I am new to this area and was looking for a good place to get a gel manicure before my first fitting for my wedding dress so I could try out a color ahead of the wedding. In my hometown I go to any pl... Read More
I am new to this area and was looking for a good place to get a gel manicure before my first fitting for my wedding dress so I could try out a color ahead of the wedding. In my hometown I go to any place where I can get an appointment so my expectations are fairly standard. Bottom line, I will never go here again.I walked in and no one was there, just two employees, and I immediately got the vibe that I was unwanted. One employee continued to watch TV and play on his phone while another waited for me to pick my color. Would have been nice if they put the TV on in front of me, or even music, the silence was super awkward the whole time.As the employee starts to take off the gel that I had already had on for about 3 weeks, if not longer, she starts scraping at it and asking me where I got them done, complaining that it won't come off. I've gotten gel manicures dozens of times and I fully expect it to take a bit of manual labor to get it off every time, that's just one catch with gel. She didn't have this same expectation apparently so after just a minute of trying she shoved them back into a pool of acetone to let them sit. Fine, I've seen better and more patient ways of doing this, but I have time.When she comes back, she manages to get the gel off my nails and starts to clean them up. Or, what looked like clean them up. I am not even joking, she never actually took off any of my cuticle, and there was plenty of it. She never pushed it back, never actually clipped any, and kept putting her tools into the same water that my other hand was being soaked in. This is gross! Just gross! She's actually "cleaning" her tools in the same water that my hand is soaking in. I quietly remove the tool and place it along the top of the bowl, out of the water, and she decides that she's going to put them back into the water. I genuinely feel grossed out and now a little annoyed. I decide to suck it up and leave the tools there.Maybe I annoyed her by moving them, but really? I decide that a good manicure for my money on this particular day (the morning of my fitting) is all I want and I'm not feeling this place. So I ask her if she can just clean up my nails a bit and I actually won't be getting a full manicure "due to time". At this point I KNOW she is mad at me because she doesn't ever actually clean them up - there's still some gel on my nails and I have the roughest nail edges of all time.Before I even put my coat on or pay her, she's taken another customer (the only other one there, they aren't busy). I ask her how much I owe her and she demands the full payment for a manicure. I say, "...but I didn't get a manicure?". She replies "it's still the same price", to which I ask "so it's the same price just to get the gel off?". I am actually shaking because I am new here, disgusted, confused, and now angry (in that order) so I put down my money, proclaimed that it was ridiculous and I walked out. Maybe things are different in Dover but I have never, ever paid full price just to get gel off. I am typically charged $5 for that and it includes cleanliness and quality when taking it off and cleaning my nails up. I would have been fine with $10, but not $20. $20 makes absolutely no sense.I will never, ever, ever go here again. I managed to get a last minute appointment at Statix immediately following and while it was more money than I would have paid here, it was so worth it. This place is not worth trying. There are plenty of decent nail artists around and this lady was naaaahhhhht one of them. Read Less