"2013-07-31T00:00:00"^^ . . "0"^^ . "First off let me start on a positive note... this nail place is SUPER cute and modern inside. They have TONS of color choices (both regular polish and gel including rockstar glitter) and you also get offered complimentary water, soda, wine or champagne. The staff and lady at the front desk (Stephanie I think) are all super friendly.\n\nNow the not so good... I got here around 3PM and started with the basic pedicure, which was just that. Pretty basic. It was short and to the point, but when I left I noticed polish on the skin of my toes outside the nail. Kind of annoying but whatever.\n\nI asked the girl doing my pedi (who was also supposed to do my gel mani) if she would build out my nails a little longer using gel and NOT acrylic (a friend of mine had told me about this technique) and she seemed confused so she asked one of the other guys how to do it. If she couldn't do it I would have been fine with that and would have appreciated the honesty...\n\nShe started my manicure and trimmed my cuticles then put the tips on my nails. I was then left sitting there and waiting for probably 20 minutes on the other guy to finish his client. He then moved me across the room to his station.\n\nHe used this clear gel that came out of a pot over the tips and put the rockstar glitter I picked on. The glitter seemed sparse with some uncovered spots so I asked if he could do a little more. He then grabbed a totally different color (a white) and sprinkled that on my nails which totally changed the look of the color. He put two more coats of this clear gel on top and they were feeling totally bumpy and uneven. I asked him to make them shorter (which he didn't.. he barely filed them) and then to smooth the top... which he did. But used a drill that totally took the sparkle away and left them dull. I then asked for ANOTHER coat of clear gel to make them sparkly again. \n\nHe explained to me after all of this, that the product he used is just like acrylic powder but in gel form, and that the maintenance required a fill... which I asked about in the beginning and wasn't informed on.\n\nWhen we finally finished everything it was 5:30. Two and a half hours for a mani and what I thought was going to be a pretty basic gel manicure seems crazy to me. \n\nIt's also pretty expensive. Ended up costing $82... with tip I spent $100... Definitely can't do that every other week. I think I will have to end up back at Scottsdale Nails or Pink Polish :("^^ . "7"^^ . "2"^^ . "0"^^ . . .