Woman says all she can do is ‘laugh’ after sparkly manicure fail

A woman says she felt all she could do was ‘laugh’ after experiencing a sparkly French manicure fail at the hands of a beautician who insisted they ‘knew what they were doing’

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TikTok user shares her nail ‘fail’

A woman who’d been looking forward to getting a stylish French manicure with a bit of glitter was left dismayed after seeing the less than ideal results. Bridgette Barbosa, from Florida, US, had a clear idea of what she wanted when she first sat down in the nail salon and showed the manicurist a photo of a set of pale pink nails with sparkly silver tips as a reference point.

Unfortunately, the end result looked nothing like what she’d hoped for, and some people can’t believe they’re looking at the work of a paid beauty professional. Bridgette, 18, has since ‘kinda fixed them’ herself, but isn’t happy about her experience at all.

Taking to TikTok, where she goes by the username @b._barbosa07, Bridgette shared a vid comparing what she’d hoped for to what she’d actually She captioned her post ‘and all I can do is laugh about it’, adding a loudly crying face emoji for good measure.

Addressing stunned followers in the comments section, Bridgette said she ‘couldn’t believe it’ when she saw what the manicurist had done, and promised one skeptical user that she absolutely hadn’t done them herself.

She clarified: “I’ve done mine before as a last min thing and they came out better than that.”

According to Bridgette: “I showed her a picture and had some comments on them and she told me ‘I know what I’m doing’ and she said she was done I was in shock.”

Although she kept commenting on the nails throughout her appointment, the technician repeatedly told her she knew what she was doing. Bridgette reflected that this ‘clearly’ was not the case, and appeared to agree with one bewildered follower who urged her to go back and get a refund.

One person gasped: “Oh s***, that’s not even close! So sorry.”

Another commented: “B**** go back. Oh hell no, go back and be a Karen.”

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