I came here with my sister while visiting the city to have a nice girls night out. I decided to get a basic manicure because I wanted something simple to give my nails a break from dip powder, shellac, and acrylics. My experience here was anything but relaxing.
The woman they asked to do my manicure clearly did not want to be working there anymore. She did not speak to me the entire time, except to say "you don't want shellac?", "okay, wash your hands", "square or round?" And "dry your hands here for 5 minutes". When I tried initiating conversation, she quickly shut it down, answering with as little as possible. "That's okay, conversation--while nice and welcoming--is not a necessary aspect of the manicure experience" I thought, and figured that maybe she would just really focus on my nails instead.
BUT NOPE. Each time she would paint a coat, she would sigh, raise her eyebrows and shrug her shoulders downward, look around the room, and tap her fingers on the table, like she totally did not want to be there. She would not even wait a minute between coats to start applying a new coat. The total time she spent on my hands must have been ~10 minutes--which is an extremely short amount of time for 4 coats of polish.
She guided me towards the nail drying table, told me to leave my hands there for 5 minutes, and the next thing I knew, she was out the door on her way home. When I finally got a chance to look at my nails, they were streaky from an uneven application of the polish and there was even a black fleck on one nail.
Super upset that my nail technician had already left without checking up on me, I told my sister that I would NOT be getting a pedicure there. Her nail technician seemed concerned and spoke to management to ask them to fix my nails. When the manager/owner came up to me, I told him how quickly she had rushed through the nail painting process. His response? "Well you got the EZ manicure. There aren't too many steps to it. It shouldn't take long." And when they got another nail technician to fix the nails that were improperly painted, she implied that it was my fault the nails were messed up, saying that I should have waited longer under the drying table (even though I waited longer than the instructed 5 minutes).
After my nails had been fixed, management never came back up to me to see that I was pleased with their service or if the problem had been fixed. I realized that throughout this entire time, they never offered me a water or beverage like they did for every single other customer. They didn't even ask for my phone number while I paid (as I had seen them do with every single customer that came up to the front counter) so that I could receive updates and rewards.
My takeaway? (And management, please correct me if I'm wrong here. I'd love an explanation for your differential treatment of customers). Because I had paid for a smaller service, I didn't get the benefit of receiving good--or even mediocre--customer service. In fact, it even seemed like I was punished for not choosing to upgrade to shellac. Instead I was left with an amateur, streaky manicure that chipped by later that night. I much rather would have painted my own nails at home, where at least I know I could wait adequate time between polish coats and have a glass of water offered to me. That would have definitely saved me the time and the headache caused by this terrible experience.
I will never come back here again. read more