Hands down the worst manicure/pedicure that I have ever had. Here's a list of all the things that went horribly wrong after coming in on a whim and saying I wanted a gel mani/pedi with an eyebrow wax.... Read More
Hands down the worst manicure/pedicure that I have ever had. Here's a list of all the things that went horribly wrong after coming in on a whim and saying I wanted a gel mani/pedi with an eyebrow wax. 1) The guy who works there started by removing the old color from my previous gel manicure, but never finished before starting my pedicure, so the acetone dried and the gel hardened again, so when they went to scrape it off, it was like pulling it off your nail beds without any acetone and insanely painful. And because the acetone sat on my cuticles for SO long, it dried them out. 2) The guy doing my pedicure didn't say more than one word to me. He was rough, and not thorough. It was a painful experience, literally. He left the sugar scrub all over my pants and on my legs and feet as he went to apply the lotion. He didn't even wash the scrub off completely. So essentially he just washed my feet in everything all at once. 3) When using the pumice stone he scrubbed the TOPS of my feet. As in he used a pumice stone on bare skin. Not calloused or thick skin bottoms of the feet. He removed the skin on top of my feet. They were bleeding. And he just kept doing it despite me saying something. The other women could tell he was messing this up, so they alternates between 3 other people, continuously causing more and more damage. 4) The woman cutting my cuticles the first time around completely cut my finger. Not knicked it. She full on cut my finger and it was bleeding. She then continued on and pretended to quickly cut the rest of my cuticles without actually cutting anything. 5) The manager then came over and stepped in to finish the manicure. She essentially performs a SECOND file and cuticle cutting because it wasn't done correctly the first time. 6) The for painting my toenails fails to notice or mention that she was low on the nail polish I had picked out until it was too late so the color was splotchy. The manager says to pick another color, so I do. Same thing. They run out of the color. She says pick another color, which after two women run around the shop, they don't even have. At this point I give up on the color. 7) A third person examines my cuticles and determines she needs to FURTHER cut off my cuticles and takes a dremmel TO MY SKIN. A tool meant to sand down acrylic to my skin. 8) They continue to paint my toes and nails to wrong colors, and it's splotchy, and they have painted little black dust shavings into the gel and set it. You can see it in the pictures. That is IN the paint. 9) The paint job is shabby at best, and was performed by a girl who is probably 16 and had dreams to do more with her life but her parents forced her into doing this. 10) The guy who originally did my crap pedi is SLEEPING in the chair next to me. I can't even make this up. 11) The entire process took almost 2 hours. For this. 12) One of the woman asked if I liked my nails, and I said. This was a horrible experience. And she proceeded to just try and shuffle me out the door. 13) I was surely not letting them go anywhere near by eyebrows. 14) As I went up to pay, with bloody fingers, the woman behind me in line pointed out that they had cut my fingers up. Which they responded to with, "She has dry skin. We didn't cut her." As someone who gets mani/pedis often and never encounters this, I can assure you, this is a lie. 15) They want to charge me $66 for this hack job. And I refuse. I explain that I'm willing to pay for a basic mani/pedi, but I would NOT pay full price for what they had done. The owner/manager proceeds to argue with me asking, "Why don't you want to pay?" Which, look lady, if I didn't intend on paying full price to begin with, I wouldn't have come in to begin with. And I still paid for services. Just not the full price. I've done reviews for other nail salons and have never had such a horrible experience. Usually it's quite the opposite, actually. Also, none of their tools come out in sterilized packages so I'll be lucky if I don't get an infection from this. They were grabbing tools from different stations that were not cleaned properly. I'll be submitting a complaint to the health department as well. Most Yelp reviews have to be taken with a grain of salt and a heaping dose of empathy since you can't please everyone, and I'm so very aware of this. But this... this was so beyond terrible. This was a bad experience dealing with the staff, a poor manicure and pedicure, and how they handled the entire situation was just unprofessional, all while the guy is still sleeping in the pedi chair in the background. And of course, lastly, IF YOU'RE GOING TO TALK BADLY ABOUT YOUR CUSTOMERS IN VIETNAMESE, MAKE SURE THEY DON'T ALSO SPEAK IT. Should the woman and her daughter who were there, the woman in the running outfit, and the two older women who came in read this - yes, they were talking about you too. Read Less