I first went in for a new set of gel nails and a pedicure. The nails turned out ok, just ok and same with the pedicure. The pedi was fine for the most part except the polish wasn't very good. The girl doing it didn't paint all the way to the bottom of my toenails so it looked like my pedi was starting to grow out already. Not impressed with that. The gel nails were fine for a new set except the girl doing them (very nice girl) does not know how to shape nails at all. I had to file them when I got home. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go back or not but decided to see how she did on the fill. She didn't trim my nails as short as I requested when I got the new set and since they curl quite badly at the sides, most of them had significant lifting and she decided to put on a new set. I still do not know how well she would have done with a fill but do know I will not be going back there ever again. Before she put on the new set I asked if she had colored powder for the French tips, she did. I think that is acrylic and didn't care what type it was just as long as it looked nice. She suggested a different type of product, and there was a bit of a language barrier here, so I am pretty sure I agreed to what she was telling me. It was a gentler product for the nails, sounded good. My friend told me it looks like the new stuff that is a thin layer of the gel polish (gelac maybe) that they set with the uv light. It looks like I have a shiny coat of nail polish with some sparkles rubbed on the tips. While it is natural looking, to the point where people say 'I like your sparkly nail polish' that's not what I was expecting. Now this isn't why I'm not going back, I think I agreed to whatever she was telling me but again she doesn't have any basic nail shaping skills. This makes me think she doesn't have any proper esthetics training at all. I again went home to filed all my nails and to top it, 3 days later this glorified nail polish has started chipping off. Definitely not worth the $39 cost of a regular fill.