Nails For You

This is actually my first nail salon visit in Toronto cause I never do my nails when I’m home. I usually get my nails done when I travel or just do it myself. Lol.
Anyways, waited a bit to do this review to see how my nails faired. I got my nails done last Tuesday around 5:30pm and I have to say this place is PACKED! Based on Unilocal reviews I kinda didn’t even want to go here. But I gave them the benefit of the doubt because one of my friends (who I’ve known for years) told me she has done her nails here a couple of times already with no issues, assuring me it would be fine.
So I went with just a hint of trepidation. They don’t do bookings, only walk-​ins. I had the mani & pedi combo ($ 35). Salon was was full but we didn’t wait long. I think we were lucky and some ppl were just finishing up. We just went over to the nail polish shelf at the back and selected our colours. Maybe took us a few minutes and already they called us over to have a seat. Side by side as well. So it was nice that we weren’t separated.
They have massage chairs but the buttons are all broken so it’s a bit of a guessing game on what is what. Took me a while to find a comfortable setting. I also noticed my side tables still had fake nail clippings from the previous customer (gross) but I tried to ignore that and continue on. Lol. My nail technician was quiet but efficient and did my mani and pedi. For pedi, she did some light massaging on my legs and scraped the bottom of my feet well enough. No problems there. There was another option of cutting or razor? But I’m wary of that. lol. For hands, one was soaked in water and another wasn’t, which I thought was weird but just let her do her thing. I did think she could have filed and buffed my nails a little to make sure polish was more evenly applied for my mani tho. Also, I spotted a little hair or fibre thread on my pinky of left hand. That was a bit careless of her. After it was finished, she gave me foldable foam slippers to put on and take myself to a little corner where I could stick my feet and hands in these air dryers. She was nice enough to bring all my stuff over there for me.
Overall, I say this salon is just OK. My nails lasted for 6 – 7 days. Cost $ 35 to do a mani & pedi in 1 hour. Don’t expect deep leg massages or really great service. It has almost like a nail express bar vibe. Further improvements could be made. Their massage chair remote device needs to be fixed and they need to update their nail polishes. Some polishes were obviously waaaayy past expiry date and old. Like polish was separating old. If you aren’t confident you will like what they have, bring your own polish.
In conclusion, will I come back again? Unlikely. But if I was really on a budget… maybe? I think there are better salons out there though.

In contrary from most of the reviews, I actually like this Salon. I’ve been here numerous times after a good friend recommended it, and have been more than satisfied with their service. I always get the $ 35 shellac manicure and it stays on for two weeks or more. I’ve never had to wait either, probably since I beat the rush of costumers in the afternoon. I haven’t tried their pedicure since I get it done somewhere else. I would say though that regardless of the reviews, it’s almost always packed in this salon.

This place is dingy. The décor is shoddy and the technicians have limited level of English. Although this is not a fancy place, their price is competitive — Regular mani is $ 15.
I wouldn’t purposely go back there. However, it’s decent enough that if I ever have to kill some time near Eaton Centre, I’d likely hop in for a visit.

Main goal is to make money and churn through as many customers as possible, no attention to detail or quality. Not worth the money at all

Had a mani and Pedi done today June 19^th 2015. Must say very dirty! Would never go back. Was at the South Common Location. The chair was broken… so no relaxing massage… the girl who I had by accident grabbed someone else’s tool that was already used and started to use on me before she realized and then proceeded to wipe down with alcohol. I watched them clean the sinks for pedi and was done very quick with a very dirty brush. The remote control for the broken massage chair was full of dirt and caked on food. The chairs and surrounding areas were very dirty and unkept. They had a sterilizer but question wether it was even turned on… no light present on one of them. First time ever that I never gave a tip… usually I am a big tipper… just couldn’t do it this time. Would not recommend this place.

ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE. DO NOT GO THERE. Got my finger and toes cut there because the workers don’t even pay attention when they do your nails.

WORST EXPERIENCE EVER. Horrible customer service. Took other customers before us and cut my foot when buffing my nails with no apology. NEVER coming here again. They should know better. Way better nails salons in every direction.

Worst experience ever. The service awful… The girl that was doing my nails didn’t have experience at all… She half cut my cuticle. filed my nails but left them uneven and the worst part was that even after I showed her the colors and a picture on my phone of what I wanted (I chose 3 different nail polish colors) and payed in advance as per her request… She wouldn’t put on the nail polish because I was expected to pay additional 5 dollars for having one nail on each hand with a 3^rd color!!! Apparently for them this counts like a design and is $ 5 dollars more expensive. To me that sounds already too much but I wouldn’t have complained if it have had been specified in the price list… Or if she had told me when she asked me to pay the 15 dollars for a regular manicure… Naturally I complained and asked to talk to the manager which made the experience even worse, a young guy showed up with a very rude and unhelpful attitude… No sense of customer service at all… He wouldn’t listen to any of my questions or complaints and the only thing he kept saying was «this is the price we charge here». Again, it wasn’t advertised anywhere and more over the attitude was totally rude… In the end I left the place with an bad unfinished service (no nail polish) and with a disappointing and frustrating feeling… definitely I wouldn’t recommend this place at all.

I’ve gone here a couple times to get a shellac manicure. I absolutely love the selection of the shellac polish and they always do a great job. Reasonable price as well. Very clean place and it is in a great location. I definitely will continue to go back

I came because of a friend’s recommendation. My experience here has been totally different of the one that some of the reviewers have had. I’ve come twice and Kate has done my mani-​pedi. She has been very professional with me, asking me if the work is as I expected from time to time during the service. I like the fact they have free wi-​fi which is definetly a plus. Maybe it’s just Kate that makes the service different. I am going to try another one my next time to provide an updated feedback to all Unilocal community. See you soon!

The wait times can be tedious and unpredictable — I find something they will tell you, «20 minutes» and you end up waiting closer to 45 – 60 minutes. Aside from that, I love the way they do nails. I find they have a strong attention to detail when painting fingers/​toes and they work hard to make things look perfect.

WORST MANI/​PEDI EVER.
This place should be ashamed of itself!!!
Came in for the $ 35 mani/​pedi special with 2 co-​workers. We usually go to «Time for Nails» on Bay Street but thought we’d try this place instead, based on another co-​workers recommendation. We all had appointments for 5:15pm, however mine started about 5 minutes earlier because the other 2 were still picking out their colours. At 5:48pm, I’m sent off to the dryers because I’m all done while the other 2 girls I came with were still getting their feet done. Wtf???
Came in for 5:15 and was done at 5:48. Complete rush job. Even at Time for Nails, you’re there for at least 1.5 hours. My feet look okay (but the same little piece of dead skin that was there before the appointment was still dangling from the bottom of my big toe when I got home, so you can get a sense of how good a job that was) but my hands look like absolute shit. Definitely could have done a 10 000 times better job myself. And she hacked my cuticles up good.
I told the owner I was really unhappy, probably the worst mani/​pedi of my life, and that the girls who I came with weren’t even half way through their service and I was already dried and out the door. He tried arguing that all his workers are at different skill levels, and it takes some girls more time than others. I understand that, but this was ridiculous. 35 minutes for my mani/​pedi and 1.5 hours for the other 2 girls? I wouldn’t even care about the time if it was actually a decent job, but this looks like shit!!! I showed the owner my nails too, and he didn’t even say anything. He knew it was a shitty job but didn’t even offer me a discount. NEVER coming back.

I had a mani-​pedi here on a Sunday afternoon. The place didn’t look very clean — especially the pedicure basins, which they just line with a plastic bag with a hole in it (?!). My esthetician was a chatty young lady who was likeable enough, except she kept going on and on trying to upsell me, and she kept asking me about tips for going clubbing since she thought we were about the same age.
I asked for the 10 minute massage add-​on to my pedicure and totally regretted it because she basically swirled her hands lightly up and down my shins for 9.5 of those 10 minutes. Then she ran her fingers lightly over my calves, ran her fingers over my feet once, and that was it. I was hoping for a relaxing massage with more foot rubbing.
My pedicure was ok, but I really didn’t like how my nails were filed round when I came in with them square. Who does round toe nails these days??? My manicure was also very poor, because my nails were shaped very unevenly. I asked her to re-​file a couple nails and she asked why, so she clearly couldn’t see that they were uneven. I will not be returning.

As the previous reviewer stated, this location is great. It’s clean and spacious and has what you come to expect from nail salons in Toronto. However where this place fails is the staff and the treatment they extend to you. I like to try new nail spots in town on a fairly regular basis.
I had a manicure and was cut 3 times during this service to the point where blood was drawn. Ive never had this happen in the many years I’ve been getting my nails done.
The nail expert made it worse by putting 70% alcohol on it without warning and as a result, my relaxing manicure was a stinging, burning, get-​me-​out-​of-​here experience.
Polish and nail shaping were decent
Maybe she should have gone a bit slower and cut down on the chatter.
I won’t be recommending this to friends and will not be returning. Save your money and go elsewhere. Hopefully over time they will work out the kinks and their service will improve.

Great location close to the Eaton Centre and lovely new location. Everything was sparkly clean and they had beautiful massage chairs with particularly classy foot baths.
Diane was my technician and she was quite friendly. There was the usual attempt to get me to do my eyebrows and upgrade to a spa pedicure. The pedicure was fine. It took a lot of persuasion to get her to take some length off my toenails though. I was concerned that I’d end up as one of those people with nails curling around to reach their soles if she did my nails each time! She did a pretty decent job overall. I can’t say it matched the attention and thoroughness of my experience at Yeti Nails, unfortunately. They also didn’t have many magazines-​I eventually managed to score one when someone else left. Next time I’d bring a book.
Hours don’t seem to be posted anywhere, but I think she said they’re open until 8pm Monday to Friday and until 7pm on Saturday. Prices are competitive: $ 25 for pedicure, $ 35 for mani-​pedi and $ 35 for shellac. They also offer facials, massage, waxing and spa packages.