Viva Nails

I really love Vivas for pedicures with Julia and gel manicures with Jenny. Unfortunately they’re top nail Technician Kevin has left for greener pastures and this only leaves one very good nail artist there by the name of Jenny who is always booked and very difficult to secure a Gel manicure with. In addition their Gel Manicure prices continue to rise and is no longer on par with neighboring nail salons.
Appointments should be made in advance for either Julia or Jenny otherwise you may never get your nails done here.
I love the décor, the sanitary tools and steps they’ve taken to ensure you get high quality work done in a healthier environment and their prices reflect this too!
Lots of nail polish colors to choose from in both Gel & regular colors and they’re always trending in the latest nail colors to tickle your fancy.
Tip to you…
Appointment are advised but call for possible cancellations
Cash & Credit accepted

I live right around the corner, and I decided to go to this salon instead of getting mani/​pedis in the city after work. I’ve gone about 4 times now, and I’ll never be back again. The first two times were good. The mani didn’t last more than 3 days before chipping, but this was a cheap price, so I went back. The third time, I had an older women. She was very rough and uncomfortable. I get mani/​pedis to relax and get away from the stress of work. This experience was just as stressful as work!
I waited about 3 weeks, and I decided to go back on a Sunday. BAD IDEA. I had a twenty-​something year old, and I felt like I was in a torchere chamber the entire time. My toe wouldn’t stop bleeding because she kept digging around my toe nail, and she tried to cover up the blood. Then when she got to my mani (God knows why I stayed for this), instead of cleaning up the skin around my nails, she continued to take chunks of skin off my hands. I have 6 visible cuts around my nails, and my fingers are so tender.
I would not recommend this place to anyone. I’ll head into the city next time. Very disappointed.

Love it everytime I go back for my mani&pedi! I had Juana this time and she was great and precise. Who doesn’t love great service?

I’ve been here once and due to the great reviews wanted to try it for myself. I had a terrible experience at another place I tried and needed a clean start. They did an awesome job. I got a gel manicure which was worth it! They have good prices and nice colors. Opi and essie galore. Am going back for pedicure soon.

My favorite place for a pedi, everything is clean, the staff is friendly, they don’t fill the nail polish with acetone to stretch it, I travel from across town every 2wks & will not go anyplace else… the bad part… the wait can be long go early or try to make an appointment

Great local nail salon. Relatively quick service, clean facilities and great prices. Most of the nail technicians are Ecuadorian, and they take their time ensuring things are done well.

The staff is quite delightful, but I received a terrible manicure and pedicure at Viva Nails as it chipped the day of… A little disappointed as I just moved to the neighborhood and had read some of the reviews on Unilocal.
I really planned on making Viva Nails my regular spot for a weekly mani-​pedi and all of my essential pampering rituals. I sure do hope that they ameliorate the quality of their mani-​pedis soon!

Great place! Efficient, professional, and amazing work. My person is Luz for mani and pedi. And the prices are right!

Nail techs are quiet & polite enough. I don’t require convo during a mani/​pedi sorry. They are always on time with appts, I’ve never had to wait if I have an appt. The owner is organized and will chip on to do your nails often, if she likes you. She remembers everyone, overall cool place.

Had a french manicure done with a spa pedicure. Really impressed with the results. Would have gotten 5 stars if the nail technician didn’t complain about «how hard my feet were». Ummm lady, you suggested for me to do the callous spa treatment so stop fussing over it. I wouldn’t be there if my feet were milky soft right? Anyhoo, would definitely go back for a manicure/​regular pedicure since their work is amazing. Would think twice about spa pedicures since they don’t seem very understanding of the purpose for that extra scrub.

Great nail salon. Welcoming and clean. They have tons of nail polish and gels (great brands too). This is the second time I came and the First Lady I had did an amazing job but second one not so much. I really have to figure out the names of the best workers and stick with them. I hear Julie is pretty good so I’ll try her next time

My second visit here at a less busy time and I had a much better experience. I really like this place.

How this place has any good reviews idk. First off it was the most un relaxing environment ever. There was some guy off the street coming in to try to get you to donate money for his basketball team, then the pedicure chairs are so close together your sitting on top of everyone else. I messed up my toes getting up from the chair. My nails are crooked. I got a basic manicure idk how u mess that up and my nails are short. They took over an hour and a half for my mani pedi and they look horrible. She even didn’t put a top coat on my right ring finger. Don’t waste ur time. I only came here because I work close by ans from the «great» reviews on Unilocal

By far the best Nail Salon I’ve EVER been to, Even though i came when they were closing they still took me, they rushed through everything but still managed to leave me satisfied. So of course i tipped them $ 5. THIS WILL BE MY GO TO NAIL SALON especially since they’re by far the cleanest I’ve ever seen as well worth the $$

This is my usual place simply for the fact that it is around the corner and the $ 30 gel mani/​reg. pedi deal is hard to beat. This is the first came place I came to in Ridgewood and I was impressed my first time — it must have been a really good day for them. The second time I came, I waited 2 hours for them to take my friend and not me and tell me there was no time for me. Naturally, I was turned off from coming back so I tried two other local spots and hated both, so I came back to Viva. The workers here can be pretty rude but they do a decent job. Maria gives a great gel mani.

Wow! That’s the first word to mind and not in a good way. I came to this nail salon since my normal place had no parking in the area on a late Friday afternoon. I had to get my nails done so I came here just for a regular manicure… within 10 mins I had three different women do my nails. All didn’t say one word to me, just stood up and switched (like tapping in a wrestling match) I was so frustrated because one didn’t know where the other left off (didn’t communicate to each other) and kept digging into my cuticles that I had to say something! They weren’t friendly and when I had to leave in a hurry since (something came up) they charged me $ 12 for a manicure NO POLISH AT ALL (after I was told $ 7). I was so upset and left this place totally unsatisfied. Yes it’s a clean salon and well kept but without good customer service you won’t see me coming back.

for $ 7 the manicure was quick and very well done. The space itself is casual and nice, very easy to get to. Ill definitely be going back.

This salon is clean uses good polishes takes debit cards with no. fee and prices are good. Staff is nice but it can get very crowded especially on weekends. Their mon to thurs price for manicure and pedicure is 15.99 which isn’t bad

Not bad for $ 16. No major complaints.
This place was cleaner than most of the places that I go to in the city and obviously cheaper. However, when I first walked in, it was a bit awkward as no one said anything for about 3 minutes. I then just announced «mani-​pedi» and was told to pick my color. Also, it didn’t seem like they had many OPI colors to choose from. Frown.
However, they did have my usual fallback – extremely neon pink.
The nail tech was not hesitant to dig all of the Caribbean goo out from under my toenails (gross!) and she scrubbed my heels nice and good too.
The manicure was also pretty good. Will I go back? Probably.
However, there are a lot of other nail places in my hood with weekday mani-​pedi specials, so hopefully I’ll be able to try out some more places as well.

Unfortunately for me, in my neighborhood we have a variety of horrible nail salons and very few to choose from. After experimenting with almost every nail salon in my zip code, this is pretty much the only decent one. The prices are reasonable: Full set for hands and pedicure $ 33 plus tips (no design included). Monday through Thursday, there is a special of manicure and pedicure for $ 16.99 ;-/​but there are no specials for UV gels or permanent French manicure which is about $ 60.
The Asian staff members do a pretty good job with the manicures but some of the Hispanic ladies doing pedicures do a lousy job. So I recommend coming here only for hands.