I just had the absolute worst experience here. I got to my appointment with ELLEN at 6:30. I explained that I wasn't sure if I wanted to do a gel manicure, or nexgen because I had acrylics on and I wa... Read More
I just had the absolute worst experience here. I got to my appointment with ELLEN at 6:30. I explained that I wasn't sure if I wanted to do a gel manicure, or nexgen because I had acrylics on and I wanted to see how my real nails felt to decide. She immediately pushed the nexgen (duh, it costs more.) I told her I'd like to wait and see because I prefer gel. She told me that nexgen is the same but better. I've been getting my nails done every two weeks for 8 years, and getting nexgen for the last three. I explain that I know what both are like, and AGAIN say that I'd like to see my real nails before making a decision. So she starts doing my nails and taking the tips off, and everything is fine. However, the color on my nails is SIGNIFICANTLY different than it was on the sample nail. The one I chose was supposed to be a dark eggplant, and it ended up looking like a light berry. I express that I'd like something darker, and she goes "well this is the one you picked." Well yes, but it's different. She brings the sample over and I picked something darker and she finally saw the difference. But I've noticed through this that she isn't painting all the way to the edges of my nails, so I ask if she could do so. She tells me she doesn't want to get paint on my cuticles. Well, I don't want to leave with a manicure that looks a week old. It wasn't my cuticle. I know what a cuticle is. I asked her FOUR TIMES to please paint the whole nail and she keeps ignoring me. So I asked if I could just do it myself, and I did. I painted my own nails. She then tells me that I got it on my cuticle (no I didn't) and not to "command" her again. Well do what the customer is asking over and over again. If something is obviously a big enough deal to a customer, just do it. I told her I shouldn't have to keep asking her to do something to my nails, and she said "I don't want anyone to see your nails and you tell them I did them" and I told her "well I'm going to tell everyone you did them." I am so unhappy with my experience. My right hand (the one I did myself) looks far better than the left that Ellen did that I didn't touch up. I've never been one to complain as much as I did in a nail salon, but I was there for an hour and a half for a gel manicure, ignored, yelled at, and spoken to like an idiot, and I left SO unhappy. I paid full price for the worst manicure of my life, and still tipped 20% on top of that, because I'm service industry and I get what it's like to pay your bills on tips. But I felt like I needed to write a review of my experience not only so that people would know what to expect, but also so that this place could see what's happening and know that this was not okay. An hour and a half for a gel manicure is ridiculous anywhere, but even more so when I had to do some of my nails myself. Never will return. Read Less