Yeahhhhh nope..If you see my reviews you will see I have been searching for a steady nail salon for over 2 years now since I moved to this awful neighborhood im in. I only decided to go back to Nina Nails for 2 reasons 1) im going on a short business trip and was racking my brain trying to find a new place to try, it was starting to become overwhelming and 2) the main reason is because my feet are tender right now from overzealousness with the microplane on my part and as you see in my last review they did not even pumice my feet last time so I thought ok cool my tender feet will be fine.
First of all, last time I went here was the winter so I didnt notice, its summer now and boy did I notice. THEY HAVE NO AIR CONDITIONING !! They have one large fan they have at the door pointing outwards to try and blow the hot air out. Does not work. I would never come here in the summer. I was seen pretty quickly. I always get basic pedicures everywhere bc I just dont see a need to pay extra money to jiggle in a chair.
My problems didnt start until it was time for the polish. This is important BEFORE , BEFORE , BEFORE she started doing anything on my feet, she asked which color as she saw the three sitting there. I said all three, she giggled and said ok. She said nothing about an extra charge at that time. When it came time to polish she asked me how I wanted it and I told her. She then hits me with $3 extra for 3 colors. I say when did that start because I have gotten this here before. She just says yeah $3 extra for 3 colors. I say im not getting a design just color, she repeats herself. I tell her fine just dont color the one toe. Im thinking I have yellow at home Ill do it myself.
For just a little backstory im not one of those nail design, charms etc, I keep it simple-ish by just choosing color. I have been getting this same style, just choosing different toes and numbers of toes for the color for 10 years now at shops from Mid CIty to El Segundo and have never been charged for the number of nail polishes chosen. Most often I just choose 2, occasionally Ill choose 3 it will be as in the pictures. She really tried to charge me $3 for that ONE TOE. I could get a whole bottle or 3 of cheap nail polish. She starts to paint them wrong leaving more toes not orange than requested, I told her again how I wanted it and to leave the toe she was going to charge me for off.
Idk if she realized how stupid this was or what but she made a shh shh gesture and then painted the one toe yellow and did not charge me, but I was already in a foul mood by then. She also only used one coat of polish, never had that happen for a pedicure either. This time the lady did use a pumice stone, so much for my whole reason for coming here. My final complaint is she used too much toilet paper to make the between toe things and used a fan to dry my toes, so it wasnt until I got up to leave that I saw the toilet tissue had been blowing into my pinky toe the whole time ruining that polish. I painted it over myself as again I was in a bad mood by then and just wanted to leave thats why its running and looks a mess. Sorry so long so lets recap why I cant recommend this place
1) No air conditioning - hot as heII
2) Sometimes they pumice, sometimes they don't, too inconsistent
3) New $3 charge for 3 nail polish colors w/no design, even for 1 toe
4) Only uses one coat of nail polish
5) Bonus Complaint: Parking is terrible in this lot. There is a popular restaurant in the same lot and because the spaces are so small there were no less than 4 I saw today of people using more than one car space read more