Sunny Nails

They closed shop or maybe the health inspectors closed them either way, it’s a good day!!! Smile

I’m so mad right now. I got a gel mani and regular pedi. They had to remove my old gel polish and left the acetone on my for 45 minutes after I told them 3 times that my fingers were starting to burn! I get gel polish all the time and they only leave On for like 5 minutes. It was on entire time that I got the pedi plus after they left me to do another pedi, and 2 eyebrow waxings! Yes, they left me in the middle of my service to work on others! The place is filthy — when I went to the mani chair, there were nail clippings left from past clients. So gross — I asked them to remove before I sit. Next, the gel mani is the sloppiest manicure I’ve ever gotten — looks way worse than if I did it myself! Some of my skin is polished, and some skin is sticking to the polish on sides of nails. Paint is very uneven! It’s driving me crazy. Never going back, only did because other places weren’t open on the 4^th of July. HORRIBLE.

AVOID THIS PLACE!
I’m seriously considering calling the health inspector on this place. It is just NASTY DIRTY.
My 6 year old niece can do a better job on my nails. The man who did my nails started to argue with me when I asked him to paint the entire nail… he only had half painted… at that point I should have just left, like the customer before me.
Never again! Also the employees are just rude and intrusive. This place completely put me in a foul mood.
Also they tried to give me USED flip flops to wear… USED! And all the towels were littered with pervious customers nail clippings… I feel sick just thinking about this place.

So disgusting! Please do not go here. This place should be shut down, it is so filthy and dirty and just plain disgusting. There is dirt and dust everywhere, but then even the equipment was not clean, I’m embarrassed that I even stepped foot in this place.
The nail polishes were old, not a lot of good brands or new colors.
Honestly, this place should be closed, people could catch a fungus from this place.

It doesn’t get any worse than this place. I went in for an acrylic full set and my nails were completely DESTROYED. I walked in and was asked to take a seat, so I did. The gentle man came over and cut my real nails so short they were bleeding and sore. He then proceeded to glue on the tips to the acrylic and glued them to my finger tips in the process. He continued to work and began just heaping acrylic onto my real nails, not worrying about smoothing it over of making sure it took the shape of my natural nails. Once done with the lumpy acrylic he asked was shape I wanted. I told him I would like them to be round, so he cut off both sides of the tips and cut most of my fingers in the process. I was then asked to move to another table so another employee could paint them. Mind you they were not filed, had sharp edges and were just incredibly ugly. I grabbed a file and began to do them myself, as this is not my first time around the block with acrylic nails. When I was done trying to make them acceptable a woman came over and began to paint them. Let me just say that my two year old niece could have painted them better than that. After sitting the completely frustrated I paid and kindly asked the woman to take the set off because it was making my fingers hurt and they were ugly. She told me no. I questioned her saying I was not asking for my money back nor was I asking her to redo them I just wanted them off because I was in pain, she still refused. Incredibly angry I walked out and will never go back again.
Throughout this entire process the employees talked back and forth in their language seeming to talk about me. I later came to find out they were, when I asked the woman to take them off she told me they looked so bad because I filed them myself and that her coworker was saying how difficult I was being.
This place was BEYOND dirty, smelled and had horrible service. I will never step back in this salon and would advise anyone who considered going to rethink whether or not they like their finger/​toe nails.
If I could report this place to the city for its sanitation I would do so in hopes to shut them down. Without hesitation.

I will never go back — horrible manicure. Got a no chip and the technician did such a horrible job, I had to go to another nail salon to fix it. Extremely unhygienic. I saw a cockroach while getting the manicure. I wouldn’t go back even if they offered free service.

GROSS. I was here one time only and a cockroach nearly the size of my hand crawled out from under one of the pedicure stations. Not just that, but the lady squished it with her gloved hand and then went back to doing nails without changing gloves. DO NOT GO HERE. VERY UNSANITARY. I would really not be surprised if half the customers end up with infections.

This is my favorite nail salon.

I want to love this place so much. And I used to.
I went here for around 10 pedicures in the past year. They were all pretty good. They used to use the shaver foot thing, which I really love, but I haven’t seen one taken out in the past few months.
All of the pedicures I’ve gotten here were really good. The nail technicians don’t rush the process, and I always came out with nice-​looking nail polish.
I liked it so much that I brought my mom when she was in town. She liked it well enough… but developed and infection that turned her toe green (or so she said… I didn’t see it) and required antibiotics.
Now I’m scared to go back!

DO NOT GO HERE!
REPEAT.
DO NOT GO HERE!
wanted to give this place a chance but i wanted to take it back immediately. first off all, it took close to 2 hours for my mani pedi to be finished. i sat in the chair waiting for someone for at least 45mins. before someone came to start my pedi.
secondly, the worst mani/​pedi ever. my nails chipped within 1 day AND the lady painted my skin. seriously, she polished the skin where my nail starts. maybe because she kept asking me if i wanted tips. gross — NO.

I am all for tacky interiors if they get the job done right– this place is all shades of: WRONG!!! In my 15 years plus going ton nail salons all over the city/​country this place wins first place for: Horrendous service, Horrendous procedure, Horrendous general maintenance, Horrendous customer service and really horrid color selection.
Overall they are bad/​not nice/​not friendly bitches!
What a disgusting place!!!
I tagged along with a girlfriend who had a nail emergency (she was cheating on her tech. something I don’t advise!!!) also we had to kill some time… I watched the «nail tech» slop on polish after she disregarded the apparent crust out of her toe nails. the «nail tech» also not wash the pedi station afterward and slop on acrylic on just the ‘moon’ of the nail and not the whole bed.
DO NOT GO THERE IF YOUR NAILS ARE BROKEN AND YOU HAVE A DATE IN 5 MINUTES!
Don’t go there if it’s the only place open in the city. don’t go there if it’s convenient – just don’t go there! OMG the horror! The uncleanliness! The awful job that I witnessed happening to my friend still gives me nightmares!!!
If I was her and I did tell her mid pedi: «Do you want to leave!!!»
If that was me I would have not even put my feet in that shit foot bath. hella gross!
Oh and these bitches were SHOUTING and YELLING in front of the 3 other costumers that were in the store. Disrespectful!
Also they are blatant racist… I can read bigotry/​ignorance on faces!

I don’t write many reviews, but my mom made me promise that I would come on here and warn people away from Sunny Nails.
We went in on a Thursday afternoon because we were killing time in Bucktown and got in immediately. The place seemed rundown, but I’ve been to lots of rundown salons so whatever. And if the service had been good, I probably wouldn’t have cared.
But the service was decidedly not good. Almost no care was given to doing a good job. Lazy filing, sloppy polish, really weak and perfunctory massage. At least they had OPI and Essie polishes.
While pushing down my mom’s cuticles, the tech hurt her a little and my mom responded «it happens.» A minute later the tech cut the cuticle and made her bleed… and said «it happens!» NO! That’s what the customer says to be nice, not what the tech is supposed to say! After doing NOTHING (barely filed, no buffing, no massage — she wasn’t getting polish) the nail tech had the audacity to ask her «I did good?» She was so stunned, and all communication had previously been so difficult, that she just stared.
I really would like back the $ 70 dollars I spent on those damn mani-​pedis. My services were at least passable, but my mom left the salon looking like she had never even had another person touch her hands.

I’ve been on a nail kick lately as I’ve been looking hideous. Winter has taken it’s toll, so much that the cats even notice. I was sitting in the bed the other night with my laptop and one of the animals hops up there and starts to groom herself. Then she looks at me with this odd face for about five minutes then starts licking my arm and grooming me too, as to say «Damn mom! You’ve let yourself go! let me help you out.» I was like wow. Wow.
Anyhow, I was at Tocco for brunch yesterday and had some time to kill afterwards. After running my errands, I dropped into Sunny Nails just to get a quick fill for my acrylics (they’re worked wonders this winter at keeping my own nails from snapping in the quick) and I was taken right away. It’s a pretty standard service, take nail polish off, sand, buff, nail prime, acrylic, shape, and buff. So my tech left bits of polish and cotton on my nails, then he didn’t buff them out well enough before painting. I asked him to buff them again as the surface was still rough and I guess he didn’t understand. he shaped them again, but I said buff. BUFF. Like smooth. Or in the nude if that helps you with semantics!
Either way, you can tell beneath the polish that they aren’t smoothed out. The polish looks rough and my 12 year old niece probably could have done better. I’m not very happy with the finished product, so save yourself the trouble. Make your way down to Sydney Lee’s Ten Pefect Nails on Ontario instead — slightly higher prices but the finished product is absolutely amazing (was there for a fill two weeks ago and couldn’t stop gleefully giggling about how great my hands looked.)
Now maybe the cats will lay off.

Great prices. I haven’t been here in a few years, but the last time I was, I lost my big toenail to some disgusting fungal infection, and ended with ringworm on my upper eye bone after my eyebrow wax. SOOO GRROOOSSS!!! I will never go back.

OH the HUMANITY… I am not to proud to admit that my feet at this time of the summer can use a little ‘work’ –wink, wink– and I have been coming to this place off and on for about 5 or 6 years so I stopped in on Friday anticipating a weekend of sandal wearing… what happened next is out of a pedicure horror flick.
The pedicure itself was fine, the tub was clean and the woman working on me wore gloves and didn’t cut my cuticles down to a quick. Then she said that she had a special oil for my heels, she promised it was magical but it seemed like corn oil to me. Whatever. She razored my feet… they needed it but she really didn’t get down to the nitty gritty if ya know what I mean.
Pedicure over. Eyebrow wax, yes please. The wax ripped off about 7 layers of skin on my eyelid area. Brutal.
Walk out in my foam flip flops, only to put my sandals on a half hour later when I got home and have 1 whole toe of polish just peel off. Like a layer of cheap make-​up. Again, Brutal.
Look in my mirror at home to find out that my left eyebrow had been whittled down to nothing, irregularly shaped and did not even remotely resemble the right. Again, Brutal X’s 2.
The kicker was that for the ‘special’ pedicure and eyebrow wax it was $ 43!!! If I wanted a blind person to wax my eyebrows I could have done it for free, what I also could have done for free was paint my toenails very badly.
Never again. I will NOT be back.

Oh My Gosh. This place is so disgusting. It smells like cat pee and it just so dirty. Every time I walk by this place now I am reminded of my awful pedicure there and curse my then roommate for thinking it was okay to go there.

Ok, I read the reviews before I went… but wanted to give them a fair shake. I’ve been to a wide array of nail salons ranging from horrid to ultra high end… so I figured, how bad could it really be?
Oh, pretty bad. I can handle the cheesy photographs of long, french manicured talons gingerly fondling a bunch of grapes. That to me provides character, and I always wonder where the supplier of this «artwork» originated. They are certainly rich, as every little nail operation displays them proudly and abundantly.
I digress. The place is filthy. Seriously, I can put up with some grime, etc but this is beyond questionable. I walked in and there was a girl getting her eyebrows waxed in a manicure station, and then the bowl of hot wax just sat there, ready for an errant fly. Ick.
The extra star is for the nail tech. She was very, very sweet and did a nice job. She didn’t give me any crap about the condition of my nails (bad habit, I know, I know) and made adequate small talk. The staff followed the average nail salon etiquette of speaking very loudly in their native language. This doesn’t bother me. I just had a terrible time overlooking the rampant dust, mold and surely infected instruments.
The polish selection was meager. If you really want to give this place a shot, bring your own. Most of the bottles were crusted over. Nice touch… but I found one that worked well enough.
Street parking is generally ok, check for meters along Paulina just south of Milwaukee (by Strange Beauty Show). It’s relatively cheap, but $ 12 for a manicure… eh. I can go to Vie’s (North Center) for $ 10 and not worry about catching gangrene. Or if you really need to stay in Wicker Park, head to Pinky Nail at Damen/​Divison. It’s worth it, trust me.
Ok, so… yes. I can handle quite a bit, but this place needs to clean up its act. The manicure looks fine and all, but I have the heebie jeebies. I need a shower.

Not a very good pedicure and the worst wax job ever.
I asked for a brazillian and she looked at me like I was crazy (even though it was on their price list) They double dipped the stick, went over the same patch of skin several times, and STILL didn’t get everything.
I will not return.

I cannot say it any better than Irene L did. Cheap, Fast, no frills. I was going to a fancy place on division street and paying 25 bucks a fill and my nails would crack off within a week. I started going to Sunny’s and they never come off and there price is $ 15 for a fill.
The only negative is that they pressure you to get other services and I politely say No but they continue to ask.

I used to come here because it was so close to my home. I always felt weird becuase the girls were always speaking their language and laughing really loud which always made it seem like they were talking about me. I felt really, really rushed everytime I went but yet I kept going. I would always get crooked nails or the nailpolish wasn’t on right.
One time I went and I told the lady short nails and not too thick (I don’t know if they think that thick nails is better but they don’t look nice to me). Well as she was filing I told her SHORT nails for a second time. Well I eventually had to go somewhere else and get their mistakes fixed. Never again will I go there.