Mary-Anne Nails & Hair R US

Pedi great gel nail not so good. I really like the girls that work there they offer you tea and D the girl who takes care of me chats it up with me even with the language barrier. It’s small with massage chairs and I can also read and relax if I want too without pressure

Came here cuz I was desperate and it was the only place open on a Sunday nearby. fair warning: Don’t get a full set here. Nail broke the next day… I repeat, the NEXT DAY. I don’t even know how that happens. Also pretty awful paint job… if my nails are white don’t use a red tinted clear coat. Paid $ 25 for the worst nail job I’ve ever had. Ah well live and learn.

I paid $ 25 for a full acrylique set that looks like I let my 2 year old cousin paint my nails. The acrylic is thick and covers 90% of my nail bud. Along with it not being smoothed out and covering way more than my nail, it is chunky and the nail polish was all over my hands. This was by far the actual worst nail job that I have ever received in my life, it is actually shocking. I wish that I could upload a picture to WARN YOU. I advise you to avoid this shop at all costs considering they will botch your hands.

For the last year and a half, I have been going to Mary-​Anne Nails & Hair R US for haircuts.
It was a Sunday afternoon, and I was having one of those bad hair days, so I decided to visit Mary-Anne’s.
When I saw Monica at the shop, I knew that I would be in good hands because she always commits the extra effort to make sure that the haircut fits my style.
I started my Sunday with a frown, but when I left Mary-Anne’s I wore a big smile. That’s when I knew that I had the perfect haircut.
If you need a haircut, ask for Monica!

This was my 4times getting my nails done and I was impressed! I had Monica who was super sweet and took her time and really made sure my nails looked good. I came here with friends before and it seems like they always have a lot of customers so if you don’t want to wait you should probably book an appointment. Overall really good customer service and a good color selection for a good price.

I received the worst manicure I’ve ever had in my life from this establishment. You could actually see the base of my nail through the color when they told me that it was done. There was nail polish on my fingers. The color was uneven. I was there for two hours. The worst salon in SF.

DO NOT GO HERE FOR ANYTHING!
If I could I would give no damn stars what so ever! They did the worst job ever on my boyfriends hair.
Today about an hour or so ago me and my boyfriend were walking to Walgreens to pick up hair dye and some other stuff. He has been complaining about how long his hair was getting and I seen a couple hair places so we decided to give the cheapest one a shot. We went in and the lady was pretty nice but her English was very broken so it was hard to know if she understood what my boyfriend wanted. She started cutting and It looked fine until she started to clean up the sides and did a very uneven job. She did one side sorta nice and then it was like she completely forgot about the other side. My boyfriend told her to make his side burns long with a point at the end. He even shaped it with his fingers to show her. She didn’t listen or didn’t know how to do it and just shaved them off short and straight. She also cut off his little v thing on his forehead, which really upset us both cause that’s his little signature thing and she didn’t even ask if he wanted that. She didn’t ask if he liked it half way through. She kept cutting and she was very very rough with his hair, and he has very curly hair so it gets in tangles fast, but she didn’t brush it before cutting. She didn’t even do an even job in the back and I am very upset on how crapy of a job she did. My boyfriend isn’t one to speak up and say he wants it this way or he doesn’t like it that way but I could see the disappointment in his face as he sat there looking in the mirror at his horribly done hair cut. After everything was done we were getting ready to pay and leave, my boyfriend gave her $ 11 and the hair cut was $ 10 so he gave her a dollar tip, I personally would have not tipped her at all. He gave her the money she counted it and said I get no tip I did good pretty good job he look like man now, which bugged me more because she kept saying haircut will make him look more like a man, so then my boyfriend gave her another dollar and she looked in his wallet and said another dollar because she was convinced she did such a great job so he gave her his last dollar. Not only did she do a horrible job on his hair she insisted on a big tip which she did not at all deserve
I would strongly recommend anyone to never go here for a hair cut or anything in that matter! Such a mistake and waste of money.

DO NOT GO for hair!!!
I would so give this place a negative if possible.
There was a salon with pretty good review on Unilocal on ocean that I wanted to check out; however, i did not know the wait was going to take several hours which I did not have time for. As a result, I decided to just go into ANY salon. The whole time I was thinking how bad can it get? I walked into this place without realizing it was so SMALL, can only cut hair for one person at a time and looks like it was mainly for mani/​pedi. Sadly to say, I’m the type of the person who walks in and would be too afraid to walk back out if i do not like the place, especially when I’m the only one there. I told the vietnamese lady I wanted to get highlights and just get my hair layered. Every colored I asked for she said she did not have so I told her just wash and layer my hair.
The whole process of getting my hair wash was sooooooooo painful. I have to literally hold myself up on the chair and stress my neck since their cheap seat does not elevate. I got laughed at for being to short. What kind of customer services was that?!? Worst of all, something STINKS! I can’t tell if it was her or the shampoo. She took FOREVER to wash my hair, I wanted to throw up smelling it.
The cutting process was BAD. She asked how I wanted my hair. My reply was do not cut it short, just layer it. Next, she asked me If i wanted my hair cut with a scissor or a razor. Immediately, I was just too shock. She was supposedly the hair stylist whom should know better what should be used. I just told her how am i suppose to know. She whisper with an attitude that scissor would make my hair look better. If you had known, why ask me??? End result, she used a razor comb, something i had bought before in Walgreen which cut really badly, but of course, or hopefully, hers was supposedly better that doesn’t cut your hair into split ends? She was using it to layer my hair. I was watching the whole process, she took a long time, kept measuring my hair and barely really cutting much. Long tiring wait for her to finish.
Then she started to style my hair which i did not know. She sprayed a lot of hair spray on my hair, then put a lot of moose. The whole time in my head I was thinking I didn’t want any of those crap on my hair since they generally make your hair really hard and nasty to touch. I asked her what she is doing and if those will make my hair hard. She said it’s good for my hair and it give it «body». I just had a confuse look like what the heck? She meant volume? She kept asking me if I know what «body» is. I just ignored her since obviously she doesn’t speak English well, nor does she know what she is doing. She started blow drying and shaping it. Informed me I needed to let her know if it’s hot. I said ouch and moved away. She asked if it was too hot, I told her it was because she kept aiming only one spot since she can not multitask. I had to keep touching my hard, and hating the feeling of it more and more. Kept telling her how I do not like the sticky and hardest of my hard. She only went on and on about how it’s good for my hair and even dare to ask if i was from china just because I’m not liking what she is doing. How in the world am I from china when she herself can not speak english well at all nor know what she is talking about. I had to tell her to stop drying my hair, and that I need to wash EVERYTHING off when I go home. She was getting annoyed of me since she thinks I’m stupid and knows nothing. I had to pay freakin $ 35 for the crappiest waste of time hair cut ever. Way too expensive for something that made my hair worst. I stormed out super duper piss with hair sticking out everywhere. Everyone on the street kept eying me because of my hair.
Finally managed to get home to wash up and then realized my hair was no longer even. One side was longer than the other. It was barely layered. My hair felt worst than ever. Worst hair experience ever.
Lesson learned: Walk out of the place I am not comfortable being in when I find out how it’s like inside since they do not know me anyways. =_=

I cannot speak to earlier reviews. This is being written on March 25, 2013. There has been a change of personnel since I first went here.
I have been going to Mary-Anne’s for about 1 ½ years. I am a fan. I have natural curly hair that is difficult to work with and I am very picky. I have received excellent cuts and hair styling. (Mary Anne does my hair.) I have had both manicures and pedicures. Great job and I love the foot and hand massages that go with the –icures. Susie waxed and shaped my eyebrows. Again a great job.
I take my blind friend to Mary-Anne’s. They treat her like she is a queen. Her hair is very straight and very hard to perm. Mary Anne gave her a perm about a month ago, and a shampoo and set a couple of days ago. Her perm is holding and looks great. Mary Anne shaped her cut and set to frame her face beautifully. (Other perms from elsewhere have failed to hold and she has straight hair again in the matter of days.) My friend looks lovely and feels special. She has had both manicures and pedicures. Special care is taken to make her feel comfortable.
These folks go out of their way to make customers feel like they are family.
We have received excellent care from Mary Anne, Susie, and Pon. I met Ralph whom, I am told, specializes in men’s hair and beard cuts. Seems like a nice guy.
Since I first wrote this review, I have had trouble getting appointments with the hairdresser of my choice. When I do get Mary-​Anne things are as described above.

NEVER COME HERE FOR WAXING!
I was VERY DESPERATE, as in I had a date in a few hours and needed a wax PRONTO! The place I usually go was unavailable at such short notice and this was the only place that was close by that accepted walk ins for waxes.
–1^st star off: they use some sort of roll on wax (WTF?) that they don’t change, which is very unhygienic. The wax does not roll on easily and hurts more coming on than it does coming off.
–2^nd star off: the lady took forever to wax my stomach and brazilian. She missed many spots and basically crawled all over me in the process.
–3^rd star off: the lady waxed off a chunk of my eyebrow. Now I have to draw in a section of my left eyebrow
–4^th star off: it was $ 70 for stomach, brazilian, and eyebrow. This is pretty darn expensive given the poor quality of service.
All in all I will never come here again!

This place sucks!
I came here about 3 years ago when I was a senior in high school. Yeah yeah, I know what you’re thinking… «how do you still remember?» Well, that’s how horrible my experience was! So I was desperately trying to look for a place within the vicinity to get my nails done since I was invited to a winter ball. Parking’s always hard on Ocean but that won’t be a problem as long as you stay away from this place!
I walked in and the place looked dead. The ladies. who were watching their Asian soap dramas, were very friendly and asked me what I wanted. I told them that I wanted a nail removal then a full set color and that I was in a hurry. So they sat me down at a pedicure station which was weird because I didn’t want a pedicure? They started removing my nails and bam! The lady was not cutting my nails, BUT bending my nail that it started ripping my nail off. I pulled away and told her to cut the acrylics off and she proceeded to cut the acrylics off. What do I see? A ripped nail and blood. I couldn’t help but think about how many people got their nails ripped off too. shrugs. The cosmetologist. or whatever the hell she was just laughed it off and apologized. oh and then she started talking to her co-​worker in her language.
My nails were chunky, boxy, and for some odd reason. they were hurting. This place NEEDS to be closed down for their unhygenic practices.

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!
Dear God, why did I go in!!! Why???
I hate writing negative reviews: But this place is terrible.
I was in need of a gel/​shellac manicure before Christmas. Sunday afternoon I walked in at 3pm, today is Monday after Christmas. My nails peeled off by Wednesday morning. That’s LAST Wednsday… barely 4 days after I had them done. Isn’t’ shellac supposed to last a MINIMUM of 2 weeks???
Let me preface this by saying I am careful with my nails. I wear gloves when washing dishes and clean the house. I don’t have my hands in acid or chemicals. I don’t dig ditches either… I work at a desk. So it befuddles me how something that is supposed to last at least 2 weeks barely lasted 4 days…
So, I walked by here, she seemed nice, it was empty (bad sign) The older lady was nice but PAINFULLY slow. She barely spoke a word or English. I really couldn’t understand a word of what she was saying – im a native San Franciscan and English is my second language too… Not being racist here, but come on!
She had no UV light, or not the proper one at least, and when she got confused which hand she painted first, I knew it not was going to be good… The nails did not dry. Even though I kept them in there for more than 10 minutes after she was done. And after each coat. The archaic UV light she has was so weak (maybe not working??) She even brought out a regular fan! I told her that wouldn’t work, umm yeah. Has to be cured by UV light, even I know that!!!
She kept pouring acetone on them to dry. they were all sticky and tacky. The color was uneven, streaky, you could see my natural nails underneath the red color I chose. Not good.
Day 4 of shellac – my red nail polish was completely peeled off. Horrible, absolutely terrible. Not even worth going back there, But I will just to tell her how bad she is.
What a waste of money! And yes, I still tipped even though it took 2 hours and was terrible.
Do yourself a favor– Don’t go here! Ever!

Absolute rubbish place. Went to get my eyebrows waxed and came out looking like some geisha. I was not happy. The place was deserted when I went and she still did such a terrible job. She took about 20 minutes making my eyebrows extra thin when i told her to make my eyebrows just look neat. Not going in there again.

If you are happy to get a half ass job, this is the place! Cheap and below the expectations! I got my eyebrowns done and she did it way too thin, when all I wanted was for her to clean up. Then I got a pedicure and she literally did it in less than 10 minutes, no she is not super fast, she just did a shitty job because there was another client. She definitely can’t handle the pressure of the business. I will not be returning.

This place is absolutely horrible! If I could give negative stars, I would.
The fact that this place is extremely cheap should have been a sign. However, I saw the prices and decided to give it a try. I went with my mom about a month ago, and I will never ever ever be going back. The woman who did my moms pedicure CUT so far into her big toenail that the nail itself was almost pointed! The polish looked like it had been applied by a 4 year old.
The waxing station is just a sink chair in the back, clearly visible from the outside of the store.
If you want to save money on a pedicure now and spend three times as much fixing your feet later, this is the place for you.

My brother went here to get a quick haircut. The lady there paid him very little attention and kept focusing on another customer while she cut his hair. The haircut turned out bad as well =/

this place was nice. i had to wait about 15 mins for her to start working on me, but it was ok. $ 7 for a mani is so good, but jus FYI its $ 10 minimum to be charged on a card so i paid $ 10 instead. which i was ok with. shes not like other people who talk u out asking questions which was nice. the place doesnt smell too bad either. she has a mix of different brands of nail polish but i stuck w the reliable OPI. resonably priced ide go back again.

First time visitor here. Teresa did my underarm and eyebrow wax which had to be the fastest wax I’ve ever had in my life.
She had another nail job when I had walked in but I happily waited for about 10 – 15 minutes since I knew they were near closing and I was glad they could squeeze me in.
I know she was rushed since she still had the other woman wait to have her nails dry. My underarm wax was done upstairs in a small facial space and literally took less than five minutes. It wasn’t thorough but it was good enough.
I wanted my eyebrows done and I begged her to make sure they were not crooked (horrible experience at the nail salon in Stonestown). She did them in about five, rushed, minutes and ta-​da perfect!
I couldn’t be happier. For $ 17 + tip I left waxed and veryyy appreciative. Even though I felt really rushed and that I didn’t get full attention, I’m glad everything turned out well and I will most likely be back.

I was glad I was able to get a walk in morning appointment. I like there is a row of foot spa stations. The is also a hair area. The prices were great.

Not the chicest of environments, but Mary-​Anne gives damn good pedicures. I don’t even remember what brand of nail polish they use but pedicures literally last FOREVER. They take their time and don’t let you leave until the polish is dry. Super, super cheap: $ 15 for a pedicure. These neighborhood nail salons are exactly why I miss SF so much when I’m at college! I just got back and went in for pedi today… my coral pink toes look so cute! Thanks Mary-​Anne!