Spa Boutique

Pretty average. Service is adequate and prices seem high for the quality of service. I’m not too thrilled. New to the area and will need to keep looking.

Came to the city for physical therapy for my knee this morning and needed some serious relaxing. I used my Unilocal app, to locate nearest mani and pedi with decent reviews. And we found this one. Two blocks up. The moment we got there, we were greeted by the ladies there. The place is very clean and have many colors to choose from. One wall for regular nail polish the other for gel. My mother had reg. Pedi and Mani. They really took care of my mother. They trimmed her nails very nicely. My mom is diabetic so she has to be careful with cutting her nails. My mother also had her eyebrows done. My mom is old school and likes her brows not thin. The lady did them exactly as my mother wanted. As for me I had a gel manicure and reg. Pedi. They did a great job. All bottles looked new, not old. I will definitely go back again any time I am in the city. And the price was very decent.

I’ve been to this nail boutique three times so far and I’ve always had a good experience here. The staff is friendly and they always take their time doing my nails. It also never seems to be too crowded (I usually go around lunch time). The salon is clean and quiet which is always important. Definitely my go-​to lunch-​time mani/​pedi spot!

Never again. I picked this place knowing it was more expensive than many of the nail salons, hoping I would be helping to pay someone a living wage– the reviews looked good so I went for it and got a mani/​pedi.
The pedicure massage chairs are awful. Super uncomfortable and knobby, even while massaging it wasn’t comfortable. The controls apparently don’t work, so if you don’t want the hardest massage from those awful knobs, you have to turn it off and sit there with knobs poking your back the rest of the time. As far as cleanliness, it was ok– not as clean as some salons I have been to (the cleanest salon will line the basin used for pedicures with plastic prior to each customer). I selected the lemon scrub pedicure– an upgrade that ran $ 35– if you want them to file your heels and calluses then that is the minimum you have to pay. What’s the point of a pedicure other than to get the to take care of calluses etc? It was a high price I thought but again I was ok with it thinking maybe the workers get a living wage. It was going fine until the uncomfortable part where they trim your cuticles– at that point they cut me pretty badly on the bottom of my little toe, which I discovered when they put the lemon scrub on the wound and I shot up out of the chair, the pain was so bad. I was pretty much determined from there forward to never come back based on that, but the experience got worse. It did include a 10 minute leg and foot massage, and they do set a timer to make sure you get the full 10 minutes– it was nice, but again, I was busy wondering how I was going to walk home on a cut foot. Mani was pretty standard, $ 10 for file and polish only. After I had one coat on, one of the other techs came over to pump out some acetone nail polish remover and sprayed one of my hands all over with it in the process– leaving droplets on the polish and making me leave smelling strongly of remover– no apology or anything, I wasn’t surprised after the cut incident. They end with an about 60 second shoulder massage while you are at the dryer. The polish itself turned out ok. One of the worst parts about the place though was that about halfway through my service the middle aged white guy apparently in charge of the group of Asian women workers came out, walked around for a second, and made one of the nail techs stop in the middle of a pedicure, walk over, and get him a glass of water from the water cooler while he stood and watched her. I can’t help but think this place is one of those indentured servitude type places you hear about in the news. All in all, not a pleasant experience at all– I won’t be back and I hope you will try somewhere else.

This was my first time coming to this salon, the prices are decent and salon is spacious and very clean. So no complaints there, however some of the ladies who work there are very unpleasant. The lady who did my nails (no name tags) barely even cracked a smile. She seemed as if she didn’t want to be there and I was wasting her time, lol, I was a bit confused. No thank you for her tip, no small talk, and just and overall rushed job. I may try the the place again because I am satisfied with my nails, and this one employee’s attitude shouldn’t reflect the salon as a whole.

I love Spa Boutique. The women who work here are SO nice, and their pedicures last longer than those of any other nail salon I’ve been to. I strongly recommend this place.

It takes an exceptionally awful or amazing experience to provoke me to write a review. Spa Boutique is exceptionally amazing. I’m very particular when it comes to my nails. I was hesitant at first to try a new place. Thank god for Denny. Denny has made me a weekly customer for life (or as long as I live on the UWS)!

I found this jewel a year ago! I come here religiously and absolutely love it. I see John and Danny for my nails and they both do great work! I never have to wait long to be seen, the place is always very clean and comfortable, the employees are all kind and it’s very peaceful.