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    WWW nail salons are fucked when it comes to customer service

    I hate them but I love acrylic nails. Its not a tipping issue they f them up either way. They have a listening problem. I tell them exactly how I want them and when I finally stop reading my magazine or book i notice they have screwed them up. I like them thick, square and with a lot of white. I can barely tune them out when they are yapping away at what feels like right in my ear. It doesnt matter if its the same place or a new place they all seem the same way.

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    Is it an Asian place? Usually no matter where I get my nails done if its owned by Asians they do the same technique some a bit different and better than others. Pay attention to what they are doing instead of reading and tell them when they apply the tip they should ask you how long, at each process let them know how you want your nail shaped etc. I found an European lady who did amazing nails but it as too far to drive now and 2x the price. I recently bought my own nail supplies w the drill and everyting so I don't have to go back to all those salons..

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    Always asian places.
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    Asians will be asians lol

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    Default Re: nail salons are fucked when it comes to customer service

    Why don't you go to a non Asian salon? They're not the world's best manicurists. They just have the most efficient business model. Hell, you're even tipping them on top of paying for bad work O_o

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    I don't understand the whole acrylic nail thing O_o . Twice I have gotten them, loved them except for the fact that you can no longer pick up change or keys. And then when they grow out and I have to remove them or have them removed (tried both) my nails are trashed and thin, feel terrible and I have to wait for them to grow out O_o ...

    I get the colored tips, like metal flake blue or purple. How do you avoid the super-thin fragile trashed nails? Do you just get them filled and never have them removed? How is it girls always have acrylic nails? Is it my problem because my nails are thin to begin with? How on earth do you endure all that grinding? I feel like if I had them redone right away the next time I had them removed it would be a bloody mess.

    I just don't get how this works and I don't speak Korean so I can't ask the nail techs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kisca View Post
    How do they remove your nails ?
    He took a raw artificial nail and shoved it between the artificial nail and my own nail and basically split/ripped them off and then ground on them to make them smooth. Then they were paper thin and he added insult to injury by giving me a manicure and putting polish on them. They curled up like elf shoes and as soon as I got home I trimmed them down to the quick.

    I bought a sonic soaker for nail removal and decided I would never allow someone else to remove them ever again but they came out just as bad and contrary to the box the sonic cleaner came in, it wouldn't soak off acrylic nails, it just made them a smidge softer (after a half hour of soaking in pure acetone O_o) so I could scrape them off with an orange stick. I think the main problem is at the Asian places they grind on your natural nail with a high-speed grinder and thin the nail too much. And when it feels like your nail is going to catch fire because the friction is burning you it can't be a good thing. O_o ...

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    This! It's like a catch 22...



    Quote Originally Posted by DesuvsDeath View Post
    ^I WISH I could go 4-5 weeks... my nails are so grown out they're breaking off if I wait 3 weeks!


    I guess I'm alone in this... but if they do a bad job... I don't tip them.
    They stare at you like you're a fucking DEMON as you walk out the door, but fuck it... it isn't as though you're ever going BACK to that place, right?

    I'd love to find a nice NON-asian place out here. But it seems like they're all 3-4x the price
    and my nails grow so fast I need a fill every 10 days max... so it's basically just THROWING money down the drain. X_X

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    Best thing I ever did was STOP getting acrylics. I went with 'gel' nail polish for a month and once it was soaked and removed my nails had recovered.

    My nails have stayed nice and strong because I get a pedi and mani every week. I know, its retarded and I actually just started this week with a new challenge: doing my own pedi and mani at home :o

    IDK if I can do it. I started last night but I only manged to get nail polish off four fingers lol

    I'm only trying this because there was recently a thread posted on money saving. I though about how much I spend on my mani and pedi every week and realized doing it at home would save me $160 dollars a month, so here goes nothing. I'm definitely going to miss it though

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    can you bring in pictures

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    Do you know anyone that consistently has nails the way you want them? Ask them where they go. I've had acrylics or gels for 5 or 6 years now and been to lots of places but I have 2 amazing places in my area I have found now. Both are asian. Both places almost completely take off the entire acrylic before carefully adding the new stuff during in-fills. One is really good nail art so I go there for that, the other is good with acrylics.

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    Have you ever considered doing your nails yourself? Acrylic sets are wicked cheap and even though you have to practice awhile, voila-- cheap nails done the way you want them and you don't even have to bother tack on the time and effort to get to and from the nail salon.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lokikola View Post
    Best thing I ever did was STOP getting acrylics. I went with 'gel' nail polish for a month and once it was soaked and removed my nails had recovered.

    My nails have stayed nice and strong because I get a pedi and mani every week. I know, its retarded and I actually just started this week with a new challenge: doing my own pedi and mani at home :o

    IDK if I can do it. I started last night but I only manged to get nail polish off four fingers lol

    I'm only trying this because there was recently a thread posted on money saving. I though about how much I spend on my mani and pedi every week and realized doing it at home would save me $160 dollars a month, so here goes nothing. I'm definitely going to miss it though

    What worked for me was keeping an eye out for clearance nail polishes in great colors, and then supplementing with the full priced OPI nail polishes I love. I do have quite a few 60-second nail polishes that I like more but only because they dry so quickly.

    Sometimes, it works to do it in stages:
    Strip your nail polish when you're taking a bath, and put on some lotion on your cuticles and read a magazine. Then, before you get out of the bath, push back your cuticles and wash your hands off.

    Then either go to sleep (if you took your bath after work), or do some housework, or eat. Smudge back your cuticles again, and carefully with sanitized cuticle scissors cut them off. Brush a quick layer of bottom clear coat on so your nails don't discolor and then go do something else. Sometimes I bring a bottle of nail polish with me in the car, and paint one nail while at a long light. I finish of the rest if I want to sit in front of the tv, and then do a top coat.

    The key for me is making sure I have enough time in between bottom coat, first coat, second coat, and top coat. If I do it all the way through in one sitting, I rush it too much, even if I take an hour doing it.

    One of my favorite things to do is actually to get the mini stamping glitter from a craft store and either mix a lot into a color I'm bored of, or else paint a bottom and first coat on, and while the polish is wet, pour over glitter in a complimenting color. Then I just do a top coat, or a top glitter coat, and I get crazy glitter. Looks like this:

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    Ooh, that is GORJ!^ I can barely stand polish, sorry, I couldn't even read that post a couple up about grinding, etc, yeeowww

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