I got my nails done (French, gel manicure). The nails came out ok. I can tolerate them for the next 2 weeks. I am struggling to understand why manicurists still struggle with the basics requirements o... Read More
I got my nails done (French, gel manicure). The nails came out ok. I can tolerate them for the next 2 weeks. I am struggling to understand why manicurists still struggle with the basics requirements of nail jobs (such as painting the nail within the area of nail and not cuticles, not applying 5 layers of gel and making your nails look ridiculous, and covering the entire area of the nail starting at the cuticle).
My nails have a weird shape to them. There was nail polish on my cuticle, which I just noticed this morning. The nail polish starts 2 mm below my cuticle, leaving an ugly gap, as if I had my nails done weeks ago. Seriously, why is this still a thing?
I get my nails done very rarely and my visit reminded me as to why that is the case. There is no sense in paying $45 for a nail job that isn't excellent. Like with any job, either do it well, or don't do it at all.
The service was warm, though a bit salesy. I'm not sure if staff is just paranoid about pleasing people, but I got a sense that the atmosphere was a bit artificial. The nail tech persisted encouraging me to take advantage of other services provided within the salon (eye lash extensions, facials etc). I am confident looking the way I do. A strangers recommendation for why false lashes would make me look pretty is genuinely completely irrelevant to me, and likely many people who just come in to get their nails done, or maybe not and I'm just missing something.
The owner (I believe this was the owner) was very friendly, but I could sense she was saying everything in her tool box to please me as a customer. Sometimes being genuine goes so much further than complementing me on slightly irrelevant things like how beautiful I am. It's very nice to hear a compliment, but again, irrelevant and a classic behavior in the "sales" book. Coupling that with a list of reasons why other services would be greatly beneficial to me lead me to believe that I will not be returning, and searching for a salon with a more intimate, genuine atmosphere . Read Less