W Nails and Spa

I bought a groupon for one of their $ 60 pedicures, made an appointment and went to go treat myself. Waited for 30 minutes in cold bubbling water, and watched one of the women take her tools right from one station (which she just finished) and take it to the client next to me. I dried my feet off, cancelled my groupon order and went to my usual place! I would not recommend this place to anyone!

Definitely on the pricier side but they did an amazing job! I had Susan for my pedi and gel manicure and have no complaints! I’ll be back :)

It was a little expensive, but it was good.

Great nail salon. I have a wonderful experience and they did an awesome job. Next time I’m in town I’ll be coming back!

This is my go-​to nail salon. I usually make an appointment but have also been able to get in for last minute walk ins too. The technicians do a good job and are friendly. After a bad experience being cut at another salon, I have not had a similar experience here, which is a relief. You can find me getting a pedicure here about once a month or so all year round.

Nail review only: I’ve been going here for years, never had a bad experience. Clean salon; employees are friendly, professional!

I love this place and my manicure specialist Mimi. She is the most professional master I’ve ever had. She is always nice to her clients and my nails all the time look awesome. She knows exactly what is gonna be good for u.
I strongly recommend her and you will never regret, I promise!))

At long last, I’ve finally found an amazing nail salon in Arlington! I visited W Nails & Spa recently to get my nails done for a special occasion. My nail stylist was professional and friendly and gave me a great suggestion for my nail polish color. I got a gel manicure for the first time ever, and a week later it’s still looking fabulous! Their regular Manis are $ 18 and gel is $ 38. I’m planning to mainly do regular Manis going forward, but the added benefit of gel is that it dries more quickly (and I was in a hurry) and lasts longer!
The nail salon is large and clean. They take their time making sure you’re pampered and also happy with their service. Walk-​ins are also welcome, which I appreciated on a time crunch. I’m so happy I’ve discovered this place! I will certainly be back.

I decided to visit this place due to it being close to my hotel. Be prepared to be charged a substantial amount of money for the simplest service ever. The work is not worth the price. This was really a disappointing experience and the pedicure was the worse. Save your time and your money!!!

I’m bummed about writing this because I want to like this place so bad. I live right near here so this is the most convenient nail place for me to go to. I gave it three tries hoping it would be getting better.
This last visit I had regular manicure and brought in my own top and base coat, and I wish I had brought my own color polish as well. They barely had any options. By that I mean six rows that weren’t full. Every red was the same name and when you shook the color bottles the color would run down quickly and get legs like a wine would meaning the polish is way too loose and that they added something to it to make it last longer. I could not find any pinkish/​orange which is very popular. They did have a large selection of gel but my nails just don’t hold up under that.
My manicure then started after my nail tech hollered for me to come back to her station. I believe you get what you pay for and I only payed $ 22 for this manicure, but I also believe sanitation is not an option its the law. She proceeded to pull out her tin from her drawer with cuticle cutters, cuticle pushes, nail files and clippers. I tried to ignore it but I went to cosmetology school. Those tools need to be sanitized in barbicide, or pulled out of a sterilized bag. It is so easy to get an infection if they accidentally cut too much off of your cuticle.
My manicure turned out okay. The color is uneven which isn’t her fault its the loose polish and the file she used was too rough leaving the tips of my nails jagged and not smooth.
For $ 22 I expect a clean decent manicure. It wasn’t the manicure that turned me off, it was the crunching of the pork rinds by the tech sitting behind mine, the uncleanliness and the lack of options. Needless to say I won’t be back and would not recommend this nail salon to anyone.
And now it hasn’t even been 24 hours and my nails have several chips. argh.

I live next door and so this is where I go for pedicures on a regular basis (and typically gel manicures around the holidays– most of the year I don’t have my finger nails done). I always walk in and never have to wait long. Everyone has always been very friendly. I like to have fun with my toenail colors so I’m usually using two different colors. Lol… it’s gotten to the point where sometimes they’ll talk me into changing up how I’m doing the 2 colors. I’ve always received good service.
It’s convenient for me, but if they didn’t do a good job, I wouldn’t continue to go!

I found this place overpriced: $ 40 for a gel mani, but the bigger let down was the older woman that did my nails keep holding the bottle of polish against my hand as she painted (covering it in polish). She pretended not to notice so I needed to repeatedly, awkwardly ask for it to be taken off my hand.
One week later and 3 nails have peeled off and one nail clearly shows where the top coat wasn’t applied over the full nail.
This is the closest salon to me, but there are better options in this area for nail care so I won’t be returning.

They always do a really good job on my toes here but I find it’s a bit pricier than other salons in the area and they always try to upsell you.
Also the past 2 times I’ve gone my massage chair has been broken. This isn’t a huge deal, but when the pedicure price is $ 33, you kind of want your massage chair to work.
Overall though it’s a decent place in Pentagon City and you can almost always walk-​in with no appointment.

The good and the bad:
First bad: in desperate need of pedicure (I was 2 weeks ago) and knew I would have a hard time competing with my woman in Boston whose pedicures will last me 6 weeks (yes, 6… message me for details if you are Boston-​bound).
Needed to get an appointment ASAP, so looked on Unilocal (obviously) and located W Nails and another place a couple of blocks away. Both had 3.5 stars, so I figured I would see for myself.
The Good: the girl at the desk (who I think was also the one I spoke with one the phone) was really nice, offered water, and a place to sit. It was my first time there, and she does a great job welcoming everyone.
The Bad: I have no idea of the name of the woman who did my pedicure (please tell me your name!!!) but she was pretty abrupt and chatted with the woman next to her the entire time. I needed to remove some polish from the skin later on, so maybe if she paid a little more attention, it wouldn’t have happened? Attention or not, there just isn’t an excuse for being unpleasant.
I would go again IN A BIND for the basic, $ 33 pedicure, but only in a bind.

Came here yesterday, and had a great mani/​pedi with Fanny!

It’s been a long time since I’ve used a walk in location for a mani /​pedi. I’m in the area for work and I liked the Unilocal advertised coupon! I appreciated being given a realistic wait time. She did a good job on both the manicure and the pedicure but there are two reasons why I won’t rate this business 5 stars. The first one is the non-​posted cash only tip policy. This a plastic world and if tipping is part of the purchase, then tips need to be accepted in the same payment tender. The second reason is the cheap paper shoes I was given to walk back to my hotel in. Which means I walked back barefoot. So now that I’ve washed my feet, messing up both my manicure and my pedicure, I send this review out in hopes the owners will spend a couple extra bucks to buy the sturdier styrofoam flip flops like I see other people wear out of strip mall nail salons.

I was excited to get my nails done by W Nails and Spa but also kind of nervous. I usually go to Ivy Nails and Spa but I wanted to try something new. I had pictures of exactly what I wanted on my phone so I can cut out any miscommunication. I knew I can get seen right away because I arrived at W Nails and Spa around 12pm on a tuesday (only one customer was there). So the manager/​owner welcomes me at the door and asked what I wanted. I told her I wanted a «Gel Nails» full set manicure and a pedicure. She showed me the prices and said it will cost $ 81. She told one of her workers what I wanted. I was fine with that. So I picked out a purple color nail polish. I’m relaxing while getting a pedicure and I had a change of heart with the color of the nail polish and showed the technician a picture of a new color. She couldn’t find the color and brought other alternatives. I didn’t like the colors. She looked frustrated. No problem. So I got up myself and found a color I was satisfy with. The whole time I wasn’t offered any water etc. On top of that, when she was done scrubbing my feet, she put the scrub back into the drawer. My feet are clean but WTF. How many times that thing was used?!
Finished with pedicure and now moving along to my «Gel Nail» full set manicure. Before the technician got started, I told her I naturally have thin/​soft nails. I wanted her to be careful with the nail file machine and I rather prefer a manual nail file. I repeated 3 times. She gets kind of hostile and said «do you want a regular manicure?» I told her «NO. I want what I want». Now I’m getting in a not okay mood. We both compromised, she can use the nail file machine but she has to lightly touch my real nails. Everything was okay until she asked what shape and length do I want my nails to be. To avoid confusion, I showed her an Instagram picture of exactly what I wanted. (photo below). She’s working away and I wanted to look at my phone to see if I needed to add any money to the parking meter because I was there for almost 2 hours. She demands «don’t move!». I’m like… does she has any customer service training? Another WTF moment.
She’s about to paint my nails when she asked for the payment of $ 65. The technician gave me Acrylic full set, when I asked for Gel. And on top everything, she gave me the WORST paint job ever and the shape of my nails did not look like the photo I showed her. My nails and cuticles was a hot mess. (photo below)
I went to the manager/​owner and explained and showed her my nails up close. The technician was walking around PO, like I’m the one that gave her the half ass work. My 5 years old niece can do the same quality work. So the manager/​owner shrugged her shoulders like it was nothing and said sorry, it was miscommunication (even though I had photos) and can I sit down and wait for someone to paint it over. I was there over 2 hours already, I was done at that point. They don’t realize people’s time is worth more than money. I can get more money, but I can’t get my time I wasted back. I gave a half ass tip for a half ass job. I usually tip $ 15-​$ 30. I would not recommend W Nails and Spa to anyone.
I would recommend Ivy Nails and Spa. All their tools comes out of sealed package and NOT from some shady drawer. They offer water, tea, soda, snacks etc as soon as you come through the doors. The technicians do all the work. Color change? no problem. Do everything you want in terms of nails, no problem. Keep your cup full, no problem. Will the paint job be perfect almost every time? yes! Will you feel important? yes! Clean tools you can see? yes! Cleans the bowl after every use? yes! Free parking? yes!
You live and you learn. I never write reviews but I never in my life left out of any place feeling devalued and received poor quality work/​product.
*Message me if you guys want more angles of my nails by W Nail and Spa.*

They charge you $ 5 simply to cut your finger nails. WTF are they thinking? No, I can’t say I was impressed. Service was friendly, but they lack the quality I am used to getting when I get my nails done. I came here by the choice of my friend… not by my own doing.
Call me a prude, but I won’t go to a nail salon with less than 4 stars for the mere fact about how picky I am about who touches my feet and hands. Plus, several of my friends would have had to review it for me to consider otherwise also.
MY other hangup is that I don’t feel this place is totally sanitary. The way my nail tech handled things make me feel a bit iffy. I commented to her to rinse one of the pedicure tools because you could visually see dead skin on there from a previous user. Yuck and more yuck!

Walked in for my lunch break. I was seen immediately! No appointment. Yay me! Tracy was amazing and talkative, my manicure is beautiful.
My small issue was for the price. Faulting myself cause I didn’t ask before my service. I paid $ 53.00 no tip added for a gel manicure! O_​o nothing else. I assumed it was because it was a French tip too.
Shoulder shrug!
I’ve never paid over $ 30.00 for previous ones at other locations in Virginia.

Okay. My manicure and pedicure ended up being amazing. Love the color, and the shape is perfect. Kim did both my manicure and pedicure, and I couldn’t ask for a sweeter and more skilled technician.
I’m a stickler for customer service. Small details are really important to me. The salon is very nice, and offer tea and water while you’re waiting or getting your nails done – not uncommon. I was offered a water, and when I received it and said «Thank you very much,» I got silence in response. It’s personal, but I really can’t stand that. manners go a long way.
I went to my appointment at 7pm on a Saturday evening, the shop closed at 8pm. While I was there, the technicians started closing the shop and tidying things for the next day. Fine. But then, not fine. One of the technicians came to the pedicure chair next time mine and filled it up with hot water and laundry detergent. I honestly thought that she was going to hand clean each pedicure bowl. Instead, she began to hand wash dirty towels. Now, I’ve taken into account that many of the towels were only used to dry customer’s hands and feet, but I find it to be a little unsanitary to use a bowl that is used to soak and wash people’s feet for any other purpose.
To each her own.