I've given this nail salon two tries, hoping perhaps to get better results the 2nd time -- NOPE.
The first time I gave them a try I was passed from person to person like an assembly line - and the end result, while the painted design on the nail was pretty - the nails themselves were WAY TOO THICK and so obviously fake looking, I was disappointed.
The 2nd time (today) I had one technician for the entire session. She is the one who has put me off ever using this place again. The list of things that I am unhappy with are:
#1. I specifically asked her to NOT make the tips of the nails so thick, and to 'slightly' round them so they weren't so square. They are so thick and oddly shaped, and she managed to make a groove (like an indentation) around the nail bed so it looks like I have really ugly THICK things glued to my fingers. The sides are way too wide, when I put my fingers together the sides of these big ugly things press into each other. These look so very obviously fake that I'm embarrassed to show them to anyone.
#2. While "shaping" the sides of the nails with her giant emery board, she managed to cut 2 of my fingers on the side just under the nail bed! When I complained she grabbed a bottle of some liquid and applied it to the 2 cuts saying this will disinfect it - OW!! This stuff burned like crazy! And she didn't give me the opportunity to even see what it was she was putting on my fingers before she applied it. She did take $5 off my bill for cutting me, but still.... VERY unprofessional!
#3. I asked for regular nail lacquer to be applied so that I could remove it myself later (I didn't want gel polish). Her reply to me was, "What is lacquer?" (Um, it's like printed on the bottle of polish...). Then, her application of it was worse than what I could do myself at home. A very shoddy job.
So now, I'm going to have to wait for the 2 cuts she gave me to heal, then go pay a better salon to remove these monstrosities, and hopefully do a professional job.
All in all my advice is to avoid this place - unless you don't mind sophomoric, shoddy work, and possible injury. read more