Ok. So my friend of many many years goes here, and my old hairstylist is right across the hall, so I decided to tag along with her and get a mani/pedi too. She goes and she gets just a regular manicure and pedicure and pays $40, which is ok I guess.
I sent her a picture of what I wanted to send to Kim, who is the K in K & M. I always go to Virginia Nails here and get my solar nail gels on. I was looking for a rainbow glitter nail. My friend sit my pic to her and she said she could do it. I sent the picture because this place is in the Salons on Alma and it's super small, just two pedicure chairs and a couple of tables. Nothing wrong with being small, but the suite was very dirty and cluttered and not at all inviting. Only one nail brush.
I got there and she doesn't even know what solar nails are. Ugh. She also doesn't get what rainbow means: she immediately shows me purple glitter. That's cool, but it's not very multicolored. She said it would be once we put it on. Wrong. First off, she put some weird color changing polish on underneath the purple powder. (Why did she make me soak off the previous light gel? I usually just get it sanded off and then a new color put on.) it went on dark purple and now it's light blue. There are gaps all over the powder that the blue comes through and just makes it look unfinished. Also she didn't have the UV gel topcoat (she was out) so she buffed them. The feel of the nails don't feel like a professional job; it feels bumpy and uneven. I wasn't going to complain though, since my friend loves her, but today I find that my nails are chipping. I've NEVER had that happen with solar nail gel. So I have no clue what the heck she used. I'm mad. The pedicure was fine. I could go anywhere and get what she did done for cheaper.
Another annoyance was that she told my friend she'd for us both in at the same time. Instead of getting my friend going with a soak in the pedicure tub or something, she did my entire pedicure and then my manicure AND then started my friend's. So she had to wait an hour and a half (she was SUPER slow) before even being touched. Then I had to wait the same amount. It was $60 for me. It took THREE HOURS.
I'll never go back. Kim was nice enough and I love supporting small businesses, but this was a joke. Back to my regular nail place I go. read more