C-Nails & Spa

I stopped in to get a quick manicure/​pedicure and wanted gel polish. This is a service that I regularly get at another (and other) nail salon (s) here in Atlanta, so I am familiar with average price. This salon completely overcharged for this service and not only that, but the gel polish was literally peeling after a few days. $ 65.00 compared to $ 45.00 on average elsewhere. Terrible manicure! Never going back.

Nice staff… great massage chair… competitive pricing. Nothing to brag about, for sure.

I actually liked this place. I came in a while ago when I wore gel nails, but they were over priced. Came back the time for a pedicure and acrylic fill in, and wow! I mean the nail tech that did my fill in rushed me and the girl after me to find a color, but she actually did a really good job. The man who did my pedicure was awesome!!! The highlight was that he used a brush to trace off the excess nail polish around my toes. No one does that!!! I plan to come back to this place. The techs aren’t talkative, and I love that! It’s not busy busy. Really low key spot in a convenient location! Go here

Thought this place could be a great «last resort» option for when I needed a mani/​pedi in a pinch… but yesterday was the second (and last) time I’ll get my nails done here. I’d read a few Unilocal reviews about the poor hygiene, and while it’s nothing serious, I did find that the tops of my feet developed small red rashes both times I came here. If I had to grade the pedicure and the French gel manicure I got yesterday, I’d give it a C. Not good, not terrible… just below average, which might explain the sticker shock I experienced when the price of these services came to $ 73. I tipped them 20% and wound up blowing $ 87 at the nail salon… never again.

I look forward to and enjoy getting pampered here.
Why you ask?
Well for starters they greet everyone who walks in their door, so you are never left standing with a puzzle look, while everyone stares at you.
Upon entrance you are quickly given the layout of how things are done. First, you pick your color (s) then they guide or point you to your seat.
The pedicures are long and usually never rushed. Chairs are your typical salon chairs, big leather comfy and can massage your neck and back. Manicures however, can be hurried depending on who is doing it. Flat screen tv (s) are available for your viewing pleasure.
I mostly bring a book though, most of my time is spent people watching and running my mouth.

Super slow! I came in after 4 on a Saturday and waited 25 min before being served. My pedicure took 45 min unnecessarily because I didn’t get any special treatments or designs. They don’t have alot of bright summer colors so I settled for as close to pink as I could find. The décor is ok but everything needs to be updated. The work turned out ok so only reason they didn’t get fewer stars. I will not be back

I never do reviews but I feel that this one is necessary. This place should be shut down. They do not wash their instruments between customers and I had to learn this the hard way. I got a toenail fungus from this place. I have not been back since even though it is within walking distance from my home. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

This place is a joke. I don’t understand how they haven’t been shut down by the board yet.
Upon walking in you will notice a sign that says they are not responsible for lost or stolen items while in the establishment. This is your queue to exit left.
They were quick. I will give them that. But the establishment itself is disgusting. There was trash everywhere. I saw the lady who was doing eyebrows double dipping her q-​tips. Those are cheap why would one feel the need to double dip them?
For peace of mind just go elsewhere. I’m itching just thinking about this place.

I went in for a simple manicure. The results are just not good. My nail bed started to bleed from harsh filing. They started painting before my nails were properly cleaned up/​filed. After, I had nail polish all over my nail beds and finger tips. Bubbles under the polish and streaks. They totally redid half of my nails and when they were finally finished the final product still wasn’t that great. Lots of blemishes. Took way too long because of all the mistakes along the way. Definitely not going back.

Only giving it one star because I have too. I would prefer to give it none. This place was absolutely horrible. I was even told by the owner I was to blame for my nails «not looking right.» I was getting a gel manicure, but since the shop was busy she instead just gave me and my friend a nail color change. Literally filed down our nails real quick and threw the color on. I’ve never been so rushed at a salon in my life. There were parts of my nails with no polish on it and that’s where she was telling me I was moving my hands around. Um no, they are in the hot box setting how am I moving them around? … Also charged us $ 25 a piece for being there 20 mins and getting the crappiest «manicure» I’ve ever gotten. We vowed to never speak of that place again.

The owner gave me my pedicure. She pulled the tools out of a pouch she carried to the chair and then after my pedicure put them back in the pouch without washing them. She forgot to massage one of my legs and left a bunch of dried skin/​callus on my big toe. Her friend came in and when she turned to talk to him, she cut me a little bit with the clippers. It could not get any worse…

I have been going to C– Nails for pedicures and eyebrows for about 8 years now and have only had one sort of not good time there and it was just because I went during peak hour and had to wait an hour. Other than that they are alway polite and happy to see me. They stayed open late after all the other clients had left so I could have my whole wedding party girls have our nails done and they let us bring champage to toast with while we were getting our stuff done. I have only gotten my nails done there twice and I was not a fan but I am not a fan of people messing with my hands anyway because if something happened to them I will be out of work, but my girlfriends and my husband get both manis and pedis there and love it. Ture it is often busy and warm but that is only because they are so popular. As for sanitation I have noticed that they spray the foot tub with a germaside and then spray it down with the sprayer and then rinse the tools they used in the germaside water that is left in the tub while cleaning. It is done very fast but they also spray the whole tub down after it drains. Even withought scrubing the germaside will kill everything as long as it is sprayed on everyting in the tub. They also have autoclaves in the back near the restroom that are always being run as they switch out the tools. They also change the towels at each station between customers. It is true that anyone can end up with some kind of infection in any spa and that is the risk you take anywhere you go even the fancy ones can be bad. It is important to go in and check it out before getting any services anywhere and form your own opinion as everyone experiances things differently and can have different experiances with anything or anyplace.

I went here to get a pedicure almost 3 weeks ago since it was close to my house.
I rarely get a «professonal» pedicure and am known to be pretty rough on them (I walk/​run a lot and usually mess them up within a couple of days so it’s usually not worth the cost). I had a wedding to go to though, so I went in to C-​Nails.
I had a great experience, they seated me right away and I felt like the place was very clean and well-​kept (and I work in public health so I am sensitive to those things). The guy who did my pedicure was meticulous and did an awesome job.
The main reason I give 5 stars is that it’s been almost 3 weeks since I got the pedicure and I only have ONE tiny chip on one of my small toes. Definitely will be going here again in the future!

One word: Disgusting. The one time I don’t read Unilocal reviews prior to visiting a business. This place is dirty and the lack of basic sanitation is epic. So, it was my first and last visit. What I found was shocking and I will be filing a complaint with the GA Dept of Health:
Red Flag #1: No sanitary bag over the pedicure bowl — just a couple of sprays and no wipe down.
Red Flag #2: Did not disinfect tools between customers. I didn’t catch on to it at first, but I noticed that they just rinsed off the old tools with water in the sink and just went on to the next customer.
Red Flag #3: The nail file/​buffer was white (original color was prob black) with the dead skin of prior customers
Red Flag #4: Boyfriend was cut during his service and I think they went a little too far with the callous removal for me. I’m feeling way more sensitivity on my feet than I’d like.
After reading the reviews of customers that caught nail fungus from this place, I washed my feet in alcohol, put foot powder in socks, and am praying that I don’t have to learn the hard way how terrible this place is. I should have heeded to the red flags, but I didn’t put it all together until I was more than halfway done with the service. Ugh, super bummed out about this.

If I could I would give 0 stars. My girl and i went in for mani pedis and left with a foot funk. Her polish chipped off that night. My feet are just now recovering after a month. I wouldn’t recommend this place to my worst enemy.

I was scared to read some of the negative reviews of this place because I did not want to be deterred from going here — it is incredibly convenient to me and the hours aren’t horrible. After reading them, I still plan to continue going here even though it sounds like there are some legitimate concerns about cleanliness … partly because I have suffered my only beauty-​related injuries at super fancy places, I’ll roll the dice.
This is mostly a 3-​star place. Their mani-​pedi is affordable and quick, and they have plenty of colors. Not much more to say about that, except that you should probably read the other reviews if you are a germophobe. And I think every place staffed by a bunch of people who speak a language you don’t has the potential to be really annoying, but the staff here isn’t usually. They have an abundance of chairs and don’t ever turn away business, so they’ll stick you in a chair waiting for an available pedicurist for 40 minutes rather than tell you to come back later. I had one extremely annoying experience with this, so I don’t come at peak hours anymore if I can help it.
What bumps it up to 4 stars for me is
1) The eyebrow wax! Quick, cheap, and done in a chair out in the open (no lying on tables vulnerably). A good job too. If I just need a wax, I can be in and out in 5 minutes, and I rarely have to wait for the one lady who does brow waxes.
2) the fact that they let you pay AND tip on credit card (and you can write in your tip). Nail salons are ridiculously behind the times on this one, so I appreciate a place where I can use technology from you know, 15 years ago, and there aren’t signs all over the place asking you to help them commit tax fraud. Though, no Amex.

This is one of the most affordable nail salons that I’ve found in town. They have done a great job on every one of the ten or so pedicures I’ve had here. Because of its location, it can get extremely busy so I plan my visits early in the day on a weekday, if possible. These folks work very hard & have always been courteous & friendly to me.

Not sure why the low reviews… Laura did a great job with my manicure and was quite friendly. 12 dollars for a standard manicure and I was very happy with it!
Great location on Caroline St and a large selection of opi polish.

I live so close to the shopping center that I figured it was time to give it a try. After work on Friday, I went for a regular manicure. I usually spring for the gel polish, but I decided to give my nails a rest from it. To remove the gel the lady had me soak my fingertips in acetone, which is much different then the remover, cotton ball, foil method I’m used to. Then she proceeded to give me a manicure as usual. The massage was short lived, but isn’t it always?
Anyway, my nails started chipping mere hours later. No, I didn’t bump them while still wet or decide to do dishes or hand wash clothes. 48 hrs later every single nail was chipped. Worse then that all my fingertips are flaky, rough, and insanely dry. I am constantly putting aquaphor on them! I went back to show them how terrible they are and she said it must be my skin in the winter over and over. It’s 70 degrees and drizzly-​not exactly the typical cause for epic dry skin. I asked for my $ 22 back and she refused. She offered to repaint my nails for me a «light color.» Oh yeah she also blamed me for not picking a light color-​I picked a light grey (think old school Nintendo console.)
Needless to say I am bummed about missing out of the convenience factor, but the service and quality is piss poor. Ill keep driving to Glenwood!

I came in for a relaxing mani/​pedi after a stressful day. When I walked in I asked if they
offered Shellac french manicures. They shoved a bunch of different colors of gel nails/​gel powder in my face. I told them I didn’t want gel nails, I wanted shellac paint. They kept insisting on the gel nails, that is was the same. I told them never mind, give me a regular mani pedi with french manicure on nails and red on toes. They quickly went through the manicure, did give a nice arm massage, finished by quickly applying paint and was done. The lady doing my toes started doing red tips, she had already finished 2 when I looked down so I didn’t say anything as I was frustrated already. The lady who did my manicure came over and said, what, you said you wanted red all over! I replied, I know, she started doing this and I didn’t feel like changing it, she said 3 more dollars! What??? They get one star for the nice arm massage and they did a nice job on my eyebrows. Worst mani/​pedi ever. Less than 24 hours later, my hands have not been in water, I haven’t worked with them, and have of the french manicure is chipped already. I asked and paid for a non-​chip top coat… argh. Will not go back. I posted a pic in the tips section.