren't well done.
Lots of paint on my hands.
But, it was only 10 damn dollars,
so, I mean, you get what you pay for.
- The salon could've been cleaner, too.
- Yeah, when she was scrubbing me with that stuff
I was like, oh.
That's when it got a little scary.
She was a little rough, but at the same time
she was also gentle at times.
So, I really enjoyed her.
I gave her a tip.
I think overall it was more about the professionalism
and the atmosphere in the salon as opposed to,
like, the work, I mean.
- Yeah, and they were a bit desperate, you could tell.
They were, like, desperate to keep that one customer
and it just resulted in aggression.
- Oh, was that what it was?
- I don't know, it was just very aggressive,
desperation, rather than than actually wanting
to treat their customers well.
- I mean, if you have a one star reviewed salon,
you gotta work on it and, like,
the customer's always right. - The customer's always right!
- That's what they have to learn.
- Cleanliness, customer's always right,
and I think they could take it up to maybe three stars.
- Ooh, okay, well.
- Two very important things.
- I say we head to the five star salon
and we'll compare what a five star salon unicorn nail
looks like compared to this.
Okay, so now it's time to look at
the five star reviewed salon.
Oh my gosh, those are beautiful.
Honestly, if they were to do this for my nails,
that would considered unicorn and I'd be very happy.
Honestly, if the iridescency of it all,
I am very triggered.
Oh my god, gorgeous.
Guys, I'm so excited!
Okay, this nail, mm, not so much.
Wow.
Okay, they are talented here.
Hopefully I get one of these artists.
Oh, that's pretty.
It's like a frickin' crystal on a nail.
Holy crap, so far, I'm feeling very confident.
Oh my gosh, these marbled nails!
Oh!
They're gonna do so good, I'm so fricking excited.
I have so much faith in them but also
with these expectations you never know.
As we know from the psychic one,
you can't judge a book by a cover.
Who knows what's gonna happen.
Let's just read a couple of these reviews.
Now, I wanna read some of the reviews.
The pictures look amazing but let's get the facts.
Best manicure in LA.
The super gel is incredible product,
it lasts for weeks and is so strong.
The salon is clean and inviting and efficient.
I'll never go anywhere else.
Okay, work!
Oh, wow, okay.
I happy, I happy?
I happy drive an hour to get the quality art
and friendly service.
Their work is consistent and my manicures look
as beautiful on day 14 as they do when I leave the salon.
Totally worth the hour I drive.
That's good to know, 'cause I'm gonna be drivin'
about an hour to get there, too.
You know what, I've heard enough.
Let's go!
Alrighty, so, we're about to head in to
the five star rated nail bar and I am very excited.
Do you think it's gonna be better?
- I think anything would be better than that.
- Honestly, if I did this, it would be much better.
Oh my gosh, okay.
Look at these.
- I'm really into them.
- The last nail tech I went to, she checked to see if
they were dry and she went like this and.
- [Nail Tech] Pulled them off of you?
- Yeah.
- Okay, are we cutting your nails at all or just filing?
- [Joey] Just a little bit.
Just a little trim spa.
This is the five star place, so.
This is your competition, do you think you can?
- You know, I don't know.
I'm not really sure.
- [Joey] They didn't know what unicorn was, so.
- [Nail Tech] Who doesn't know what a unicorn is?
- Yeah, I don't know.
- Okay, that was gonna be my next question.
So, not subtle?
- No, I'm fine with, like, stones and, like, crystals,
whatever, like.
I've done some pretty crazy stuff to my nails
so I'm used to, like, some gems.
(chill electronic music)
- [Nail Tech] I kinda forgot that we
were only doing one hand and I was,
like, planning of the other hand, too.
It's like, okay, so I'm gonna put another one on there.
- [Joey] Perfect.
Wow!
So good!
Thank you so much! - You're welcome.
- Alrighty, so, now that's someone
who knows what a unicorn is.
I'm very impressed.
I'm very happy with the results.
She gave what I asked for.
It was very professional in there.
- Super professional. - Everyone was super friendly.
- Oh yeah, great service. - No fighting.
- No altercations. - No wrinkly nails.
My nails are completely smooth, oh my gosh.
So pretty! - I'm gonna come back
and get the same thing, I'm obsessed!
I'm jealous.
- Oh my god. - They're so pretty.
- I love the iridescency of it all.
Here, I'll give you guys a close up shot
in just a second but I just wanna say,
definitely five star equivalent of what I was expecting.
Overall, very happy and now I need to figure out
what happens with this hand.
Look at that shiny, shimmery, splendid.
I love the fact that there's actual unicorn horns on here.
Although, I will say, if I were to change one thing,
I think I would've done a silver gem instead of the gold,
but, you know what, still looks good.
So now that the second hand is done,
I wanna do a side by side comparison
to really compare and contrast
what a one star and a five star result looks like.
Can you guys guess which one's the five star,
which one's the one star?
(upbeat electronic music)
Well, I'm back home now and I wanna see
if some people at my house can tell the difference
of the one star versus the five star
so let's go find miss Maria
and see if she can tell the difference.
- What's going on here?
- I wanna see if you can tell the difference with my nails.
- With your nails? - Yeah.
So I went to a one star nail salon
and a five star nail salon
so you have to guess which one.
- Which hand? - Yeah, which hand
is from which? - Oh, boy, okay.
I'm good at this, let me see.
- Ready?
- Well, this shebang is one star.
- This shebang!
Why? - It looks like
it's made by me.
In the back of the side.
I hope I didn't offend.
I hope that's not the five star.
- No. - That's less than one star.
- [Joey] Less than one star, why?
- Even I can do it better blinded,
old rotten eye and floaters.
- What makes you think that?
- It just doesn't look good.
I don't know, it's mushy smashed.
Look at that. - It's mushy smashed.
- It look like crinkle plinkle.
- Crinkle plinkle.
- I don't know. - And do you like this one?
- [Maria] I like this one.
This is. - [Joey] Yeah?
- This is cute.
Don't tell me this is one star
and that's five. - No!
- No. - [Joey] No, you got it.
- How much did you pay for that?
- 10 dollars. - Can't get money back?
One dollar.
Not even one dollar, it's 99 cents the color.
This, you do it a 100 times, right?
It's like what, 10 cents?
- Oh my god, yes, okay.
Well, there you have it.
Hi mister. - Hello.
- I have a little task for you.
So I just got my nails done from a one star salon
and a five star nail salon.
- [Brunette Man] Oh, look who's here!
- [Joey] Lara, do you wanna guess too?
- [Brunette Man] She knows the tea.
- All right are you ready?
- Oh, oh my god.
This is, looks like you painted it yourself.
(gasps)
- What do you mean I painted it myself?
- Wait, why is it so smudged?
- Everyone's been asking that.
Which one do you think is which?
- This is definitely five star.
- Yes. - 'Cause it has
the little, like, nail gems and iridescency.
This literally looks like the hand from Dexter
that they find in the ice with the ice box killer.
Put up a picture right here.
I hate it.
She hates them.
- Oh, which one Lara? - She sniffed it out, look.
- Oh, she bites my finger off.
- [Brunette Man] Good girl.
- While it was drying, the woman was checking
to see if it was dry so she went like this to my nails
and she just, like, dragged it.
- Did she not re-do it?
- No! - What a dumb (bleep).
- I gave her a five dollar tip.
- Oh good. - Yeah.
- For your troubles. - For my troubles.
Okay, so, I think it's pretty clear
that there's a difference between
the one star and the five star.
Lesson learned, actually listen to the Yelp reviews
for nail salons because sometimes the tea
is a little too hot, but it's the damn truth tea, henny.
I still can't get over the damn wrinkles on this hand.
I don't know what else there is to say.
Case closed, we know which one was better.
The end.
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(whimsical music)