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| - I'm not especially girly - I don't wear makeup very often, I don't keep up on the latest fashion trends. But, I do enjoy getting pampered at the spa! My sister and I were given Paris Nails (not "Nails Paris") gift certificates for spa manicures and pedicures at Christmastime, so we recently popped out to Bramalea City Centre to have some sisterly grooming time together. We have a hard time getting together very often, clearly.
Note: For anyone who has been to Paris Nails at Bramalea City Centre in the past: the location has moved. It is no longer right beside Shopper's Drug Mart, it's now on the other end of the mall, right beside the entrance beside Sears. The previous location was pretty chemically-smelling, which I'm sure was not pleasant for the people eating at the little cafe across the hall. Yuck.
We decided to be brave and not make an appointment - how busy could the place be at 1:00 on a Friday afternoon? Turns out, fairly busy! We did get in right away, but we were just ahead of the rush, it seems, as the place filled up soon after we arrived. It's not a very large place, but I'd say there were probably 6 pedicure chairs and about the same for manicure tables. We were given our mani/pedis in the same chair - we didn't have to get up after our pedicures to move to the manicure table. This may or may not have been a good thing, see below.
The good: the people were very nice, and seemed pretty accommodating, doing their best to get everyone in, and giving estimates on wait time for those who couldn't get in right away. It also seemed like there were quite a few regulars, calling the manager (?) by name and catching up with the estheticians.
The bad: the place is still stinky, I guess a place that does acrylics will never smell good. Also, my manicurist did pretty little flowers on my big toenails, and while I gave her the go-ahead to have it done, I didn't realize it would cost me $5 more. That's probably my naiveté, but I would sort of expect that they'd say "by the way, it'll cost you extra". I'm not the type to freak out about it, especially since the rest of my mani/pedi cost was paid for by gift cert, but some other people are.
The ugly: my fingernails. The woman doing my nails had been there forever, and yet she managed to paint the skin around my nails in some places, and miss bits of nail in others. The polish job didn't even last until the end of the weekend before it had already started to chip off. My sister's nails were the same.
Overall, it's not terrible, the price is fairly reasonable, but I don't think I'm going to go back, considering the job that was done on my fingernails.
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