(Picture: Nail Sunny)

Listen, we like kooky beauty and fashion just as much as the next person but some things are just too unsettling.

When it comes to manicure art, we thought we’d seen it all from our favourite out-there salon Nail Sunny, but oh no, they had more in store.

Now, the Russian nail technicians have wowed (and disturbed) the world with their latest creation.

They have, somehow, trapped ants that move around in your nails.


That’s one way to get unique nails. *Shudders*

(Picture: Nail Sunny)

As with all their nail creations, the salon created a how-to video of the horror show.



In it, you can see long acrylics being applied to the fingers before another plastic layer is added at the bottom to create a vessel.

The technician then grabs an ant for each nail using tweezers as they try to escape.

(Picture: Nail Sunny)

After some difficulty trying to insert the bug into the small opening, it’s sealed shut with plastic, leaving the ants to circle around the small space.

‘Keep calm, we left them to breathe,’ ensured the salon after many followers expressed concern over the unusual treatment.

(Picture: Nail Sunny)

‘There is a difference between stepping on them unintentionally and shoving them in finger nails. It doesn’t even look cool,’ wrote one unimpressed Instagrammer.

‘Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. They were hideous anyway,’ wrote another.

Some defended the treatment saying people step on ants all the time without care or notice. Most disagreed between accidental stepping and deliberate torture for ‘art’.

‘When you go down the street you step on them without wanting to, without being conscious, however Nail Sunny (have done this) being conscious and although they released them later, they have taken them with tweezers which could have killed them and to put an ant or any other bug inside a nail is horrible.’

Another user agreed, saying: ‘I think that people are taking it too far but the idea itself was just bad and for a really bad reason (style). I don’t think anyone should use any actual living creatures for fun and laughs and definitely not for aesthetics.’

Nail Sunny subsequently released a video showing that the ants were freed. We’ve also asked them for a comment on this and will update the article if they reply.

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