Lian Nails

Went in for a quick lip wax. Good price 5 $ every where else want 7. 8 and no matter what people do half the job. This place did great on my lip lol but eye brows soo.sooo. total was 11 $ nice lady

I was on Mission desperately needing to get my nails done. I usually rely on Unilocal reviews but this time I took a risk and I’m glad I did! $ 16 for a full set and my nails came out better than expected. Very surprised with these other low rated reviews, maybe they have improved since then & you should give them one more chance? or maybe not? All I know is that I will be coming back! Thanks!

Cheap and perfect!!!
Just got my nails done from the only guy work there!
Fantastic!
I’ll be back soon!!!

This place is the worst place to get you nails done. I got three cuts after getting my nails done. The lady acted like nothing happened. I even moved my hand from her. After when she started filing my nails she cut me again. The nail polish that she put on was so thick and she got it on my cuticles and on my hand.

A dirty place for a cheap manicure. They have a credit card minimum and need a good deep clean. But hey for 8 bucks, not a bad job done. I actually think my manicure was better in terms of time spent and perhaps skill than the expensive one I had at the dubai international airport.

I came here on saturday the 15^th to get my nails done, a pedi and wax my eyebrows. I had my son at karate so it was very convenient to walk up the street to relax for an hr or so. my white tips were done Ok, the lady didnt seem to comfortable doing nails. she also did my pedi and she butchered my feet. I was bleeding all over, and she just kept digging on my skin! not only after I told her she was hurting me and that she needed to put some alcohol on my toes she very reluctantly did so. I also noticed they dont sanitize their tools properly. she re-​used the tools that she used on my hands on my feet.
IT IS CHEAP… AND YOU DO GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
Well needless to say, I got an infection on my toe.

There’s only one person I get my eyebrows waxed by. Mimi, she’s amazing, delicate, and gets all the little hairs out.
$ 6 eyebrow wax. That is all

(review for eyebrows only)
Well, you get what you pay for. This place is sooo cheap and sooo close to my house that I really wanted to like it. Plus, as some other reviewers noted, I was tired of the horrible conditions at Sandy nail down the street which is even cheaper and grimier. Unfortunately, I don’t think I will be going back.
I’ve come here twice for eyebrows now. They do the waxing in a back room that looks like a storage closet on a little lopsided bed with a dirty sheet over it that I’m sure they don’t change between customers. The customer service is pretty typical of a small nail salon, lots of loud chatter in another language with no break for social niceties with the customers.
Now I’m not one to get snooty about cleanliness or shitty customer service at a nail salon. I knew what I was in for when I saw how cheap they were. The reason they get low marks from me has to do strictly with the way they did my eyebrows. BOTH times I got them done here they turned out lopsided. After the first time I went in with my own tweezers and fixed it at home. I decided to try it again thinking that the first time was probably just a fluke. Nope! The second time they were just as lopsided as the first. This time, I pointed it out to the lady when she was done. She grumbled and went back at it with tweezers for like 5 seconds and then said «ok you pay at front» without even showing me a mirror again so I could make sure they were good. I got home and checked them out and they still looked really lopsided so I had to go back in with my own tweezers again.
From now on I have decided to splurge on the extra $ 4 that it costs to get my eyebrows done at a place that does em right.

Nice, quick and damn cheap. The customers who live in neighborhood are mad hood and damn ghetto. That’s why it’s cheap. Lol

So it’s ridiculously cheap but remember, you do get what you pay for. When John was here, I’d give it a 4 star because his personality and overlay skills were amazing BUT they probably scared him off because they’re a bunch of c-​words that are flat out rude and will mean mug you if you’re paying with your ATM/​visa. yes that was a fugly run-​on and I’m a Lowell alumni. Oh ya.
Had to try someone else once in his absence one day and I swore this joint off. Learned he left and when I called to make an appointment, I got hung up on because I won’t see anyone else.
So, if you tolerate supporting a dirty place with a rude owner that will talk mad shit about you in Vietnamese, this, my girlfriends, is your place.
No OPI, no quality color at all for that matter. The selection is hurting as bad as the smell of their noodle lunch in the restroom. Bring your own color if you’re daring to go here despite the warning.
Better yet, head over to Church Street, there’s a couple good places that will be a few bucks more but all the worth it. You’ve been Unilocal warned.

I only do my «fake nails» twice a year for my birthday and anniversary! Sooo im definitely picky where i go well my friend comes in here often so I decided to give it a shot. The lady was not talkative which is okay im the type of person that wants to get straight to the point you get your job done and ill pay you for it. The lady took her time and did a pretty good job then the other girl did my black tip and my little flower design BEWARE you got to tell the girl exactly what you want because her English is not that good. black tips+design on fake acrylic nails= $ 26. I WAS SOO HAPPY WITH MY NAILS THEY LOOK GREAT. This is place is best than New York Nails and King nails. They are cheap, fast and you get design on each finger for $ 8!
p.s Please keep in my mind that is on mission is not the most clean place or great customer service kinda place. But we are going thru tough times and this is as gooood as it gets!

They are sweet people but I have to be honest, I don’t think I can get a mani/​pedi here anymore. I guess I may have arrived a little late so they were tired, but I don’t think that it’s an excuse to do a poor job on my nails. After they were done my nails were unevenly painted… I know how the heck is that possible? Some parts were lighter than others and it was extremly streaky, was my nail polish dry? Even then they should have informed me of this instead of letting me waste my money on a poor job. I will say that when I am on a budget and am unable to tame my own brows, they do a great job for the price.

I only like this place because it’s so cheap and they’re quick (only because they want to rush through me to get to the other customers). I’ve been here about 5 times for nail repairs, polish changes, pedicures and eyebrow waxing. And they do a decent job on the designs. BUT. It’s so dirty (worn out chairs, stains on the carpet) and you have to wait for like 15 – 30 minutes. And most of the staff don’t smile or anything. I only like the young guy who makes the effort to be friendly and chat it up.
Today I went to get a polish change and one of the staff actually started removing my nail polish when I was sitting in the waiting area. I thought that was weird and unprofessional. Finally after 20 minutes of waiting, I got ushered into one of their stations to get my color change. I tipped the guy $ 2 and did not hear a «thank you», nothing. I thanked them on my way out and heard NO RESPONSE.
It’s unfortunate since they are so cheap and do good designs, that I am too pissed off to go back.
I’d rather climb the damn hill and go back to 4 Seasons Salon on Cortland because they’re staff are so friendly and professional. And the salon is clean and relaxing.

I come here so often they just smile at me right away and say hi. I’m always in a rush so I time my s*** perfectly to make it here before they get busy. And they get hella busy! Sometimes it’s standing room only.
They are so damn cheap and they do a fine ass job. I get a manicure AND pedicure AND eyebrow wax for $ 26. The staff is always nice and attentive.
This is the only place I go to have my eyebrows waxed. I’ve heard horror stories from other salons about infections/​ingrowns/​ripped off skin. I have never had any of those issues here.
Did I mention I’m usually in and out way before the one hour meter runs out.

I’ve been here a handful of times because it’s dirt cheap and really close to 24^th St. BART, despite the filth, inconsistency, crowds, indifferent staff and sucky selection of colors. I even went a few times and got a pretty good foot massage with my pedicure.
However, last time I went was just so wretchedly horrible, not only will I NEVER go there again, I felt compelled to get my money back and warn others.
The pedicure was painful. Really painful. She made both of my big toes bleed with the cuticle nippers and then had to pour that super stingy stuff on my open wounds to stop the bleeding. Good thing I don’t have a bloodbourne illness, and hopefully the person in the chair before me didn’t either. Crappy massage. It wasn’t even a message really, she more just slapped some lotion on the tops of my legs. Lame.
The manicure was even worse. I tried to ask the fellow a question about the difference between gel and acrylic and he didn’t understand me, which was really frustrating, and he did such an atrocious job-​the acrylic was all lumpy. The worst thing though, while he was really hurting my fingers with both the nail file AND the drill, I repeatedly said ‘ow’ and tried to pull my fingers away from him, it was obvious I was in pain, and he didn’t even care or say sorry. I even said ‘Can you please be more careful’ because he kept hurting me. Grrr, what a jerk! I was seriously on the verge of tears when I left, I was so frustrated and nursing my wounds. And my nails looked like poo because there was gnarly scabs on them from him filing away my skin. Is that nasty or what? I get my nails done so they look good, not so they look like they went through a blender.
I brooded about it for days before I went and asked for my money back. I could get that place shut down, just based on how filthy it is and how they don’t sanitize any of their instruments between clients. It’s disgusting. So basically, yeah. Don’t risk it.
I started going to Queen’s nails on Mission and Fair. Yes, it’s a little further away, but it’s still super cheap and fast, and they do a much better job, and it’s clean and quiet!

I swear, sometimes the best stuff is right under my nose and I don’t even know it. Lian Nails would be one example of this.
I pass it every day walking to and from bart. The scene: lots of people waiting in the front with their kids running around and screaming, the staff hollering at each other in vietnamese, small, cramped, sort of run-​down looking… mission local ladies getting scary long-​ass acrylic nails put on while their boyfriends text on motorola sidekicks outside and check me out as I walk by… just another day in the life, really.
People in SF love to get uptight about nail salons that aren’t super prim and proper and perfect and professional in every possible way. I used to be one of those people because I worried about sanitary stuff, etc… but really, I mean, let’s face the facts here… it’s a rough world out there… I’ve backpacked through central america, i’ve done tons of stuff that most «nail salon snobs» would probably never do anyways… so if something hasn’t taken me out yet, I doubt that going to an ever so slightly more ghetto nail salon will!
Okay, to be fair, I did bring in my own opi nail polish because I couldn’t deal with their no-​name neon, metallic-​y colors (see, I can’t ditch my elitist self completely!) Bottom line: $ 15 pedicure and it looks kick ass. There I go, there you go.

The only thing I like about there is how my nails is designed and cheaper than the one I go to now because I am no longer in the neighborhood. What I do not like is that it is always crowded. Lots of staff, messy, ghetto. LOL. At least I used to live across the street from there and I always go there in the morning, around 10:30AM or 11AM so that I don’t have to deal with the rush hour.

About 4 – 5 years ago, I would go to Lians almost on a regular basis and get a full set because they USED to offer free HAND DESIGN (not air brush) for a new full set. I was a fan! Free hand design? Other places charge like $ 2-​$ 5 PER FINGER depending on what you want and that’s just RIDICULOUS! However, there was this one day I will NEVER forget that made me HATE Lians (well one particular guy there). I was waiting for a long time to get a full set and FINALLY I got seated and there was a young guy (he looked kinda gay to me) assigned to do my nails. There WERE people waiting and I think it was about their time to close so this guy was RUSHING on doing my nails. I got irritated and told him «slow down» and he just kept going as fast as he was before so I told him again, «slow down!» that must’ve bust his bubble because he BURST out in front of the whole f****** nail shop and YELLED at me «WHAT DO YOU MEAN SLOW DOWN? THEY’RE NOT MESSED UP!» at that point I just wanted to reach over the table and slap the shit out of his b**** ass! What the f*** kind of shit is that?! I know he will still remember my face if I go there because I actually DID go there one time after that incident with my friend but I didn’t get my nails done there, she did and that GUY just so happened to be there. I had my money tips on from another nail shop on 24^th and Treat (GO THERE! THEY’RE VERY INEXPENSIVE AND THEY DO A EXCELLENT JOB! I JUST CAN’T THINK OF THE NAME RIGHT NOW BUT THEY’RE ON THE CORNER OF 24TH & TREAT) and he asked me where I got them. I said «the spot on 24^th and Treat» and he was like «for how much?» I said, «$ 26. why how much do you charge?» he said, «for that $ 30-​$ 36» I said, «BOYYYYYY YOU TRIPPIN!» and then he started talking Vietnamese with his coworkers and it gave me this feeling that he was talking about me. I bet he was too! Lians is a VERY ghetto and VERY unprofessional place. HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED!

haha, this is where i got my nails done by a dude. for the first time. they are definitely efficient and finishes pretty fast. although at times, i feel like they are rushing through it. the prices are on the cheap side… of san francisco and even neighboring salons. one complaint i do have, they don’t exactly on top of the scale for being very clean.

4 STARS for efficient, thorough service! walked in and wait was minimal even though it can get crowded. good tag-​team with mani and pedi ladies! reasonable prices and great design variety! much better than other salons that i’ve been to. JUST GO!