Singaporeans Try: Living with Nail Extensions for 72 Hours

That's 6 years of doing stupid challenges, this is the worst of all. I already feel my emotions going haywire. I can't do this anymore. How the heck am I supposed to get (it) out? I cannot! Hi! What's the most "typically feminine" thing you've ever tried? Oh! In terms of day-to-day, I would say make-up is probably the one thing. I wear a dress... Duh. For prom, I have to wear a dress. That was ages ago, oh my gosh. I went for a manicure, a couple of times, overseas, just to feel it. -But that's

about it lah. -I don't even do that. Y'all don't go (for) manicures? -No. -Oh my god! Okay, I occasionally go for manicures but it's when I'm very lazy, and I just feel like my nails a bit dry, my cuticles a bit too long... On this episode of Singaporeans Try, you will be trying on nail extensions for 72 hours. Wah, cannot lah, how long... Huh?! I have to wear gloves at home sia. Okay, that's one thing I don't understand. Nail extensions, especially those with the weird things, on the nail, wah,

what the **** who does that ****? Why?! I have to put contact lens... Oh dear, I feel bad for you leh. How to dig my nose? I love to dig my nose. Honestly, I see Leah right, she always has super long nails. Then I always question her, "why?" doesn't that inconvenience her? Then she type on her phone, is like *aggressive typing noises* Wah, damn annoying. Noo, then we have to start typing like that. \ Oh no! I got media invite tomorrow. -Okay what! -On Sunday. Can I get... don't- don't... No, do

n't ask about my nails. Okay, good, good. You **** ***** **** **** ***. If they're nice you show the left hand. If not you show the other one. I'm Fiona, I'm 17, and I'm a self-taught nail artist. I started when I was 15. I attended a course, that my school brought me to, and I just had passion for it and I just started watching a lot of videos. During Covid, it impacted (us) a lot cause of the lockdown. We had to close our business. For the first few months, I had no income. But it took me some

time to shift from doing appointments to online, so I started to open my custom press ons, that people can order online and I can send through my home. Nail artists, especially home-based, they're very underappreciated, I'm just trying to show that we can do the same work, as salons and offer the same quality. You can see the amount of effort put into their work and I hope people can see that also. -So there's gel and acrylic extensions. -Okay. -There's any length so you can customise the lengt

h. -Okay. It just depends on the colour and design you want. Okay, do you like charms? No! -No, no charms? -That's literally my worst nightmare. Okay, we'll do it simple for you. Cause just now fauzi specifically said that he don't want this dangling stuff on his nails, so I'm gonna pick one. -It's gonna be a surprise. -You wanna put on which finger? Put on his thumb. -His thumb. -Oh, yeah, that's gonna be the most difficult. It's a prank lah. Ooh, there's a very long one. Wah. Yeah. (PD): Holy.

.. Can't wait to see his reaction he confirm flare up one. *le gasp* Oh, my god, y'all sabo me. Confirm! I knew it! Y'all sabo me! I will put, "H-A-F-E-Z". -That's not even how you spell his name. -Yeah, sia. This is the first time I've ever, ever seen Jes use her phone like that. Take a look, take a look. I think my design is gonna be some flames, followed by a "bad boy". So at least I will look quite bad ah, badass-y. People look then, "Eh? Nail extension?" Then they see the "Bad Boy", then th

ey, "Ah, okay." Better not disturb him ah. You chose black ah? Eh shut up lah... Eh, got problem? My nail eh. Your nail or my nail? (PD): It's to match his mole. Can you draw one tear drop? 20 minutes into work, and it's already ruining my mood. I can already feel my emotions going haywire. So the other struggle of my life is now typing. My keyboard is mechanical, it's not like flat keyboards where I can easily type. If let's say I want to press the letter "L", the "O" might come along with it.

It's like, how do you type even? Test my typing speed ah, let me show you how slow this thing is. The speed is 514 characters per minute. I cannot edit, I cannot do anything computer related, I really cannot. I think the feeling that I am most uncomfortable about, it just makes me feel very uneasy is the pressure on my nails, when either I push it, or... -Yooo! -Oh, the other way around, sorry. So what do you think it reads? Dad Bod. :D Dad bod your head, bodoh (idiot)! -It's bad boy! -Oh, bad b

oy! Bad boy~ So it's day 1 dinner time, and just so happens that today I already planned for dinner, with my dearest friend, look! Why are we getting nails and not involving me?! Like, why wasn't I part of this? The decision was to have arnolds. And when they first told me I was getting nail extensions, I was thinking, How am I gonna eat my Arnolds? I have to use my fingers right? I feel like my nails match your phone case. I feel like your nails are not meant for fried chicken. Okay, look at Fa

uzi, struggling to even remove a tripod from his bag. Oh my goodness, I can't even deal with this. It's a struggle. Ladies, how do you do it? Send us a tutorial now. Oh my god, the grease is getting under your nail already. :-( What do you think of my nails? Eeyer. You want ah? You like ah? -No! -Then? It's a challenge, nice or not? Nice ah! Usually the first thing I do, is to take out my contact lens. I heard all about it, it's so hard to take out contact lens when you have extensions. Okay, yo

u know what? I just took out like that. So usually, without this stupid extensions. I'll usually use these two fingers and I'll take it out, but now with this pointy thing, it's very difficult to use these two fingers. So I had to use these instead, and it worked! Usually I take 10 minutes to shower and this time I took 15-20 minutes? I don't get why I have to spend so long in the shower! I forgot I had nail extensions on, so I was lathering the soap on my body, on my butt, so you need to keep y

our butt clean right? Cause I forgot, and I was so rough, and I nearly cut my butt! Twice, some more. Right now, I'm gonna show you how difficult it is for me to type. It is slightly easier on a keyboard, but it is almost impossible on a smartphone. Let me show you why. I can't even hold my phone, you see? I want to type the "6", you see... this thing block ah, I can type lah, I must like that, like that... So let me tell you a story. When I first woke up today, I was like I'm not gonna let any

nails, ruin my mood or my day. And then the birds were chirping at my window, I said hello to the sun, and the sun said hello back. So I thought, you know, today's gonna be a good day. Until, I got ready to go to office. I wanted to comb my hair, also it was quite a troublesome thing to do because the wax kept getting stuck in the nails. How the heck am I supposed to get it out? I'm trying. See? :((( It's stuck... I came to office right, I never even buttoned my pants. Cause I couldn't. So I tab

ao-ed a grass jelly and sea coconut for lunch, then I realised the cover is a bit... awkward, not like the usual cover I'm used to. But then hey, I got the nails! -Ooh! -Wah! Let me show you whether it is possible to use chopsticks. This thing is blocking! So I cannot, you see, if I put in the middle then I cannot! Okay, actually can ah... I cannot! (Do you have a fork? I want a fork!) The staff want to see whether it's possible, it's not possible, Okay, so Brenda and I are at Genki now. :D Firs

t immediate problem that I've discovered now is... How in the world? How... K nevermind, I just like this... Oh, my god, you're gonna break it! Brenda please help me. Easy-peasy one. This is what I miss in my life. -Somebody's angry. -I'm not! Your commentary is unnecessary, Brenda. I'm finally back home, it's 2am right now. It's so freaking frustrating that I have this, on a day where I'm so tired and I just want to shower and get on my bed and fall asleep ASAP. This entire challenge, it's quit

e fun, but would I do it again? No. So it's the final day, and I'm glad it's a Saturday, cause I don't have to do as much work as the previous two days. I really can't wait to remove this later today. I just kinda wanna go back, to my routine. It's nice, it's beautiful and aesthetic, and I wish you can like, have an option where you can paste it on only for a performance or something. So we have some awesome food, Then you see ah, I take out, see ah, this nail ah, you see? You zoom. How I take?

I legit must... *Chewbacca noises* Wahlao eh! How to take? Good morning! So it's the morning of Day 3, and I'm currently going to meet a couple of my friends for breakfast. Hello brother. Ape sial? (what?) Okay, so how are my nails? -You know what the letters read? -Bad boy. So it's finally time to get these claws off! I'm so happy! I can't wait to live a normal life again. The day has come! -I can feel my fingertips, like... -Finally. Jeslyn and Fauzi will be the ones removing their nails today

, and on the other hand, Bolin and myself will only be removing our nails supposedly, tomorrow morning. You know what, I think I'm gonna give up slightly earlier, so I actually went to research, some of the nail places that are at a mall near my house and I'm gonna give the first one a call. Can I just make a check if y'all offer any services where... -I can get... -Uh, wait ah. -Hello? -Hello? -Hello?? -Yeah, can you hear me? ... Hello? Okay, after GST is $74.90. $74.90 just to remove. Okay, ok

ay. >:O $74?! So this last shop that I called, it only costs $15 for gel nail extensions removal, I think. Uh, unfortunately, the cost is not 15 but 50. Hafeez! How can you do this to me? No We're just not meant to be. I can't do this anymore. You bring me too much pain. See you. This person is about to start the removal process, I'm gonna go for it. Good morning everyone, so currently, it's supposed to be the day that I remove my nails with Bolin, but as y'all know I've already removed them be

forehand, I am gonna go and fetch Bolin. When I fetch him, he's gonna see that my nails have already been removed, I'm gonna record his reaction. Eh? Is that? Is it? -Bloody hell! -Hello! -Why you angry? -What happened to your hand? -Why you angry? Why? -What the bloody hell? What you mean? What happened to my- -Eh? -Bloody hell! Eh, what happened? I went to the mall to do myself. You could have just cut like that, you know. Actually- What the heck! You also cheated! I cannot tahan (bear it) alr

eady lah. Because for your thumb ah, your thumb important ah? I wanna type ah, at least give me one thumb. So, how was the experience? I hate it. The experience was very bad. I will speak on behalf of all of us and say it sucks! Coming from me, that's 6 years of doing stupid challenges, this is the worst of all leh. I've never seen Fauzi so angry before. -Yeah lorh. -Yeah. Okay, so by the way, if you still see "Why I still got this colour?", there's a day that I'm supposed to remove it with Hafe

ez, but then because somehow we screwed up the address, so we went to the wrong place. So what daily tasks were easily and what was difficult? Nothing was easy, what do you mean?! Literally everything is difficult. Typing is difficult, digging your nose is almost impossible. Talk about the digging nose ah, I damaged my nose. I think I was sleeping, and forgot I had long nails. -Ahh. -So I go in all the way. Wah, shiok. At least now you have the Covid swab test. It's so weird to wash your face wi

th nails. You don't have to think about these things in your day to day life, you just squeeze things, put it on your face, then it's easy. But the moment you have nails, suddenly you have to really think, because the moment you stop thinking, your nails will scratch your face. Let's say you wash your face, you become more gentle. No, I'm quite gentle everyday. -Yeah, I think I became more gentle. -Right? Cause before this I was just like *aggressive scrubbing*. But a good thing I realised is th

at the nails act like a comb. Oh! That I agree. Then when you wax, it's easier. -Really meh? For me the wax gets stuck. -Yes! Okay, that's the only downside. -Actually I spend most of my time... -Right?! I think putting our personal experiences aside, talking about the way they did it, I think it was very professional lah. For someone who has never been to a home-based manicure, I didn't feel any pain or whatsoever. They also took me through the steps of what they were going to do. As much as th

e experience was troublesome for us, after, but during the experience of doing it, it was quite eye-opening and very fun, so, On behalf of everyone here, we'd like to thank @nailsbyfiona_ for helping us achieve such beautiful nails! Thank you very much for watching this episode of "Singaporeans Try". Remember to like, share, and subscribe, ring the notification bell, and watch our other videos, over there! Bye!