Paoli Nails

I was visiting the area and got a gel manicure for Christmas. I used to come to Paoli Nails in high school/​college and was excited to go back. The place looks great but the work was pretty bad. After less than a week, my gel nails began coming off. Whenever I get them done at various salons in LA, they last for 3 weeks and are absolutely perfect for the first 2 weeks, the fact that they began coming off after a few days, is disappointing. Also, the lady who did my nails was pretty unfriendly.

Haven’t been here in over a year at least. I’m from out of town but this place is conveniently located down the street a few miles. Located in the Acme shopping center just to the right next to supercuts so lots of ample parking!
When you walk this facility is brightly lit with manicure stations located at the front– 6 of them I believe and another 3 located just past a central waiting seating area that is located in the center of the room. There are 10 pedi massage chairs to the rear portion of the salon.
I was promptly greeted by a woman seated at one of the manicure stations. I did not have an appointment. I came for a gel mani and a regular pedi. They welcomed my 3 year old son whose used to coming with me.
Half way into my manicure the technician proceeded to place a heated neck wrap on my neck & shoulders and gently started massaging! WHOA! What a treat! I would have paid for this added service! It was a good 10 + minute massage. I almost fell asleep! I was then moved to a massaging pedi station where the rest of my service resumed.
Pleasant staff. Clean & thorough!
There’s even a sign that says «disposable basin liner available upon request.»
I’ll be back for sure!

This place is the BEST!!! Very clean, very nice and your nails will look incredible.
Holly is the who you want to go to if you like nail design. She is very creative. My nails always look fantastic, I love it here.

I had a gel manicure here on ¹²⁄₁₈ and it was a very unpleasant experience. When I first arrived I was immediately helped and they went to work taking off the gel on my nails. After they put on the tinfoil and acetone they moved me to another table and said someone would be do my manicure. 30 minutes later I was still sitting and no one had helped me. When they finally did it was rushed and painful. Then the towels that they used had a hair in them and smelled like mildew. To top it off the polish fell completely off three days later. Most of the time my gel manicures last 3 weeks. I’m never going back.

I will NEVER be going back here. We made appointments for 4 people mani/pedi’s to get ready for a friends wedding. The bride, mother of the bride, sister of the bride, and myself were there. They were rude the whole time, and seemed annoyed about our lack of decisiveness about picking out colors and didn’t offer help, even when asked their opinions– i mean they seemed annoyed about everything. You would think that you would want to put out good vibes for someone’s up coming wedding day. Not the case. As for my color change on my hands. They didn’t even remove all of the previous deep red color before putting on the new color (a light pink) so it obviously didn’t end up looking good. I got a pedicure and a color change on the fingers and it came out to 35 or 37 or something like that. I was appalled. And it was totally not worth it. I will not going back. If you’re in the Paoli area go to Grace’s.

Giving even one star is being too generous.
I came here yesterday to soak off my gel manicure and get a regular mani. I had Gavin and he wrapped my fingers in tin foil for the gel to soak off. No more than 3 mins later he is taking them off. I told him they needed to soak for. 10 – 15 mins as this is not my first time with a gel manicure and he proceeded to take them off and not listen. Sure enough, the gel had not named any progress and he was hurting my nails so badly by scraping the gel off so hard that I had tears in my eyes and asked if I could please soak longer as they were not ready yet. He told me «it always hurts, it is a painful process.» For the gel he was not able to scrape off! he filed the tops of my nails so much that it was burning and felt like my fingers were on fire. Again, I told him to stop filing so much and all of a sudden he couldn’t speake English? He ended up filing the tops of my nails so much that they all broke off and areas weak as can be and even a day later, they are still breaking off even more. He did such a terrible paint job on my hand that it looked likes 2 year old did it. I asked him to take it offend start over. He was not happy but either was I. I could not wait to get out of there. He told me it was $ 13 so I paid, then he came up to me while I was drying and said I actually needed to pay him $ 5 more. That was such a lie and he only did that because I complained so much.
There is a reason I was the only customer in this place.
Avoid Paoli Nails at all costs. It was honestly the worst nail experience I have ever had and I will be regretting it until my nails can grow out and be strong again
Thanks a lot, Gavin.

I am not one to complain but I have to share this experience. I went here just to get a simple manicure and it ended up being a complete waste of time and money. The guy that helped me was in a huge rush, he also made me pay before he started painting (and now I realize why). He was horrible at painting nails and kept using his dirty fingernails to take of extra polish around the nail instead of the tools. He managed to mess up on 3 fingers and did a really bad job fixing them. Worst manicure ever.

I came here to give it a second chance, and was beyond disappointed. The first time– the gentleman did a nice job but was wiping his nose the whole time. This time, the girl chatted with another worker throughout my entire pedicure– so much for relaxing! The massage was awful, and the manicure was not good. I’m not planning to give this place a 3^rd chance.

I have had manicures in many nail salons. I have to say that this place is my favorite. No appointment needed, but if you have a favorite (mine is KC) an appointment works well. Clean, professional and awesome. After a trip to LA, I am convinced it’s worth the wait to «go where you know». Know that this salon is a good find.