***WARNING***: (OTHER THAN THIS REVIEW IS LONG BUT EXTREMELY WORTH IT TO READ) They lie about their prices especially if you view their prices online, they have cheap gel polish that starts to chip in literally 2-3 days, they lie about doing a full set of GEL fake nails by instead using the acrylic as if one may not notice the difference, they blame any problem with useless excuses, and are only nice to you at first and if you begin to ask for particular fixes they take offense and talk in a different language about you to other staff, even the head manager or owner of the store!
I booked an appointment over the phone for a gel fake nail full set, with gel polish. I went in a little earlier than my appointment time thinking I'd have to wait but they were not particularly busy at that moment so I was serviced right away. They were extremely friendly..... AT FIRST. I specifically asked for "coffin shaped" fake nails, which, I believe her name is "Lee" or "Van", did well. After applying the tips, I assumed she had "Gel Powder" rather than "Builder Gel" that looks like hair gel with a stronger viscosity.
Although I don't have my license to do nails, I taught myself by lots of study/trial and error, YouTube videos, and willing people for me to practice on. I bought between $600-$1,000 worth of nail equipment to do nails as a hobby for myself and others, and everything they utilize at nail shops to do fake nails/any nail service I have (except the amount of polish) but I do have an LED Nail and Harmony Gelish lamp that cures gel in 30-45 seconds (Gelish is Prof. brand of nail products), which they actually used for my nails that day. You may be asking yourself "Why would you go pay for nails if you can do them yourself?" With that, the answer is that its nice to have someone else to do my nails instead me doing my own all the time. You also might be asking yourself "Why is this such a long review?! Get to the point!!!" Ok I will..
The importance of this long-winded story is that although the nails turned out looking pretty good (8 out 10), minus my pickiness to the little imperfections, the Gel polish they use is horribly cheap because my polish began to peel and chip off by the 2nd or 3rd day of having them, and from there they began to continuously chip and peel more and more each day. I am not hard on my nails, especially when I have fake nails on so they seriously need to upgrade to a different brand polish. I've never had a gel manicure which chips and peels so quickly. After a week, I was fed up with they way they looked, because they seemed to "grow" faster than any fake gel manicure I have had making it look like I needed a full fill in within a weeks time. I used my excessive nail products to do a fill in myself and change the polish....as I took the polish off, quite easily, I discovered the reason why they were "growing" so fast: THEY USED ACRYLIC POWDER for my fake nails when I specifically asked for GEL POWDER or BUILDER GEL if they carried it. I have gel powder, builder gel, and acrylic powder to use on nails that I do, so I KNOW the difference. To kick it off, when I tediously explained over the phone what I wanted they said the service was going to be around $35, as well as in person, however they changed the price all of the sudden to $55-$60 because of the "design" on the tips of my nail which was the only part of polish I had on my whole fake nails (See pictures below of their work and my revised work). I only had $50 and they accepted that happily which made me pretty skeptical about what they actually did and how much my service really costed. I found out the hard way, and used my builder gel to do my nails for the fill in myself, which have not moved in the least bit in a weeks time.
DO NOT GO HERE IT WAS THE WORST EXPERIENCE AND NAIL JOB EVER DONE. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND GO ELSEWHERE THERE ARE WAY BETTER SHOPS REALLY CLOSE TO THIS SHOP. THEY ARE CHEAP, LYING, SCAMMERS!!
My nail job (2 Images: Sparkly silver w/ black tip swipe; CLICK ON ONE OF THE PICS TO SEE THE PIC OF MY NAILS AFTER 2 WEEKS; 2-week after pic shows my hand up against a white pole)
Nail & Co. Job (2 Images: Green tips) read more