Fancy Nails

Everything is sub par and over priced. I have natural nails and received a regular manicure about a week ago. It looked horrible from the cuticles to the paint job. I thought maybe they were having an off day. It was a busy Saturday.
The place is close to my house, so, for convenience sake, I thought I’d give them another try. I went yesterday and got a mani/​pedi. They look better when I do them myself. Cuticles and paint job are really terrible.

I got my nails done here last Thursday with my friend, so a week and a day ago now. I got a full set of acrylic nails and my friend got a fill in because she had gotten them done prior at a nail salon in Bridgetown. I got mine painted with a regular top coat and my friend got a gel top coat. Two elderly women had been there before us and we didn’t get helped for about forty five minutes because there were only TWO workers there, a man and a woman, I don’t know if that is a regular thing for this place to only have two employees but it made for two mediocre nail jobs later. So my friend was in the middle of getting her nails done and the man doing her nails walks out of the nail salon and leaves in the middle of doing my friends nails! We never saw him return either. That was strike one for me. The women then rushed to get mine into shape, paint my friends nails, put a top coat on, and then paint mine and put a top coat on. It took about 45 minutes for her to do mine and finish my friends at the same time, which I think is really quick for working on two people at once. Both of our sets look like we did them on a Tuesday night with an at home set. Strike two for me. A week out my friend’s gel top coat is cracked on ⁷⁄₁₀ fingers and two of my nails have come off on their own, (I am a college student and am currently not in work so it’s not like I broke it off while working) one when I was scratching my leg and the other when I was washing the dishes. Strike three and I’m out. My full set was 30 dollars and my friends fill in was 26 after tax both reasonable prices, but I don’t think either of our sets were worth the money we paid considering the condition they are in now. The place was not at all a mess but it wasn’t all that put together either. The workers/​worker that we met were nice. But I think I will pay a little more next time somewhere else to keep my nails for longer than a week.

I went in simply for a full set manicure, the wait time was nothing. It only took about 30 minutes total. The service was very good! It wasn’t very fancy, but the quick and efficient service made up for that. The price was low, but the product was great. Definitely would go back again!

So many ironies about this place, first being that it’s called «fancy nails» when nothing about this place is at all fancy– like the other reviewers mentioned– it’s a bit dive-​y. Keep that in mind while I move on to my next irony: while I was getting my nails done (shellac), the news came on and the feature story was «what really goes on in nail salons», highlighting the risk of bacteria, fungus, and infection if things aren’t cleaned properly. I kept looking around hoping that even though it didn’t look spic and span, that at least they cleaned the tools they used properly.
At this point, you may be wondering why I even gave it three stars. Well, it’s close to wear I live, the ladies are friendly, the prices are reasonable and I currently do not have any sort of nail infection. If that changes, so will my review, obvs. But for now, I’ll give a three star rating because it’s not amazing, but it’s a-​ok!

For Delhi, this is a nice alternative to the local hair salon and spa. I was on a budget, I got a pedicure with foot soak, extra exfoliation, and a French polish for $ 37 plus tip. This is cheaper than the local salon. I will warn you, this place is sort of a DIVE but is seems pretty clean and the staff was nice.