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| - My hands and fingernails were a mess from bare handed gardening and pulling weeds. I haven't had a manicure or pedicure in a long time, since my last pedicure at a nearby nail salon resulted in the nail tech cutting one of my toes, followed by a cellulitis infection, followed by 10 days of antibiotics.
My daughter had been to Colorful Nails several times and highly recommended them, so I thought I would give them a try. I got the basic manicure ($12) with clear nail polish. I figured if I stuck with the basics it would be harder to mess it up. I called ahead and was told to just come in, no appointment needed. I show up 10 minutes later to find all 5 pedicure chairs full and two people waiting for manicures and only 3 nail techs working. This doesn't look good. One of the people waiting for a manicure looked upset and got up to leave without having her manicure (waited too long).
Suddenly, 3 more nail techs burst through the door and instantly start working on the me, the lady who had been waiting, and on a couple of the pedicure clients who had just been soaking. Turns out the owner's brother also runs a nail salon and they had no customers, the owner called him and he and his whole staff closed his salon and drove right over to help out.
My manicure was excellent, including a massage of my hands and forearms (something that should normally be part of a manicure, but seems to be done at fewer and fewer nail salons). The other customers seemed to have excellent results from their nail work as well. There is indeed a big screen TV, but it can only be seen from the pedicure chairs. For those of us getting a manicure, it is not visible at all.
Parking is close to the door. Other reviewers mentioned they were given something to drink--not so for anyone I saw there on my visit. The staff looked very stressed and focused on the task at hand with no talking (possibly due to the rush of customers), but once additional nail techs showed up they started smiling and interacting with the customers. In retrospect, I wonder why I was told to come over now if they knew they were so backed up.
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