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| - I was walking along Queen when I stumbled upon this nail salon. I've been curious about all the alternatives to acrylic nails for a while (because I personally think they look kinda trashy) and I've got a mix of fingers that grow really strong nails while the others are always breaking.
I noticed they weren't busy so I thought it'd be a great time to ask (it's taken me this long to ask because I tend to go when nail salons are zoos) and I feel weird asking tons of questions when people are obviously super busy.
Anyhow, they gave me their best recommendation for something very natural looking but would last a lot longer than my shellac was...So basically something that met in the middle of shellac and acrylic.
Oh, and by the way theres a nail salon people should watch out for on Yonge close to St. Clair...they do awful Shellac jobs. I don't remember the name but it's a few doors down from Kearns and Co Hair salon (which is a GREAT salon btw.) I've done it twice there and they start to peel within 24 hours. All the shellac I had left was on my ring and pinky fingers.
The guy (I forget his name) asked me how long my nails already were or if I didn't have any at all. He took a look and saw that a bunch of my nails were pretty long, some pretty rough and he noticed my shellac. He explained a lot to me about how the shellac I got probably wasn't done properly and all that stuff 'cause it shouldn't be peeling, which is what I thought!
From this point I ended up doing that cool gel thing (I don't even remember what THAT'S called--I'm 0-3 today -_-) he only had to add tips to two sad finger nails and matched their length to the rest of my fingernails. He spoke Vietnamese the most of the time trying to get me to practice mine (Ha! What a joke!) It was a great time!
I felt kind of bad though 'cause there was this lady in there who was acting like a stuck up b***h, it turns out she's a regular, acts that way all the time and they just take it. She was doing things like helping herself their manicure water bowls for her dog, things like that bug me because I have a dog too, I love him to DEATH but I don't bring him to the nail salon with me among many other places!!! At least she provided a good source of entertainment. Okay, enough of that.
My conclusion? This is a great Down-to-Earth nail salon. I usually don't like going to Vietnamese run places because they look at me funny when I tell them I'm half AND because I feel guilty for not going to my aunt...LOL
If you're like me, want to get your nails done well and would prefer to hang/practice your vietnamese with soft spoken people as opposed to your aunt (or the like) that kind of yell at you, ask too many questions you don't want to asnwer and make you feel bad about your awful accent... come here!
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