Escape Nails & Day Spa

Went here because my regular girl could not fit me in. CT did a fantastic pedicure, the pedicure was absolutely amazing.
I’m not sure of the woman’s name, but she said she was the owners sister, worst set of nails EVER. I’ve had my nails done for many years, so I know the steps they take to do a fill. I felt like she missed some steps, but didn’t say anything. I thought they looked a little lumpy, but again didn’t say anything (my fault). In less than 2 weeks time they all all lifted off.
I them got an eyebrow wax, another mistake. Totally uneven. O well, lesson learned, but unless you go to CT for a pedi, I’d probably steer clear.

I don’t know what all the bad reviews are about. I saw CT for a gel mani and regular pedi. She did such a great job and was so much quicker than most. She didn’t try to talk my ear off and just allowed me to relax. My only complaint is that it smells a bit like incense in there which I dislike… but it wasn’t overpowering. I will definitely be back to see her in two weeks!

I received the absolute worst pedicure and manicure tonight. During the pedicure she was digging her nails into my feet. The manicure was ruined due to the top coat being sloppy and too thick. I also question the cleanliness.

I went to this salon years ago and the customer service was not great and they cut me both during the pedicure and manicure. After my girl moved away from my other favorite salon, I decided to give this location a try again. Certain workers still appear a little bitter, but I’ve found a great technician who’s name is Kim. She takes her time and cares about what she’s doing. Sometimes she’ll even give you a quick neck massage. Highly recommend her for a pedicure and gel manicure. :)

I went here for a pedicure and now two days later I’m on my way to the doctor with an infected toe. This place should be shut down.

My daughter bites her nails and thought a manicure might help her break the habit. The lady doing her nails was extremely rude. She called a few other workers over who looked at her nails and started laughing, and making mean comments in another language. The nail technician also sarcastically told her she must be too hungry to always be biting her nails, and then said it was disgusting and there wasn’t much she could do. She then kept pushing her cuticles asking if it hurt, when my daughter said yes she laughed at her, and said then don’t bite your nails! You should stay away from this salon, Avalon is in the Harris Teeter shopping center and the technicians are always friendly and happy to work with all of their clients. By reading the reviews it looks like other people have had the same awful experience at Escape Nails. Ha, ha name says it all ESCAPE!

I just moved to the area and have been trying different nail salons. This was an «okay» place. Your typical nail salon. They did a good job on my fill in… but charged me $ 25.00 for it. Everywhere I’ve been only charge $ 15 – 18 for fill ins.

Yesterday my family and I have decide to give this place another try because 1 year ago I have been dissapointed. Im glad I did because they have improve a lot. Most of their employee are new. The male technitian did a great job for my pedi and gel mani.

I’ve been here twice, both times for a French manicure. The manicure was done well, and the prices are cheap, however, the manager there seems very rude and unfriendly. A smile and warm welcome would be appreciated. Also, despite having an appointment, there was a 20 minute wait.

I must concur with what others have said — this place is the worst. I have dropped in 2 or 3 times for a quick eyebrow wax (no appointment). The only positive thing I will say is that I never had to wait. Ok, and I guess they did a decent job with the wax, as well. Those are the ONLY positive things I will say.
On my last visit, I believe it was a Friday night and I dropped in after dinner to get a quick eyebrow wax. Now, I will be the first to admit that I am pretty terrible at plucking my own eyebrows. I try my best to never do more than a few stray hairs here and there, but occassionally I get lazy about getting in for a wax and I resort to attempting a little shaping. In this particular instance, I had a very young baby and, for that reason, had not really been out to get my eyebrows done in awhile.
Needless to say, my eyebrows were in a pretty sorry state. Well, the woman was giving me a hard time about this, which I can understand cause, like I said, they were pretty bad. But, then she was constantly speaking to a colleague right next to her loudly in another language and laughing, basically right in my face. Obviously I’m not exactly sure what she was saying, but I’d say it was pretty clear that she was laughing at me. The whole experience felt very unprofessional to me and I felt like an inconvenience, rather than a paying customer.
I will NOT be going back — there is a much better nail salon in Manassas where the employees are very friendly and inviting!

No wonder this place has 2 ½ stars. My usual place was booked up so I tried this place. The OWNER did my nails — she rushed the whole process, she got polish on my skin + didn’t clean it up, she did two flower designs, but they definitely were not flowers, they were so ugly, and the polish was not even neat near the cuticles! Plus, the girl next to me, her nails melted in the light they told her to put her hands under. Seriously?! I didn’t have time to stay there longer for her to redo my nails, so I called the next day + asked for someone else + told them the situation. I asked him, «I won’t be charged for a redo, right?» «Right.» I get there + sat down at the station + it’s so obvious that the owner, who did my nails, was talking crap about me. She came over to look at my nails + I told her all the reasons of why I didn’t like my nails. She said they looked fine except for one nail so she’d charge me all over again ($ 30!), but would refund me the $ 5 because I didn’t like the designs. I told her, «I don’t like any of it, that’s the point. And Kevin said he wouldn’t charge me for a redo.» She had such an attitude (one of the reasons why I didn’t want to go back to her in the first place). She + I got into a spat + I said I would never come back. I got up, said, «This is bull****,» and walked out. So unorganized. Not the cleanest place.

I have to write this review because I have been sitting here reading all the reviews that have been written about this salon. I had the most fabulous experience here! It was pricey, yes, but worth it. I took me and my Mom here for her birthday. It was clean, friendly, and the pedicures and acrylic fill were done immaculately. I am a licensed beauty professional, hair, nails, and makeup. I have been in the industry for 7 and ½ years now. Needless to say, I KNOW what to look for when I enter a salon. Reading all these reviews are making me sick. People complaining about «cleanliness» how would you know? Did you go to school for 2 years and take a state required test on bacteriology and sanitation in order to base your opinion on? I saw that all tools and pedi chairs were properly cleaned. I see awful people complaining about a few extra dollars here and there for exceptional service, and honestly complaining about tipping! That is a stylist/​nail techs living! Just because YOU think that the service is «overpriced» shouldn’t mean that the stylist/​tech should suffer! If you cannot tip your professional, you should not have a service done. I could go on and on defending this salon, but really I would probably have a mild stroke trying to talk some sense into people that THINK they know more about the industry than the trained professional. I promise you that someone doing your nails know much more about sanitation, painting nails, etc being licensed through the state, than the person sitting in the chair having their nasty feet rubbed. Oh and by the way, foot files and razors are no longer permitted by the state. So those who honestly are complaining about their yucky calluses not getting cut off, it is illegal. Pedicures are about getting the nails cleaned up and painted, not removing overgrown calluses that are neglected in everyday personal hygiene routines.
In conclusion, research state board requirements and rules before talking down a business you know nothing of, keeping up with your personal hygiene is important, and seriously, this should even have to be said but, tip your stylist/​nail tech. Honestly, these people are crouching on the floor rubbing and scrubbing your nasty feet while you sit in a massage chair, eating free snacks and drinking your wine, looking down at, insulting, and nit picking their skills. You can at least tip them for their hard work. (Salon professionals depend mostly on tips.)

First time here. I came at an off hour so it wasn’t busy and I was able to be seen right away. Today’s visit was for a pedicure. A tall glass of cold lemon water and a small fruit plate was brought to me while my feet were soaking, which was nice. Overall, my technician did a nice job and the salon appears clean and updated. However, i only rated them 3 stars as I was not happy with her many distractions as she kept getting up to do something in another room. Also, she proceeded to spray scrubbing bubbles into the tub while I was sitting in the chair before polishing began. I felt this was incredibly unprofessional as not only the smell is irritating but after an exfoliating scrub, I did not want to get bleach cleanser on my skin. Next time I will ask to wait until. I’m finished. I will try them again.

I went here with a group of us for Mother’s Day. They have a ton of chairs for the pedicures but it smelled like smoke when we walked in. The air wasnt turned on and it was just hot and muggy. It all made for a bad combo.

1^st time for me and my daughter. They were busy! After waiting for 20 min. They sat us down and let our feet soak, gave us iced lemon water, a slice of watermelon with pineapple. We were pretty impressed. They even have a man cave decorated with sports stuff. Pedicure was fine not any worse than others around the area. The prices are good for what you get.

Stopped in here today to get a quick eyebrow wax. Wish I hadn’t. My eyebrows are a little uneven on the tops and they didn’t use any kind of cream or lotion after. With my fair skin that left my eyebrows itchy and red — thus the need for some kind of calming lotion.
She didn’t do any tweezing either — just the hot wax above and below and on the sides. I paid my $ 10 and left a $ 2 tip which is 20%. The whole process took maybe four minutes. When I left the $ 2 — the girl had the nerve to ask me if I was really only leaving her $ 2. Seriously?! A high tip is earned. In hindsight, I wish I hand’t left anything. I won’t be going back to this place no matter how fancy it looks inside.

They charged me $ 35 for eyebrow tinting. This process takes literally less than 4mins. I’ve NEVER paid more than $ 12 dollars for this service. Turns out eyebrow tinting isn’t even on their list of services, a manager wasn’t on site (of course) and they robbed me of my money! Had I had the nerve to walk out, I would have.
I am unbelievable dissatisfied. Pretty certain this chick pegged me a white girl with money and knew there wasn’t a listed price so she jacked it up!
I could have gotten a 45min massage!
F’ing a**holes!!!

My usual salon manicurist couldn’t see me on short notice so I picked a «nail salon» near me – which happened to be Escape Nails. To be honest, this was more first trip to this type of nail dedicated salon — and I don’t like it. Perhaps this is how all these salons are, though, so I’m not commenting on the setup or the atmosphere. I’m just going to comment on my manicure — which looks good but left me with sore, red cuticles on three fingers. I didn’t see anybody disinfecting anything either, which makes me nervous. I dipped my fingers in alcohol when I got home.
I got a gel manicure (my usual) and was nervous with the way they removed my old manicure — buffing and soaking my hands repeatedly in acetone. My usual manicurist wraps each nail in acetone and then pushes the gel off with an orange stick. This manicurist used nippers to scrape them. I now have white marks on my nails that show through on three fingers even with polish.
Overall, for me, this wasn’t a good way to get a manicure. I would not recommend.

I came here with a friend, spent $ 75 on mani/​pedi. Wellllllll… first off, the corners of my fingernails are not painted at all, and they go nowhere near the cuticle. During (SPA)pedi she didn’t even scrub my feet. and they say you get complimentary shoulder rub when you purchase both, yea, didn’t happen. I even tipped them 20%, as I am in service industry, before really looking at them, but they were so bad you couldn’t pay me to go back!

I have found the only nail salon in the area that I will go to! After having walked out of Avalon, I came back here and realized I should have never went anywhere else to begin with. My husband and I got pedicures and both Angel and Paulette too, good care of us. The massages on my calves and feet were excellent.
The salon has a wide variety of nail polish colors to choose from and also offers shellac.
I will undoubtedly be a regular here!