No, no, just no.
It's been very difficult for me to find a decent nail salon, that's clean, has good service, friendly staff and is in my price range. This place is another one of the many FLOPS I've experienced on my journey to find that ONE nail salon that becomes your go-to place.
I had found one place that I absolutely loved, but it was about 30 minutes away and was much pricier. However, they do say, you get what you pay for. My mom didn't want to go to the other place further away and was like, "Let's go here, it has good reviews."
I always see this place when I drive to work, but it never intrigued me enough for me to want to try it out. I looked up a few reviews before we headed over and noticed the common theme: "This place USED to be great but..." That's a red flag, folks.
Anyway, my mother and I entered this facility early Saturday morning, 10:30ish AM. The place was packed and there were four people waiting to be seen. We were told to wait for a few minutes and we did just so. Then, after five minutes I was directed to station 6 to be seen. I was told by, I believe the manager that he'd get me the color choices for my dip powder. He brought a bowl of acetone and told me to soak my nails in it to remove the previous dipping powder.
After about 20 minutes of sitting there with my hands uncomfortably soaking in the acetone, I was giving this raggedy/ratchet jagged poster board with the demo nails and color samples. Let's just say, the number of color options they had were limited and most of them were UGLY!
My mom, in the meantime, was sat over in one of the pedicure chairs and sat there for about 10 minutes before finally getting water in her pedicure bath. She had an older gentleman who I could see was not being very gentle with her. She later told me, he was taking the cuticle cutter and jabbing it into one of her big toes that seems to be sensitive.
All I heard was, "Ow, ow, ow!" from her direction. My mother told me he didn't seem to care and continue to dig away at her toe, despite her pleas that she was in discomfort.
At any rate, by the time my mom's pedicure was done, they still hadn't even gotten my stupid previous dip powder off my fingernails. Talk about poor timing! Eventually, a nail tech came over and worked on my hands. I believe his name was Tommy.
Now, I wasn't a big fan of Tommy. He appeared nice but I thought he was kind of passive aggressive and also a sarcastic..ahem. Anyway, he made me bleed on my left thumb and he took a LONG time to complete the manicure. When I saw the end results I was satisfied with the color and shape, but the whole process leading up to it was enough to not have me coming back.
The store was dirty, they didn't have clean towels, and the table surface was filthy. The tools they used I don't believe are sterilized properly, and the employees are just straight up unfriendly and unwelcoming. I won't be returning. read more