A few things.. my usual spot was closed so I had to go to my "back up plan" salon, which is this one. Second, i normally don't have any complaints about this salon.
However, i felt like they were very rushed and messy today. And their AC seemed to not be working, which i think created a sort of panicked atmosphere. Staff were running all over the place. Sometimes getting to work on me then getting up immediately to help someone else with something.
I got a regular pedicure with gel, biogel manicure, and eyebrow waxing. Came to $100. I wasn't quoted for the manicure or waxing, but saw from the menu I was briefly handed that the pedicure was $25.
I got the pedicure and manicure at the same time, so unfortunately I didnt realize how messy the pedicure looked till the very end because i was focusing all my energy on trying to make sure i was following their instructions on how to position my feet or hands. I'm not good at relaxing so this takes a lot of concentration for me hahah.......
The manicure was okay, but it made me uncomfortable that she stood blocking the natural light coming in, and didnt use a lamp, so i wasnt sure how well she could see what she was doing. Looking at my nails after the fact, they werent really cleaned up. But, theyre good enough.
The eyebrow waxing seemed quite hasty and sloppy to me. They look somewhat uneven as well and I'll definitely have to clean them up myself. I've been getting my eyebrows waxed for some 17 years or so at various places, and every place i've gone, they always clean up with tweezers after they wax. This lady didnt do that. She trimmed a bit, then did the wax, then slapped that lotion stuff on there and lowkey got some in my eye. Then she didnt even clean it off (there was so much like just dripping on my face!), and then she bade me goodbye and turned off the light before i even got off the bed.
The pedicure though is what really irritated me. The woman doing the pedicure seemed distracted the entire time. She kept watching what the manicurist was doing instead of looking down at what she was doing with my feet. And she didn't do any clean up when clearly there was clean up necessary. And to me, it looks like the color on my left foot is lighter than the right foot. And she put cuticle oil on every toe except my right big one ?? Listen, i understand my toe nails are difficult. I tell everyone to do their best. But normally, people do an excellent job despite the challenges my toenails present. I didn't feel she tried to do her best with me today. She didn't even paint the full nail on three of the toes on my left foot! EDIT: after further inspection, it seems she left six toes half painted, and for the two big toes she painted over my nail onto my skin and left it there. And all of them could definitely use another coat or two. Ps when did nail techs stop asking clients how many coats they want?
Also a small detail that rubbed me the wrong way, when I was handed the nail splotches to choose a color, they only handed me one binder and one nail ring, when there were so many other binders and rings just sitting there in the cart they keep the splotches in. I could have asked to see the others, sure, but everyone was running around tending to other things, and it resulted in me not getting the colors I actually wanted (close, but not quite) read more