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| - I wish I could tell you more about their services, but I can't...because I walked out.
I've never walked out of a service location (hair salon, nail salon, spa center, anything) in my life, and never thought I would. It's rude, it's a diva move, all the bad things. But I don't regret for a second my decision to stand up and just leave.
After reading some pretty great reviews about this place on Yelp (and because I live a stone's throw away), I called to ask if I needed an appointment to come in soon. They said no, they weren't busy and I could walk in within the next hour and be fine. Five minutes later, I had already signed in and was sitting at the bar area. They told me they would be with me shortly. So I sat...and sat...and sat...and sat.
Employees were sitting with me at the bar, chatting and texting on their phones. The music was blasting some of the crudest sex-related lyrics I'd heard outside of a dance club (and I'm not prude--I love me some explicit hip-hop)--we're talking so bad that I was blushing. Husbands, looking as bored as facially possible, were taking up spots at manicure tables and pedicure chairs, fiddling with their phones or magazines while I and other customers sat at the bar to wait our turn.
The smell of the salon is the worst I've ever experienced--so strong that after the first five minutes I started to see spots in the corners of my vision, and was feeling lightheaded. I kept chugging water, hoping I was just dehydrated, but that wasn't the case at all--the fumes were borderline toxic.
After sitting for 20 minutes, and not seeing a single change or hope of receiving service within the next hour, I stood up and left.
I went to Marvel Nails on Rural and Guadalupe, walked right in, and was out with a beautiful gel manicure within 45 minutes. No regrets.
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