First visit and last! I arrived at my appointment at 2PM, sat down with a nail tech and told her that I had been growing out my natural nails under acrylics for the past few months to get some length and wanted to have the acrylics removed so that I could get a gel manicure on my own nails.
She begins sanding the color off, which I thought was rather odd, since she was going to remove them anyway. She then sands the edge of my pinky and asks me if that length was okay. (Now I think it's safe to say that most of us are used to the slight language barrier that sometimes exists in the nail industry.) So I explained to her again that I wanted the acrylics removed, because my natural nails had some length now and I wanted a gel manicure on them. So she smiled and said something but I could not understand one thing she was saying. So I looked over at the lady at the register (Kathy) hoping she'd notice my confusion and she begins speaking with the nail tech in their native tongue. So Kathy tells me that it will cost $10.00 more to soak the acrylics off and I said that's fine. So my nail tech says something unintelligible to me and proceeds to take nail clippers and cuts down the acrylics to my finger tips! Three months of growth gone in 10 seconds! Shocked, I said to her, "you just removed all of my length!" Again, she just smiled and nodded and then proceeded to remove the acrylics by sliding the edge of another acrylic nail underneath mine. I asked her why she isn't soaking them off instead, and once again, something unintelligible was said. At this point I realized she did not understand my language either and I didn't know what to do. I was sitting there with my short nails and a person who had no idea what I wanted done. It took her an hour to remove the acrylics with lifting, scraping and clipping and it was not a pleasant feeling to say the least. In fact, while trying to remove one in particular, she ended up cutting into my own natural nail leaving a gaping hole! I asked her how she was going to fix it and she called Kathy over again. (She understood me that time.) Kathy told me she will put a "patch" on it. That didn't make me feel any better. I swear I was in shock at this point. She goes on to tell me my nails were very weak and she recommends that I don't get a Gel manicure, but regular polish instead. I thought to myself, no kidding after all they've just been through! So I asked her if she could apply a nail strengthener over my nails before she polishes them and she said yes. She then tells me the cost is $35.00. (I have no words.) She walks me over to pick a color and shows me the better polish for $5.00 more, which she already decided to charged me for. I reminded her about putting the nail strengthener on first and she says I don't need it now. (WTH?)
Kathy comes over to me and gives me a $10.00 off coupon for my next gel manicure visit. (lol, as if!) Call me crazy, but I did give her a 10% tip for her time and she didn't even thank me. I got out of there at 3:45PM. Once I got home I noticed she had taken a chuck out of my pointer finger nail as well. Never again. read more