Riviera Nail and Spa

I found my new nail salon! Excellent service, great prices, and they have a membership card!

I had the most relaxing and thorough pedicure of my life here! Additionally, I had a great gel manicure.
Atmosphere: For Staten Island it’s clean, has newish equipment, and sterile. The also have a ton of colors and high end brands. And are pretty organized.
Service: The woman I had (didn’t catch her name) was very patient, friendly, and warm. She always smiled and made sure I was happy with what she was doing.
Procedure: She spent an HOUR just on my pedicure! That’s unheard of… especially in NY! She did an entire leg scrub and I mean… SCRUB! She did a hot stone massage on my legs. It was like a spa treatment and pedicure in one. I would even go as far as saying, this was better than an actual pedicure done at the spa! The gel manicure was great. I can’t say how much I loved it, until I see how long it will actually last. But the application was great!
Overall: I would come back here and I’m so happy I finally found a place on Staten Island that isn’t dingy and sub-​par! Ohhhh… and they gave me a free full size box of hand lotion. I’m sold!

Place has changed drastically here over the past year. Under new management. Pedicures are amazing and usually take 45 mins. My gel manicures always come out great even with a nice shoulder massage. Kris the owner is the most nicest lady in the nail business. Always remembers my name and is always happy.

I have been to this nail salon several times & I will tell you they give the BEST pedicures! For $ 22, you get massage, hot stone, hot towels, scrub & paraffin on your heels! I can only imagine what else they can offer in their more expensive pedis! I understand there is new ownership, and it shows! The place is super clean (pedi sink liners), & it looks like they have added an air filter so there is no horrid smells from the chemicals. The staff is nice, NOT patronizing & very little to no chatter in foreign languages while they work. The girl who did my pedi both understood & honored my 2 requests due to a medical issue with my foot. It was much appreciated! Again, if it weren’t for the medical issue that doesn’t allow me to get pedis often, I would be here weekly!

First and foremost it should be known that this nail salon is under new ownership as of October or Nov of 2014 — so really disregard any old less than stellar reviews. Since the new ownership — they renovated and bought all new equipment/​pedicure chairs etc. Very clean — they use liners for the pedicure tubs which are a dream for a germaphobe and give a mean massage for pedis too. I go to Chris for my nails and she is the best. Her husband James is there too and he’s good as well but Chris is awesome. I get light concept nails and have gone many places prior to coming here and will never go anywhere else. She does really cute designs too! Highly recommend this nail salon.

Great work. Great prices. Newly renovated. New owner. Absolutely great. Very clean as well. You can’t go wrong.

Under new management, Chris and James recently took over as owners! I followed Chris from her former place, well worth the trip. She is very personable, friendly and an excellent manicurist. I also thoroughly enjoyed the pedicure experience. Fully renovated and very clean! Totally recommend going to the new Riviera Nail and Spa!

This is my go to nail salon in SI for pedicures. Definitely the best pedicure in town and much better in terms of service and value than the standard nail salons I frequent in Manhattan.
Pros:
— friendly, attentive and professional service
— they don’t rush even if there are people waiting
— loyalty card so you can get every 11^th pedicure for free — nice bonus.
— LOVE the exfoliating scrub they use to massage your feet and legs.
— good color selection
— free wifi
Cons:
— capacity is sometimes an issue esp. on the weekends, causing a wait. I try to go early on saturdays to avoid this.

The only reason I am giving this place 2 stars is because of the amazing pedicures. I would give the pedicures at this place 5 stars, definitely the best. The women are very professional, give really long leg/​foot massages, use creams and scrubs, and also put wax on the heels of your feet. On the other hand, the manicures at this place are the worst! I tried different women just to see if it was me, or if it was them. and it is definitely them. They are too busy chatting it up with each other, rather than focusing on the task at hand. Every time I have gotten a manicure they have managed to cut me and also caused an infection. After that experience I have never gotten a manicure from them again. They have a poor selection of nail polish and it chips within a day or 2.
If you come to this place come for the amazing pedicures because it is so worth it. skip out on the manicures.

I really wish someone had written this review for me to read before I went here. It probably would have saved 2 yrs of my life that died while I inhaled the horrible fumes in here.
Besides what seemed like the total lack of ventilation and headache inducing chemical smog, my manicure kinda wasn’t good. I got the gel manicure which is supposed to last at LEAST a week but mine started chipping and peeling up after 2 days. No one told me how to remove it (that it would peel up a layer of your own nails if you didn’t soak it off with acetone. yick).
When it came time to pay, they asked me for significantly more money than was up on their board of prices for a gel manicure. I pointed this out and someone barely managed to tell me in English that the price on the board was for a «different» gel manicure. Um. Yick.
I won’t be back.