Megan Nails

I love this place. The times I have been were completely fine. The longest I ever had to wait was about 15 minutes and they were busy. The women who did mine and my roommates nails were so nice and made me feel comfortable. To be honest, I tried another nail place just to see the difference (it was cincy nails) and that place was horrific. I learned my lesson and from now on i only go to Megan nails. The only reason I’m giving it 4 stars is because there was one time I asked for my nails to be shorter and she ignored me but whatever. Yolo amiright?
PS ive never made an appointment there and its never been a problem!

I walked into Megan Nails on a weekend hoping to get a manicure. When I walked in the smell of acetone immediately overwhelmed me to the point I had to take a minute to catch my breath. I could hear women talking and laughing loudly in the back of the store where I could not see, and there was one girl waiting up front. A woman heard the door open and came around the corner long enough to bark at me, «You sign in there!» and went back to what she was doing. The girl who was waiting told me she had already been there for an hour. Knowing how people tend to exaggerate when they feel like they’ve been left to wait for a long time, I checked the sign-​in log and saw that she had, in fact, signed in an hour and five minutes prior to my arrival. I was already feeling a little uncomfortable from the odor, the shortness of the woman who told me to sign in, and not really wanting to wait over an hour to be seen (although I admit I didn’t make an appointment, the door has a sign, «walk-​ins welcome»). Then the girl who was also waiting told me that there had been another worker there who was doing someone else’s nails, but when that customer left she went in the back and hasn’t come back out since. So, they had a customer waiting for over an hour, and staff available, but wouldn’t come out to tend to her. I waited there for about 25 – 30 minutes, listening to the woman chatting with her «customer» in the back. I put «customer» in quotes because it doesn’t take an hour and-​a-​half to tend to one person, even if she were getting a super-​mega-​deluxe-​awesome-​all-​the-​works-​mani/​pedi/​back rub. No matter what she was having done, it didn’t take that long and they were obviously sitting back there chatting and NOT doing any real work. After hanging around for a half hour being completely ignored (by this time, even if the other staff in the back had been taking a break, her break would have been over long ago), I crossed my name off the sign-​in log and left. I don’t know what would have happened if I had stayed there any longer, but I had had enough.

I used to frequent this salon when I lived on the West side. A family own store, the salon is always very clean and tidy. Helen is amazing! Unlike those typical nail salons where you can’t really understand what they’re saying — Helen is super amiable and funny. She makes you feel comfortable and enjoy the entire experience of being pampered.