About

Simply Nailogical is the online handle of Cristine Raquel Rotenberg, a Canadian vlogger who has gained millions of subscribers on YouTube with nail art tutorial videos.

History

Rotenberg was born in Ontario, Canada on October 17th, 1988.^[1] In 2014, she received a masters degree in sociology with a focus on criminology from Carleton University, and is a full time crime and health statistics analyst. On February 3rd, 2014, she started her Simply Nailogical blog, where she discussed and posted pictures of her nail art.^[2] On June 17th of the same year, she posted her first video to her channel of the same name, showing off nail designs (shown below).

Her earliest video to crack one million views was a Shit People Say sketch about nail artists posted December 11th, 2014 (shown below, left). On July 2nd, 2015, she revealed her face in a tutorial on LGBT pride nail designs (shown below, right).

As of October 5th, 2018, her most popular videos feature her adding dozens of layers of nail polish to her nails, dubbed "#POLISHMOUNTAIN." On July 13th, 2016, she posted a video where she applied 134 layers of nail polish, gaining over 23 million views (shown below, left). A month prior, she performed the same challenge, applying 116 layers of polish, also gaining over 23 million views (shown below, right). Her videos inspired an internet challenge that copied by other YouTubers, and led to coverage from The Daily Dot.^[3]

The channel doubled in subscribers after the success of the #POLISHMOUNTAIN videos. In August of that year, Rotenberg started another channel, Simply Not Logical, which focused on content outside of nails (first video shown below).

Online Presence

Rotenberg coined the phrase "holosexual" to describe her passion for all things holographic. Her fans have adopted this term for themselves. Her two channels, Simply Nailogical and Simply Not Logical, have over 6 million and 2.2 million subscribers, respectively. She also has over 415,000 Twitter followers.^[4]

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