Rio Salon & Spa

I was recommended by a friend and thought it was going to be great quality. now very rude I’ll just let the pictures do the talking! The guy’s name is van he was super rude with us, the window said $ 18 for a full set and tried to charge us $ 35. Worst experience ever!
We aren’t ones to ask for a discount but the guy had some nerve to go to my younger sister and try to take them off of her with nail clippers and made a scene!
If I could give this place negative stars I would

I was recommended to this place by my friend. I have been going for over a month now. Today was my third visit and I continue to be a happy customer! Thank you and will be back. The salon is clean and the people there are friendly.

This place used to be my favorite nail salon and now the past 2 years it’s literally gone to s**t. They do horrible nails, there rude as hell and most of the ppl that go there r discussing. All they do is rush you out the door, even if your nails are still wet they want you to move so somebody else can get there’s done. I will never come back there again!!!

I am livid with the service at this establishment I will never come back. We RESERVED 5 chairs for a pedicure for mothers day. She neglected to tell us she only had 5 chairs. When we arrived I told her we would wait for all chairs to be empty so we could all have our pedi like intented, but no she rushed us in the chairs ensuring us that the other walk ins would be quick. No we were separated. I was not able to speak or talk to my family because we were parted by another person. I sat only not wanting to talk over another customer. The guy told me I could just text them. «Really dude?» He never asked me what pedi I wanted. He just gave whatever he thought was necessary. They never apologized for their actions. I did not like the service here I will never go back. I implore you to think twice about getting your service here.

Got a gel fill here I had bubbles in my nails from drying incorrectly. Owner was rushing the nail guy to take the next person so I don’t blame him for doing a shitty job. After a week I noticed around my cuticles the nail wasn’t lifting but was very rough almost curling up. Ugh. What happened to decent nail places? Every place is in a rush !!! I’m done. I’m going back to natural

Horrible place! They are overpriced and the owner is rude! Their name should not be rio but ocm for overcharged mess!

Worst place everrr! Just walked out and my nails look like they’re lifting off. The guy named, Van I’m guessing, put the polish on really sloppy to where it wasn’t even drying right so it kept messing up. I got so tired of him trying to «fix it» for the same thing to happen again, I just told them to charge me so I can leave. My nails overall look like a 10 year old did them and like if I’ve had them on for like 2 weeks already! So disappointed!

Worst place ever!
If you want terrible looking nails I would recommend this place.
Their service is terrible and very unprofessional .i told the guy I wanted my nails painted white and he told me it wouldn’t look good I thought he ment the color but when it was done there was waves all thru the paint. I told him it didn’t look good an he proceeded to tell me that’s why he said it wouldn’t look good. Apparently he thought his hideous work was fine. Wouldn’t recommend this place to my worst enemy

Salon was ok, it use to be way better. Quick service for a walk in, don’t really like my nails. a student at Milan could do the same for half the price. There is acrylic stuck under my nails. I’ll fix it when I get home… Won’t be coming back tho!

I love how The employees at rio do nails. However some of the Chinese employees can be very rude. Besides that I love all the nail art

This salon is a hit or miss salon. Its way overpriced. I went w the mexican girl in the back and she literally cut a chunk of my finger. I asked for coffin nails– which were the ones that she had on and she gave me stiletto nails. She’s extremely sloppy, and spent the whole time complaining about management. Her Aunt did my toes and she also cut me with a filer and pretended the cut was already there. I recently went back with a girl named carla I think she sits in the front to the left side and I was surprised she did a good job. she charged me $ 45.00.

Oh my goodness horrible place! I went in to get my hair colored and i came home with the same color! The guy joseph kept telling me not to worry that it was going to fade so i trusted him, i got upset a week later because i noticed my hair was not fading so i went in and asked for my money back and he didn’t want to give it back! I didn’t yell or use abusive language i simply told him i wanted my money back and he kept telling me i didn’t listen to his directions (which i did) and he had the nerve to get on his phone and ignore me while i was explaining to him that it wasn’t okay! I am very upset! It’s been 2 weeks and my hair is still the same color i will never go back again and make sure he pays for what he has done to me !

First time getting a pedi with my girl. Service was good. My feet feel good. Overall pretty damn good

Horrible ‘salon’. Went in for mani/​pedi because I had seen a girl with fabulous nail art who goes there. The pedi was fine but I didn’t want gel on my toes. The girl seemed irritated about my decision and kept asking. Then she told me she only does nail art on gels. Huh? So time for gel manicure. No filing, buffing, cuticle treatment or anything. She puts the gel prep on my nails and then has to go back and file after I ask. After the first coat she pulls out her dirty and disgusting tray of paint and jewels and asks me what design I want. Nope. Not gonna happen. I tell her I don’t want it on my fingers and now she’s really mad. She slaps the polish on and after every coat I have to ask her to clean them up. I will never go back there.

STAY AWAY!!! I walked in to get some eyelash extensions based on a referral from a friend. To make a very long story as short as possible, I was not greeted. After I was forced to approach an employee, I was told to wait for 15 minutes. The wait was 1 hour. The girl who did my extensions kept going back and forth between me and another girl who was getting manicure. She rushed my service and burned my eyes. When I told her she was burning me, she told me that it was normal and did nothing to try to comfort me. I’ve gotten my eyelashes done plenty of times. Ladies, EYELASH EXTENSIONS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO HURT! I was crying the whole time. My tears would not stop falling. She glued all of my top lashes to the bottom ones, so I couldn’t open my eyes when she was done. Then she had the nerve to get mad at me for closing my eyes while she was working on them. I couldn’t keep them open because the glue was burning my eyeballs! She had to cut apart my eyelashes with scissors and use some type of glue remover that hurt my eyes more than a tattoo would. I just about screamed. I swear I thought I was going to leave the place blind. The end result wasn’t bad, but it definitely wasn’t worth the pain. There is still glue all over my bottom lashes. That was probably the worst experience I’ve had in my entire life.

Worst service ever! The guy asked me how my nails looked and I continued to tell him my thumb was crooked and then he YELLED at me To be patient he wasn’t done! Why ask me than!!! So I let him finish they were horrible! So I wanted nail art to cover up how bad they came out and the girl that was there refused to do nail art and instead sat there doing nail art on nails to display ! Seriously WTF!!! I will never go back in there and will continue to let all my friends & family know how horrible service is & lazy the people are!!! Sooooo rude !!

I’ve definitely found my nail salon!!! They do really good hand-​painted artwork at very reasonable prices. Plus it’s a full-​service salon so it’s basically a one-​stop-​shop. My best friend & I LOVE it here. I’ve had my nails done at many places over the years & never have I found somewhere that has excellent service, work & pricing.

My husband and I just moved to Bakersfield. I have been getting pink and white acrylics for as long as I could remember. It’s been a while since I’ve had a fill so I thought I would remove my acrylics and just get a new set. Well… since I’m not from the Bakersfield area I thought I would try this nail shop. Let’s just say I personally think they are the worst nail salon I’ve ever been too! First, I called the day before (on Friday) to see if I could make an appointment for a full set pink and white for Saturday. Whoever, answered the phone was very rude and said they don’t take appointments it’s only on a walk-​in basis. So… I get there on Saturday at 9:05 AM. They tell me that the salon just opened at 9 AM (which I am aware of that) and it is going to be a little bit of a wait. Well… an hour and 15 min later a male by the name of Tony shows up (guess he’s the only one that does pink and white) and starts working on my nails. I like my nails to look natural, short not so square and applied very thin acrylic powder. I don’t know how some women here in Bakersfield like their nails. But this isn’t what I asked for! First off they are so thick and very wide looking and the white tips are so fat. I have never ever had my nails look so disgusting before! I kept telling him go thinner and he wouldn’t listen. I didn’t have time to sit there and wait for him to try and fix them since I just waited an hour and 15 mins! And by the way they do seem to take appointments because there were three other nail ladies there and they all had appointments booked the whole day and all of them do acrylics. So furthermore, if you like your acrylic nails to look about 1 inch thick the white tips to look super fat and your nails too looks extra wide and you don’t mind waiting for hour and 15 min then go to Rio Salon & Spa. Because this place was not my «cup of tea»! I take my acrylic nails seriously so until I find decent nail shop that does more «natural» pink and white acrylics… looks like I’ll be driving back to my nail lady back where I’m from… two hours away. Sorry Bakerfield you could have your Rio Salon & Spa. I’m going to the pros and ripping these ugly things off my nails!