1 /5 Kate Banwell: Unfortunately did not have a good experience here and will not be coming back. For reference, I showed the artist the last picture and stated that it was exactly what I wanted (which was pulled from their other reviews on google).
There are many issues that I encountered:
1. the French tip line is not clean at all, flat on some sides while curved on the other, and does not extend across my entire nail
2. the nail thickness is not consistent within each nail and is almost a plateau on top of my nails. they are flat at the top and go straight down rather than being rounded.
3. you can see in some of the pictures that the tip of the nail does not match up to the edge of my natural nail, leaving a huge indent on some of the nails
4. when the final clear coats were put on, the artist left for a bit and then came back and checked on me. she seemed surprised that they were still wet and asked if I wanted to do shellac instead. I agreed and she proceeded to start buffing 2 layers of WET nail polish off my nails. She seemed stressed out and kept buffing my skin as well.
5. the gel polish that was put on was placed extremely quickly leaving some empty spots, polish on my skin, and even left 2 SPIKEY bumps on the TOP of my nails
6. when everything was over, the artist proceeded to give me a hand massage without wiping any of the nails filings off of my hand.. leaving me with a sandy feeling massage..
7. The saving grace was the woman that did my pedicure, while I made sure to ask for a foot scrub to get extra dead skin off.. I came home to still find my feet feeling pretty rough. they look generally okay though.
8. I went with a friend and we both caught ants crawling on us. The one for me was in my foot and my friend found one on her lap.
From far away, my hands look okay and will generally work for my event this week. I will stick to doing my nails at home as it was absolutely not worth the $115 spent.
