I visited this salon on, 5/9/23 and I will never return. Please see reasons below:
This was my first time visiting this salon. LV is the man's name who did my pedicure. I asked for the pearl pedicure. I even pointed to it on the menu of services. He returned with charcoal and aloe vera products. I thought perhaps that he had misunderstood what I'd asked for. When I went to clarify, Vivian spoke for him and told me that the pearl pedicure products had been put in the charcoal and aloe vera product boxes. This was untrue. The black powder that was poured into the pedicure bowl and the green gel that was applied to my feet were definitely charcoal and aloe vera. If there were no pearl pedicure products available, they could have just said so.
LV also did a poor job with my pedicure. The polish job is uneven, the leg/foot massage was terrible and quite possibly the worst I've ever experience at any nail salon. No technique whatsoever, just a bunch of unspecific squeezing and rubbing. He kept asking me if the massage felt good. Not only did it NOT feel good, but to keep asking me this was very creepy. He also cut my toe. He claims that he was trying to remove an ingrown toenail. I have no idea why he would do this, as my toenails do not grow ingrown and never have in my 40 years of living.
As for the ambiance, I would compare this nail salon as having the same ambiance as a storage shed or tire shop. It looked like they had just moved in or were about to move out, so, I asked Vivian, they have apparently been in that space since 2019. Which in my opinion is entirely too long for the place to look the way it did. The paint is cracking, the doors are off-centered, the baseboards are not attached and are just lying on the floor in a stack. Boxes of soda and cases of water were stacked along the walls. Despite beverages obviously being plentiful, I was not offered anything to drink. There was also a full-sized refrigerator right next to the pedicure chair I was sitting in. By the way, the pedicure chairs are horrible and don't massage well at all.
About my hands, I got dip powder polish on my natural nails. I had to ask Vivian to change the tip on her drill, the one she was initially using had "teeth" larger than I've ever seen used for removing dip powder from natural nails and was not the drill tip that is normally used for removing my polish. I could feel the heat radiating through my nail beds. She talked on the phone the ENTIRE time she was doing my nails; I consider this to be extremely unprofessional. On a scale of 1 to 5, I give this shop a 1. The experience was horrifying, and I will not be returning. Spare yourself the discomfort and go elsewhere. LV asked me to review the shop online. Well, here it is. read more