Girl I met at Yelp party who complimented my nails: "But I can never get my nails done, because I'm a checker, so there's no point."Me: No, that's what I said too! I'm a waitress so there's basically ... Read More
Girl I met at Yelp party who complimented my nails: "But I can never get my nails done, because I'm a checker, so there's no point."Me: No, that's what I said too! I'm a waitress so there's basically no point to doing my nails at all. I hadn't had them done for over ten years. But then I noticed that one of my coworkers had the most perfect nails I had ever seen, so I was like, "Where did you get your nails done?" "Pacific Nails in Rocklin.""Don't you feel like they come off fast when you're bussing tables?""No, actually, I've had these on for three weeks already.""No way.""Yes. Way."I suddenly oddly feel like I'm writing a commercial for Pacific Nails or something.Well, my very first experience here was actually horrible, but I gave them a chance to fix it, and they did. I had my nails done by a man who sat on the end near the window, and all I can say is he did the worst job ever. I waited a whole week before finally coming back in to ask them to fix them just because I was short on time that week.Specifically, I felt that my nails looked very poofy and fake, almost every single one was crooked, and they were not filled to anywhere near the cuticle, so how are they supposed to look good for long? When you're paying this much for nails, they should definitely last as long as possible. I actually brought these things up at the time he was doing my nails, but he kept saying, "No, I don't want to grind more, hurt you." That didn't even make sense because he was hurting me so much anyways. He got a pretty decent amount of blood out of me. It was just horrible. It would have been a one-star rating. In the end, since I had to have them redone so fast, I ended up getting ground way, way more. Ouch. I could feel the acid burn from the primer for a whole day. My coworker had told me to ask for Laura this time. Laura told me to have a seat, and he'll be right over to fix my nails. I didn't want to be rude, but I had to ask if I could have someone else do them instead, because I didn't like his work at all. So she ended up fixing them for me, and she seemed kind of irritated, but I would probably be irritated too if I had to fix work that my coworker got paid for, and I'm guessing this wasn't the first time this has happened. After she fixed my nails, they looked a hundred times better. Several of my coworkers even noticed how much better they looked from one day to the next. I had them on for seven weeks before getting them filled.When I came to get them filled, I called ahead to ask for Laura. This time she was in a happy mood and was super friendly. She was totally cool with the fact that I basically made up my own design. She laughed and said, "It's a new design." I feel like she tried hard not to hurt me-- as opposed to the man, who had hurt literally every single one of my nails. So what I'm saying is that I'm recommending Laura specifically more than I'm recommending this whole establishment. Laura was so proud of her work that she asked to take a picture of my nails. It always feels like a compliment and an honor to be part of someone's portfolio, so I was totally down. Also, the work was totally worthy of a photo. She got the fill all the way up to my cuticles, and left some of the glitter from the last job showing under part of it so it was like they faded from pink to glitter to pink sequins. Then she took the time to put an upside-down silver sequin on every single nail. What I love so much about her work is that she gets the nails so close to the shape of your natural nail that they kind of look real, and that also makes them adhere better and stay on for so much longer. Read Less