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| - I had a mixed first experience here, and would give this place maybe a 3.5 overall. I came around 4 PM on a Tuesday afternoon and luckily they had no other clients at the time, so I was attended to right away. The girl who did my nails was super super nice, very friendly and easy to talk to, as she spoke fluent English. I'll also say she was pretty patient, because removing my old shellac manicure took a lot of time. This salon has a large selection of colours for shellac, and they are able to do nail designs as well, for an extra $5 charge per nail.
The quality of the manicure here is just average, if I have to be honest. I think I would have liked for the polish to come down closer to my cuticles. Although the gap isn't huge, I'd expect higher quality work given that I am paying for it. I also noticed a random dark spot on one of my nails, and also one side of my right thumb nail is now longer than the other, so the shape is off. While my nail technician was super sweet, she started to get a little bit distracted partway through our session, since it was past her shift and her husband started calling her and apparently she had to go pick up her baby. I'm not sure if that had an impact on the quality of her work, but earlier on we had talked about doing some nail designs, and later on she seemed to forget about it completely. I didn't have the heart to ask her for it given her situation, but I was still slightly disappointed given that I had gotten my expectations up and all. I just found the whole thing slightly unprofessional, from a customer's perspective.
That being said, she was still super accomodating and tried really hard to do a good job. As we were about to finish and were waiting for my last hand to dry, she noticed that the polish on my right pinky was peeling slightly, and removed it entirely and redid that finger. I was impressed with that, given that she was in a rush to go home, so I did really appreciate that.
For a downtown place, their prices are pretty low - shellac is only $25. That's not bad, but considering it's just a plain manicure I was slightly underwhelmed. I think I liked the customer service enough though that I would be willing to give this place one more try, just to see how their nail art turns out.
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