A video of two friends hilariously navigating a broken sink has gone viral on TikTok.
The original video was posted by Nicole @nicole_doyon last week, gaining over 874,000 likes. Since then, she has posted two more extended clips of the mishap, giving commenters more opportunities to glimpse into her friendship with Caitlin.
The video begins by Nicole getting into her sink to apply her makeup. Caitlin follows suit, only for the sink to cave in and break.
The two laugh uncontrollably.
"Girlhood gone wrong," Nicole wrote over the first video.
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"No way, no way," Caitlin said in the extended video. "You barely touched it!" Nicole said.
After deliberation, Caitlin called her partner into the bathroom, and the two friends debated whether to tell him the truth.
"How do you think that happened?" Caitlin asked her partner.
"I think you probably leaned in there," he said.
In true TikTok fashion, commenters with expertise offered explanations.
"The sealant released. You can see the gap in-between the sink and the counter before she tried to sit in it. That was ready to go," @jaimeesjourn3y wrote.
Other commenters offered sympathy and their own wisdom from sink collapse mishaps.
"This happened when I tried the 'sitting in the kitchen sink with my glass of wine' trend. The reason was never spoken of and I just left it at that," @m1chelle.my.belle wrote.
"I did this in a hotel room bathroom once, I was mortified," @tasha_caroline_ said.
The girls rushed to provide explanation through uncontrollable laughter.
"Maybe the girl before--" Nicole began to say.
"Nicole, we've lived here for three years," Caitlin's partner replied.
The girls' misadventure echoes other TikTok trends about the relationship of girls to their "makeup sinks."
In 2023, a video went viral of a girl cleaning up her messy sink full of makeup. TikTok dubbed her "sink girl." This gained traction to the point where famous makeup artist James Charles stitched her video with his own cleanup of his makeup station.
Other videos on TikTok equate the sink with the "hot girl," pointing to the common habit of makeup-savvy girls sitting in their sinks to do their makeup.
Nicole and Caitlin proved themselves as torchbearers of this trend despite the odds. And, most importantly, they were happy with their look after completing their makeup routines. "The show must go on," Nicole captioned the extended video.
"All that really matters is you look great," Caitlin said, until they were faced with another dilemma.
"Okay," she said. "What are we wearing?"
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