Where do I begin. First, I tried booking online and it isn't their fault that their online scheduling is buggy. I booked a "luxury pedicure" and "high shine gel manicure" but the app didn't let me boo... Read More
Where do I begin. First, I tried booking online and it isn't their fault that their online scheduling is buggy. I booked a "luxury pedicure" and "high shine gel manicure" but the app didn't let me book things as a secondary service so I ended up booking both services at the same time.I get there, explain what happened, and she fixes it saying the same person will do my manicure after my pedicure. But then a different person ends up doing my manicure than my pedicure, which wouldn't be a huge deal except the following happened.First, during the pedicure, I asked if she could do nail art and she said no, that the person who's literally a couple of feet from us is the person that does the nail art. She asked if this was something I wanted and said yes. She just pouted and said "sorry." She left my feed with a green streak of nail polish on my upper foot, but whatever, not a big deal.Then another person ends up doing my nails...not the known "nail person" of the place. Not the one that can do nail art. When she first set to do my shellac, the polish shrunk more than normal? So she starts taking it off! She finally calls over this "nail person" and she comes over and says "do them one at a time". Like I put one finger in from one hand, then quickly switch to the other, and so forth.So this is what the person doing my nails ends up doing...meanwhile the "nail person" of the place doesn't stick around or bother to see if things ended up okay. She does say "Man, I am just so grumpy today. I am so ready to go home." Yeah, I feel bad for the girl sitting in your chair right now waiting on her processing to finish.So my nails went through one round of damage while she took the bad shellac off and the end result was a total disaster. "High shine"? It was a massively dull color, there was color over my cuticles, and when I dried she goes, "did you want extra lotion on your hands?" I nod, and she sloppily puts lotion on for all of 7 seconds on one hand, and barely any more on the other. At least the girl who did my feet had a pleasant personality. The girl that did my nails was very abrasive and for someone that kept telling me that she worked at "high end salons" had to know that the state of my nails was unacceptable.So afterward I walk around the store, trying to figure out what to do. Normally I wouldn't care...just wait until the next time I do my nails and go soemwhere else but I had a photoshoot in a few days. I come across who I think is the manager of the store and show her my nails and say I'm disappointed because I have a photoshoot soon and she says, "Well is it a photoshoot of your hands?" ....no, but seriously? Really off-putting. She then gives me 20% off the nail service but when I go to pay she says very loudly, "and how much are you going to tip? You have to give the same amount to each girl. I can't divide the tip otherwise."...So you're forcing me to tip the same amount? That's unfortunate because one girl was way more pleasant and easy to be around than the other. Oh, and one girl completely messed up my nails while the other didn't. And I need to tip the same amount when the girl who did my feet spent considerably more time on me than the girl who did nothing but damage my nails and make them look like someone's daughter was using my hands for play-pretend nail technicion?So even after 20% off, I still paid $30 for the shellac manicure. By the time I came home, one had already started peeling off. I went somewhere else and got them re-done. So thanks Beauty Brands for making me waste my money, giving me a terrible experience, and needlessly damaging my nails. The pedicure was $40.I've had a pedicure and shellac manicure combined for $55 places with nail art and people who weren't rude and inexperienced. Don't be fooled into thinking that this place will offer you anything of quality just because it charges more. I really wish I hadn't wasted my money here. I paid $30 just to have my nails damaged and to pay another $35 elsewhere to get them redone and go through the damaging peel-off process all over again. And I paid $40 for a pedicure with someone who couldn't do a flower at a place where apparently the known "nail girl" is too lazy and jaded to offer to help her fellow co-workers.Everything all around here was just a horrible experience for me. Read Less