I went here yesterday with my mom, and during the appointment there were some hiccups, but it was the end result that made me write this review...
We decided to get a gel manicure and regular pedicure, and my mom wanted to wax her eyebrows. They asked us to choose a color for our toes. We looked through a few, and then one of the employees tried to make us sit down. I told her that I wasn't done choosing my color yet, but my mom was a little uncomfortable, so she just sat down with whatever she had in her had at the moment. All they had was a lot of "China Glaze" brand nail polish, and not really a good selection of colors, so it was hard to choose something I really liked. I looked for another minute, but the employee was standing next to me and watching me, which felt quite uncomfortable, so I just grabbed something I wasn't sure about as well and sat down.
While getting the pedicure, we had other employees starting our manicure. My mom and I tried to explain to the manicurist that we would like the pink tinted gel, instead of the clear gel that is typically used on nails, if they have some. The workers did not understand what we were talking about. I tried to explain it a different way, and she went and grabbed some acrylic nails, and pointed to the one that was pink and sparkly. She clearly didn't understand what I meant. I felt bad because it seemed like she was trying to understand me, but she didn't. "Oh well", I thought. "It won't make that much of a difference I suppose."
Then, we asked them NOT to file the old gel off of our nails. The nail salon we went to before this one was really great about letting the gel soak off and making sure that our actual nail remained healthy. Well, that was just not going to happen here. They looked at us as if we were crazy, insisting that they had to file off part of the nail. "Okay", I thought again, but more apprehensively. It's their line of work, not mine. They know what they have to do. We made it very clear, though, that we did not want our REAL nails filed on top...
Well of course, after they got the gel off, they filed our nails down. I tried to say something, but the person who was doing my fingers just told me no, it's okay. Well... it wasn't okay with me.
I also told her that one of my finger nails was crooked, and she said she would file it later. Well, later came, and she filed it for about two seconds. I tried to tell myself that maybe from her angle it looked straight, so maybe it's okay. Nope. Had to fix it when I got home.
After both my nails and my mom's nails were done, my mom went to get her eyebrows waxed. She came out with wax still on her face. She told me that the person who was waxing her told her to stop talking as well, and not in a kind way. I can understand that it would be difficult to wax someone who is talking, but can't you ask them kindly to stop?
All of this might have been okay to overlook, except one of my mom's nails was ALREADY damaged. I then looked at mine, and I ALREADY had a chip in mine as well, on the side of the nail. My mom told the worker, and she said that it was my mom's fault! She said my mom must have messed it up. I don't really see the point of arguing something like that with a customer. I didn't even want to bring up the issue on my nail. I figured that since it was the gel part and not the french tip, I could try to put a coat of clear nail polish on top of it when I got home and fix it up...
And now, here I am the next day. I just got out of the shower, looked at my thumb, and a big piece of the white part is chipped off. That really is the bottom line. If your GEL manicure cannot last a whole day (literally, it has not been 24 full hours yet) then I do not want to spend my money at your salon. The last nail salon I went to, the manicure lasted 3 weeks, no chips, no cracks, and no unpleasantness. Clearly, not all nail salons are equal.
Lastly, pedicure and gel manicure was something like $70 dollars before tip. Not worth that price for sure. read more