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| - I truly, TRULY, try so hard to find a nail salon that just meets my basic needs that is near my home and I have yet to find that anywhere other than Chandler. I suppose I will continue to drive the 30 minutes for great nails that last! I took my daughter here on New Years Eve day, mainly because we had dinner reservations in Chandler and knew that we didn't want to make the trek over there and then back home to go back over to Chandler yet again. I was hopeful this would be a great place! There were five nail techs when we signed in and they were all busy. We were the first two in line to wait for gel manicures; I was surprised to beat the rush on this day. My daughter was taken for her gel mani about 10 minutes after we arrived, her mani looked great! The thing is that I like going to nail salons that have OPI or Essie gels so that when I ask for a certain color that I know, want or that I am used to, they know it. This place, just gave me a plastic thing of many, many different colors. The color that I wanted was a nude, buff, almost white color; in OPI it's called, 'My Vampire Is So Buff'. When I asked for that, they looked at me like, 'We don't have any vampires here crazy one.' This color that I chose did look close to the OPI 'vamp' one, but no. It was pink, as in baby pink. I did not have the patience to get picky and re-choose a color because obviously the colors on the plastic swatch are not what is coming out of the bottle. Its just nails and as long as the mani is fine, I will survive. My daughter had her cuticles clipped to the point of bleeding 4 times. I can be a true mother bear, as my daughter is pretty quiet about these things, I watched her flinch, and wanted to just call it and walk out, but we stayed. Her nail tech didn't apologize once and I noted that in my tip to her. My nail tech was actually very sweet and I truly would love to go back. I don't believe its her fault that the polish is crappy; as it chipped and pulled away from the edges with in two days of the manicure. Gel should and usually does last longer if the polish is not old and of better quality. Once again, a nail place near my home that isn't good. Boo.
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