I recently moved to Schaumburg and was looking for a new nail salon. I tried a few salons and wasn't impressed. This past Saturday I decided to try another one. I would give this place zero stars if possible. Horrible experience from start to finish. Against my better judgement, I ignored the reviews, which was my first mistake. I had made an appointment, to which I had showed up for. They were running about 10-15 minutes behind, but whatever. While I was waiting, I noticed that several people brought in their small children, and they had phones and tablets that were playing on full blast, and the kids were screaming. Management did nothing.
It was finally time for my manicure. They put me with this older woman who was very rude. I sat down and said hello, and she just ignored me. She then grabbed my hand rather hard, and proceeded to put acetone on the cotton, to remove my old polish. She slapped in on, and the cotton went all the way up to my knuckle. You can tell she was trying to move at lightning speed, and didn't care. She then proceeded to dig her nails into my hand, as all this was taking place. I asked her politely if she could please lighten up her touch, and that her nails were hurting me. She didn't even bat an eyelash.
Then while I was waiting to for the polish to soak off, there was another employee next to me, just sitting there, with her phone on speaker mode, which which was very loud and obnoxious. I asked her to please turn it down, and she gave me a dirty look.
Now it was time to take the acetone cotton off. The manicurist then asked me if what I wanted again, even thought I had told her twice that I was here for a dip manicure. She looked at me all confused and said "So you want a gel manicure"? I said "No, I want a dip manicure". By this time I had no confidence in this woman and spoke to the manager. I explained to him that I think there is some sort of language barrier, because she could not understand what I was asking for, plus she was incredibly rude. At this point in time, I asked to be put with another nail tech, as I didn't have any confidence that she knew what she was doing. I was told it would be twenty minutes. I said fine, and I sat and waited patiently. The atmosphere was like a ghetto laundromat. Kids screaming, parents ignoring their kids behavior, music blasting, two televisions going, and multiple customers on their cell phones on speaker mode. It was anything but relaxing. I told the manager that most salons do not allow this, as that is just basic salon etiquette. He didn't seem phased and just kept walking. Well...that twenty minutes came and went, and another twenty minutes went by. At this point my I had enough. I walked out of the salon with bare nails, and told the manager that this was absolutely ridiculous. Fortunately I was able to get an emergency appointment at my old salon that I used to go to in Arlington Heights. I will never go anywhere else again, as apparently Schaumburg doesn't seem to have quality nail salons, which is such a shame. DO NOT GO HERE UNLESS YOU WANT A CRAPPY MANICURE WHERE THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND ENGLISH AND HAVE YOUR TIME WASTED! read more