Color Nails & Spa

So I have been here three times and the last two have lead me to write this review. I never leave reviews but after looking at my hands this morning I thought I should warn others. I got a gel manicure for Christmas and went back the next week to switch gel colors. I specifically said I just want to switch colors, not get another manicure but was charged for one and my skin (not cuticles) were torn up. You can see the two photos I’ve posted they are a clear color with glitter. It is this one particular lady who did it both times and did not listen to what I wanted and was trying to up sell me the entire time she was doing my nails (asking me if I wax, trying to get more decoration, etc). She wears glasses and had a pony tail and was extremely rude the whole time, wish I had asked for her name. I think others who work here are more capable, but if you go here just pray you don’t get her.

Wow what a Terrible experience. The lady who did my pedicure was very rude and downright grumpy! It is overpriced for the quality of service. I will never go back here. Go to Happiness Nails in Bressi Ranch!
I normally don’t write reviews like this because everyone can have a bad day but the service and quality of pedicure was terrible. she even scratched my nail polish while putting on my shoes and tried to blame me for it. Never going back.

This is by far the WORST set of nails I have ever had and by far the worst nail salon I’ve ever been to, along with the worst experience of my life. I work in customer service and you should always make sure your customer is happy, smiling, and socialized with, not once was I felt welcome and not once did she genuinely speak to me like I mattered I wasn’t even told her name!!! I showed her a photo of what I wanted my nails to look like and to be completely honest they were not that difficult, I was actually able to explain to her HOW to do them which she did not listen to me about, instead she proceeded to not speak to me and do it her own way which looked nothing like I wanted!!! So after screwing them up to start I asked and again showed her how to fix it and then AGAIN SCREWED THEM UP!!! I was finally so fed up I just sat there and waited for her to say something which was only to go wash your hands, I then return while she is picking up my purse and cell phone to pass my off to another employee to finish my gel!!! First of all I don’t know you and you haven’t tried to be friendly with me one bit and secondly you have no right to touch my personal property when I don’t even know your name!!! RUDE!!! So the second lady starts to do my gel coat as she laughing and completely turned away from me talking to coworkers and completely screws up the gel by not covering the whole nails! Seriously… It’s just like a top coat it’s hard to screw up heck I could have done a better job. If it weren’t for the fact that I have ill family in the hospital and my stress is already through the roof I would have demanded a complete new set or I would not pay cause they 100% did not deserve or earned my money and if it wasn’t such a miserable experience I’d go back and make them fix it!!! But I would rather go to any where else but here, I am now going to go to a different to have them fix because I can not walk around with these nails their horrible, trashy, and messy! I hate this place and will never return no matter what and I hope others will hear my warning.

Great nails! Very busy but generally always good!
I can always come here and my manicure always look amazing and I have never had a problem.
Only downside is wait time.
It always take a while longer than they say.

Not worth it. This place is way too pricey for the service and the quality. I have been here numerous times, thinking that «maybe it was just that one time». I have waited on many occasions while they chit chat and laugh.
I got acrylic nails done here, and about 3 weeks later, I came back for a fill, and got the same person. After she took off my nail polish, you could see green under my nails! She said, the nail was lifting and water got underneath, and whoever did my nails before didn’t do a good job. I said, I got my nails done here — no response. She started to use a nail file to get it off… gross! I nicely asked her to sanitize it. She was short with me that and just plain rude from the beginning. Overall, I’m not going to pay someone to be rude to me and to do a bad job on my nails.

Annoying. I called for an appointment, and was told to come right over, they had availability. Waited 25 minutes. No service. Not cool.

2012: Unilocal has the address wrong! 5617 Paseo Del Norte. Across from the Carlsbad Outlets. Awesome experience, once I found it! I only like the gel polish, which they have a huge selection! Amy gave the best leg massage I have ever had! They also did I great job waxing my eyebrows. I will for sure be going back!
I origially wrote this review in 2012 after my first visit there. I still LOVE it there! I go so often that the staff knows me by name!

I’ve been getting my nails done here since they opened. Excellent customer service and I’m very pleased with their results. One drawback could be because I don’t make appointments, sometimes I get an inexperienced person. (That’s mainly my fault though)

While in Carlsbad to attend a wedding, I asked for a recommendation for a nail salon. I was told about Color Nails and decided to give them a try. I don’t normally get mani-​pedis but, hey! It was a beach wedding. I walked in, chose a color and barely had time to sit down before they were ready for me. And that was without an appointment. The woman who started on me had to stop when someone with an appointment came in but within a couple of minutes, another woman came to take over. Not only did she do a great job but now, a week later, I only have a couple of chips, manicure still looks good.

I decided to get a much needed gel manicure while my 9 year old daughter was in a class nearby. I asked if they could do a manicure in an hour because I couldn’t be late picking up my daughter. They said «yes»
There were no other customers in the salon.
The manicure took well over an hour! Mainly because the technician kept pausing to chit chat with her co-​worker. As a result I was late to pick up my daughter! Secondly… the color I chose from the sample nail colors was a pretty pink. My nails came out red! When I asked why they weren’t the color I chose… the technician said «oh it’s fine… I’ll fix it next time»
There won’t be a next time at this place!

I love this place, this is the only place I will go to get my nails done. I went today and totally forget to check in!
I will say it is a little pricey but they are very clean and they do a great job. The only thing that I don’t like is the customer service. Sometimes they are very nice and then sometimes you get some girls who will answer their phone or text while you’re getting a manicure or pedicure and they’re very loud and rude and sit there talking in front of you when you’re trying to relax. Next time my nail lady does it im going to ask her to hang up because it is horrie customer service and it’s just rude to sit in front of someone talking In a different language so loudly.
But if you can get over that fact and the fact that it’s pricey… you’ll love this place like me haha:)

I liked this nail salon when I first started going here. Then it all went downhill. After the last 4 times were bad, I’m just done with it. It’s not nearly as clean as it used to be (back in 2013). Last time I went, the woman doing my pedicure was texting while giving a pedicure, my manicurist answered her phone and walked off, and later when I went to pay, no one would come to let me pay. I probably should’ve walked out! Every single person working was in the back room or something. The absolute worst part was, they had the most disgusting tv shows on the tv the last 3 times I’ve gone. Now, as for the nails, it’s mediocre. Not horrible, but not great. The people working here seem to work just to pass time, they don’t seem to care if they do a good job.

I just moved to Ca from Pa and I needed a new nail salon. The Color Nail Salon and Spa is amazing. The women that work there are extremely friendly. They have a wide variety of colors gel and regular. It is very clean and has a very approachable feel. This will be my regular nail salon.

I like color nails. The do long pedi’s and are very friendly. Lots of gel color to choose from and usually no wait. They’re clean and well lit. I don’t like how close chairs are to another client, I long for more nails time privacy, but I think I’m dreaming with that wish! ¹⁄₃₆₅

As a thriving woman in her mid twenties, having polished nails and toes is important! ;)
I LOVE this place!!! They are all so very nice. I go to Hannah. She’s my favorite! She does my pedis, and she is just the most precious person ever. She smiles when she sees you, she remembers your name, she is so gentle, so thoughtful, and great to talk to! I truly enjoy her!
This place is also very clean! I’ve been to certain nail salons that were quite questionable with their hygiene, not this place! They are very sanitary and clean! I love them! Keep it up Color Nails and Spa! Love you guys!!!

Today I made an appointment to get a pedicure/​full set and I needed my previous set removed. The nice lady Amy did a great job in my pedicure and I have no complaints there hence the 2 stars. But her personally I give 5 stars.
Why I gave 2 stars;
I had an appointment for my nails and had to wait about 20min after my pedicure was done for a nail lady to do my nails.
Instead of soaking my nails off while I waited for my pedicure and full set to start the lady who did my nails (Brigitte) proceeded to carelessly rip my acrylics off making my nails super short.
My nail lady didn’t even say hello to me.
When almost ripping my real nail in half my nail lady laughed.
So by the time I was done with the torture I asked for a manicure and got out as fast as possible. Her massage was less than a minute. She was just plain terrible. I hate to complain but I give both good and bad reviews when I feel it’s necessary. You can check my profile if u like. I’ll definitely not be going back to this place.

This place is pretty average. I’ve been to far better spots to get a pedi. It’s really clean inside, but I came with my mom for her birthday and she got the deluxe pedi and I got the regular and I finished before her… and hers cost $ 10 more.
The girl who painted my toes did an ok job but my mom’s looks like I painted it at home in a rush. My toenails are not all the same length and the shape is kind of awkwardly square instead of rounded on the edges.
They asked if we wanted manis as well and I feel like after we said no they just stopped caring.
I feel like there are more nail salons in the area with better service and pricing. Most likely not making this a regular spot anytime soon.

This place did a horrible job. I had gone in with 4 other girls to get ready for my friends wedding — I had had nail polish on my fingers and when they went to remove it they did not get all of it. Then when they applied the acrylic nail they cut the heck out of my cuticles. Even after mentioning something about the nail polish they did not remove it all despite the fact that we had an important event coming up. This was done on the 24^th and I still have nail polish on my nails. I would NOT recommend this place to anyone.

I frequent this place. All in all, their service is good but it really depends on who you get. Most ladies are great but there is one you younger one in her mid-​thirties I think, she has short hair to her shoulders and usually wears clog-​type shoes with socks. She rushes and doesn’t give a massage longer than 3 minutes. It’s not worth the price. I don’t have calluses so my pedis are usually pretty short anyway but usually they make up for it with at least a five min massage. My friend is here with me and got Elaine– she’s AWESOME. Her pedi lasted longer and she got a mani so I’ve been waiting for an hour. Annoying.
This place is more pricey than most and if you’re looking for a relaxing atmosphere, you won’t get it.
As far as the actual look, they know what they’re doing. No complaints there.

I was a walk-​in on a Saturday afternoon; they took me right away. That was fantastic. Anita did my pedicure. No hello or attempt to be cordial with me. She was all about business. Cool by me; more uninterrupted relaxation time. And as long as my pedicure was on point, I could care less about conversation. They seemed to struggle a bit with my gel pedicure. There was confusion about how to properly remove it. Needless to say, I spent quite a but of time just sitting and waiting while most of the workers played on their iphones, ipads or DVD movie players. I suppose not many salons in San Diego county are well versed in this area; that is, if its anything other than a simple gel based polished.
Anita was efficient. A bit rough on the cuticles, but she got the job done. Overall, I liked my spa pedicure.
I didn’t particularly enjoy the unsightly view of the bean sprouts, lime, onion, Saracha, Pure Cane sugar and other foods in the back room. All that food attracted nats, and I was constantly having to shew them away.
The pedicure was decent, but unless in the area, I’m not sure I’d go out of my way to visit again.