Two Utah firefighters found an unexpectedly colourful way to comfort a terrified two-year-old girl following a car crash — and ended up leaving the scene with freshly painted nails.

Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!

Chief Allen Hadley and Capt. Kevin Lloyd of the North Davis Fire District were responding to an accident when they noticed young Braelyn struggling with what had just happened, per PEOPLE.

Nobody was seriously injured in the Saturday crash, but the experience had understandably frightened the little girl.

Braelyn was uninjured, but was described as “very scared” following the collision and was screaming and crying while her mother, Jocelyn Fernelius, was being evaluated by medics.

That was when Hadley and Lloyd spotted something in the youngster’s hand: nail polish.

Rather than simply attempting to distract Braelyn with conversation, the firefighters got talking to her about the polish and then gave her something else to focus on entirely.

Their fingernails.

The North Davis Fire District later highlighted the touching interaction on Facebook, writing: “This is how amazing our firefighters are.”

Braelyn was given the opportunity to give both firefighters a manicure, and the distraction appeared to have an almost immediate effect.

“Within minutes, the child was calmly painting their nails and had forgotten about the accident she had just experienced,” the department wrote. “Great job Chief Hadley and Captain Lloyd for providing awesome customer service to one of our young citizens.”

The resulting manicures certainly weren’t subtle, either.

Hadley and Lloyd had their nails covered in pink and purple polish before proudly posing for a photograph showing off Braelyn’s work.

For a little girl who had been screaming and crying following a frightening experience only minutes earlier, it proved to be exactly the distraction she needed.

And according to her mother, Braelyn didn’t particularly want her new friends to leave once their manicure session was over.

Fernelius thanked the two firefighters in the comments section of the department’s Facebook post, explaining that their gesture had “made her day.”

“She got upset when they told her that they had to go back to work,” Fernelius wrote. “I told her that she can see them again.”

It turns out the firefighters had also provided Braelyn with a first.

Fernelius said her daughter had never previously painted somebody else’s nails and was “in heaven” after being given the chance to pamper Hadley and Lloyd.

The crash itself had been a frightening ordeal for the family.

Fernelius, who is pregnant, said she and Braelyn had been travelling along Route 193 in Davis County when their vehicle was rear-ended.

Despite the understandable distress immediately following the collision, Fernelius later revealed that her daughter had quickly returned to being herself.

“It was really scary,” she wrote, “[but] she was her normal, happy self today. Laughing and playing like usual.”

What could have remained an entirely upsetting memory for the two-year-old instead included a moment of kindness from two firefighters willing to sit down and become temporary customers at an impromptu nail salon.

There was no complicated plan behind it.

Hadley and Lloyd noticed what Braelyn was interested in, gave her something positive to concentrate on and allowed the youngster to turn their fingernails pink and purple in the process.

For Fernelius, the gesture represented something bigger than the manicure itself.

“It’s nice that we can have a story that shows people still care about each other, in a world where a lot of people feel like they don’t anymore,” she said.

Featured image credit: North Davis Fire District/Facebook