Looking at the previous reviews, I wish I had looked this salon up before agreeing to patronize this place 2 weeks ago, as I can relate to just about every bad experience here. I came here on a whim f... Read More
Looking at the previous reviews, I wish I had looked this salon up before agreeing to patronize this place 2 weeks ago, as I can relate to just about every bad experience here. I came here on a whim for a simple gel manicure as a suggestion from my sister, since it's less than a mile away from where we live. Overall, I will definitely NOT be coming back to this place for several reasons:1. As a paying customer and someone who works in an industry servicing high-paying clients, I expect to walk into such an establishment with some type of greeting. Instead, just about every employee simply stared at us until someone finally walked up to us asking "what do you want" as if we were impeding on a booming business full of clients. Mind you the place was nearly empty (in hindsight, for good reason I see). Had it not been for the fact that my sister was with me, I would've walked out and taken my business elsewhere at that point.2. The only service I stated I wanted was a gel manicure. Instead of readily seating me, the idle employees started to argue in Vietnamese about who would take me. I was seated once by a guy whom I thought would be doing my nails, until an older woman argued with him (in Vietnamese) and he proceeded to apologize and directed me to sit at another station where the same angry woman proceeded to do my nails. 3. The cleanliness and practices of the place is not up to par with what should be standard in a nail salon. The nail salons I frequent always use tools on hand that have come from a sterilization "oven", sterilization solution, or fresh out of the bag. The tools my technician used at this location looked as if they had been previously used and not cleaned. The technician hardly spoke any English, but when I cut her a look when she pulled out the cuticle nipper from some nook in her station that looked like it hadn't been cleaned in ages, she quickly put it away and retrieved another one. I doubt they were as sterile as they should've been, and was hoping the entire time that I would not get cut and catch some type of infection or worse.4. My technician was TERRIBLE. There were several things wrong with the work she did. A) First off, I have no idea why she argued to have me as a client, then proceeded to seem rushed and very unfriendly throughout the entire process. B) instead of soaking my existing gel manicure off, she proceeded to drill it off right away. I heard this is a no no from another nail tech, as you run the risk of severely stripping and damaging the nail bed. C) she did not follow directions. I asked for my nails to be rounded, just as they were when I came in. Instead she cut them (very low mind you) and shaped them square. My nails grow very fast which was no biggie, but for a process as simple as a gel manicure on natural nails, I felt like she could've at least shaped the nails as I'd requested twice. D) Way too rough! Instead of softening my cuticles with your typical softening solution then sticking them in water, my nail tech simply used water, then sprayed with more water when removing my hands from the bowl of water. Very strange I thought. THEN she used the buffer to try to rid my fingers of the excess cuticle after using the cuticle nippers. This process she repeated multiple times as if I had the hardest cuticles known to man (mind you, I get my nails done just about every 2 weeks, so my nails and cuticles stay well groomed). I flinched and exclaimed 'ouch' several times as she continuously scraped my skin with the coarse buffing block, and all she would do is resume a little more gently and continue to get rough again. The end result was ragged and irritated cuticles, which I promptly applied Neosporin to and prayed I wouldn't catch an infection from the questionable cleanliness of the buffer.Overall, the ONLY positive thing I have to say about my entire experience is that my eyebrow waxing was done correctly. With that being said, they were also more irritated than usual, which I'm pretty sure is due to the lack of cleanliness practices of the place. I definitely would NOT return to this establishment again. I hardly write reviews, but my experience here was so terrible that I've now spent almost an hour typing about it. If anyone is thinking about going here, I would just say no and seek out one of the multiple better establishments in this area.... Read Less