Read a few enticing reviews about this place and decided to try it out. Boy, was I wrong. I only came here to do eyelash extensions by Ping. She rents a room in back of the salon and prefers to do business by SMS. I made an appointment one week early and the day I arrived at the salon to find her, she wasn't there. I decided to call her and let her know that I was fifteen minutes early and will wait for her. She arrives half an hour after my appointment time and told me that she wasn't feeling well and had actually sent a text to cancel. After tracking the message through google voice, I found that she did indeed send me a text. Unfortunately, it was 45 minutes before my appointment time and I didn't catch it in time.
Upon entering her room, I found some strands of hair on the towels she told me to lay on which led me to believe that she didn't clean it after her last appointment. Totally gross! Anyways, I asked her to wash her hands before touches my eyes and she said she "just washed it." I arrived at the salon before her and saw that she touched plenty of other things after she started working on my eyelashes so she really should have washed them again if she really even washed them prior anyway. We proceeded to pick the types of lashes and I saw her do a bait and switch with them as well.
Ping is a fast applicator. I've had eyelash extensions put on before and it nearly took three hours. She finished everything in thirty minutes! She told me that I can "go now" since they are done. I told her that the glue is still wet; and I will not open my eyes until it stops burning. She then tells me to hold something near my face. Turns out it was a battery operated handheld fan. Since I couldn't open my eyes yet, I just so happened to have touched the propeller of the whirring fan! Thank goodness it was plastic blades but it was still scary enough. It is totally dangerous and unprofessional to be holding a fan so close to a face. It is just silly to do something like that to speed up the process. Ping also didn't clean up the black super glue off my face very well. If she was already working, she should do a good job for her business.
My bad for not thinking clearly and not leaving at the first sign of ghetto suspiciousness. Ping also kept asking me if I had any cash in my wallet. She already told me that paying by credit card this once is fine so I have no idea why she was inquiring if I had extra cash in my pocket. Eyelash extensions are expensive. Who carries that much cash on them? And umm why do you have a credit card machine for?! Oh but I forgot that I was in the San Gabriel Valley, the land where there are a ton of Asian who do not like anything other than cash currency.
The worst part of all of this is when I woke up the next day. My eyes were glued shut and I developed pink eye for the very first time. Ping used too much glue and put way too many lashes on my own lashes. Here's a picture of my lash glued onto three other lashes.
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Only one false lash is supposed to be put on one real lash. Dark, full and long lashes really complete a look, but it got so irritating that I wanted them off as soon as possible.
Sorry lady, earning a hundred dollar bill for half an hour of work has gotten to your head! Ping's awful job of hustling isn't going to fly by me ever again. I hope it won't for you either. Stay far away from getting your eyelash extensions done here or you will develop pink eye, milia and be lashless! read more