I came for a manicure and pedicure both with regular polish. I did NOT have a good experience at all and I was in there for hours. Here's why.
I paid for the sugar scrub pedicure. To my surprise, the young lady literally spent LESS than 20 seconds scrubbing each leg with the scrub. I turned to my friend in the chair next to me and said that the sugar hadn't even dissolved on each leg but she was putting my foot back into the water to rinse it off.
When she scrubbed my feet, she barely applied any pressure and hardly touched my feet as if she didn't want to touch them at all. Such a half ass job.
And now, the worst part: the manicure. A simple regular nail polish manicure. The first nail tech didn't know what she was doing. She barely clipped my cuticles and didn't actually put cuticle softener ON my cuticles. Instead, she squirted some into the bowl and stuck my hand into the bowl. The pieces of cuticle softener were floating around and they weren't actually on my cuticle. So I had to wiggle my fingers around to try to apply the floating chunks of cuticle softener onto my actual cuticle. I should never have to do that.
Next, she didn't apply the base coat to my entire nail. When I asked her about that she said, "You don't need it". I said that was not true. She ignored me and continued to attempt to apply the actual nail polish. I had to pull my hands back and insist that she apply the base cost to the the ENTIRE nail.
She had an attitude, but she complied. Then she started to apply the nail polish. The nail polish was so thick and old that she had to put some acetone in it to thin it out. I asked her to please get a new bottle of nail polish of that color or a similar color because thick nail polish is very difficult to apply and it comes out lumpy. She ignored my request and kept going.
Needless to say, the manicure was ugly and rough and horrible and unprofessional. (See the pictures). Also, the first tech kept digging her own nails I to my fingers which was painful. I had to ask her four different times to please stop on digging me with her nails, and to stop twisting my fingers painfully.
Back to the lumpy ugly manicure. There was no way I wanted to pay for that, so I called the manager over to look at my nails under the light of that area where you actually dry your nails. Without me saying anything he exclaimed in surprise that my nails weren't done right, and offered me to have them done over. I was annoyed that I would have to spend more of my precious time there, but I agreed. So I sat there and waited for somebody else to come do my nails correctly.
The second tech came and didn't even bother to put a towel on the cold marble desk. I had to ask for one. She then took the roughest side of a four sided buffer and proceeded to scratch the hell out of my nail surfaces. When I looked down I was shocked to see that she had scratched up my nails for no damn reason! (See the pics). I pulled my hands away and exclaimed in horror, "What did you do to my nails? Why did you scratch them up like this for no reason?" She said some nonsense that this is what is supposed to happen. I said, "No way!"
As I sat there shaking my head feeling uncomfortable and dissatisfied she abruptly got up and walked away from me after saying something in her native language. A third tech then came to me to do my nails. She was doing a terrible job applying the thick polish and would not listen to any of my requests to change the polish or something. She walked off on me too. Rude. I finally gave up and said remove polish, I want to leave. I'd been there for hours!
I spoke to the manager. He tried to make me pay for the manicure. I told him I was very dissatisfied and I should not have to pay. Only because I insisted, I didn't have to pay.
Lastly, the whole time I was in there, they were playing a movie on the big screen TV that graphically depicted the enslavement of African-Americans in America in the 1800s. This was a very inappropriate and offensive choice of programming. I am Black. There were Black customers present. I told him how disappointed and disgusted I was that they would show this abuse and degradation and that it was offensive. Surely he could show some thing else! He said he couldn't change it. What?!
I shall never return there. (5 photos included.) read more