Yung Nail

I have been going to this small basement salon for a few years since I started working in the neighborhood. While I am totally satisfied with the quality of the mani/​pedis and eyebrow threading, I must confess that I continue to patronize the establishment at the risk of possible infection simply for the comic relief it provides. Let’s first talk about the décor, the inspiration for which can only have come from the Frankenstein story. Everything here appears to have been salvaged from a wide assortment of defunct businesses probably from family members of the owners. No two chairs are alike. Nail dryers sit atop old bedroom bookcases. Worn pedicure chairs are mended with clear packing tape, and the wrist pads for your manicure are similarly made of packing tape– bound wads of paper toweling. The caddies for the pedicurists tools are all mismatched. The owners probably had a niece or nephew come in over the weekend to create a small partitioned waxing room in this already tiny space. Clearly the builder never heard of a level, and the poorly cut ‘decorative’ moulding (perhaps they used a nail file?) is hammered across the two walls upside down and topped off with a shelf nailed onto the corner to stabilize the creation. The door hangs on a slant and is covered with fingerprints, and this room, along with the entire space, was upgraded in a recent paint job in contrasting colors of spoiled egg yolk yellow and rancid tomato sauce orange.
The staff is a sketch as well. My favorite is a heavy set, sweet Russian woman who speaks a steady stream of some synthesis of English and Russian of which I have absolutely no comprehension. Even better, the owner’s husband, who sits all day long in his stocking feet reading the newspaper and taking payment at a salvaged desk, speaks an equally unintelligible conglomeration of Korean and English, and these two talk to eachother! Listening to them is the closest I’ve come to what I imagine it would be like to be captured by aliens.
So, if you have a taste for the theatre of the absurd and are not that concerned with the optimum in cleanliness (and if you are, head right back up those stairs) you won’t find a better bang for your buck. Enjoy the show.

This place is HORRIBLE! I called and asked if they did shellac and they claimed they did. Over and over again during my pedicure I said I wanted a shellac manicure. They prepped my nails for the manicure then said they didn’t have shellac! WORST PLACE EVER!!!

$ 5 eyebrow wax. Sure it’s not the nicest salon, but fast and good. I’ve paid $ 20 for an eyebrow wax that I was less happy with. The only downside is that they are waxing you in the middle of the salon in a chair, but whatever!

Ok so this is actually a pretty hilarious situation. I get home from work at like 6:45 and want to go somwhere quick and get my nails done for an interview, so I jump on Unilocal to see whats local. Since I am on John st. this is the first place I call and this is how the conversation went:
Me: Hey are you guys still open?
Guy: COME NOW! COME NOW!
Me: How much for mani/​pedi
Guy: YOU COME NOW? TWENTY DOLLA! COME NOW!
Me: ok i’m right up the street I’ll be right there
Guy: OK COME NOW WE CLOSE 730
So afte dealing with Yung Nails’ #1 salesmen, i walk down the street — nails done (and well) in under 30 minutes. They had 2 people working on me so that made it doubly amazing but they were super professional and polite. I plan on going back to get my eyebrows done shortly.
3 days later though and not a chip on my fingers or toes.

I agree with the other post. At Yung Nails, I had Linda work on my brows and I must say that I came in because it was five dollars. There are other places nearby that offer the same for seven. Linda was great.
I got exactly what I asked for and she was pretty exact. You are kinda creeped out by walking down the stairs but they are very nice there.
To be honest, the Brow Bar at Bloomingdale’s by Benefit did not do nearly as good a job for twenty five dollars. If you are downtown doing a little Century 21 shopping, check this out and then hop on the green line uptown.