Nails by Tina

I’ll never go anywhere else! These people are super friendly, prices are reasonable, and I’m always very satisfied with their work! Especially the two younger girls!

I have contracted a fungus since my last fill. I’ve been only coming here for my last 3 or 4 fills and I am certain I contracted the fungus from this salon. It isn’t worth the money you save.

Highly recommend Danny! I got a refill and change of color for $ 15
UPDATE: it’s been about 2 weeks since I last got my nails done all white. I’ve had the same nails on for about a month with only one fill that Danny did. They are still in great shape but the white paint isn’t looking so good anymore :/

Maybe Tina does the nails better than her staff. She came in with her rowdy son towards the end of the experience.
The pedicure itself was thorough if a bit basic. Nothing really noticeably good or bad about it, at least at first. That evening I discovered my skin was scaly and flaky all over my feet. Not sure if it was poorly exfoliated or something about the chemicals or what. Didn’t hurt or get worse or anything, just looked kinda nasty and like I hadn’t actually, you know, had a pedicure. She did cut my nails very short like I prefer, however, some places won’t do that.
And the interior of this place looks like a shady 80’s themed gaming parlor. I know that’s kinda specific but that’s exactly what it felt like.

I went straight home to re-​do my manicure :/​Awful work… (they put so much clear coat after the nail polish that my nails look like if I have glue on it, beside if you do a dark color??? good luck I wish I could post a picture of how terrible my nails look!!! Pedicure is ok… but no good either. Save yourself time and money and go to another salon!

Tina and her husband are some of the best! I am a little late at writing this review, but they stayed open late for me once over the holidays when I was in dire need of getting a mani-​pedi! Tina did my nails and welcomed me right in! She also did them to spec!
Such great work, and I will be back!

This is my go to place for a good cheap pedicure! I can’t speak on their manicures and I’ve only had one tech do my feet the handful of times I’ve been there but I have always left satisfied. I’d like to add that I don’t come to a nail salon on Riverside and Pleasant Valley to «treat myself», I come here because it’s good and cheap. Yes– there are bars on the windows, no they do not accept checks, and yeah maybe they do illegally stream soccer games during the world cup but for a $ 25 pedicure they do a darn good job!

I’ve tried leaving this place because they’re not so clean, but I always end up coming back. Why? I don’t know, all I know is that they’re the ONLY ones that never mistreat me.

This place is horribly dirty. They don’t clean their instruments, ever. This caused fungus to grow in my nail. I went in for a fill when the man doing my nails noticed fungus, he said he would fix it instead if caring for the health of my nails he wanted to put a new nail on, I told him to take the whole set off. After he immediately took another customer without sanitizing!!! Do not go to this place.

If I could put half a star I would. The place was dirty and very unprofessional. Needed a full set and pedicure walked out with ghetto long nails and a half ass pedicure. Never have I gotten a pedicure that lasts a total of 5 minutes Including polish. I’ve gotten my nails done for years but never here and when I asked for my nails to be shortened the guy says «no can do, that break nail» I’m sure I’ve gotten them shorter than this many times before. Everything felt rushed and even my sister in law was upset with hers.

I came here only because of convenience and the hours they’re open. This place is always packed and I feel like most of the time as soon as you walk in, they start on your nails and then finish with the last person and make you wait with halfway done nails just so you won’t or can’t leave. Really annoying when you know you could have went somewhere else and been taken care of in one shot. The thickness, shape, the way my nails were painted, and the length of time spent has never been consistent. They are fast majority of the time but do a crappy job and rush on your nails. I always go home and end up regretting that I went back. We’ll now I’ve found a new nail place and am totally fine that the location is not as convenient and that I’m not just in and out — I’ll be more than happy to wait a few extra minutes with nearly perfect nails.

I decided to come here to get an acrylic set for the first time in months. My horrible experience here literally lasted five minutes before I walked out the door.
First: I walk in. There’s three crying children in the left corner and the place looks cluttered. A man greets me, and I tell him I want an acrylic set. He tells me to pick a color without showing me anything, so I just tell him «light pink». He proceeds to dramatically tell me to look in a case of cluttered fake nails and pick one of those. After picking three and being told that «they didn’t have enough to use those», I settled for a light orange. He kept insisting that the colors he was picking were fine (he kept picking sparkly, bright hot pink ones. I am a brewer/​server/​bartender and I’m sure my guests wouldn’t trust my opinion on alcohol if I had bright, sparkly pink nails.) he kept rudely telling me that «this color is fine! We use this one. We use this one.» And I just had to be blunt and say no, I don’t want that one. Anyway, I finally sit down with the color I settled for, with the sounds of children screaming in Spanish in the background and he tells me it’ll be $ 45, when the sign CLEARLY says $ 20 – 25 and that’s the entire reason I came to this place.
I tried asking him why and he told me has was doing a solar set. And I told him that I asked for acrylic. And he said no we’re doing solar and that the tips were acrylic and that I had no idea what I was talking about. After he said that, I pushed my chair back and walked out.
He was the rudest nail professional that I have EVER dealt with. There was no color choice and he treated me like an idiot.
I’m sorry Super Star Nail Salon, I took you for granted. I’ll come back.

I don’t get my nails done very often, but I decided to treat myself this past weekend. …but it wasn’t exactly much of a treat. Now, I know the area & I expected it to be a little dingy, but this place was absolutely terrible. Upon walking in, I was greeted and seated quickly, but that’s about the only good thing about my visit. I wanted to get black French tip gel nails, but I was told «NO I don’t do» so I said fine, and settled for all black. I was sat at a station near the back. Other employees were eating and honestly it just smelled like dog food. Not something you want to smell while trying to relax, not to mention the décor was pretty shabby, and they entire place just felt unsanitary. When she asked if I wanted my nails round or square, I said round and she said «ok I do square». She briefly cut my nails and tended to my cuticles, and the «massage» was a quick application of lotion to my forearms and nothing else. She picked the polish as I said I wanted black, but it really turned out to be a dark shimmering purple, which is okay I guess, but she didn’t paint all the way to the back of my nail so it looked like they were already a week old and she wouldn’t fix it. It’s been 5 days, and two of my nails have already peeled off. Needless to say, I will be driving out of the area to somewhere a little classier next time I need to get my nails done.

I was running errands, and really wanted a mani so I thought I’d check this place out. I don’t treat myself often, but when I do, I want it to be just that, a treat. The guy doing my nails asked me if I wanted a manicure or just the paint, and of course I wanted the manicure. I got no massage, and just a quick shove back/​trim of the cuticles then paint.
This brings me to my next point. The place was dirty, and most likely unsanitary. I realized this only as I was getting my «manicure». I looked around and realized how gross each station was. The one I was at was covered with dust from previous manicures. I wanted to just get up and walk out the more I looked around.
Finally, there were «friendly» little signs at each station telling the customer to tip in cash, not on one’s credit card. I’m sorry, I find this offensive.
I almost forgot to mention, my manicure is lumpy. I don’t know how else to explain it except lumpy. The nail looks like it has waves in it, not a feature of my nails. Needless to say, I will not be back to this place. I’ll check out a few other places in the neighborhood.

I have been to this place just a couple of times because it is near my house. The last time was a total nightmare. DO NOT GO HERE. The flesh of my big toe was cut. Badly. I’m not talking about a closely-​nipped cuticle; I have experienced that sting and just bite my tongue and call myself a big baby. No, this was a full into the pink part of my skin next to my nail chop with the cuticle nippers. The guy was doing my nails, and when this happened, I didn’t look for a while. Again, bit my lip and tried to just soldier through. It kept hurting more and more, and when I finally looked down, my foot was literally dripping with blood. Why I didn’t leave at this point, I’m not sure. I thought it would stop, but it didn’t. He kept on spraying it with something that stung like acid. I gave up on the toe and started to apply a bandaid. He put on some cotton and that whole situation hurt more than the rest. I finally got up with tears in my eyes, ready to GIVE THE GUY $ 10 just for his time, and he instead asked for the full amount. I’m not kidding. He should have paid ME.
I am not into pampering, and usually do my nails myself. A pedicure out is something I do just a couple of times a year just to take care of some fixing up, like a car wash when one feels too lazy to do it themselves. This will make me think twice about ever having a pedicure again, anywhere.

Stopped here when I had an event to get to but had a little time to kill. Might as well get a mani/​pedi. I had an older gentleman do the pedi and a woman do the mani. Both jobs were very nice, but I think the pedicure was done better. He even gave me flowers on my toes so I looked smashing for my event.
The price was $ 37 which included and extra $ 5 for the flower. Not bad at all.

I came here on a whim because my usual nail salon (Lovely Nails on Oltorf) is closed on Sundays.
The place wasn’t too packed for a Sunday afternoon so I only waited a few minutes. Their polish selection was a little disappointing – some of them looked a couple of years old – but I managed to find a couple OPI colors and picked one.
A very nice gentleman did both my manicure and pedicure. I don’t really have any complaints about the job he did except that my big toe was a little bit sloppy, but he fixed it right away without an attitude. Didn’t tear apart my cuticles like many male technicians have done in the past. I was finished very quickly. This is definitely a no-​fuss, bargain place ($ 32 for both) to get your nails done. My feet are nice and soft and the polish looks great.
Only suggestions for the salon:
–Fix the massage chairs. They don’t work at all and have definitely been through the mill.
–Even just a slightly longer massage makes a huge difference in terms of gratuity. If you had given me even 20 seconds more per leg, your tip would have been well over 20%.
–Cleanliness is definitely questionable in this place. Didn’t see an autoclave. The towels are ripped and falling apart. Brushes and tools don’t appear to have been sanitized properly. The hand and foot rests are covered in weeks worth of scum and polish. Even the appearance of cleanliness makes a big difference in my experience. This is probably why I’ll stick to Lovely Nails.

I WILL NOT go anywhere else for my nails. I’ve been coming to this shop for almost 8 years. I have tried other nail shops by where I live, but don’t get the same vibe or service as I do here. They are worth the travel time, as I have driven 35 minutes just to come here. I would definitely give them 100 stars if I could. It may be an older shop, but the techs there are great. I usually only use Tina or Mike when I go, but I’ve used the other techs as well. Getting my nails done for 20 years I am very picky about who I use. So take my advice and at least try them once… you’ll be back.

I’m from California and was visiting a friend. I needed a manicure badly. I always have nice long nails. I saw some decent reviews so I went to this place since its near my friends house. The place is pretty cheap compared to what I pay in CA. And you get what you pay for. Later that day all the nail polish had cracked and chipped and two of my nails broke. It was very sad for me. My nails looked worse than before my manicure.
They did do a good job on the eyebrow wax though. But it didn’t matter because now I have short ugly nails.

The first time I went, I got a pedicure with French polish. It was excellent, it lasted a long time, and it was only $ 25.
The second time I went, I got a French manicure from a different lady. I had to make her fix two nails that she sawed into strange off-​centered points (think square tips, but all catterwhompus-​like). The «manicure» looked like crap after two days, and, as I discovered less than a week later, it wrecked my nails. She also made me pay for it ($ 15) before the aforementioned sawing commenced.
The pedicure was four stars (I’m docking a star for the –ahem– acrylic-​dusted atmosphere). The manicure? Zero. Let’s say that averages to «meh, I’ve experienced better.»