If I had to sum up my manicure in one word, it would be HARSH.
I came in with gel and they used an old school bowl full of remover to soak it off, and it took a lots of soaking. As my hand would sit in the bowl, they had it covered with a dry washcloth. The manicurist were alternate between soaking up and scraping off the polish. As my hand sat in the bowl, the washcloth ended up getting soaked and they just covered my hand again and again with the wet washcloth.
I told the technician ahead of time that my nails were very thin and she nodded as if she understood. As she removed the polish, she wore through a couple of my nails, where one tore at my fingertip. Course files were used the entire time, and the area around my nails, ended up being raw. There was no consistency in shaping the nails,
I actually left worse off than when I came in. Polish was applied on thinly and unevenly, and required lots of cleanup along the way. Even with the cleanup, I still left with polish around my nails. There was one UV light on the shallow and cramped station, and as one hand would cure should be polishing the second hand on top of the UV light. The manicure seemed to take a long time and I could feel the tension in my back from the way I was sitting. The seat sloped downward and you had to adjust yourself to be sitting straight, coupled with my armed constantly being raised due to the height of the UV light. I left here knowing I had to fix the shape and remove the excess polish once I got home. Avoid this place. read more