This place is seriously amazing! You often think of nail salons that aren't Gene Juarez, as dingy or under-the-radar for health codes - in fact, I once wrote a bad review for a nail salon in Kirkland and they began harassing me via Yelp! I have never gone out of my way to go to the same nail salon twice, because to me, they were all the same - okay, nothing impressive, not friendly unless you had cash and tipped well, and always talking to each other in some foreign language so you feel like you're imposing on their family, while their 7 year old is in the background screaming and their two year old is watching cartoons with the volume blaring and drawing on the walls. I've even had a manicurist tell me that I wasn't tan enough for the color I chose. Since when is this acceptable business practice? I've always wondered how these places stay open. It reminds me of Madame Rose from Nip/Tuck. (If you've seen the show, enough said).
Enough about the bad places, though!
Blue Ocean Nails is completely the opposite of my previous paragraph, if you bothered to read it. HA! I am so impressed and have stayed impressed even weeks later so as to get off my butt and write a review on Yelp about them! That is something that I do not do every day, I do it when I am extremely impressed or extremely, well, unimpressed. Blue Ocean always gets me in when I want, no question, they always answer their phones, they are one of the cleanest, best smelling nail salons, you aren't choking on the scent of acetone and wondering how recently the clippers they're using on you, were cleaned - they don't have hand written, discount signs all over the salon. Basically, you don't feel like a 12 year old picked up his markers and his Fisher Price cash register and decided to finger paint on the public's hands and feet.
I had a full set done two weeks ago at Blue Ocean, and she did it in 30 minutes! I don't know about you, but that's a record for me! I had white tips done (French Mani Style) and she even went the extra mile and painted, yes PAINTED, zebra stripes on my ring finger tip, because that's what I asked for, no extra charge! She did this in 15 seconds flat and it was IMMACULATE. Two days later, careless me broke one of my nails by slamming it in a drawer. Yes, ouch. But I called them and she told me that she would get me right away. I drove down and they stayed late, yes STAYED LATE, just for me to fix my broken nail....all the while, knowing that they were working late for free. Yes, you heard me, she did it for FREE! It was MY mistake! (Of course I tipped her)! And now I wish I had gotten her name because my mom and I are going back tonight for mani/pedis!
These people have incredible customer service and deserve the amazing reviews they are getting. Keep up the incredible work, Blue Ocean! And thank you for my beautiful nails.
See you tonight! :) read more