I happened to be near James Fowler High school a couple of weeks ago, with the flood in Calgary and transit service being at less than optimal on a good day, a friend needed their kid dropped off for a final exam. Its been ages since I have been in that neck of the woods and came across this little nail salon in the strip mall across the street. Not wanting to drive back and forth to pick up my family friend I decided to pop in and take a peek at what they offer.
Upon entering, I spoke to one of the ladies who I think was the manager, actually all of them seemed really nice, and they had a couple of regulars there when I was checking out their services.
The owner said that she could take me right away. I really didn't need a fill, but I said what the heck, since I was on the prowl for a new place, I figured I would give them a shot.
She set me up at a station and one of the ladies started her thing and almost immediately I noticed the dreaded application of such a minimal amount of product that it made my heart sink a little. I am really rough with my hands and my nails take a beating, this teensy tiny amount of acrylic wasn't going to cut it and I told her to please make them a bit thicker, she said ok and basically continued doing the same thing.
It got worse when I noticed she didn't bother to fix a side nick on my thumb and proceeded to vigorously file away at it in an attempt to make it look even...it ended up looking crooked as well as the tips, they were all shaped this peculiar angular-squarish-narrow shape that looked like it came out of the 80's. I went in with natural square shaped nails with smoothed corners, I came out with what looked like triangles with the tips cut off.
The paint job was below average too. Barely two coats slapped on super quick and she completely missed the edges on almost all my nails, needless to say, I was less than impressed.
Price was pretty cheap, at $20 for a fill, I would rather pay more elsewhere and get a decent job. Less than happy with this "fantasy" but still tipped her because everyone was very nice.
1 star for the price, and 1 star because they were really nice, but nice doesn't matter to me if your work is below average.
Won't be back. read more