00:02Hey guys, it's Mi-Anne and this is Beauty With Me.
00:05Quote,
00:05No matter how much money I make, no matter where I am in life,
00:10I will always do my nails like this.
00:14Cardi B.
00:15Cardi B's nails have pretty much taken on a personality of their own.
00:20They are featured in her music videos,
00:22she talks about them all over Instagram,
00:25and they are all made possible by her longtime friend
00:28and go-to nail technician Jennie Bui.
00:31So I decided to reach out to Jennie Bui to get my nails done
00:34and interview the queen of bling herself.
00:39Hi Jennie.
00:40Your space is exactly how I imagined it, lots of bling.
00:45You say you want to do like colorful nails.
00:47You know Cardi nail is long.
00:49You sure you can handle that?
00:52I think so.
00:53Okay.
00:54Do you think I can?
00:55Uh, try.
00:56Okay.
00:57Okay, I'm excited.
00:58Okay, let's go start.
00:59Step one, I cannot push your critical.
01:01You have had an incredible life story.
01:05How did you get here?
01:07Uh, when I get here, I go to cosmetology school.
01:11After I have my license,
01:13and then I go to every different nail salon to watch what they do.
01:19After I work in the salon for three months,
01:21I tell myself I cannot work for nobody.
01:23I have to open my own salon.
01:26And so, so Cardi found you on Instagram?
01:28Yes.
01:28And she come, she say,
01:29may I help you?
01:30Because we don't know who is she.
01:32Even first time she come, I don't know who is she.
01:35Luckily, someone canceled,
01:37so I put her in.
01:38And after I finish her nails,
01:41she say, oh my god Jennie, you make my day.
01:43She say, from now on, you my nail tech.
01:45Nobody else my nail tech.
01:48I can do extension.
01:50Queen of Bling.
01:51Where did that come from?
01:53Uh, the Queen of Bling,
01:54it come from my follower.
01:57You've clearly leaned in.
01:59Everything around your room is like full of Queen of Bling references.
02:03Yeah, I love Bling.
02:04In my life, I always dream about diamonds,
02:07but I don't have money to buy diamonds.
02:09I want to make people like the dream come true.
02:12Have a lot of people found you because of Cardi?
02:15Yeah, and every time they come,
02:17I want Cardi nail.
02:19I mean, she's so famous for her nails now.
02:22Yeah, that's why Cardi say,
02:23oh Jennie, sometimes I have to do simple
02:26because people follow my nail.
02:29You know, I don't want people, like,
02:31pay so much money.
02:33Some people, they don't have money.
02:34She always think about people just like me.
02:37When you sit on my chair,
02:39I ask you, what is your budget?
02:40I'm not gonna kill you.
02:42So how you feel now?
02:44I feel like I'm ready for it.
02:47All right.
02:48Yeah.
02:49What is your approach to doing her nails usually?
02:51Do you normally, she comes to you with an idea,
02:54or do you kind of do whatever you want on her nails?
02:58No, she never give me an idea about what she want.
03:01I just ask her, Cardi, what color you want today?
03:04And she just tell me the color and then the bling.
03:06Sometimes she say, oh Jennie, I don't want too much bling.
03:09So I create not too much.
03:12And sometimes you say, oh, today I feel like a lot of bling.
03:15So I can create a lot of bling.
03:17My favorite nail look is Met Gala and Grammy last year.
03:22Oh yeah, those are beautiful.
03:24Yeah, the Grammy last year is a lot of detail.
03:27Do you usually, when you're doing it for an award show,
03:29do you know what she's gonna wear?
03:30Sometimes I know, sometimes I don't.
03:33The Grammy, she say she wear three different outfits.
03:38Oh, so it has to match everything.
03:40Right.
03:40And then so we do neutral color.
03:43How have you and Cardi's nail tastes changed over the years?
03:47You know back then Cardi like big bling and ice cream, cupcake, 3D flower.
03:56And now she like elegant.
03:59It's changed to elegant.
04:01Do you think she's changed in the past?
04:03Like since she's become famous?
04:05No, she don't change.
04:06She still use the same team.
04:09You know, she is really, really nice, honest and loyal.
04:13I love her.
04:15I love her.
04:16I love her.
04:16And you know, Cardi is very easy person to work with.
04:20Yeah.
04:20She go to VH1 and she start her first music video.
04:24I tell her, Cardi, you're gonna bigger than Nicki Minaj.
04:29And she say, you think so?
04:31I don't think so.
04:32I say, yeah.
04:33And then when you're famous, you're gonna forget me.
04:36She say, never.
04:38And she hasn't yet.
04:39Never.
04:46So long.
04:48They're so long.
04:49They're like longer than the last time.
04:51And those were so long.
05:00How you like it?
05:01The color.
05:01I like the colors.
05:03I'm like really nervous about the length, but I think it'll be okay.
05:07Do next one.
05:14What?
05:18You're so pointy.
05:20You scared?
05:23No.
05:23No.
05:31Wow.
05:33That's that.
05:36It's so pretty.
05:38It's so pretty.
05:55how you like it i love it so crazy and blingy and long i'm afraid about like poking people
06:03but i think it's gonna be okay thank you so much you're welcome answering all of my invasive
06:08questions you're welcome it was so nice to talk to you and get to know you i'm not gonna lie
06:12these
06:13are the most inconvenient nails i've ever had they are not only pointy and painful but they are so long
06:21that you cannot do anything with them no matter how you feel about these nails obviously they're
06:30going to be very divisive what i think was really magical the way that jenny spoke about cardi was
06:37just so beautiful jenny's been working with cardi for six years cardi b has become this world-renowned
06:43like international rap star along the ride cardi b has also helped grow jenny's business these nails
06:49are not for everyone i think that much we know but they have become such a calling card for cardi
06:54and
06:55a way for her to express herself like lipstick like the way you do your eyeliner like having cool nails
07:01is an accessory that can make you feel good and having someone that understands you and can bring
07:08your vision to life is such an amazing thing yeah your nail lady don't love you like my nail lady
07:14love me
07:15she loves me she loves me yo my nail lady love me
