Santi’s International Hair and Nail Salon

Came to Santi’s International Hair and Nail Salon in between classes for a manicure as a walk-​in. I usually do my nails at home but, I figured I’d pamper myself for once. I decided to get a gel manicure ($ 25) since I wouldn’t have to wait for my nails to dry or worry about ruining them during my next class.
The salon is very much like a typical Miami hair salon. Hispanic women doing hair and nails speaking, mainly, Spanish. It is not a fancy place but, they get the job done and they are rather quick.
My particular gel manicure did come out very good. The gel color selection was just ok.
Ultimately, the convenience of having the salon on campus is the biggest plus for me. I have a hectic schedule and they fit right into my hour and a half of down time at FIU.

I’ve been coming here every two weeks for the past two months to the same manicurist and I’m very satisfied. I came in with nails that were extremely damaged from acrylic nails. Water had seeped under the acrylic and some of the actual nails even turned green. They were weak, brittle and a total nightmare.
Dayamis has restored my damaged nails to nice, healthy nails that look great! I’ve been doing gel manicures and they’ve really helped my nails to quickly grow out. My nails are much tougher and healthier and I’m very pleased.
The service is good, the prices are reasonable, and as a student, the location is extremely convenient.

This salon is located in FIU in the graham center. I love this place. This review is based solely on their manicure and pedicure. I always go to the same lady, Ivon, and she is excellent. I I can go in on my lunch break and get my hands and feet done in 45 min, this is so convenient. The location is also very clean and well kept. I am a regular now and continue to be. Check it out!

The service is hit or miss. I’ve gotten a different person each time I went since I’m always a walk-​in. Pretty much everyone there speaks Spanish and some can only speak Spanish and will completely ignore you if they realize you primarily speak English. The funny thing is, I can speak some Spanish and if they only tried, we could have some sort of interaction instead of treating me like I’m a nuisance. However, some of the ladies in there are also really great and sweet. They make the attempt to interact with me and they do a great job! The prices there are what keeps me going back! They always do a great job with gel manicures, which is what I usually get. I wish the service was great all around with every person there, but honestly, it depends on who you get.

This place had really good reviews and now I see why. Santi is my go to place to get an acrylic manicure. The ladies are nice and welcoming and do a great job. My nails last up to 2 weeks and half damn near three weeks before I need to get a refill. Im from Orlando, and when I got my nails done they would only last a week and a half to two weeks before a nail fell off or in need of a refill.
The pricing is reasonable. I pay $ 30 for a full set plus tip and $ 20 plus tip for a refill. Ive seen and paid cheaper, but honestly for the convenience of living on campus and the quality of service is worth it.

An excellent stop for the employees and students at FIU. Santis has great professionals and they are very clean. Lunchtime mani and pedi for $ 28 is perfect. Ask for Valia!

Brilliantly located in the student Union of Florida International University. As an employee this salon offers me services from head to toe. Hair, Nails, Waxing…
This salon is beyond convenient for me to squeeze in a Mani/​Pedi during my lunch hour or right after work. The prices are pretty reasonable considering the convenience $ 28.00 manicure/​pedicure. If you are not part of FIU you can still park by the Bookstore in a nearby meter. If you are looking for a convenience and decent price fix I recommend this place. My favorite Nail girl is Luz and for Hair I recommend Waiki, she will take her time and do a great job. Enjoy!

I decided to go in requesting a partial, bleach highlight and hair cut. Simple right? The woman who works reception had a very evident hate my life attitude. But I thought hey, I’ve had a job working with people all day and have hated my life too so I can sympathize. I wanted to give her a hug and tell her I share her hate for people as well, but her stone cold eyes looking right through me made me decide otherwise.
So I sat with Mailrey (?) who did not speak a lick of English. That’s cool, I get it, melting pot. So I try my best to get by. Communication is not really needed since I assume highlights are pretty basic, at least the ones I’m used to. Yes I’m basic.
So she’s using bleach and foils like I’ve had done a million times before with my stylist back home in Fort Lauderdale. Then I sit and wait for about 30 minutes. She shampoos, cuts, and blow dries. The cut is pretty decent and the highlights seem decent as well. I give her a generous tip since she was very sweet and spent so much time blow drying my hair. Which was weird because my hair dried pretty fast, but she seemed to put forth a lot of effort in styling it.
All is fine and dandy until later on in the day I pull my hair back in a ponytail. When I finally catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror, I notice something fishy. There is a section about 1 inch wide of horizontal bleach in my hair. What. The. Heck. It looked like a blob of bleach from the end of the foil permeated into a frown like shape of blonde right at the start of my hair line. It was almost in the shape of a frown much like the one that was forming on my face.
I quickly started pulling up sections of my hair to find these horizontal bleach blobs literally everywhere. It looked absolutely awful. This woman actually styled my hair to try to hide this unfortunate splotchy mess from me. She even had the nerve to give me her card. Don’t get me wrong, had she shown me she messed up I would have been on my merry way to get it fixed immediately. But no. She hid this from me. I put the health of my hair in her hands. I trusted her and she betrayed me. I trusted you Mailry! Or Malory! Whatever your name was!
While this event was very unfortunate, there is a silver lining. I’ve gotten my highlights done here with Anais and they turned out beautiful. However, after my last experience, I’ve decided to end that chapter of my life and never return.

I frequently visited this salon for long lasting mani-pedi’s at an excellent price, not to mention the most convenient location– what girl doesn’t enjoy getting pampered between classes?
However, the service here is always rushed and never includes massages. The woman at the front desk is always very serious and has a major attitude problem. She also always asks what we want to tip in front of the nail tech, sometimes even while she is doing your nails! So now you feel obliged to tip before you see the outcome of your manicure. I find this to be incredibly rude and uncomfortable.
I decided to give this place another try after reading they now offered gelish polish. I picked my polish and was sat immediately, as always.
I had gelish polish on, and the nail tech brought me two bowls of pure acetone to put my hands in. WTF?!? Clearly these people do not care about the clients, because letting your hands sit in acetone for 10 – 15 minutes is terrible for your skin– it could burn you! Unfortunately, I’m too shy to let her know that I would really like it if she used the correct method (with cotton balls and aluminum foil wrapped around the finger/​nail, allowing the nail to soak without dipping half your fingers in acetone) but I wasn’t too shy to file down the top layer of the gelish polish down myself so it would remove faster.
She then took the extra skin around my nails off without cuticle cream, and pretended to push back my cuticles as well. They didn’t move a millimeter!
She painted the entire area around my finger with the gelish polish and I had to spend the next day peeling it off in the shower. She also kept complaining that the polishes were really bad quality and that’s why she was having a hard time. Granted, she was saying it in Spanish to another manicurist. I think she didn’t know I spoke Spanish.
It’s been a day, and my nails look pretty good but I still have what we Cubans call «pellejos» around my nails and this invisible cut on my thumb. Feels like I was poked there with a needle but there’s nothing to show for it. Maybe it is from the uv light drying the gel polish onto my skin then having to scrape it off with my nails at home.
Overall, I’ve gotten long lasting regular manicures/​pedicures minus the pampering here plenty of times, but as far as gelish goes they have no idea what they are doing.
Santi’s, you’ve disappointed me this time!

What’s a girl to do with 90 minutes between classes and a set of claws needing some TLC? Visit Santis. Dayamis took excellent care of my nails and was really quick about it too. Have 4 services with the same nail tech and get the 5^th free. Prices are great ($ 10 mani) and the quality is surprisingly good! I only wish they offered shellac. Will definitely be back!

I’ve come a few times to do my nails only since I started FIU and I’ve never had a bad experience. Yesterday I decided to pamper myself and get a manicure and pedicure it all took about half an hour. They are quick and friendly and listen when you tell them you don’t like something ! I plan on coming back very soon. Ask for Barbara, blonde lady.

Love coming here! There very convenient and accommodating. So far I’ve only tried mani and pedi. I have done it with several of the ladies but have stuck with Betty. She’s great and such a sweetheart always trying to make sure your happy with the final outcome.

I had previously written about the wonderful manicurist Nelly and had to update my review for another service I tried at this salon.
I finally got around to getting my hair cut here and I’m so happy. If you’re anything like me, you have a different salon for each service because you found someone that knows how you like things done and you can’t let go. So when you find a place that you can get your hair and nails done at once, you’ve hit the jackpot (now if only I could let go of my eyebrow lady — 10 years of attachment will be tough to break).
Waykin (I had to ask how to spell it) does a wonderful job with haircuts. I went after work and was driving home with a fresh cut and blowout in 45 minutes! I showed her a picture of what I wanted and she duplicated it perfectly. I was nervous about her cutting too much off (this has been a common problem for me) but she showed me how much she was going to cut before she did it. My hair looks healthier and I didn’t lose the length I had!
She’s great and so sweet!

This salon is inside the GC bldg at the FIU campus. Best bet for parking is using the meter lot by the library.
I’ve been coming here since I moved to Miami and became a student at FIU 12 years ago! I obviously graduated since but I’ve continued coming here because I just can’t seem to find anywhere else where I can be in and out quick with great results and without paying an arm and a leg.
I used to do my hair with Vanessa who is very sweet and does an awesome blow dry, but lately I’ve been seeing Waiki (I have no idea if that’s how you spell her name) and I absolutely love her! She cuts hair like no other! She fixed a huge disaster someone else did to my hair and I now trust her completely.
Also, all the nail techs are awesome here! Yes, most of them don’t speak English, but I speak perfect Spanish, so that doesn’t bother me.
Prices are fair. $ 55 for long hair cut & blow dry. Mani/​Pedi $ 28.

Wonderful salon. Fair prices and most of all I’m in and out QUICK. I can do a mani/​pedi, haircut and color in an hour. Perfect for my busy life! Parking is far but I always go during the week and find it without issue.

I only come here for waxing when I don’t feel like leaving campus to do so — so I can only comment on that. Prices are a little hefty — $ 10 for an eyebrow wax is a little over-​the-​top IMO… and many of the wax specialists cannot speak English that well, so it’s hard explaining exactly how you want your eyebrows to them if you plan to only speak in English. The wax job is pretty OK, but it’s nothing great either. I’d recommend only if you were a student in need of a quick fix.

I come here to do waxing of my upper lip. It’s cheap ($ 5), it’s fast, they’re friendly… what’s not to love? I have yet to try any of their other services but from what I hear from friend testimonials, the mani/​pedi are good as well so be sure to try it out!

Used to to may hair and nails here religiously when I was a student. Now I only come back to do my hair every few months. I just can’t seem to like how it’s cut anywhere else. Very convenient for students, but parking is a MISSION for those of us who are not.

Hilda did a wonderful job trimming my curly hair. Everything is even and she angled the front a bit to make it less bulky. She washed, cut, and added a leave in conditioner in less than 30 min and the results were great. The haircut was only $ 20 and I tipped her $ 10 for doing such a great job especially since I have really thick curly hair. I highly recommend her if you have similar hair =)

Located in Florida International University’s student center (aka Graham Center), this hair and nail salon is popular with students for its prices and services. I come here to get my haircut done and so far, I’ve come out of this place with my head intact (and with my hair looking great, thank god!)