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Bubble Nails Are In! Would You Try the Beauty Industry’s New Viral Trend?
*Sigh* Can we please talk about Bubble/Hump Nails.
I have been seeing these nails on social media for a while, and I hoped they would go away as quickly as they started, but no. They’re still here. Hump Nails are the latest offering from the beauty industry ahead of eyebrow extensions and ‘strobing’; and we can boldly say we’re going to sit this one out.
Hump nails are usually very short & really curved extensions. They are created by layering drops of acrylic on the fingernails and adding some more until the nail is rounded like the image below. After which you can go ahead and paint them to your heart’s desire or even add dainty accents to them.
First sightings of the nail trend was in 2009 when a nail technician named Hoa Biu, who worked at the Ann’s Nail Salon in Philadelphia sent her nail art work to Nail Magazine. Now, more popularly called ‘bubble nails’, it seems to picking up in Philly and other parts of the States.
Of course there are a lot of people not feeling the trend. And the memes are really rolling in;
People have called these nails everything from ‘cute’ to ‘weird’, but we want to know what do you think – would you try bubble nails?
See more photos that might just convince you. 🙂
Photo Credit: Instagram
Truth Teller
August 24, 2015 at 4:26 pm
Ugly, horrible. Looks like some new type of ailment.
AD
August 24, 2015 at 4:26 pm
YUCK!!!!
Que
August 24, 2015 at 4:37 pm
EEEEWWWWW on all levels!
Ibinabo
August 24, 2015 at 4:43 pm
It’s a NO-NO for me.
veer234
August 24, 2015 at 4:44 pm
Been making the rounds for about 2 months BellaNaija… and no, I wouldn’t try it.,
Kiiki
August 25, 2015 at 9:17 am
The lip colour/ shade on your Avi is everything! Where from abeg?
MEE
August 24, 2015 at 4:59 pm
Lol…they look ridiculous
Mademoiselle
August 24, 2015 at 5:02 pm
Wow! So ugly. SMDH
poison ivy
August 24, 2015 at 5:47 pm
Looks like an ailment from a Nigerian movie……..absolutely terrible.
Am no artificial nail lover, my polished natural nails are pretty cute, thank you very much.
WA
August 24, 2015 at 7:08 pm
It’s simply hideous!!
Wale
August 24, 2015 at 7:51 pm
Fastest way to turn off a guy!
Mocha
August 25, 2015 at 11:25 am
It’s not always about guys.
freesky
August 25, 2015 at 3:58 am
One word…..Horrible.
Dee one
August 25, 2015 at 5:02 am
NEVER…!!!! I’m not a fan of nail extensions in general and now this….again NEVER..!!!!
adelegirl
August 25, 2015 at 7:36 am
The ugliest most un-appealing nail trend I have ever seen. I just don’t get it.
aiphee
August 25, 2015 at 7:41 am
If you’ve got short fingers like mine,biko don’t try this to avoid stumpy fugly looking hands..
Made
August 25, 2015 at 9:11 am
unfortunately only dark-skinned fingers are “rocking” these ogre-looking talons… so ghetto-ish
Jhennique
August 25, 2015 at 10:29 am
yuck!
whollop whollop
August 25, 2015 at 10:33 am
Two words “She ratchett!!!”
dammygold
August 25, 2015 at 10:38 am
Its a No No for me
olamide
August 25, 2015 at 1:05 pm
not on ma life!!!!!!
Ghostmode
August 25, 2015 at 2:01 pm
Ugly much!!!
sparkle
August 25, 2015 at 3:53 pm
i can’t help laughing hahahahahahhohoho
chichi
August 25, 2015 at 9:50 pm
U-G-L-Y!!
Lebang
August 27, 2015 at 12:07 am
They look like leprechaun nails….Some trends should never have been thought of to begin with
Christine
January 11, 2018 at 2:25 pm
Fantasy of women is boundless, especially when it comes to beauty 🙂