Red Nails and Spa

Best nail shop in Lakewood. I’ve been to 30 or more and this
One top ranks them all! The quality of service and length time nails remain out does the
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Came back here after a long time away (family moved away from university place to the Spanaway area) and brought my husband. He’d been wanting a manicure so badly for weeks since he got his nails butcherd at our school’s program. We walked in. Still a bit of a wait because everyone working was occupied. When it was our turn his hands and fingers looked amaZing and younger in one sitting. I got acrylic french tips and asked for a flower too. All in all our hands and fingers look great. Hope to come back again together. A great way to spend Halloween!

The owner, Lan is a sweet, soft spoken woman. I usually call for same day appointments instead of just walking in. I’ve never had to wait more than 10 – 15 minutes this way. For those of you upset that had to wait longer than expected, consider this may due to clients not the manicurist herself/​himself. I’ve watched people change colors after ½ nails already painted or bang their nails and need to be repainted. These all cause delays. We’ve all done it. I’ve been to many other salons where every time sometimes walks in and asks how long, the same answer is 10 minutes. I feel like here they are really honest about hey, come back at 2pm or whatever and I can appreciate that.
Quang does my acrylic fills now. He actually turned me on to the gel powder because I like the clean, natural look. It’s a little bit more but my nails stay shiny until my next fill. I get bored of colors quickly so clear polish is perfect for me.
Another gal does my eyebrow wax there and I forgot to ask her name but I’ll update next time I go in. I like to keep my brows full and natural and she’s the only one who listens to me.
Highly recommend this nail salon. The employees also really seem to enjoy each other and working there and that to me says a lot already.

I recently visited red nails, prior to coming in I was excited because when I used to live in the area this was my favorite nail salon. However, once I walked in I knew the customer service had went down drastically. They had plastic bags to outline their pedicure station; the one they tried sit me at looked like it had recently been used. I was disgusted at the fact that they would even think that was sanitary. I then went to go pick out a nail polish and noticed that they had very little opi and essie selection. The nail polishes looked horrible. I reluctantly chose a brand I was unfamiliar with. Within 24hrs the polish had chipped. I went in the following day to inform them and they told me I should have gotten gel, and there nail polish only last a couple hours. The quality of the manicure and pedicure was good but the supplies they use were very low quality. If you do choose to visit this salon bring your own nail polish and pay close attention to your pedicure station.

I usually go to Nail Art Inc in Fife. While I love that salon it was a bit out of the way for me. I was wary of trying places closer to home after one shoddy experience, but after meeting up here with a friend on a Friday afternoon I can say I had a great experience. I was a walk-​in and didn’t experience a long wait. The staff was friendly and pleasant and my nails came out beautifully. Great price, too.

I’ve go e about 6 times and have decided not to go back again — ill drive a little further away from home. They’ve always done a good job but they take forever. I think it’s mostly due to being under staffed.

In my experience, I have found that the majority of nail salons are pretty much the same.
Words all over the windows, «Walk-​ins Welcome,» old faded Nagel inspired poster of a girl with nails. You walk in and everyone looks up at you, someone who is working on a client asks you what you want, you shuffle around the reception area awkwardly picking out a color until someone tells you to sit in a certain spot.
The brightest star at Red Nails, without a doubt, is Lana. Friendly, just the right amount of banter, remembers you from one visit to the next and does OUTSTANDING quality work. The best acrylic nails and design that I have received in my life came from her, and if I knew I could get her every time I was there I would be more likely to make the drive back to Lakewood. If this review was based on Lana alone, five stars wouldn’t be enough.
Again, as with most salons, at some point there is going to be a conversation in a language you don’t understand. If we lean towards paranoid, I suppose we might think that they are talking about us, but it is probably as meaningless as the gossip and chatter you and your girlfriends produce when you hang out together.
I am the type of customer that stops in without calling hoping for a pedicure. That’s how I roll. If I have to wait, I just leave, but if you find me a seat I tip well.
If I could give the owners one piece of advice, it would be to scrap their current inventory of colors and spend some money on new ones. Too many half-​empty bottles that have separated and gotten gummy, and more than once a manicurist or pedicurist had to try and hide the fact that the bottle was dried out and not cooperating. It’s pretty hard to hide the fact that you just squirted some remover into the color and shook it up in an attempt to make it a smooth liquid again.
The water is always too hot or freezing cold in the pedicure tubs and more often than not I get someone who impatiently taps my foot when they need me to switch. I find that very unrelaxing!
The nail art is always the same: five dots form a flower with a sparkly in the middle. Yawn.
I stopped going a couple of months ago after I developed an infection that caused discoloration on the bottoms of my feet. As a girl who gets weekly pedicures it made me very upset. I spoke with my doctor and since I hadn’t been barefoot in public or tried on any shoes, the likely culprit was one of the tubs I had gotten a pedicure in. Thinking about it, I never see them sterilize them or wash them in between uses, just rinse them out. I guess I just got unlucky.
The prices are pretty standard, parking can be crummy depending on how busy the restaurant is next door but you’ll always find a spot if you don’t mind walking a little bit because it is in the Albertson’s lot.

Walked in at 3:42pm on a Friday afternoon and asked about the wait & was told «right now» for a pedicure. I got in a chair 2 minutes later with 2 ladies ahead of me. I soaked for 8 minutes before someone started on me. Thao, manicurist, gave me a lap cover since I wore a skirt which was thoughtful.
I was finished up at 4:29pm. Not exactly sure how healthy it is for fists to be pounding on my ankles– this kind of «massage» I don’t find relaxing. One lady had two gals working on her and so there was a crowd of giggles and chatter in another language with the occasional «That tickle? Hehehe…» Thao shared with me that after 10 pedis you get $ 15 off which is nice. I was quite put off by the fact that as soon as I paid, she looked at my receipt, shouted something in Vietnamese, and the whole room laughed… WTF? Thao, you were tipped in accordance with the level of service you gave me– mediocre. I won’t be back unless I have a pedi emergency before church on Sundays! Oh and most places I go tell you when your dry & set to leave but she did not. I’d rather go to Hi-​Tek Nails 2 in Lakewood or drive out of my way to Jully’s Nails in Spanaway where you get more personable service.