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| - It's been a while since I visited anywhere new and even longer since I got my nails did.
My friend & I decided to have a girls day out(?) and decided to be adventurous and pop into this little salon I've never seen before in Korea town (but then again, it's been a couple of years since I moved from the area) to get our nails done. I went for eyebrow waxing and acrylic nails and she got her acrylic nails to match her new hair do.
This is an example as to WHY you stick to the salons you know. I should have known when I saw that the nail technician had longer nails then the width of my eyes.
The signage outside was intersting; I am a big fan of black lettering and so I gave props. The AWFUL DECOR inside cannot be explained. There was random circles of orange, green and other awful blobs pretending to be circles on a lavender-ish coloured wall. At best, it makes you laugh when looking at the wall.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN to a salon where the staff actively ignored you and blatantly let you know you're not wanted.
I mean, we were the ONLY two there and not ONE of the 4 looked up for a good 10 minutes. The girl grilled me on whether or not I was getting a nail set or just a wax, when I let her know I was THINKING ABOUT getting a set done myself. Finally she lets me off the hook and takes me to the back room to wax my eyebrows.
You know I enjoy getting waxing done; I dunno know why but when the waxer mercilessly RIPS the cloth off whilst holding my skin taunt, it gives me a sense of cleanliness which I enjoy(?). The holding of the skin is essential to getting the finest hair out and in my case, feeling of cleanliness; from what I understand without holding the skin, what should be a simple ripping motion can get complicated and messy. SOMEHOW this girl completely robbed me of my cleansing experience. Much of the wax remained on my skin which she roughly removed with a solvent. She didn't groom or tiny my brushy eyebrows either but it was $8 so I let it go. Had she charged $20 I think there would be reason for bitterness.
As I was mildly satisfied with the result I agreed to the acrylic and can I tell you, I got cut eyes? Even my friend agrees that there was a STRONG SENSE of need to get rid of us. The she asked me how many figures I wanted to get it done - which struck me as a bizarre question -and my friend explained that getting just ONE finger, especially the ring finger -is fashionable(?-why is getting a coke nail fashionable, I dunno). I settled on a turquoise tip with a black line(which came to a mind blasting $30) between and started chatting with my girl. I mean isn't that what its all about? chatting your brains out while someone pampered you? Usually the beauticians are chatty with you in hopes to build relationship that you may return in the future...right? No. Not here -but I am going ahead of myself.
so I am seated and waiting for this girl to prep my nails; a gentleman walks in with interest to getting some coloured contacts for his daughter. There are 2 others sitting and playing with their phone on a couch but MY nail person had to get up and serve him so I had to wait 10 minutes while this poor man tried to please his daughter's need for red contacts. She sits down and starts filing my nails and I start to chat it up with my girl -and do you know they all gave each other a look; one of them said something and soon there was a movie with Ryan Raynolds playing on the TV and we all shut up to watch Mr. sexy dressed up as a fat boy in love with a beautiful blonde(what is this movie?!).
From my experience(being a rather vanilla person I get one of the TWO designs of nails all the time), during the prep period when all is filed and glued you go wash your hands so to remove all particles and avoid bubbles from happening. Not once she asked me to wash my hands free of these filings - which inevitably caused bubbles between the natural and fake nails. I don't know why it took her 7 tries to draw a line following the line provided by the tip? and WHY couldn't you draw a smooth line after 7 attempts? I got carried away by the movie and wasn't watching my person too much and it turns out the lines on my left hands are not circular, it's triangular. There were bubbles forming everywhere and my baby finger on my left had is completely crappy.
At the time of writing, 24 hrs and ONE shower has passed and my nails look as if I bought a cheap kit from the drug store and stuck it on with one eye open- 2 weeks ago; it's bubbly and the excess acrylic on my hands are just so attractive. I don't think this is going to last long.
Another beef I have. My friend chose 2 designs and asked her person's advice - they said OK and didn't offer an advice - and she ended up with a design which wasn't all that pleasing. If you're a pro , and a smart technician I would assume that you would advise the client from making a distasteful choice instead of brown-nosing for that extra $5.
Nope. I am not going back.
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