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| - I came here after realizing pacific mall was the only mall that was open past 7pm and had a nail shop on a Sunday before Labor Day. Now that we've gotten that out the way let me say, I have a regular nail tech I just really needed a fill as my biogel overlay split and I couldn't bare to keep it that way... my nail tech was not available so I came here instead....... big. miss. steak.
I found my way to this little hole in the wall at P Mall and asked them how much they charge for biogel fills, homegirl said $40 (red flag number one, I usually pay $65 plus tip). I figure eff it, worst case scenario I can get them fixed later in the week. I sit down and the nail tech starts dealing with my nails, the employees don't really speak very much English at all so the convo was minimal. I let her know I want coffin shape and I like my gel thin, she responds ok, so she starts to shape my nails... she does the biogel overlay and shit starts to get weird. I get asked to pick a colour and I do, then I get told that I actually cannot use that colour as another patron is using it... (red flag number 2) uhhhh ok? Wait until she is done or learn to share then like they do at the other 6099 salons in Toronto. So I pick another colour. They don't have it. And another. Same deal. So I end up settling for some bs colour that I don't even want cause I just don't wanna go through their selection again.
The way they do biogel here is weird. Red flag number 3.... First, they do one layer, then they do the gel colour about two or three coats, then they seal it with the biogel, then they buff it with the drill, then they do a clear coat... maybe this is the right way to do it and everyone else does it wrong but if you're from Toronto you know that it's biogel and then shellac and then that's it. The nails came out sooooo thick, not coffin shaped and they look like dinosaur claws.
I was disappointed but I could tell that the girl who did them was new and was very sweet so I didn't have the heart to say anything but I will be visiting my regular nail tech to fix this debauchery of a fill.
TLDR; cheap but shitty thick biogel nails await you and don't have half their shellac colours available, but nice staff. Won't be back.
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