I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a manicure. It's not something I do often, but when I do get them done, I like them done right. This time around I decided to treat my hands feet t... Read More
I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a manicure. It's not something I do often, but when I do get them done, I like them done right. This time around I decided to treat my hands feet to a little bit of pampering before my husband came home from Afghanistan. My first impression of Focus nail salon was that it was extremely crowded. The owner was very busy running around helping people. She was literally doing someone's nails, waxing someone's eyebrows, and running the cash register all at the same time. I waited about 15 minutes for a tech to become available, which wasn't too shabby. My pedicure was pretty decent. I asked the tech to do my toenails in a zebra stripe pattern and she did a pretty good job. The manicure is where everything just utterly flopped. The tech told me she "didn't have time" to do a full manicure, so I would have to settle for just a shape and paint. I was disappointed but really didn't want to go somewhere else because it was nearing 5pm and I had other errands.The way she shaped and painted my nails, it was quite obvious she was in a hurry. I was almost starting to feel bad, like I was making her late for something important. I felt like I was in the wrong for wanting a manicure at the wrong time. When I asked for a design on my ring fingernails she almost looked angry, like how dare I come to their business and try to pay to have my nails done. She gave me an extremely basic design consisting of 5 white dots and a black dot (her interpretation of a flower, I guess). I was getting just a basic french tips on my real fingernails...NOT hard or time consuming to do. Yet I walked out of the salon with the WORST french tips I've ever had. The nail polish she used was aweful. I could have done better with drug store polish, and it certainly didn't come close to the amazing Shellac that most other nail salons these days use. She didn't do enough layers, because it looked very thin and there were visible brush line. She actually broke the corner of one of my nails by filing them so negligently. By the end of the "manicure" I felt like total trash. I had crap polish, crap shaping, and it was obvious that the tech was SO disinterested in giving me a manicure that she didn't even care what it looked like. As I sat there with my nails under the fan my tech got up and immediatly rushed away....right over to the waiting feet of another customer (a woman who was obviously a "regular")She wasn't in a hurry at all. Basically, she didn't want to do my nails because I'm not a regular. It became painfully obvious to me, as my mani and pedi continued, that this is a nail salon that does not care about new business. They have their return customers, and they treat them like gold (which is good if you're a return customer I guess), but forget about being a walk-in. The owner is genuinely nice and seemed genuinely interested in keeping my business, but unfortunately the other nail tech's don't share that same desire as her, and would rather work on "their" customers only. Read Less