Bella Salon & Spa

Lousy. $ 32 pedicure was little more than a polish change. Asked if I’d like a scrub for $ 1 more than charged me $ 7. No tip and never going back.

This place is overrated. Worst service I’ve ever received at a salon, and the quality was bad too.
I came here with my friend to get a pedicure and manicure. My friend had the same but also wanted a hair style. There were only 2 women at the salon and one was busy. They prepared my pedicure station, put water and told me to sit there with my feet soaking in. I thought this would be a 5 – 10 min thing before my pedicure, but instead they had me sitting there for half an hour (feet were getting all pruned up) while one of them did my friends hair. They said they wanted to do her hair first so that the two of us could be together while we were getting a pedicure.
So finally we’re sitting together, and we can’t even have a conversation because the ladies are speaking in vietnamese to each other (very loudly). I couldn’t even relax b/​c of their loud chattering.
Then they kept asking me if I wanted them to curl my hair. Telling me how nice it would look, etc. I had to say no 4 to 5 times. I didn’t enjoy the hard sell.
The quality of their nail care was horrendous. She cut my nails and didn’t file them correctly. There were little shards of nail still on 50% of my nails that needed to be filed better, otherwise they could pull on things, like pantyhose. She didn’t like it when I requested that she fix them, so I just did it myself. I had no choice and it sucked having to fix something that should have been done the right way.
The worst part, was when the she accidentally messed up one of my nails (with her own fingers), and I asked if she could repaint that one (mind you, she was still painting my other nails so I didn’t see why this would still be a problem). Anyhow, she said «no messed up» and proceeded to ignore my request, and just added more nail polish on top of what was clearly a messed up nail. I decided not to say anything at this time, b/​c clearly she was annoyed.
After it was all said and done, she ended with «don’t mess up. I don’t have time to fix it, I’m too busy today» —she kept repeating it over and over, trying to make it seem like I’m the one who messed up my nail, when it was she who messed it up.
Anyhow, it was the worst service ever, and her nail polish job on my fingernails were all over the place, on my cuticles, etc.
I would not pay $ 35 for this service. Maybe $ 10 max.
She could have made a difference in my experience by being nice, and correcting her error, instead of blaming the customer.
If you are expecting great/​quality work, do not go here.

This salon is a bit hard to find, as it’s located inside the Anabella Hotel and my GPS was trying to tell me it was on the other side of Katella. Look for Tiffy’s Restaurant, park there, and it’s right inside the hotel next door to Tiffy’s.
I came all the way out here because the reviews stated that there is an extensive selection of nail art and that Vicky is so creative, etc. I found the salon clean and everything, but it didn’t live up to the glowing reviews for me. The selection of nail polish colors are half OPI polishes, half dollar-​store polishes. Almost all are a tone of red or fuschia. Not much in the way of different colors if you’re not looking for that. I saw one green and one light purple. I asked to see the nail art selection I’d heard so much about.
Weeeeell… if you like giant, gaudy flowers, this is your place. The designs all looked the same to me. A big non-​descript 80’s-style flower, just in different shades. The flowers don’t look like any certain type (say, a rose, or a chrysanthemum, or a hibiscus). I ended up choosing a design that had three five-​petaled flowers over a background of some grassy things just because it was the least hoochie-​mama or old-​lady style in my opinion. I was (of course) told that the design wouldn’t work on the color I’d chosen, and that the design is different for toes. I expected that she meant that the design would be arranged differently, due to the shape of a toenail being different from a fingernail, but nope. I ended up with a totally different design than what I’d picked by the time she was done painting it. It was one larger five-​petalled flower with some dots around it. I felt underwhelmed. I guess the larger flower was so that it could be seen better, but just one? And why dots and not the grassy leaves? Was it too much work to make a line instead of a dot?
Another thing that I found very irritating was the hard sell they tried to give me. I was super nice and polite when I asked for my service. As there were two ladies there and no other customers, the second lady said, «You should get a manicure at same time, it look good.» I didn’t want to spend money on a manicure that’ll flake off the very next day, so I thanked her and declined, saying that when I get my nails done, the polish always flakes right off, so I only wanted to get a pedicure today. Just to be nice I said that maybe I’ll get a manicure next time. The lady said again, «Why you no get a manicure? Your nail looks bad. You have to get the gel, it lasts long.» I felt it was kind of rude to insist like that and to say my nails look bad (she hadn’t even seen them, it was kind of silly). I again said no thank you nicely and with a smile. The two ladies seemed really irritated about that, even though I had tried to be very polite.
Later on as the other lady was doing the pedicure, she got out a bottle of blue gel foot scrub and announced, «You want to get callus remove? I do for you.» She didn’t really wait to get my reply, but I know they usually charge extra for that at this kind of salon. I asked how much extra it would cost, and they told me $ 7! SEVEN DOLLARS WHAT? For some cheap scrubby gel? I didn’t see a foot file or anything like that around. I could totally do that (and regularly do– in fact, I had that morning!) at home, for free, my friends, so again I smiled politely and said «Oh, no thank you, not today.» The lady straight up said, «Why no! No, no, you need to get the callus remove. It so bad.»
I was a little irked by that kind of pushy add-​on tactic. It’s rude and I find it annoying. My nail polish started flaking off in 1 week, so the quality wasn’t any better, it was just that the salon was clean, quiet, and didn’t stink like nail polish. The ladies talked a lot to each other in Vietnamese and didn’t really try to talk to me much, even though I was complimenting their nice salon and everything. All in all after all was said and done I paid about $ 30 for a pedi that was of the quality I could have gotten at any other Vietnamese-​type nail salon. I think that this place is a bit overrated in my opinion.

I broke three nails while on vacation, and this salon was recommended. I paid $ 75 for a full set, which was ridiculous, and my nails look terrible. I have strange unfinished parts, gaps on the side and lumps. I would not recommend this salon.

I’ve been coming to see Vicky for at least 6 or 7 yrs and have never been disappointed. She’s THE most creative manicurist/​pedicurist I’ve ever been to. Simply awesome!!!

A little bit hard to find, as it is located in the Anabelle Hotel, so you cannot see it from the street. Also, a bit more costly that the other nail salons in the area ($ 25 pedicure, $ 25 gel fill-​in). However, the service definitely makes up for the price. The women there are very friendly and are great about flling you in on the conversation. When they are not speaking in English and start laughing, they recap the conversation so you can be in on the humor. Not only do they do great work, but are entertaining as well. I will definitely be back!

You have a really special ocasion price is not a problem go here. Ask for Vicki only she does amasing art work on nail. Tell her Kimberly sent you she will give you my pricing from 10 years ago. She does special weding nails and also does toes to match. LOVE IT LOVE IT !!! and my husband loves it too.