I got my nails filled in and a pedi at Cincinnati Nails on 6/6/16. I have been going to them for YEARS and never venture anywhere else.
Over the weekend of July 1st, I was in Nashville, TN celebrating a friend who is about to get married. We had her bachelorette party there. Upon getting ready to go out on the town one night, I somehow snagged my index fingernail and it began to lift at the base. This can sometimes be painful, so I removed the fake nail so that I wouldn't keep snagging it on my purse, dress, etc. that night. When I removed that nail, I saw that my real nail was green with fungus. I was alarmed and disgusted. I have to take this point to mention that this same thing happened to me when I got my nails done at Cincinnati nails once. It was at least two years ago, though and I never had the issue again until now. That, plus the convenience of them being so close to my home is why I continued to go back. They aren't cheap, but I never had the fungus issue again after the first time two years ago. I had nothing with me to treat my nail while I was out of town. I vowed to deal with it when I got back to cincinnati.
On 7/6/16, while working, I snagged my thumb nail on my right hand and it began to lift from the base, just as my index nail did a few days before. Again, in order to keep from snagging it randomly throughout the rest of the day, I removed the fake nail and discovered more fungus on my thumb nail. I have pictures of my hands to show how my natural nails looked after the acrylic was removed. On 7/6/16, while working, I snagged my thumb nail on my right hand and it began to lift from the base, just as my index nail did a few days before. Again, in order to keep from snagging it randomly throughout the rest of the day, I removed the fake nail and discovered more fungus on my thumb nail. I have pictures of my hands to show how my natural nails looked after the acrylic was removed. After this discovery, my plan was to go to the shop and show them the fungus and ask if they would be willing to simply remove my other acrylic nails so that I could treat them properly for the fungus that they created.
After work on 7/6 (around 5:30 p.m.) I took my original receipt up to Cincinnati Nails. The receipt shows hat I paid $80.25 on 6-16. I first spoke with a younger looking Asian woman. I spoke quietly because I did not want to bring attention to myself or the situation. I explained that I had contracted a fungus from their instruments. I didn't ask for my money back. I simply asked them to remove the rest of the acrylic nails on my hands so I can treat the fungus that THEIR dirty instruments gave me. The first woman chose to, instead of continuing to engage me, answer the ringing business phone. While she was on the phone, she motioned for an Asian man (another employee of Cincinnati Nails) to come over to assist with my complaint. He spoke slightly better English and he's done my nails a few times, so I was almost happy to see him. Hoping he'd understand what I was requesting, I again explained that I had contracted a fungus from their instruments, I explained I did NOT want my money back, I simply wanted them to remove my remaining acrylic nails so that I could treat the fungus properly. He laughed and said they couldn't remove the nails for free. He said, in broken English, that it would cost $10 because it had been at least two weeks since the service. I explained to him that I felt removing the nails for free was the least they could do since they caused this problem. He maintained that he would not remove them for free. He also showed me a sign that discussed their policy. The sign stated that, if you don't like your nails, you will have to pay for them to be redone. It does not specify that they will not offer free nail removal upon contraction of a fungus.
After talking with him, I asked for a manager. By then, a slightly older Asian woman had come over (three employees were now at the front desk). I explained the same thing to her; that I contracted a fungus from their dirty instruments and that I just wanted my remaining nails removed. Her English was very bad, but she kept saying "we don't care"," "we no fix for you." and she even said at one point that even if I DID pay the $10, she wouldn't take the nails off. Now I am out almost $100, I have an ugly fungus on my nails and I can't take off the remaining acrylic nails to see if the fungus is on them too. I will NEVER go back there again. read more