Oh Hello, it's time for 'Wonderful Adventure now Simon's not here but Leigh and I are going to get our nails done in Korea'
Sunny Edition
Yeah look at my nails
I bet you wish you can go to where I go
While I have got that question like a million times on my instagram photos
So for today, Sunny who is my nail artist, agreed to let us crash her little tiny studio
and show you guys how awesome she is
Let's rewind time and show you the nail art is done here in Korea
So what I'm getting done is actually gel tip extensions
Everyone keeps asking like "Oh my god, Martina your nails look so perfect"
It's cause they're not my nails guys
So gel tip extensions are awesome because it doesn't go over your whole nail
This actually just goes on the end of your nails
These little machines popped out here, these are the little UVcookers
It doesn't sound good to say 'cook', does it?
Let's say 'Nail polish..oven'?
No
The Magic Machine
Sunny is adding a clear coat onto my nails now
And it's going to actually keep the nail from breaking off my nail
And the Magic machine will really rapidly bake the actual gel and keep my nail from cracking off
Important phase, we haven't even begun the art stage yet
As my nails grow, the extension grows with it
And eventually the end of the nail will just fall off or
Or if you wanna change, you can come in and Sunny will take them for you professionally
Alright, so you can see that Sunny has finished shaping them
It looks like I have real nails, like this looks likes my actual nail grew in just beautifully
But this is just Phase One complete of the shaping
This stage is actually really critical for it to be done right
So what I like about Sunny is that before I found her
I went to other some other places and
they didn't actually put in an even and firm enough coats
And so happened was that my just kind of like fell off really fast
But if people don't do it right, then your nails can just fall off after like a week and
And everyone's like, "This is a waste of money"
You're just going to the wrong person
Ya gotta go to sunny, so ya gotta fly to Korea. Do it
You've got Japanese clients that do that don't you?
Yeah they fly from Japan to Korea just for Sunny
So a couple tips if you will, about getting your designs done
You notice that Sunny is putting this on an angle when she's doing it
And you might be like "Oh that's just because of the design"
Is it?
Or did we cleverly do that so that when my nails grow out, you can't tell that it's growing out?
Ahhh?
So if you paint the whole nail, it looks really pretty
But after a week, you'll start seeing, kinda like the root of your nail, like when you get your hair done
So the same reason why I paint my hair underneath
a layer is so you can't see the roots, it's the same thing here
So Sunny can do your nails on an angle
She could do like a french tip
Or she sometimes does an edge at the bottom
That way you actually just can't tell
That's something I'd recommend thinking about with your designs
If you're getting your gel nails designed as well with an actual design
or any kind of nail art done and not just a colour
Give yourself a lot of time, don't just think it's going to take like 30 minutes
Cause you can see that Sunny's adding a coat of colour first
And then I have to dry it or bake it inbetween each one
So when she finishes the base colour
then we gonna go on to the nail art
and then from there I have to bake it again
And then from there, she's got to coat it afterwards with a clear coat
So give yourself a lot of time
It's not the same as getting a nail polish done when you just have two coats
and you're outta there
So all in all Leigh and I got here around 1pm
and it is almost 6 o'clock now
So it takes quite some time to do gel nail art
But what I like about it is that it lasts for over a month
Seriously, think about all the manicures you buy
and how much it adds up in 1 month
and how annoying it is when you get one chip the second day after
because you washed a single cup
Well guess what?
This dries instantly, it's never gonna chip
and I will literally have these until my nail grows out
and falls off
AND I can keep trimming it along the way
to match my size
So if you don't like nails this long, cut them shorter
If you want your nails longer, get them longer
I really have gotten into gel nails lately because they just last forever
They are worth the price
If you wanna know how much my nails costed and how much Leigh's nails costed
Make sure you check out the blog post
I will show all those details
*Sunny......na na na na na...... Sunny*
*Hates this song and never wants to hear it again*
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