Model Nails

I have been here before yesterday, it wasn’t my particular favorite, but my mom likes to go get her nails filled there when she comes to visit, so that was the plan yesterday (Saturday) We went in the lady said 10 minutes at most , she put us in the tub, and we waited… and waited… and and waited, finally once I was starting to get very irritated, someone came down and started on my my mom. cool, then I continued to sit and
hour later my mom’s pedicure was done, 3 more pairs of people were coming in and I was watching them do exactly what they had done to my mom and I, doing one of the pair essentially trapping us, i had no choice but to sit there and wait… i was sooo angry by the time the lady came to do my toes (after sitting in the pedicure chair for a total of an hour and 15 minutes) I said no thank you and left… The point of this rant is that nothing makes me dislike a place more than blatantly lieing about an insane wait time. Now I will continue to tell everyone who asks if I know a good nail salon (I’m a hairstylist, so im asked surprisingly often), i will be sure to let them know my experience.

Pros: We had to buy tickets to a later screening of the sold out American Sniper playing at the Alamo Drafthouse a few doors down so we went here to kill a couple hours. The shop was closing in 10 – 15 minutes but the staff were nice enough to stay late.
The woman who did my friend’s nails was a doll. She was so funny. She kept asking how she was feeling, if she was alright and being generally engaging. My guy didn’t say anything but I’m ok with that because I prefer to sit back and become one with the massage chair.
Cons: I wasn’t blown away by my pedicure. I’ve had better and I can do better at home. I thought he was going to exfoliate my heels right off with the cheese grater mechanism but when I got back that evening I could feel they were rough in areas. I had to go back over them with my Diamancel file (best files on the planet). The polish was a pretty color but he didn’t get all of it off my skin. I also thought they lacked in polish selection. He didn’t bother to file my nails down. I had cut and shaped them a week or two prior but it would have been nice if he would have touched them up.
For the price and what we needed at the time it worked out. If I was going for a good pedicure, I’d either try a different technician or different salon.

I took my friend here this morning to get our nails done. First of all they couldn’t speak English and couldn’t figure out where to put us. Both ladies were extremely rude and rough making both of our hands bleed. I got a new set with shellac and was not given the colors I wanted but didn’t want to say so because she was already filing the skin away. I will never go here again. By far worst service and job ever. Don’t go here.

I was in town to see Los Lonely Boys and stopped by 2 get pedi and full set.
I had recently mashed my middle finger in my vehicle door and my nail was turning black. The man that did my set was from Houston and is no longer there b/​c I called 2 make an appointment wit him again.
We’ll girls he recommended black nail polish 2 cover the booboo and the job was done on September 6^th. Today is October 6 and my nail still look great…
I’ve never had such a great job.
Where did he go!!!
I had such a great experience there.
Liza

Having my left foot and below knee leg amputated in a few weeks, so I decided I’d spoil myself a bit by visiting Model Nails. They treated me very well, taking great care not to do any unnecessary damage to my bad foot. I was treated well, was very comfortable and left with my feet and nails in much better condition than when I arrived.
I visited them with a very delicate condition and they did perfect. I would highly recommend this business. They even gave me a nice red white and blue design to go with my Army shirt.

I stopped here to get a manicure while I was visiting the in-​laws in Texas for Christmas. I had brought my own OPI nail polish so I don’t remember what brands/​colors they had available.
The nail technician who helped me out was a friendly and rather chatty middle-​aged man. He had just gotten married recently and had a framed picture of them from a professional shoot on the table. Very cute!
Overall, it was a pretty standard manicure. I did not feel uncomfortable at any point. He pushed my cuticles instead of cutting them and there were no «parmesan cheese grater”-type objects since I wasn’t getting a pedicure. I asked him to shape my nails squoval and he did.
It took about a week to start chipping without me ever doing the dishes.

Don’t bother. The place is huge and built to handle high volume. The service is not worth the money. I have had multiple services from different manicurists. None of them are worth the money

Let me start by saying I hate to give a bad review… but considering I have had multiple bad experiences at this place, I feel the need to let the public know not to waste your money here.
Whenever I am visiting my parents, I will go with my Mom to get pedicure’s here. This is the ONLY reason I gave it more than one chance.
The first time I went, the nail tech was watching t.v. and rubbed the side of my foot raw with the pumas stone. I ended up getting a huge scab that did not go away for a week!
The second time I went, they sat me in the pedicure chair with my feet in the water for an hour before anyone came and started working on me.
The last time I went, they pulled out some sort of parmeson cheese grater looking thing and went to town on my feet… maybe my feet were dry, but seriously I don’t think I needed something the size of the womans forearm to ‘grate’ the skin off. Then she showed me what she had gathered from my feet! (gross!!) Not to mention, I believe it is against TDLR rules to use such tools. My toenails were all filed diffirently, some round & some square. She only put one coat of polish on my toes and I had polish all over my skin. My 12 year old daughter could have done a better job!
The last pedicure was so bad that I got it re-​done 3 days later. I went to milk and honey spa in austin, tx to get it fixed. Let me tell you, the girls there know how to do a pedicure. Ask for misty, she’s great.
I will never go to model nail again. If my Mom drags me along the next time I visit, I will opt to hang out in the car while she gets her pedicure done.
I am in the beauty industry and am still considering contacting TDLR about the cheese grater thing… also– I have seen them double dip their waxing sticks– which I know for a fact is against TDLR rules, and it’s disgusting.