Lucky Park Nail Salon

Cheap, awesome place. Best I’ve been in Brooklyn!
I got a fill, with custom design and gel top coat for $ 23! My nails look stunning. The place was super clean.
The staff — so friendly and sweet! The speak great English — were very nice, polite, helpful.
Overall I’m over-​the-​moon happy to find my new nail salon here in Brooklyn.
***cash only*** but ATM next door.

I’m going to review this for what it is: a cheap nail salon.
If you’re looking for a spa, move right along, nothing to see here. if you’re looking for an under $ 20 mani/​pedi and a $ 5 eyebrow wax, step right in to Chen Park Nail Salon.
CASH ONLY. There’s a McD’s right next door with an ATM, just in case.
It’s not fancy, the color selection is not great, but the people do a damned good job. I BYO nail polish to any salon I go to so I can touch up an inevitable chip. That said, my mani lasted almost a full week without so much as a spec coming off– so their base and top coat products are good.
At the price point, I was not expecting much attention to detail… completely wrong. The young lady was meticulous every step of the way. Great feet scrubbing, filing and painting.
I’ll echo the others’ comments about the language barrier– the staff chat with each other and not so much the clients. I’m not one to chat with the staff and I never felt jilted by them, so this didn’t have any affect on me.
All in all fine place to go to a cheap mani/​pedi.

I just went for a full acrylic set and couldn’t be happier! The price was great at under $ 30 with tip & the stylist was fast and good.
They don’t speak much English here but they do their best and are very friendly. I had no appointment but was in and out in under an hour.
They also have a good array of rhinestone doodads like bows, studs, flatbacks and hello kittys– I was told a bow on each hand is $ 8 all together which is not a bad deal.
I’ve definitely paid much more for a manicure that wasn’t nearly as good in Manhattan. I think I’ve found my new favorite nail salon.

I was searching for a place to do acrylics while in the city, outside of manhattan so i wouldnt be spending 100+ $, and this is a solid place for sure. They did a really good job on the shape (long oval/​pointy) and they look clean and neat not messy. They have all the Japanese decals too, jewels bows hello kitty etc. everyone was very polite and I was in and out pretty quick. It’s true that their colors aren’t great though and they don’t have Essie or opi so bring your own. 35 bux for a new long set plus jewelry is super cheap! I am only going here for nails when I’m in town.

3.5 stars
This is my spot in BK! It’s not «Manhattan $ 100 new set of nails posh atmosphere» but it will do. A husband and wife run/​own this place. I only let them do my nails — they are super fast. The prices are good. My current nail obsession is gel polish with glitter. It’s the best I’ve found so far. The fill-​ins last about 1.5−2 weeks (at least mine do). Be nice and they will be nice to you. Some girls walk in here so aggressive and demanding. The staff is very friendly and funny here, especially Jennifer who does pedicures — everyone is her «baby». They have may loyal customers including me.
Regarding nail art — I follow TONS of nail techs on Instagram and often get inspiration for my next design from those photos. Here at Chen Park, they don’t like duplicating other artists designs. I’ve tried many times to bring in a picture and get them to use this as inspiration but they want to charge more. Now I just explain what I want and work with what I know their skill level can deliver to avoid the hassle.

i live across the street from this place and after trying this place a handful of times, i now go out of my way to get my nails done elsewhere. i have regular nails, no tips or anything, so my rating is based on just normal mani/pedi’s.
true-​this place is unbelievably inexpensive, but you really do get what you pay for. their nail color selection is terrible, i have never found the color i actually want, and i’m pretty sure that most of their colors are not only incredibly poor in quality (cheap-​o drugstore brands, not OPI or Essie), but also watered down. i’ve never had a mani or pedi from here that lasted more than 24 hours without starting to chip or peel.
they also do this weird filing thing with an electric grinder which took off the top layer of my toenails and left them whitish and very brittle.
not well ventilated, and little to no a/​c in the summertime, which makes for a really really bad combo, if you ask me.
last time i was there, they didn’t have real nail dryers and i was put under a couple of mini fans.
skip this place.

I make this trek on the Q train to get my nails done. I am used to getting acrylic nails done by Vietnamese shops, which are aplenty in the South. (from NC) I found this shop via a Unilocal review, and I finally have a place to get my acrylic nails in NYC, after going a year without. I live in Manhattan and all they seem to have are snooty spas that only do manicures or gel nails. I have very brittle nails and prefer acrylic. Chen Park is not glamorous but you get a great set of nails for cheap, fill-​ins and pedicures are equally cheap.

After reading the review, I called to find out how late the place was open and got, «I don’t speak English, you talk too much» and she hung up. Ugh. Not going there.

Pretty pedi but the abrasion I got from the overzealous foot scrubbing still feels irritated a few days later. I dislike it when my callouses are given a light sweep, but this was a little too much. Saying ouch did not seem to help. Other than that was not a bad experience.

Are you desperately searching for FANTASTIC glitter and design acrylic nail tips? Then a quick ride on the Q-​train will take you to the best nail salon for acrylic nails that I have found, and I have searched high and low.
Chen Park Nail Salon — the outside sign reads «Lucky Park» — is an unassuming little salon sitting right next door to the Parkside Ave., Q line, subway station. You would never think that they provide the quality and variety of glitter tips not to be found anywhere else, but they do. Not only do they do a beautiful job, but their pricing is amazing at $ 30.00 for a full set of «seashell» glitter acrylic tips, including a free gel top coat.
I am from Texas where acrylic tips are a way of life. The local salon that I use there has over 100 styles of acrylic tips, applied perfectly, quickly and for the utterly reasonable price of $ 40 for a new set, including gel top coat. For the past 5 summers I have been coming to NYC for my daughter to study and train. Both of us wear glitter and/​or patterned tips and I have been searching all over NYC for a salon to do my fills, repair a nail if it breaks or comes off, or for a new set. I have been utterly disappointed time and time again. Either the salons that I have tried have been incompetent or ridiculously expensive or both. I had given up on trying to find a decent salon for acrylic glitter nail tips.
Please let me explain what «acrylic glitter nail tips» are. They are acrylic nail tips, which are built onto the nail using acrylic powder and liquid. They are not gel tips. The type of tips that I was searching for and found at Chen Park Nail Salon involve first gluing on either a pre-​patterned plastic tip — anything from abstract designs to checkerboards to animal prints — OR gluing on a white plastic tip then covering the white tip with heavily glittered and/​or colored acrylic powder. A clear acrylic powder is then used to create the body of the nail, then a clear gel coat is applied at the end to seal the nail. The final result is a clear acrylic base with a tip that is glittered or colored or patterned. This does NOT involve complex painting of acrylic nails. At my home salon they might use a bit of glitter paint to accent the patterned tip before the clear acrylic is put over it, but, again, it does not mean painted tips — although this salon does this as well.
While the selection of patterned tips at Chen Park Nail Salon is pretty limited — at this time there were only a handful of those options — they do an incredibly rich-​looking «seashell» glitter, as they don’t scrimp on the glitter itself, like other salons do and their glitter selection was quite good. The tips that my daughter’s friend had done were a combination of 2 glitters and they did not charge extra for this as I have found other salons here in NYC do.
We also had pedicures at Chen Park Nail Salon that were first rate. It is only $ 12 for the basic pedicure, which, by itself, is better than $ 30 pedi’s I have had in the city. I was shocked to find that getting a «spa pedi» was only an additional $ 8 for a total of $ 20 for a really detailed and luxurious spa pedi. And $ 20 is as high as they go for the pedis. There are no «additional» items. Oh, except an additional 10 minutes of massage was an additional $ 10, which I got.
Forget the rest of the nail salons out there — I’ve been to the one in Williamsburg — that offer glitter nails. They’re crap AND they’re obscenely expensive. Hop on the Q-​line to Brooklyn, get off at «Parkside Ave.», walk out of the station and across the street for some of the best glitter acrylic nails I’ve ever found and a fantastic pedicure, all at a GREAT price!