Beauty Hair & Nails

OK, I never write reviews, period. Probably too lazy. But for this place I had to! Probably the worst manicure I have ever had. She hurt me a couple of times and when I started bleeding tells me my skin is too thin. Its my 3^rd day after the manicure and the nail-​paint is ¾ gone and my nails hurt. They are badly behaved and don’t have any regard for their customers. Do yourself a favor and avoid the manicure at this place. Can’t comment on their other services.

My mom and I had gel manicures done here today and they were AWFUL. Would not recommend. She didn’t know what she was doing from the very beginning of removing my previous gel polish. Oh, and they «don’t know how to do designs on gel». So… yeah.

If you need a great pedicure go to Lily she is the best one for me Beware of Tina that’s all folks people don’t lie and I suppose Nancy is a great with hair. Lily is the most patient manicurist so far.

DO NOT COME HERE!!!
You’ve been warned…
I was in the area getting my eyebrows threaded and thought I would come here since it was in the same plaza. I figured it would be one less thing i needed to do that day. HUGE mistake.
I walked in and said I wanted a shellac manicure. a woman with long black hard barked at me to sit in a chair and then she tossed a color swatch at me. chose my colors and then she got started…
First off, the clipper were NOT CLEAN. they had someone else skin still on them. The filling was HORRIBLE and not a single one of my nails was even. they were this awkward flat shape that looked horrid. She cut FOUR of my nails when she was ‘cleaning up’ the cuticles. I use quotes because when I got home I still had to cut away some more skin because she did such a terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible job. So my shape is horrible and 4 of my nails are bleeding. When she goes to scratch the surface of the top of the nail to get ride of the ridges, the tool she used looked SOOOOOO disgusting and grody. It was falling apart, there was residue on it. it was disgusting. Not gentle at all whatsoever, constantly shoving my hand and grabbing another. When she was cleaning underneath my nails, she gave me 2 more cuts. Now lets get onto the coloring…
the light that dries that nails is on the side wall of the salon, so I had to wheel my chair over there. It was literally a little table with the drier plugged in, sitting on top of it. so I had no where to place my hands when they were not in the heater. she painted my nails not even on a flat surface, but cradled in her hand. no place ever had I seen a manicurist do something like that. i wanted a base with glitter on top of it. The base color didnt even cover my whole nail. I have 3 fingers where you can still huge chunks of my nail. by the time i said something, she was already putting the glitter on my hand. One coat, you could barely see anything so I asked for another. she said she never does more than one coat of glitter which is complete bull because every single other place I go to, they have to do more than one coat to really make it pop. when she put on the top coat, it was basically smeared alllllllllllllllllllllll over my finger. so much so that my nails were sticking to my skin because there was so much top coat. I showed it to her, that my nails were stuck and she preceded to cut away the excess, making my nails an even more awkward and disgusting shape.
after that she slopped some cheap lotion on my hands and then called it a day.
Within TWENTY minutes, my nails already started to lift and peel. I literally got in my car, drove home, and when I got home, 2 of my nails were lifting already.
The whole place was disgusting and grungy. Looks like they haven’t clean or dusted anything in the last 10 years. I am hoping and praying I dont have an infection from all the times the lady cut me. and I can’t wait for my nails to grow back. she basically destroyed my hands.
Do yourself a favor… and AVOID THIS PLACE

If there was a choice of no star, I would choose that. Just want to give everybody a huge warning about pedicure at this place. Did mine two days ago and my left big toe still hurt and has inflammation. The lady who did it literally peel a strip of the nail. I cried out, but she didn’t stop. It was bleeding. Crazy!!!

If there was an option for –5 stars, that’s the rating I’d give.
Lets start off with why I went there in the first place:
1) I needed to be somewhere and I wanted a fast manicure.
2) I live right around the corner.
So I walked in and looked for someone to talk to. Nobody said anything to me for about five minutes. Then I spoke up and asked if someone could help me. Tina came over and asked what I wanted, I said I’d like a fill and a clear coat. She pulled my hands up, inspected both, and said she could start with me in 5 minutes. 20 minutes passed by and she still didn’t start. So I’m sitting there waiting for 30 minutes trying not to feel awkward when she finally sits down at her station and yells at me to come over. So I do. She didn’t file my nails first or anything, she just put NAIL GLUE (we who get our nails done often know you’re supposed to put liquid on the brush then dip it in powder) all over the part of my nails that needed to be filled and then dipped my fingers in powder that had the words «the cheapest alternative to acrylic» written on the bottle. She told me I had to wait for them to dry and it would take 1 – 2 mins. 10 minutes later she comes back with a plate of food and begins filing my nails. IT WAS THE WORST PAIN I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE. She pressed soooo hard with that stupid electric filer my nails started turning purple underneath. It was painful so I calmly said «could you please be a bit more gentle», to which she scowled (still talking about Tina). 5 minutes in, she cut my skin with the electric filer! I said ouch and she kept filing. When I told her she had just cut me, she gave me another dirty look and said something in another language to the rest of her co– workers. She stopped about 6 times to eat her food, and 12 to stop and watch tv. Then she cut me again, and again! I couldn’t take it anymore, Sy natural reflex was to pull away my hand and she yelled at me! Then she grabbed the alcohol and tried to spray my hand with it! I know she was thinking it would clean the cuts but I was not about to endure more pain so I excused myself to their bathroom to wash my hands. While in the bathroom I heard the workers talking about me. One went as far to say I was a stupid girl. I knew they were talking about me because I was the only customer in the salon at the time. I went back to sit down at her station and Tina started putting on my clear coat. That was a disaster, too. The clear coat was too thick so there were blobs on my nails! After they dried she said «$ 20», so I gave her the 20 and started to walk out. Then Tina says «plus tip» to which I replied, you cut me in three different places, and my nails look horrible. And walked out.
Not only are these people rude, but they can’t do nails, their shop is dirty, and they pay more attention to their food and the tv then they do to their customers. DO NOT GO HERE. I wish I had time to go to my normal salon, Elite Nails in San Mateo. Elite is fabulous and they treat you like real human beings.

I went to this salon to have my eyebrows done. First, I walked in without an appointment and told there would be about a 10-​minute wait; it was closer to an hour. Second, the stylist told me she would do them by threading instead, and when I said I did not want threading done, she insisted and said she’d do my lips for free because I had to wait. I said no thanks, and she informed me that I’d «look much better,» and started going at it. I should have stormed out, but I was too shocked. It hurt like a mother, and I kept asking her to stop, and she kept laughing and saying «Just one more! It isn’t that bad! Just one more!» I swear, she said «Just one more!» at least 5 times before she actually stopped. And it WAS that bad; I know that some people don’t mind threading, but I was literally in tears. Then she waxed my eyebrows (but not before trying to push threading on me again), and I will begrudgingly admit that she did do a nice job with them. Finally, to add insult to injury, on the way out, she told me that next time I need a haircut, I should come to her, because «she’d do a nice job and make me look pretty.» It was all the more insulting because I’d had my hair cut less than two weeks ago by a stylist who I thought did a fantastic job (and never once insulted or injured me). I’ve never felt so embarrassed and demeaned as a customer.
To summarize: No.

Avoid this place.
Hands (and nails) down, the worst little nail shop I’ve been to. Needed a quick manicure and made an appointment here last week, definitely wasn’t expecting anything fabulous for a $ 10 mani but never ok with terrible service nor an actually painful mani service.
The manicurist (using this word loosely) pricked my fingers twice, went too deep and actually caused me to make an audible sound of pain when cleaning under one of my fingernails (little bleeding), terrible job on cleaning up cuticles, and over-​filed one nail so that it’s way to close to the sensitive nailbed and skin area and I cringe everytime my finger touches something.
The lady was actually staring off into space (or another customer?) while filing my nails. So not ok! Look at you’re doing! I had to point out a few times to get her to remove leftover nail polish from around my cuticles and fingers in general. Sloppy, potentially dangerous, and just a terrible attitude to boot.
Oh and it’s cash only. Not totally uncommon among small nail shops like this but always makes me uneasy. It’s not a difficult formula: accept credit cards, clean up the attitude, hire qualified manicurists, and run a legitimate business.
Again, avoid this place.

Never felt so compelled to write a Unilocal view. Let’s start with the bad:
1. My fourth toe on my left foot is bleeding.
2. The nail polish on my toes was badly applied and touches my cuticles and sides of my toes. Looks like canals of polish have formed.
3. Some toe nails are round, others are square. (WTF mang?)
4. My shoes were not taken care of and haphazardly laid in the middle of the ground of the salon.
5. Limited colors. There are OPI scattered in with some no name brands.
6. My lady was super rough with me. Her coarse nails dug into my nail beds and like I mentioned in #1, she made me bleed. The only time she was gentle was during my half assed arm massage.
7. She was watching TV while removing my nail polish. This led to her absentmindedly rubbing polish remover on my knuckles. Don’t understand why she was watching the world series since she admitted to me she didn’t understand baseball.
So what exactly could be the good?
1. Another lady (not the one that made me bleed my precious blood) gave me sandals after she saw me getting ready to leave.
2. Her manicure skills are significantly better than her pedicure. But that’s not saying much when I’M BLEEDING. Somebody get me some Neosporin STAT!
$ 30 for a mani pedi combo. What’s the point when I have to put a bandaid on one of my little pigges? I miss NYC and $ 25 mani pedi combos where I don’t end up bleeding all over towels (sad face)

I got my nails done and toe nails very happy with the services. I had gone down to another one and she did a very ugly job but «UGLY» will never go to that one again, So I ran to Beauty Hair and Nails showed them what a horrible job I got from the other place and right away they took care of me. Thank you ladies for the great job and service,

This is a very affordable place. It’s run by Vietnamese ladies. I’ve been there three times b/​c of the good reviews in Unilocal,and all three times they’ve ruined my hair. I don’t know if it’s because they are not experienced with my kind of hair (I have thick very straight hair) or I just have a bad luck. The lady who did my hair for the first time (sorry i don’t remember her name) was nice, but she couldn’t do what I wanted her to do.
Second time I went to get my eye brows done and she did ALL of my face without asking, and demanded that I pay for «Full facial». I didn’t want to agree so I just paid and left.
The third and the last time I went to see if i would get a different hairstylist. This lady was the worst of ALL. I asked her to cut my back hair straight, and layer the front hair. SHE USED RAZOR combs for my back hair!!! WHEN I told her I WANTED it straight she YELLED on the top of her voice. She’s like «THIS IS STRAIGHT», I was like «NO YOU NEED TO USE SCISSORS to trim the back hair».It was soo embarassing, when everyone looked at us as if I had something really bad to her.
I’m never going back here again. I’d rather pay $ 60 to someone who’ll provide a better service than here. Plus, they all talk in Vietnamese, and if you don’t understand what they’re talking about it can be quite irritating.

I went there with my son to get his hair cut Sunday 4÷22÷12. I found them on Unilocal.Usually I have a hard time finding a place to get my son’s hair cut on a Sunday. I called in advance. Within 30 they had us come in and he was in a chair. They were very nice. They cut my son’s hair exactly the way he wanted. On top of all that, I had sprained my ankle that same day and they had noticed. One of the ladies told me that I should get a Chinese oil to rub on it to help it heal. They offered to go to San Jose and get me the oil and to come back Tuesday. I just can’t believe they went out of their way to get me something that nothing to do with hair or nails. So if you want to go to a place where they are very kind and accommodating and good at what they do. I recommend this place!!! Thank you ladies! We’re definitely coming back to this place!!!

Whether you’re a guy or girl, it’s tough for anyone to find a good salon that is consistent and reasonable.
My wife and girls have been coming here since we moved to Foster City and they recommended I give them a shot. To my surprise, I got a really nice cut from here. Cindy was my barber/​stylist.
Been coming back now for quite some time and I will always wait to see her as I’m finicky and she knows how I like my hair to be cut. For some reason she calls me «Alex» but you know what… she cuts pretty consistently and that’s all I care about.
I do miss the scalp massage from my other salon but this place is more convenient and reasonable. I can do without the scalp massage!

I have been going to Nancy and Lilly for over 10 years now. They cut my hair (what there is of it left) better than anyone else I have found in the Bay area. Since my hair is quite fine, it is NOT EASY to get it right.

Low Price. Excellent haircuts. Great Service.

If you have a lot of time on your hands, and you want to go to a salon that doesn’t honor appointments, then this is the place for you. I used to go there for a mani/​pedi, which was mediocre at best, but convenient. However, my time is just as valuable as theirs, and they kept taking walk-​ins so I would have to wait 15 – 20 minutes every time. The last time I went it was 30 minutes and then a very painful-​rushed crummy job was done. My husband continued going to get his hair cut, and the same thing, Nancy does not honor her appointments. My husband will not be going back, since he does not have 30 – 45 minutes to wait,(nobody is that good) so that she can fit a walk-​in. Wake up Beauty Hair & Nails, you are going to lose all your regulars. There is a LOT of other shops that do a better job and honor their appointments!

Nancy is the best! She’s been cutting my hair for almost 2 years now and I’ve never been disappointed. She always has your best interest at heart. Whenever I need to color my hair, I just leave it up to her to recommend the best color for me. If I ask her to cut my hair really short she always double checks HOW SHORT I really want it. Just shows how she cares that you get exactly what you want. You need to get an appointment with her though… she has a lot of loyal clients.

I walked in with about 3ft of hair, and because it was my first haircut she only charged me $ 20! Nancy hooked it UP. Driving an hour all the way there was worth it. I’ve gone to THE expensive salon, but I got the same haircut and good service for so much cheaper. (You might consider the gas we had to use to get here, but it was worth it because we drove with 2 cars full of ladies who wanted their hair done by Nancy!)
So worth it!

My whole family comes here for haircut and mani/pedi…price is reasonable and they are very good in what they do. Look for Nancy for haircut and Lily for manicure or pedicure. Nancy is great!!! Very friendly staff :)

No mani/​pedi for me (although I am sure it would have looked magnificent) but Nancy is the best barber I have been to in Foster City.