I'm writing this review only from my personal experience. I never write poor reviews, but here goes.
When we arrived, everything was like every other salon. Busy. Pick out your color and wait. They got me in a chair way more quickly than I expected. I wanted dip nails, which they assured me they were experts in. I pick out this light pink with a rose gold glitter ombre. She said, oh, 2 colors, that will be $50. I said okay. The young lady came back and said she had lost those colors, but had a jar of an almost identical color. I thought it looked a little melon, but figured she knew what she was talking about. I agreed to it. I told her I wanted tips, but very short, as I type for a living. Well, she files the tops of my nails (whatever happened to manicures where you soaked your hands and they cleaned your and rubbed your hands?) The whole time, she's talking to her coworkers in her Native language. Apparently, she is very funny... So, she starts fitting my nails for tips. Again, she's talking away in a language I could not understand. I even attempted several times to make conversation. Nope. But again, she had her co workers laughing up a storm.
Another customer started making a scene about not being taken care of. My stylist says, oh, let me go take care of her, I'll be right back. I'm like, okay. She has glued my tips on, won't hurt to wait a minute.
After an hour, I start looking around. Don't see her anywhere. After another 15 minutes, I see her doing a mom and daughter's nails. There is an old man with them, obviously treating them. The nail lady, at one point, looked me squarely in the eye, and never said an English word. So. There I sat. My friend, who had acrylics was LONG finished. Finally, after lots of oohing and ahhing, the young mom and daughter stood up to leave. Their bill was $160! So, there was the answer. She had literally left me sitting because she was going to make more money. Maybe no-one else sees that as bad as I do, but it pissed me off!
Okay, 2 hours later, this lady comes back. She does my nails, I'm attaching a photo AFTER I made some corrections. The one warning I've read about dip polish is that you should make sure your stylist uses individual pots, as some infections can be spread. Do you think she did? Nope! I didn't even think about it til later. So, remember that the 2 colors are $50. She only did 1 color. I asked how much, she responded $45. WHAT????
All I can say is, I went in for light pink dip nails. A quick trip for a friend's birthday. I am a great tipper. I'm not kidding. I tip my stylists 30-50%. I tipped her $5m, and still feel I overtipped!
I'm posting pictures, but I don't think you can see how lumpy they are. I've shortened them, and filed the tops of two of them because they had huge lumps. Here are. My light pink, very short nails: read more