S & T Nail Salon

Lynn and Amy did a great job. Lynn did my pedicure and Amy did my gel acrylics. Overall it was a very nice experience.

Sloppy and Rushed!
I went in for a fill and also for color change on my toes. A young man began working on me. He kept hurting my cuticles. When he began to put the stuff on my pinky he seemed nervous. He left a huge lump of the stuff on my nail that then hardened and he got up and walked away. Amy then came and rushed putting the fill on my nails. The sides were left undone. I was then moved to a chair to get polish on my toes. An older lady was going to work on me. I could not move the chair forward (I’m 4’11″) she told me just to scoot up. I had to sit in an uncomfortable position the whole time. She then put clear polish on my fingernails but excluded the sides. She did an awful job on my toes. I didn’t want to complain so I put up with it.
When it was time for me to go, she told me I owed $ 27.00. I gave her forty dollars. She came back with my change, holding a 10 $ in one hand and the 3 $ in the other. I took all of it out of her hands.
She said, «No Tip?» I told her that she had done such an awful job on both my hands and toes, I did not feel a tip was deserved.
Never going back there agian.

I will not be coming back here. This is the first place I went to for a gel manicure and pedicure. I paid for myself as well as my mother in law, who also got a gel manicure and pedicure. My bill was over $ 100, which is about right for the services we received. I gave a generous tip, almost 20%, which was good for them because I didn’t like the woman who did my nails. She did a sloppy job and I got a strong sense of carelessness on her part. No matter, I still paid and didn’t complain, but I decided even before we walked out that I wouldn’t be returning to this nail salon in the future. This was before ALL my gel nails peeled off within 3 – 4 days. I didn’t have time to go back to them right away, so I went back exactly one week after my first visit. I brought with me 1 gel piece to show them how cleanly all my nails came off. The woman said it’s too late to get another service free of charge, which is what I expect from a good nail salon and what they should have been glad to do. I told her it was only a week ago, and gel nails are supposed to last at least 2 weeks. The whole rave with gel nails is their lasting power. Otherwise no one would pay almost double what a regular polish manicure costs, just to have the color for a few days. I explained that I paid over 100 bucks and tipped well. It didn’t matter to the manager and she said if I want my nails done I have to pay again. My dissatisfaction must’ve been obvious to her because she then offered to do them again for me for just $ 15. I said thank you and left. It saddens me to see a potentially good business hurt themselves with bad customer service and greed. If you go you may luck out and get serviced by someone more careful and considerate who will do a better job. But I already found a classier salon with surprisingly reasonable prices, very close actually to the price of services at this salon. Good luck.

I wish they would have been a little focused on the customers experience as well, the results were beautiful but I wish it would’ve felt like a spa treat. The technicians were really sweet!

Linh and Amy were great. My girlfriend came in for a standard manicure and pedicure and we were greeted with great service. The place is clean and the environment is much nicer than other places we’ve gone to. Definitely recommend. 5 stars!

This place is horrible! I went in and Amy started taking my nails off without asking me! She then sat me in another chair and some guy began doing my nails. I stopped him and asked if he knew how to do the almond shape. He acted line he didn’t. I turned to Amy and said can he do my nails the way I want them. She said oh ya, that shape popular we do hundreds. Half way through the guy got up and went into the bathroom and came out without washing his hands. It was then that u noticed a wart on his finger! I was done! No more! Needless to say the shape he gave me was not almond but square! Don’t go here!!!

Excellent skills and service… always come out with beautiful nails and pedicure. Treated like family. So lucky to have this salon right in Fallbrook. And I am constantly complimented on my nails…
10 stars

Went in for a gel full set which came out to $ 40!
I am disappointed with my nails. They are not covered fully with acrylic or with nail polish. They are very uneven in shape (I got oval shaped) and also very uneven and bumpy on the acrylic part. I also have polish on my skin part around my nails.
I was cut on several fingers when he were filing them down, which didn’t feel so good since he applied some polish after which stung very bad!
I also felt very rushed even though my cousin and I were the only ones in there. They also switched with my cousin and I several times so we were both worked on by 2 different people.
I am not going to be going back because they did a terrible job for an expensive price.

Acrylics put on crooked, broke after 2 days. Really beat up my nails when she was putting them on. Toe nails also cut crooked and badly painted. New to the area, will never go back to this place

This place is a rip-​off and their services are abysmal. When I came into the salon with my friend and asked how much a mani-​pedi was, one of the women said it would be $ 90. My friend and I needed a mani-​pedi for an event in a couple hours and the better reviewed salons on Unilocal were all booked, so we reluctantly agreed. A little while later, I noticed a price list on another wall and it said that a mani-​pedi was $ 65 total (or something close to that amount). When I questioned the woman who had quoted me $ 90 about the price list, she said she had given me a special scrub treatment (which really wasn’t that special, let me tell you) and said because she had already done it, it was $ 90. Another woman who seemed to be the queen bee said we had already agreed to it so it was too late to change it. When we first arrived, I clearly just wanted a basic mani-​pedi, but they somehow weasled in the extra treatment to charge us more. My friend and I were furious. On top of that, my manicure was HORRIBLE. Three of my nails were ruined by the next day and not due to negligence on my part. I think it was the kind of polishes they were using, but it just would not stay. Don’t waste your time or money at this place.

Where should I start?
Went in for a mani pedi and, yes, I did this twice, even after I hated my first visit that totaled about $ 90.
First time, sat down for a pedi and the manicurist came over and immediately started doing my manicure while I was starting my pedicure. I had to keep twisting myself so she could get to my opposite hand! My back is messed up already but I ended up dealing with sciatica for at least 2 weeks afterward. I don’t understand why they need to act like it’s an assembly line. It was really uncomfortable in more than one way.
Meanwhile the pedicure woman was hurting me. The massage was no massage at all, it was obnoxiously hard and painful. I got a gel manicure for the first time and I actually liked it but it started peeling off in less than a week. One thing that bothered me is that it was uneven, i.e. bumpy and different levels. It looked like my nails had warts! I left upset but still went back a few weeks later.
My second visit consisted of telling them I didn’t want to do it all at once so that I could enjoy it and I did complain about my crummy pedi last time. Okay. A guy gave me my pedi this time and it was a lot better. However, the manicurist STILL tried to get me to soak my nails in acetone while I was trying to enjoy my pedicure. Mind you, I WAS THE ONLY CUSTOMER IN THERE! WHY THE BIG RUSH? I said NO and then when the pedi was done she finally started the gel, manicure. During the middle of the manicure another customer came in and she got up and started filling a foot tub with water. They were being very rude, speaking in Vietnamese, when they could speak english. Another girl sat down and finished my manicure, filed my nails to a flat square. When I told her I liked them a little more rounded she filed my real nails down about ¼ inch from their original length! We all know how hard it is to grow nails and that was the purpose of me getting a gel manicure in the first place —
TO ALLOW MY NATURAL NAILS TO GROW! To boot she filed them all crooked and was acting very snippy and bossy toward me, I won’t say how it made me feel but I walked out, again $ 90 poorer for bad treatment and another lumpy gel manicure, but this time with improperly filed fingernails.
I’m NEVER going back there. If anyone knows of a place where I can get a bona fide decent gel manicure and a pedicture in a nice environment in Fallbrook please message me.
One more thing, when you walk in and state what services you want the owner immediately starts trying to upsell you before you can blink — puts a lot of pressure on.
If you’re going to walk out almost $ 100 poorer it should be worth the $$$

I am fairly new to the area and did some Unilocaling before coming to S&T nail salon. When I walked in I was warmly greeted by Amy. She had me take a seat at her station and asked what I was looking to have done. I ended up getting a full pink and white set with glitter. Just wish she would have told me some prices when I told her what I wanted. I used to get the same thing done where I used to live for about 15 bucks cheaper. I am very picky about my nails. When leaving and looking at my nails in the shop’s lighting I was happy but once I got home and really took a good look at them in different lighting I realized I was not too happy with the application of the pink. I notice it but others can’t really tell. For the most part I was happy with my experience.

The shop is small. The lady doing my nails tried to push stuff on me that I didn’t want, hence the 4 stars. Once I said no it was fine.
I got gel nails done. The only thing I didn’t like is that to remove your previous gel they rip off the polish. They don’t use acetone like most other places. They lasted several weeks with no chips! That never happens since I am very rough on my nails. I will be going back! She did leave one of my nails very crooked, but I asked her to fix it and she did.
The manicure doesn’t come with a massage though like most other places.
The prices are very reasonable.

I have nothing negative to say about my experience here today. Amy took time on my nails and made them perfect. She checked with me on the length, shape, and when she applied the color at first to make sure that I liked it.

To take off my acrylics, they used the electric filer. And when they did, they cut open my cuticles multiple times. And THEN soaked them in acetone! Owie! And had an attitude the whole time. Never again.

I loved my experience at this salon! It is very clean and relaxing. Amy, the lady who did my nails, was extremely nice and it has been two weeks already and my nails are still intact. I love going to a nail salon where the employees talk to me and can hold a conversation, and that is exactly what I got. The lady who did my toes was very kind and attentive about my ankle injury, and wasn’t pushy about trying to up sale me. I have tried many nail salons in the area and I will definitely be returning to this one, without a doubt.

If there was such a thing like ZERO stars, I would give them exactly that. Why? Because at first the lady that did my gels pretended to be very accommodating with what I asked for but then complained in Vietnamese to her colleagues. What they did not know is that I understand the language enough to know what was said. I chose not to reply. However, what really makes them deserve absolutely no star is the quality of the work. Already 1 hour after leaving the store a part of the gel lifted from the nail! And now only a few days later 1 nail fell off completely and all the other ones come apart too. As I said, complain all you want about me behind my back. I don’t care. However, if I pay that much money and you claim to have 20 years experience then I’d like my gels to last longer than a few hours before they start to come apart! So, maybe it was done on purpose because they couldn’t stand the fact that I asked them to file the sides more neatly (which wasn’t done properly either and really is that such a horrible thing to ask for? Shouldn’t that be done without asking?) but what does that tell about this places business ethics? that they only do a decent job if you shut up? And they make nasty remarks that most people don’t understand. I even tipped well regardless. I feel this place is run by crooks. Think twice before going there.

I don’t know why this place has good ratings. The only reason I gave it two stars was because they are really nice and my eyebrow wax was fantastic! I got a pedicure. Only $ 18 plus the extra $ 5 for a French tip which they fail to mention until the end. Most of the employees are older. I still have dry skin around my toes and heels and the massage was incredibly lousy. Will be giving somewhere else a try.

I was so impressed with this salon. It is a very cute and clean little salon with about 6 pedicure chairs I’d say. Fairly priced. I brought in my sister-​in law who is 9 months pregnant and told them to give her ‘The Works’ and they did! I had a man named Tuck doing my pedicure and he did such an awesome job. He took extra time on my calluses and gave the best leg/​foot massage EVER! So good — they won me over for good! Note: if paying with credit or debit card, bring cash as they arent able to run tips through the machine.

Eh. For $ 18 + tip, I expect more in a spa pedicure.
They reuse their rubber gloves which is gross and also their pumice stones. That’s kinda gross too. I got the typical up-​sell pressure to upgrade from the $ 18 pedicure to the $ 35 pedicure… nothing in between. Eh, I’ll pass.
She hardly clipped my cuticles and didn’t file all of my nails. The massage was also lackluster.
Its been a couple of days since my pedicure and the polish on my pinky toe has completely chipped off. Totally bizarre. I have 9 great nails and one that is bare.
I probably won’t be back.
Fallbrook is 0 for 2 in good nail salons.