4U Nails & Spa

I’ve actually had two manicures here, and they were both fine. I got gel nails and they lasted and were done well. HOWEVER. The second (and last) time I was there, I watched the technician working on the person next to me injure her client, which in itself is not a huge deal to me. Mistakes happen, she was apologetic. What happened next was completely horrifying. She used a cotton ball on an alcohol dispenser, pressed it to the persons finger, and then pressed the SAME cotton ball, bloodied, onto the alcohol dispenser to apply more. Cross contamination is a huge deal, and blood borne pathogens can seriously affect peoples health and lives! So until I see a BBP education certificate on their walls, I will certainly not be returning. Not 4me!

This usually is my go to place to get my nails done it’s different from how every other place does it. I usually get the uv gel and they do it all gel base vs other salon they start it off with acrylic. The girl I usually get her name is Youi she is really good. However when I bought my two girlfriends with me to get their nails done as well, they didn’t have such a great experience. One of the girls name Suki she did one my friends nails and she didn’t do them properly there was a crocked nail and we told her but she still didn’t fix it and when we finished my friend was checking her nails out and she wasn’t satisfied with them and they all broke off within less a week and my other friend got a cut on her finger because one of the girls were buffing/​filing her nails to hard. I also asked for two extensions on two fingers but I was never told that it would cost an extra $ 5. They don’t really have the proper pricing really if you get extensions it’s an extra $ 10 for a full set. Also we made an appointment via text a week ahead and when we got there they told us no one told them about the appointment and when I booked another appointment for another time I didn’t get a confirmation or anything.

Awful awful place.
Got a pedicure here, and it was not relaxing at all. There were 6 young Korean girls just yelling at each other the entire time in a very small space. They were chatting about something that seemed very exciting, but during my entire stay there was not one second of quiet. My friend and I were the only customers, we couldn’t talk to each other, as we could not hear over the staff. We felt like intruders in the party. Apart from «choose your colour» that was the only thing anyone said to me.
Worse still they seemed to take a break in the middle of the pedicure. While waiting for my polish to dry they all sat around the table next to me mowing into a bucket of KFC, which is a pretty gross thing to watch people eat (still constantly yelling at eachother). It was like watching in horror a wildlife video, of vultures round a carcass, tearing apart links and spitting out bones. After about 20 mins. One person came to finish my pedicure (not the one star stated it– she seemed to forget about me and started getting a manicure by one of the other staff members)!!
Left an hour and a half after I walked in, with a headache, a vow never to eat KFC in front of people, and pretty sad nails.

This place is great for the price. I agree with the other reviewer who says that the staff aren’t very friendly or talkative. The girl who did my pedi could barely speak English. That being said, the pedi was awesome, fast, felt great. She was sanitary with all her products, and I saw them autoclaving their tools. For 23 $ it was pretty damn good, and I’ll definately be going back.
I heard of the salon from one of my clients who had some AMAZING shellac nail art done for her wedding there.
I would definitely recommend this place if you’re okay surfing the internet on your phone using their free WIFI, and not having much communication with your manicurist.

It’s been a while since I visited anywhere new and even longer since I got my nails did.
My friend & I decided to have a girls day out (?) and decided to be adventurous and pop into this little salon I’ve never seen before in Korea town (but then again, it’s been a couple of years since I moved from the area) to get our nails done. I went for eyebrow waxing and acrylic nails and she got her acrylic nails to match her new hair do.
This is an example as to WHY you stick to the salons you know. I should have known when I saw that the nail technician had longer nails then the width of my eyes.
The signage outside was intersting; I am a big fan of black lettering and so I gave props. The AWFUL DECOR inside cannot be explained. There was random circles of orange, green and other awful blobs pretending to be circles on a lavender-​ish coloured wall. At best, it makes you laugh when looking at the wall.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN to a salon where the staff actively ignored you and blatantly let you know you’re not wanted.
I mean, we were the ONLY two there and not ONE of the 4 looked up for a good 10 minutes. The girl grilled me on whether or not I was getting a nail set or just a wax, when I let her know I was THINKING ABOUT getting a set done myself. Finally she lets me off the hook and takes me to the back room to wax my eyebrows.
You know I enjoy getting waxing done; I dunno know why but when the waxer mercilessly RIPS the cloth off whilst holding my skin taunt, it gives me a sense of cleanliness which I enjoy (?). The holding of the skin is essential to getting the finest hair out and in my case, feeling of cleanliness; from what I understand without holding the skin, what should be a simple ripping motion can get complicated and messy. SOMEHOW this girl completely robbed me of my cleansing experience. Much of the wax remained on my skin which she roughly removed with a solvent. She didn’t groom or tiny my brushy eyebrows either but it was $ 8 so I let it go. Had she charged $ 20 I think there would be reason for bitterness.
As I was mildly satisfied with the result I agreed to the acrylic and can I tell you, I got cut eyes? Even my friend agrees that there was a STRONG SENSE of need to get rid of us. The she asked me how many figures I wanted to get it done — which struck me as a bizarre question –and my friend explained that getting just ONE finger, especially the ring finger –is fashionable (?-why is getting a coke nail fashionable, I dunno). I settled on a turquoise tip with a black line (which came to a mind blasting $ 30) between and started chatting with my girl. I mean isn’t that what its all about? chatting your brains out while someone pampered you? Usually the beauticians are chatty with you in hopes to build relationship that you may return in the future… right? No. Not here –but I am going ahead of myself.
so I am seated and waiting for this girl to prep my nails; a gentleman walks in with interest to getting some coloured contacts for his daughter. There are 2 others sitting and playing with their phone on a couch but MY nail person had to get up and serve him so I had to wait 10 minutes while this poor man tried to please his daughter’s need for red contacts. She sits down and starts filing my nails and I start to chat it up with my girl –and do you know they all gave each other a look; one of them said something and soon there was a movie with Ryan Raynolds playing on the TV and we all shut up to watch Mr. sexy dressed up as a fat boy in love with a beautiful blonde (what is this movie?!).
From my experience (being a rather vanilla person I get one of the TWO designs of nails all the time), during the prep period when all is filed and glued you go wash your hands so to remove all particles and avoid bubbles from happening. Not once she asked me to wash my hands free of these filings — which inevitably caused bubbles between the natural and fake nails. I don’t know why it took her 7 tries to draw a line following the line provided by the tip? and WHY couldn’t you draw a smooth line after 7 attempts? I got carried away by the movie and wasn’t watching my person too much and it turns out the lines on my left hands are not circular, it’s triangular. There were bubbles forming everywhere and my baby finger on my left had is completely crappy.
At the time of writing, 24 hrs and ONE shower has passed and my nails look as if I bought a cheap kit from the drug store and stuck it on with one eye open– 2 weeks ago; it’s bubbly and the excess acrylic on my hands are just so attractive. I don’t think this is going to last long.
Another beef I have. My friend chose 2 designs and asked her person’s advice — they said OK and didn’t offer an advice — and she ended up with a design which wasn’t all that pleasing. If you’re a pro, and a smart technician I would assume that you would advise the client from making a distasteful choice instead of brown-​nosing for that extra $ 5.
Nope. I am not going back.