I have been a client of Pam's for several years now and won't go to anyone else. What I like - no, LOVE - about her is how gentle she is with my nails. She does NOT use a dremel tool to file my natural nails down like so many places do, and she doesn't hurt me! My nails are so thin, I have never understood why they need a machine to rough up a thin layer of my fragile nails (I mean REALLY - are your nails so tough that they need a machine?)
She thinks about the products she uses and chooses products that will help natural nails be as strong and healthy as possible even when she's putting artificial nails on top of them. My experience has been that sometimes this choice may come at the expense of the rock hard durability of other products but I am also quite hard on my nails (I wash dishes, I use them to scrape things off the counter.....) so, yes, I have to go back for repairs more often than at the other places, but I'm OK w/ that - It's a trade off for gentler products and a gentle manicurist who does a fabulous job.