Fancy Nails & Spa

Been coming here for a few years and I’m so glad I found this place!
I always get the spa pedicure or pedicure with sea salt scrub, both are well worth the price. I usually also get a design on my big toe and have gotten tons of compliments every time. The polish lasts forever it seems like, I’ve taken it off two weeks later and it looks as good as when it was first put on.
Each attendant I’ve been with is amazing and knows what she is doing. Super friendly. You can make an appointment or walk-​in, either shouldn’t be an issue.

I’ve been coming to Fancy Nails since I was a kid, tagging along so Mom could get a manicure. Their newest space is very beautiful and relaxing. I still recognize some of the women still working here, and never have a bad manicure. Excellent service!

I reluctantly started going to this salon because it’s just so convenient. It took a couple of tries but I ended up with a technician that I kinda like but does excellent work. I’m convinced that’s the key, finding the right technician. Michelle is my first choice with Cindy running a close second.
I guess since I’m a regular now the managers have become quite friendly and accommodating.

I’ve tried this salon several times and I always walk out angry. The last time I didn’t even leave a tip and swore I wouldn’t waste my money there again.

Go see Tina!!! I’ve been seeing her for months and not one bad shellac mani. I only have to see her every 2 weeks because they are done so well, and she never tries to get me in sooner… Even told me once she didn’t want me wasting too much money (I’m getting married in June) I love her and refuse to see anyone else!

2 stars = «Meh, I’ve experienced better,» according to Unilocal.And it’s true, I have. A lot better. But I think it really depends on your expectations.
Most of the other reviews here are spot-​on, especially about the pushy-​as-​hell workers. They will try to sell you 10 different things you don’t need, and if you’re not very firm about saying no, they’ll get away with it. If you do say «no,» they’ll most likely talk crap about you to their friends in Vietnamese. Still, grow a pair and decline anything they offer you. Whatever they mention, it costs extra money. «No no no,» should be your mantra when you walk through the door.
The thing is, nobody really goes to fancy nails for the «spa experience.» So yes, you’re going to smell the acetone when you walk in the door. They’re going to rush through whatever you decide you want. Things aren’t going to look or feel as «posh» as a place where a manicure costs $ 100 and takes an hour. This isn’t the place to go if you want to be pampered and take your time; this is the place to go if you don’t have a lot of time and don’t want to pay an arm and a leg to get a few basic things done.
I’ve been getting my eyebrows waxed here for over ten years. It’s cheap and they look great afterward. I’ve never been burned by the wax or had any issues with scabbing. I make sure to ask them not to use lotion afterward, but that’s because it breaks me out. If you ask the older lady do your brows (there’s only there one who’s older, she’s easy to spot), you won’t be disappointed. She’s nice and professional, does a fab job, and isn’t pushy.
I also regularly get a basic pedicure here. Provided you can wade through the twenty layers of attempted up-​selling (I can, and have gotten to the point where their pissed-​off faces amuse me when I repeatedly say no in increasingly loud tones), the basic pedicure is great. Mine last at least a couple of months without chipping. And I get the flowers. They look pretty and are my one, $ 5, splurge. That splurge is probably the one thing that keeps them from burning holes through my body with their angry gazes.
Bottom line: Fancy, this isn’t. But if you want basic and cheap and have the testicular fortitude to stand up to pushy Asian women, it’ll do, at least for the basics.

OK, I don’t know why everyone has terrible waxing experiences here… I live in the general area and I get my eyebrows waxed everytime I go. I get the same lady and she’s very nice and tries to make conversation. I have really sensitive skin and the redness goes away after about 20 minutes. None of my skin gets ripped off nor does it get irritated. The bad waxing experiences are probably because of some skin product you are currently using that is irritating it. I’ve only gotten my nails done here once for prom and I got their french tips which turned out pretty good, and the lady i had was very nice and talkative. Yes, they are usually very busy and its not possible for them to be at the front desk every second but maybe you should make it known that you are there and you’ll get some help. Never wait over 5 – 10 minutes.

Odd customer service. Poor quality of work. Nothing «fancy» about this place. 2– palms down.

I love this nail salon. I’ve been going now for almost two months and I see Michelle every time. She is the sweetest woman. She shares her life story with me and I share mine with her. She always thanks me for making an appointment with her again. I have gel tips and I get them filled every three weeks or so. I’ve never had a tip break or polish even chip off. They are a little bit thicker than I have seen from other salons but not nearly as thick as others. For the price, I think this is the best salon around.
And PS if your skin is being pulled off with wax, chances are it’s because you’re taking some sort of medication or using a topical cream that is making your skin extra sensitive. Not the waxers fault.

I tried this place as I used live close by. To sum up my experience:
1) Never get waxing! I’ve had my eyebrows waxed several times, but the last time I got my eyebrows waxed, skin was pulled off. I had a scab on my forehead for a week!
2) Manicures are RUSHED. I wanted to get a simple manicure and the woman spent a total of five minutes from start to finish.
3) Services are pushed on you! No, I don’t want to get my upper lip waxed. I didn’t appreciate the comment of «You need to wax your lip.» Actually, no, I’m good. Thanks.
4) The place smells of chemicals! I don’t think this place has good ventilation. I had a hard time tolerating the smell.

Worst ever! I had gel tips put on… They are ragged around the edge and have glue chunks underneath. She did no work at all on my cuticles, no hand or arm massage. They charged me for a French polish, but the nail person simply polished up the new tips & called it a French manicure. Arguing with them created a scene, so I paid and left.
The pedicure doesn’t look smooth at all, so the polish must have been old. Now I’m stuck on a Saturday night trying to find and pay extra for someone to fix-​it before I go out.
Additionally, the salon was filthy. The place where I get my dog groomed is cleaner than Fancy Nails. Also, the pedicure chairs are the worst, all taped together with really poor massage.

I had just moved to the area and needed my eyebrows done so I went to Fancy Nails out of convenience and desperation. WHYYYYY GOD, WHY??? I should’ve just rocked the unibrow. I waited forever (AND overpaid!) just to have her peel away not only my stray hairs but a layer of skin too. Not to mention leave stray bits of wax everywhere causing me to break out. SEXY!

I’ve been going here fairly regularly for about six years now, and it has its ups and downs, but unfortunately last night’s manicure was a pretty major ‘down.’
I’d had a french manicure done with the shellac polish. Pro: great-​looking french mani for almost three weeks. Con: they have you soak your nails in straight acetone for 10 minutes and then scrape the polish off – along with a few layers of my nails. Not ideal, but not the fault of the salon.
I also had one gel tip that I’d had put on a few months ago when a nail was breaking very, very low. In the manicures I’ve had since then, they always use the drill grinder thing to thin out what’s left of the gel as it grows out. Even though I asked, the tech didn’t do it. Result: I now have bits of the gel flaking off the tip of my finger.
My nails are rounded on one side and squared on the other. There’s a definite diagonal line on every nail. I asked her to fix it and she ran the file over them again without actually doing anything.
As others have said, this place is upsell hell and they do get majorly pissed off when you decline extra services. I’m guessing the reason I got such a shitty manicure is that I declined a pedicure, a spa manicure, a sea salt rub, and waxing services in rapid succession.
Because asking the tech to, you know, do her job wasn’t working, I told the guy at the front counter that my nails were a mess. He responded by grabbing my hands and rubbing at my nails, saying that there was nothing wrong with them and giving all sorts of weird reasons why I couldn’t get them filed straight. I don’t think he really understood what I was saying, but still – when a customer is unhappy, the first words out of one’s mouth should be something involving «sorry.»
The only thing that’ll probably make me go there again is that they’re less expensive for the basics than other places in this area. But be prepared to stand your ground on the upsells and expect attitude when you turn them down.

The 1 star here is for general competence; my nails did look good when I was done. However, it was a very negative experience in other ways, namely, as other reviewers mention — –the relentless upsell. Went in for an acryllic fill, listed as $ 16 on the price sheet. Do you want a pedicure? Oh, no thanks, not today. You sure you not want pedicure? No, really, I can’t. This went on and on until I finally said yes just to make the haranguing stop. Similar continuous, sustained badgering for eyebrow waxing, etc.
As other reviewers also mentioned, they ask you questions as if the are PREFERENCES, not PURCHASES, but they are in fact PURCHASES and you will be billed even though they never mention a price. Any question that starts with, «Should I» or «Would you» has a add-​on fee.
Lastly, while I appreciate a friendly technition, and am happy to engage in light banter during the service, my nail tech’s version of what constitutes a polite conversation could have easily been mistaken for a prison intake search.
The entire experience was combative, intrusive and a rip-​off. My initial request for a $ 16 acryllic fill ended up being a $ 120 reminder that big, pushy bullies can come in size 4 packages.

This place was the cheapest around so i went. I LUCKED OUT based on the other adds and the over charging. She did the manicure in like 5 min. and when I got back from washing my hands i asked if she could make sure she pushed back my cuticles on the pedicure (i was a bit surprised she didn’t do it on my fingers, but felt awkward asking her to redo them). She agreed. She moved me to the pedi spa to paint my fingers (i ask for reverse order for maximum finger nail drying time) and actually paid a bit more attention to the cuticles before polishing. While there, I also asked her to make sure she addressed my callouses. She did.
Pedi took like 15 min, max.
They were «fine» — I still think $ 29 is a lot for 30 min in and out –that is $ 60/​hour!
When I left I took a price list and saw that if you wanted «cuticle work» that was more. I would have been really mad if I was charged more for this. How can you call it a manicure w/​o doing your cuticles or a pedicure w/​o addressing calluses.
I don’t know if I would go back again considering it is likely I’d be charged al a carte next time!

Because this place is so close to my house, and its rather big, I find it to be quite convenient. However the service is mediocre at best, and they do try and swindly you out of every dollar they can. If you go and ask for a basic manicure and pedicure, they will ask you half way through your service if you want other proceadures done, and of course they dont tell you it costs extra money unless you ask! My nails and toes are done pretty well though, so if you dont mind constantly tell them «no, just a regualr mani pedi» then you should be fine.

*Sigh* Another cute lil asian lady salon, which I love, but another bad review.
Let’s begin…
I was trying to give my 9 year old daughter a mom & girl day and decided to get our nails done together.
We enter and the place was really busy, no one at the reception desk.
We wait. Chat amongst ourselves.
36 minutes later, a woman approaches. (OK, so not really 36 minutes). She was very friendly. I stated my business and she showed me to a station in the back. My daughter gets a super friendly reception from the lady she was taken to, because she’s incredibly cute and everyone loves her.
The lady I get? Let’s just say that I’ve had friendlier reception from a castrated, pissed off pit bull.
I tried to warm her up a bit and chatted, but she gave me answers/​grunts/​noises that basically told me she was not in the mood for this shit.
She was really rough with the drill bit and then asked me if I wanted all this other shit done, too. I kept saying no, and she finally shook her head.
Her reaction? Pissed.
She then kept insisting that I needed a new set, not a fill. I told her that I just got this set a few weeks ago in Sydney, and told her no.
Her reaction? Pissed.
I tell her that I want my nails thinned out and not left this thick.
Her reaction? Piiiiiiissed!
She grabs my hands and I swear to Jesus I see flaring nostrils at this point. She works away at the 10′ thick gel floor that she applied earlier.
Eventually, she throws my hand back at me for approval. It hardly looked thinner. I asked her, stressed to her, that it was important for me to have my nails much thinner, just for every day needs! Scratching my head, picking my nose, scabs… Our nails are human necessities!
Her reaction? Pissed as HELL.
She worked away again, like a little soldier. After about 57.75 hours, she threw my hands back to me for approval, I just agreed. Fuck it. they were much thinner, but definitely not as thin as I wanted. For the sake of the salon’s safety from death by ol’ firenostrils here, I gave up.
I got the topcoat and was told to go sit at the dryer. My daughter joined me and I noticed she had gotten 4 designs hand painted on various nails. Very cute!!!
It was time to pay. My daughter’s nails? 5 EFFING DOLLARS FOR EVERY SINGLE DESIGN THAT WAS PAINTED ON! They didn’t ask me!
They asked a freegin 9 year old??! Of course she was going to say yes! And yes! And yes! And yes! And shit, she probably added, «do you have any candy, too?»
Her bill was $ 40.00 and mine was $ 35.00.
I tried to argue that I was not asked for approval to have all of these designs painted on, but no bueno. Eventually, the lady actually walked away and I was left standing there! She didn’t even take my payment, so at this point, I guess I could have just walked out of the salon!
I had to go hunt someone down and found a man that was not tending to another victim and asked him to assist me. He barely spoke a word of english so I said fck it. Paid and left.
To my daughter’s credit, she thought the designs was just them being nice. They never mentioned a price to her!
This place greeted me with a «Don’t eff with me look» and raped my wallet, what’s not to like?!

I went here to get my eyebrows waxed. I get it done every once in a while and I just stopped in because I had some time to kill. Plus, I was going out that night. I just moved to Centreville from Fairfax so I wasn’t very familiar with the place. I got the waxing done and usually the redness will go away in 8 hours or so, but not this time. The lady who did this waxing must have pulled multiple layers off because, while the redness went down, there were scabs that formed under my brows the next day and it hurt really badly. Not attractive or fun! Beware of this place– especially if you’re getting anything waxed!

I’ve been here three times now. It’s decent, but within walking distance from my house — and when it comes to convenience, you can’t really beat the proximity.
Service is always decent, prices are steep, and I think they really try to swindle you out of every dollar they can — watch out for the «I’ll clean your cuticles for you too» which will add the price of a manicure to your bill…
I go every 3 or 4 weeks for «Pink and White» nails, and they always look great, I always get compliments on my nails, just hate paying $ 30+ every time I go. The plus side? Linda does a good enough job on my nails that I don’t really need to go more than once a month…
Decent, but I wouldn’t rave about them.

I got my nails did today. I feel like a DIVA. I got white tips with gel. It was $ 46. They have cards at the front desk with a printed price list. I was there at 9:30 am and they were already rolling. There wasn’t a wait though. I’ll go back — I’ll have too!
On second thought — I will try someplace else next time. I’m not sure that I got the best. With so many nail places out there, I think I’ll give one of the others a try. Meanwhile, I did a fill on my own…
3^rd edit — Now that I know better — the guy that did my nails didn’t do a good job. They were so thick!
My attempt to do my own fill ended in failure.
I go to the Nail Club now.