I LOVED my experience here! Rose did my nails, she was so kind and the design I requested turned out so cute. They are friendly and well priced! They were busy but managed to get me and a friend in. :) read more

I love Amy Nails! They do the cutest nail art, are super affordable, and their acrylics and gel pedis last me weeks. Def recommend

Lovely French tip! Very friendly service. They were very busy and managed to fit us in.

The staff at Amy nails are lovely and always gwt my inspos right. love it! they are also very friendly and kind and the nail studio has a great vibe read more

First time going today, was a lovely experience Chichi did my nails and was super impressed with her work, everyone super lovely and had a nice conversation with her :) well priced too, thank you!! X read more

I went here a few months ago and got a really great gel manicure, so I went back to get a gel mani and regular pedi today. Mistake. The woman who did my manicure didn't even trim my cuticles or push them back before she started painting on the gel. She didn't soak my hands or anything. WTF? But the WORST part is, the woman doing my pedicure used a pedicure razor-- my mother told me (in the 1980s) to never let anyone in a salon use this instrument on my feet because there are nightmare cases if people getting seriously injured when used by the wrong person. In fact, it's illegal to use these in many of the states... I guess the UK hasn't caught up to that yet?? Anyway, the pedicure woman was a mess-- she stabbed me with the cuticle nippers and was shaking constantly. I honestly wondered if she was okay... like, I've only seen sick people and those on large doses of drugs shake so much. She was super aggressive during the whole thing, but worst of all-- she left a bunch of sliced up skin all over the bottom of my feet from the razor. One of these slices is bloody, so now I have a bad pedicure and probably hepatitis. Cool, Amy Nails. Cool. To top it off, they questioned my student ID when I asked for their student discount -- nobody ever questions my ID... mostly because it's a real student ID issued by Oxford university, and it looks exactly like me. Oh, and it's real. And it looks exactly like me. And it's real. Frankly, I wouldn't have paid at all if I'd seen the bottom of my feet before I got home. Furthermore, I don't see them sanitizing their instruments properly. That doesn't mean they don't, but it should really be clear that you're using sanitary practices up front. This place is a joke. Don't do it. read more

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Wow I was amazed at how exceptionally rude the staff is here! I did not have an appointment (now I'm incredibly glad I didn't) as soon as I walked I spoke to really pissed off employee. I asked if I could get a manicure and she said "for later??" When I asked if they had anything available now she walked away from me and said NO from the other end of the room (yes she walked away from me) and then yelled across the room "no make appointment for later!!!" The place wasn't that busy and it was so akward! There was no need for her to make a scene for just asking for a manicure! A simple sorry come back later us enough! The place wasn't even busy. read more

Worst experience of my life! Paid £33 for gel manicure and received acrylic (which are cheaper and harder to remove.) Argued with the nail technician for an hour and she called me a liar, wouldn't refund me or give me the manager's phone number. I contacted customer services to make an official complaint but without any results. Please don't go there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The person who wrote this is 100% right: ''When you ask for GEL nails and pay for GEL nails, NO powder shoud be used. Gel is gel. NOT powder. Amy nails have ripped people off for years doing acrylic nails with a gel top coat.'' The place should be SHUT DOWN... Also: Why aren't you given a receipt? This place is shady as hell... read more

I am so upset with my experience with this nail salon. They have stolen money from me. I purchased a Groupon for a shellac mini mani and pedi for 21 pounds. When I came into the salon the lady didn't bother getting up as she asked what I wanted. I told her I had a groupon for a mani and pedi. She told me to pick a color and have a seat. When she started my pedicure she asked if I wanted shellac and I said yes, as long as that's the one included in the groupon. She finished my nails and then when I showed her the groupon she told me she wouldn't accept it because the service I had gotten was different than the one offered on the groupon. She said I had gotten a full mani and pedi and the groupon only offered a mini mani and pedi...whatever that means. Okay, fair enough, but maybe you should let your customers know before you steal their money? I explicitly told her that I had the groupon before even sitting in her chair, and then again as she was asking if I wanted shellac, which she proceeded to argue with me about if that was true or not. I bought the groupon to save money and ended up spending way more money than I have accessible right now. She made me run to a cashpoint (as they don't take cards which is also very annoying) to get her an extra 30 pounds on top of the groupon that I already bought for 21 pounds. In the end I haven't saved any money at all. If I knew it was going to be that much I would've just bypassed the groupon and the shellac and just opted for a cheaper regular mani/pedi. During this exchange, the woman was incredibly rude to me, I mean literally yelling at me in the middle of the store. Seriously, don't go here. If them stealing money and being exceptionally rude isn't enough to keep you away, the fact that it seemed very unhygienic and uncomfortable should be. It was not a soothing spa experience, it's a small trashy salon and even the water during my pedicure was ice cold. I really feel like I've been robbed and want my 51 pounds back. read more

Really great spot for a gel manicure. I walked in on New Year's Eve without an appointment and was able to sit right away. The man who did my manicure was polite and friendly. The mani has been lasting without chips and looks great. Priced fairly and there's a student discount! read more

Avoid!!! Had a really bad experience here. On your first visit they are nice, promising you can come back if your nails chip or if you need an extra coat. If you do so, be prepared for seriously rude reactions: 'I think you have picked them deliberately and have now come back'. Honestly shocked by their rudeness, even in front of other loyal customers. I left feeling upset, lied to, and disappointed with the results. Go to American Nails Oxford Nails or anywhere else!!! read more

TL;DR: The service was terrible, the staff are rude, the place is unhygienic and I left with damaged, painful hands and a badly done mani. When I came in early in the day to make an appointment for later, the lady seemed pleasant enough, if very unsmiling. When I came back for the appointment, things got worse. The staff were all on the opposite end of the studio eating their lunch, and when I came in they looked up and stared at me, waiting for me to say something. I explained what I wanted (simple manicure), and one of the ladies told me to take a seat. What followed was one of the worst experiences of my life. There were several major things wrong: the lady was doing things that any nail novice knows are bad ideas (sawing back and forth with a cheap file so that several of my fairly strong nails splintered, cutting so deeply into the skin that it is still painful several days later), and in a very unhygienic way - after using her tools, she tossed them back into the drawer, so they had evidently not been cleaned or disinfected since the last use, including the cutting instruments. At one point, she dropped an instrument on the floor and wordlessly gestured for me to pick it up again, and then continued to use it. When I asked (politely) that she not cut my cuticles, she was affronted and suggested I didn't know how a manicure works. Partway through, she asked me to wash my hands. I looked around for some sort of basin, and she gestured (again, wordlessly) towards their sink - grimy, cold water only and surrounded by the remnants of their half-eaten lunches. When she asked me which colour I wanted, I said that a lilac would be nice. She told me, irritated, that I needed to pick a specific bottle from the shelves behind her. I pointed one of the less grimy and separating bottles out, and she said 'Get it then.' As it was within her reach but required walking around the table for me, I don't think that this was necessary. Throughout the entire 'manicure', I don't think she said more than ten words to me. I assumed at first that English wasn't her first language and that it would therefore be rude to get annoyed, but when near the end another client came in and pointed out that some acrylic nails done the day before had already disintegrated, she unleashed a verbal lashing about how the client probably hadn't looked after them well in perfect, first-language English. Furthermore, she kept pausing in what she was doing to check her phone. All of this would not massively bother me if, for the fairly cheap price, the job had been good. But her constant wetting and air-drying of my hands left them chapped and dried taut (I was not offered any form of moisturizer), the skin where she cut it around the nail is reddened and slightly inflamed days later, and the polish is badly applied, with scruffy lines and haphazard layers. I don't mind when staff are not especially enthused - if you're having a bad day, then so be it. I don't expect smiles and cheerful chat. But I do expect basic politeness, some hygiene and, at the end of the day, a good job. I got none of that. Also, the gushing reviews on their website have the same grammatical errors in each one. Make of that what you will. This is a terrible, terrible business and I would strongly advise against going. Luckily, there are students about who will do a much better job for a fiver - I will stick with them from now on. read more