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| - Sundrops leaves me torn and confused.
I wanted to love Sundrops, I really did. When I saw the make over happening as I would pop in Baskin Robbins, I was super excited someone finally decided to open a nicer nail spot in the Arcadia area.
My husband gave it a whirl when it first opened. (he needs pedicures more than I do. Just sayin.) He came home "ehh" and feeling ripped off. With this I just stuck to my little Asian spot and avoided Sundrops. After having a bad experience at my long time nail place, I gave Sundrops a try---and was umm, OK with it. I wasn't jumping out of my chair, I was actually annoyed because my tech talked my ear off the ENTIRE time and took her sweet ass time on my manicure so she could tell me about her son's wedding. I think the awkwardness of not knowing what the nail techs are saying to each other is better than being sucked in to someones life.
Because I wanted to love this place so much I gave it another try. My tech this time was OK, a little weird. I felt her looking at me the whole time, not in a creepy way, just more of a judgmental way. I wasn't in love and my pedicure lasted less than a week. Because I am a sucker for a cute spot I went back a third time and brought my 12 yr old niece this time. The owner was there...and it made the vibe weird, and tense. She needs to take some evening development courses on how to treat customers and engage with them. the girl who did my nieces toes was nice and changed the color once to make her happy, so I was fine with that. Lucky me, I got the same tech as my 2nd visit. Yippeee. My pedicure sucked. Enough said. As we were checking out I was admiring the owner's top which I noticed she was selling in the "boutique" area...I use that word loosely. She made ZERO attempt to sell it to me. Like nada. It was like I was putting her out by asking her about the fit, etc. I ended up buying the top and $176 later we were on our way home.
The owner has a great eye for fashion, but not running a business or nail salon for that matter. I think she needs to close shop and reopen a boutique she doesn't work in.
Needless to say, I am OVER Sundrops and are happy with my new sport, Ken's nails on 48th/Indian School in the Safeway center.
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