Had I wanted to pick my acrylic nails off, I could have done that at home and not paid someone to do it. I went in with Acrylic nails I had done while I was out of town. I wanted them to be shortened up because they were really long, wanted to leave the acrylic on to protect my nails while they grew, and change the gel polish. When I was "greeted" as I came in I should have taken the hint. The older lady who seemed like she ran the place, asked me what I wanted, and I told her, and she tried to talk me into a new acrylic set, I said no, and told her again what I wanted. She had my go to a younger lady at the end of the row of tables. She explained, or I think she did, I had no idea what they were saying, and we got started. The process was very different than I have ever experienced. She started with my left pinky, used the grinder to get most of the existing gel polish off, did the same to the rest of the nails, then put my hand in acetone, I figured to get the rest of the polish off she had not removed. THen she shortened my pinky, smoothed it out and I told her it was perfect! Then she proceeded to do the rest of my left hand, but instead of shortening them to where she did on the first nail, she went all the way down to my finger. I tried to explain, but she just kept going. I figured well, I did ask her to shorten them. Then the other lady came over and was like yelling at her, and they had some disagreement about how it was going. Then with the grindings all over the table, she lightly brushes off my left hand, and puts a base coat on the left hand. She was super lucky all the grindings and dust did not get in the base coat. Then started on grinding the right hand, she was doing all different shapes. No acetone this time. The nails on the left looked nothing like the right, and nothing looked like the first nail I told her was good. Then she puts basecoat on my right hand. After that, she hits my hands with alcohol? Takes out the gel polish I had chosen and starts to paint. It does not adhere, does something really weird, then she goes and gets the first lady and they have another big discussion. She takes a brush with acetone and goes over the color polish. THe first lady tells me to move down to the 1st table and she takes over. She tried to convince me to get more acrylic again. I said no, I guess since you filed them down shorter than my fingers, go ahead and just remove the acrylic. There was not much left. I say can you please soak it, she said no. I said Ok grind it, and she spouts off something, and starts grinding, then takes out this thing and starts to pick the acrylic off and I stop her. She puts my hands back i acetone, then files some more, and keeps going back to trying to pick them off. I give up arguing with her. Then what is left of my nail is so rough, she files the base to smooth it. When I left, my nails were ragged, not even filed to shape, and I really have no nail base left and they literally hurt! It was all I could do not to cry. You could not PAY ME TO EVER GO BACK TO THIS PLACE! I doubt their licenses are even real! read more