I have mixed reviews about this place. I've been here three times, once for a manicure and twice for tips. The nails turned out pretty good, which I guess should what my review is primarily based on, ... Read More
I have mixed reviews about this place. I've been here three times, once for a manicure and twice for tips. The nails turned out pretty good, which I guess should what my review is primarily based on, but this depends entirely on who you get and what you get done. First time I went, I got pink and white, which is 40 bucks and a little different from tips because they take pink and white powder, add liquid and put that mixture onto the acrylic tip. it lasts a lot longer than the white being painted on, looks much more finished and doesn't chip. I went three weeks later and got a fill in, not sure how they would have added a thicker white strip because he trimmed the nail from the top (and I like a thin white strip), but I'm sure they would have made it work. Only thing is, the parts of the old nail he took off (from the base of the nail where it got a little old) totally show through the fill-in, and I wish he would have taken the time to make it smoother and look uniform.Now, the issues. The guy running the salon (short Vietnamese fellow) is quite a character. He's nice for the first 15 seconds, then if you don't immediately sit down where he tells you to and take a few seconds to think about what you want, he gets really impatient and starts following you around and rolling his eyes and getting frustrated. Second, I wanted airbrushing (which is free, yay). I told him what I wanted and he was like, "no. It won't look good. It won't fit on the nail." I was like, seriously? They're my damned nails! So he finally decided on a design that we both approved of. I wanted the design on the edge of my nail in a deep pink color, which they didn't have. So I was like, okay, lets do red, since the only other pink they had was hot light pink. Then, he went ahead and airbrushed the design, in light pink, on the middle of my nail. First he put the design in white, then went over it in pink. On some of the nails, the white underneath showed, and some didn't. I was like seriously? No. I made them take it off and stuck with plain french.If you're getting a pedicure, go to Lady, because everyone else sort of sucks. The girl doing my grandmother's pedi used lukewarm water, didn't turn on the bubbles, soaked for about two minutes, did a quick scrub, cut the nails misshapenly, and dried off her feet. The entire pedicure was about 7 minutes, no exaggeration. After my grandmother made it known that they did a horrible job, they didn't offer to redo it, they just trimmed two of the nails they cut slanted and called it a day, and still charged her 15. It's a service industry, guys. I'll probably come back if I'm in the area and need a french, but that's about it. The guys are a lot nicer than the girls (who are, I'm gonna say it, a lot b*tchier than any other salon I've been to). Definitely not for a pedi (unless you get Lady), and you can get the same manicure or french tips from anywhere else at the same prices. Read Less