I'll start off by saying that I'm not the kind of person who goes in for mani/pedis every week...for me they are a special occasion kind of thing that I do a couple of times a year, usually prior to vacations, weddings, things of that nature.
This was my first visit to New Vision. I went with two friends who had been there before, because it was in a convenient location. I was signed up for a deluxe gel manicure and a deluxe pedicure, because it had been a few months since my toes had seen the light of day and I didn't want to traumatize innocent bystanders by wearing sandals with them in that condition.
The first bad sign was that the girl working behind the counter completely ignored us when we walked in. We weren't even sure who we were supposed to talk to or check in with, because she was off doing her own thing, hanging out and chatting with some of the other employees. When we finally got her attention, she had us sign in and then walked off without even giving us information about where to pick our polishes. We had to get her attention again and ask, and she clearly still wasn't paying attention, because even though she had literally just checked the three of us in for gel manicures she directed us to the section of polish that was NOT gel, which meant we had to track her down AGAIN. By this point she was rolling her eyes and acting irritated at us, like we were being difficult.
The nail tech who took care of me was a bit better, although she also seemed distant and distracted and really wasn't paying attention to what she was doing to my nails. She kept turning around to watch TV. At one point she gouged out a huge chunk of my cuticle and it started bleeding profusely. And I get it, stuff like that happens sometimes, but it happened because she clearly wasn't watching what she was doing. And instead of apologizing she spent the next five minutes chastising me for having dry cuticles, like it was my fault somehow. And I'm not exaggerating when I say my cuticle was sore and scabbed over for almost a week after the manicure.
The absolute final straw was the fact that the gel manicure I got did not even last A WEEK before it started to peel off. Four days after the manicure, one of my nails had peeled off completely, and just about every other nail was peeling and chipping to some degree. Ironically, the regular polish on my toes stayed on longer than the gel nails.
For the amount of money I spent on the service, the results and the overall tone of the experience was completely unacceptable. I will not be returning. read more