I took my daughter here for her first full set of acrylic nails and got a new full set of my own. When my daughter was looking at the polish colors, the technician asked if she wanted the gel color an... Read More
I took my daughter here for her first full set of acrylic nails and got a new full set of my own. When my daughter was looking at the polish colors, the technician asked if she wanted the gel color and I said "Sure". I have always had gel over the top of my pink and white acrylics to keep them shiny and strong, so I figured this was the same thing but with color instead of clear. The same effect could be achieved with regular nail polish and a coat of gel on top. When I pointed this out, I was told, "Oh, we don't do that." Of course they don't! Why do something that is usually $5 extra when they can dupe you out of $20!!! Which they didn't tell me until the end. As for our full sets themselves, they were both horrible. I knew that what the guy was doing with my nails was wrong, and the guy sitting next to him even joked that I had a look on my face like, "what is this guy doing?" And I did, because he was doing the pink part of my pink & whites first, which isn't how anybody who's ever done my nails (about 25 years worth) has ever done them. He told me not to worry, that they would come out better this way. They are lumpy, uneven, too wide and it's almost like he was trying to save on acrylic powder, because there's barely any on the nails. Usually there should be a slight curve of the nails when you look at them from the side. These are completely flat, except of course for the lumps at the bottom and tip of the nails. I kept pointing out things for him to fix, like one spot that literally had NO acrylic on it, and he was irritated that I was questioning him. So he finally "finishes" and asks me how they look and I put my hands down in front of him, looked him in the eye and said, "How do YOU think they look?" He inspects his work, fiddles around and files here and there, and tells me to go wash my hands. Also, when I asked him what the difference in price was between the pink and whites I was getting, and the regular acrylics my daughter was getting, he acted like he didn't understand me. I rephrased 3 different ways and he still acted confused until I said, "Are the pink & whites like $40 and the regular $25? Or.... " and he said, "Yes". What a coincidence that I guessed the prices perfectly! There is no price menu on the wall, so be careful about what you're being charged. Overall it was horrible. My daughter's nails are even lumpier than mine, and $85 later, we will NEVER be back here again. I felt like crying. Read Less