I used to go to this place all the time when I was younger and it was fine, but recently it has gotten way too out of hand. My time at LA Nails started with a two hour wait, where there after I was se... Read More
I used to go to this place all the time when I was younger and it was fine, but recently it has gotten way too out of hand. My time at LA Nails started with a two hour wait, where there after I was seated with one of the more older ladies with glasses. I told her I just wanted regular acrylic nails, and she kept going on for at least 20 mins while my nails soaked off about how I needed to get SNS because it is healthier for your nails. After I kept repeatedly telling her I only wanted acrylic. When she started my nails she asked how long I wanted them and I told her I wanted them pretty long because I liked long nails. She then told me that to keep my long tips that I wanted was an extra $5, and also that "long nails don't have a good look for young woman and short nails is the way to go." This pissed me off because I have gotten my nails done a thousand times and never have I had a nail lady speak to me like that, nor have I ever heard of paying $5 for tips and an extra $5 to keep them long. When I kept asking when did that start happening, and she raised her voice at me saying every nail salon does it (which is a lie, most nail places don't charge to keep the tips long). I then asked her the price for my regular shortened acrylic nails, she told me the price of my nails that I was getting (which I only expected it to be like $25-30 max), she said $10 for removing my old nails, $5 for tips, $25 for the acrylic, and $5 for the shape. That all adds to $45, if I had kept my nails long that would have been $50. When she did the shape for my nails, I asked if I could get my nails squared off. She squared up my nails, then rounded the edges (when I asked her not to), she said the past 3 girls that went before me all wanted that shape and that I should too. Which was extremely annoying to me because I could care less about what the past 3 girls got. I wanted long acrylic nails that were squared and I couldn't even get that. I also asked her not to do one of my nails because the whole nail had come off before and it was just starting to grow back. She told me that she thought it would be fine for my nail and put acrylic on it. I believed her since she was a trained nail technician, but I should have listened to my gut and stopped her. I asked her if she thought it would get infected and she said "hope not". Well its been a week since I got my nails done, and that nail that I was worried about did get infected and painfully popped off. Including my entire recently new grown back real nail, gone. Before I left the salon I asked another lady how much my nails would be and she told me $30. Which, again, pissed me off because the lady I had told me $45, so she was trying to get an extra $15 off me. I will never go back to LA Nails and Tan in Oak Ridge ever again because of how awful my last experience there was. Read Less