A YouTube star famed for her nail art tutorials and viral beauty videos has shared her love of the artistic outlet with a rather unlikely budding manicurist: her father.
Cristine Rotenberg, 29, from Richmond Hill, Canada, who is known as Simply Nailogical on YoUTube, put her dad’s skills to the test in a hilarious new video which sees him attempting – and failing rather spectacularly – to do some intricate nail art on her long talons.
Sitting down together in their living room, the hilarious video sees Cristine’s dad, introduced as ‘the holofather’, attempt an unusual mani, complete with nail art, despite never painting someone’s nails before.
Beauty fail: YouTube star Simply Nailogical has filmed her dad attempting intricate nail art and the result is hilariously bad
Rough around the edges: Despite introducing her dad as ‘the holofather’, the vlogger’s dad’s efforts aren’t the best
Expert: Christine Rotenberg who blogs under the name Simply Nailogical explained to viewers that her dad paints cars for a living so would be able to paint her nails
Posted under the title, ‘My Dad Paints My Nails (he doesn’t know what YouTube is)’, the video first sees Cristine ask her dad if he understands her slang words, and the unlikely duo laugh and joke as she lists a series of phrases.
When she tells him he’s the ‘OG holosexual’, explaining this means the original holosexual, he responds with, ‘I thought it was OMG, no?’
Rotenberg previously coined the term ‘holosexual’ to describe someone who is obsessed with holographic nail polish, and has since created her own line of polishes and merchandise.
Her dad then asks what YouTube is and Cristine starts off by giving her dad a brief synopsis, before sharing with viewers that he has never watched any of her videos, despite the fact she has over four million subscribers to her channel.
A former child actress, Cristine’s acting chops come in handy in places as she tries to pretend she’s inherited her nail art talent from her dad, but her father jokes that what she really gets from him is her humor and good looks.
As Cristine peels off her existing nail polish, she tells her dad this is known as ‘peel porn’ and also jokes that someone has uploaded a compilation of her removing her nail polish this way onto a porn website.
Instead of being horrified, her dad jokes that ‘a little nail porn never hurt’.
Cristine also tells her dad that because he worked in a body shop painting cars, she feels he has the skills necessary to paint her nails.
Quizzing him on the steps he uses to paint cars, she tells him to follow this formula, starting with a primer.
While he seems equipped to handle primer, calamity ensues when her dad starts reading the names of different polishes from Cristine’s own Holo range.
He then clumsily applies polish her nails in alternate shades of deep burgundy and bright red.
Shining star: Christine has over four million subscribers on YouTube and coined the phrase ‘holosexual’ to describe her love of holographic polish
Abstract: Christine’s dad attempted some nail art but couldn’t get the hang of it
Finished result: Despite adopting a messy approach, Cristine’s dad was happy with the final result, despite his clumsy first attempt
And things go from bad to worse when Mr. Rotenberg attempts intricate nail art using a stencil, gossiping to his daughter that he thinks the Kardashians have ‘no talent’.
Gaining confidence in his technique, Cristine’s dad then mixes things up, adding oversized dots and glitter stars to her nails, calling his creation ‘beautiful’ and explaining her nails ‘need a little more glamour’ as he applies even more polish.
When her mani has been completed, Cristine’s boyfriend, Ben, appears on camera to judge the finished result, and Cristine asks her viewers if her dad’s attempt is better than a manicure Ben did in a separate video.
However, her dad seems to think he’s the clear winner, telling viewers his nail art should be in the ‘nail museum of the world’.
Cristine then mocks her dad, playfully telling him in 200 years, people will be watching his work.
When asked how that makes him feel, he shrugs his shoulders and says ‘I’ll be dead’ before the pair erupt into giggles again.
He then says he might start his own YouTube channel giving ‘life advice’, and charge people $14.95 to watch it. However, Cristine has to explain that this is not how YouTube works.
The video concludes with a funny blooper reel of her dad trying and failing to complete the outro section where they thank people for watching.
Since being posted on YouTube two days ago, the video has been watched over one million times.