$35 "deluxe pedicure" included foot spa, exfoliation, cleaning, sugar scrub and hot stone massage of feet and legs, lotion, and hot towel wraps, plus polish. Choice of water, soft drink, coffee, or w... Read More
$35 "deluxe pedicure" included foot spa, exfoliation, cleaning, sugar scrub and hot stone massage of feet and legs, lotion, and hot towel wraps, plus polish. Choice of water, soft drink, coffee, or wine (today's offering was Franzia boxed chardonnay). Niece's acrylic refill, cut, reshape, and gel polish cost $35.50. No massage. (Was told only basic manicure, $15, included massage.) SNS did NOT feature nails dipped in water, NOR massage. Just polish removal (acetone-soaked cotton with plastic clips, instead of aluminum foil, so kudos on eco-friendly), cut for shorter length, gelous base polishes and dipping powders, nail shaping, and cuticle oil application. $40, but additional "one-time fee" of $5 to remove old polish color. Oh, and top coat was finished with two one-minute curing per hand under UV oven- strange! I mean, one reason people opt to pay more for SNS instead of gel mani is to avoid exposure to the UV oven!
Niece had Mimi as her pedi tech and Cindy as her mani tech, for a total of $70.50. (My belated birthday present to her, and I tipped 20% to each tech, too.) I had Cathy for both deluxe pedi and SNS ($80).** When I requested for Cathy to have my right thumb nail reshaped for a straighter edge, she scoffed and said "it's real nail," like this was a ridiculous request. (She already had another customer waiting to take my seat.) Guess that's a "no" for straighter edges on a few other nails, then.
No cleaning, no massages, an additional $5 for a fee that the cashier did not know I was charged for, had me wishing for better service and more transparency.
**Had service been a lot better and included more of what other salons typically offer with their nail services (and I've visited nail salons all over the east coast, in the Midwest, and in AZ), with more transparency), I would've tipped Cathy 20%, and I had even considered giving $20, but I did not receive proper cleaning, massage, and was scoffed at at the end of service, with her next customer standing behind me waiting for me to stand up. She's lucky I tipped her $10!
p.s. Cathy had earlier remarked, before she applied the acetone-soaked cotton balls on my nails, that whoever did my previous SNS "did a great job!" Yes. Yes he did. Read Less