Blue Beach Nails

Best nail salon in the rockaways, I love the way my nails were done with the gel very high quality my only complaint could be that I feel like the lady rushed a little bit thinking that she can gain another client if she worked little faster not knowing that I’m an extremely great Tipper even though she rushed I still gave her a great tip I am hoping that next time I don’t feel so rushed

I have mixed feelings. I’ve been coming here for half a year now, every 2 – 3 weeks. Initially I loved the place. It’s absolutely beautiful and comfortable. However, the past few tines i went, something happens. First time, I was there (getting my fingers done, not even toes or any other service) for 3 ½ hours because it was the day before a holiday and the manager was doing my nails. I understand that she has to answer the phone and whatnot, but if you cannot do my nails then give me to anyone else. After almost 4 hours, she charged me full price. I should’ve been given a discount for how inconvenient that was. As if i didnt have something to do? Second time, the girl with the shortest hair buffered almost all of my cuticles so hard to the point I was bleeding out of every finger, even though I made it clear that I was in a lot of pain. But that’s not even the best part; she took out the wrong buffer the first time — she wasn’t paying attention and grabbed the one with a screw on the bottom of it and scratched my finger. OW!!! Oh, and course, I was charged full price. Third time, I wanted just a simple solid color, no design. I have long nails (which shouldn’t be a problem) and i get acrylic. Im assuming they don’t like me now because, everything she tries to convince me, I refuse to use their expensive bio gel. I had that for a year and hated it, but they don’t care they just want my money. After she finished and it went to pay, the owner «suggested» I give her a larger tip, as if 10 isn’t enough, because my nails are «difficult.» I’ve never been told by anyone that they’re difficult. Nor should my nails be difficult for a trained professional. Anyway, I still go because it’s convenient but if they don’t stop messing up with me, I’ll find somewhere else. I have mixed feelings because no one else seems to have this issue but this is getting old.

I came to this salon for the first time six weeks ago and the owner was very nice and welcoming. Told me about bio gel so I decided to try. At the end of the visit I ended up paying $ 45 including tip and my nails looked just ok. I had one broken nail and unfortunately it wasn’t fixed and all my nails were filed different shapes. Recently I decided to give them another chance. I asked for a bio gel fill but just a single color instead of French to save a couple dollars. This time I had a couple broken nails and made sure to tell them I want all my nails the same length and shape. Upon getting the polish painted on I asked for another coat and they wanted to charge me $ 5 extra! Of course I said something because the color on my nails didn’t match the color I chose. At the end when I received my total they added an additional $ 18 dollars, $ 6 for each broken nail! No one told me about this charge before and they said they would charge me only $ 10 that day. The owner was nowhere in sight and I honestly feel like every little thing I was getting up charged for. These people were trying to dig into my wallet for as much as they could get! I left upset and left a $ 2 tip. Can you believe they made a comment to me about the tip I left?! Very rude it’s a tip! If you wouldn’t have tried to keep up charging me that extra $ 10 I paid would have gone into your tip pocket! To top it off my nails aren’t even painted right. They are streaky and missing polish on the sides definitely not worth the $ 60 I paid. Never going here again!

Do yourselves a favor and go to DORIS, she gave me the cleanest polish job I have EVER gotten! I would have given a 5 star review however the owner is a little scattered and made my sister wait over 15 min after she had already been seated so her manicurist can do someone else’s eyebrows (this is after my sister had already waited 10 min to be seated in the first place)

This place is lovely. Started going here a couple years ago off and on but now it’s my go-​to and I look forward my hour getaways. Love the all-​guy pedicure team, they are awesome and so dedicated! Foot massages are stellar.
Pros: always very clean, organized, & serene; kind & accommodating staff; nice special pedicure menu and attention to detail
Cons: Parking sucks because of the meters. Hate to bother the staff to fill the meter while my nails are midway. But they gladly help out.

I came to Unilocal to give ANDY 5 stars for his service: incredible pedicure, very thorough, but his food massage is what made my whole day.
I’ve had other decent and not so decent experiences here, but these 5 stars are for you, Andy.
Thank you for your great job!

Came here with regular gel polish. They soaked it off and told me they have gel polish… When i payed the bill it cost me $ 65.00… I questioned this considering i normally pay 24.00 for a gel manicure. They then told me it was Biogel??? I was very disappointed with them… They should have told me prior to applying it that it was different then what they soaked off. Anyhow i just removed the biogel at my regular nail salon and my nails are paper thin and painful!!! So be careful when visiting this nail salon!!!

Good shellac gel manicure ($ 25). There was no wait despite being a busy Sunday. Very quick work. Metered parking on the street with a one hour limit. I will probably go back again!

Ok The color selection is good the people friendly however DO NOT get a pedicure by the men in that place they definetely do not kno wwhat they are doing. The man cut me three times I was so upset he was like in such a RUSH I dont know if he knows what he is doing, I rather go down by the hammel projects and get my nails done there. I have experience better just in a rush it is a good location because you have all the rich spoiled woman from BELL Harbour going there and it seems clean however it is an ok place.

One of the BEST mani and pedi’s in Rockaway!!! So clean, very friendly staff, and really decent prices! My sister comes into town from out of state and wants to come here. Highly recommend this nail salon to anyone in the neighborhood.

Everybody loves Blue Beach nails. Jessie, the owner is fantastic! The staff is SUPER helpful and polite ALWAYS!!! I travel from Williamsburg for the bio gel manicure. I went in there on a lark one day at the beach to get a new acrylic nail redo, and they explained the bio gel and i’m sold. It’s so much more healthy for my nails and not toxic like the acrylic-​which I was worried about, but didn’t know there was an alternative. Take a day for the beach and your nails will thank you too!

love this place– extremely clean — friendly environment — Jessie the owner is the best — try the Bio-​Gel manicure!

Any news about relocation of blue beach nails after the destruction of hurricane sandy?

This is a great new nail salon. Now I haven’t been to any of the many other nail salons in Rockaway, so I have nothing local to compare this salon to, but compared to others I have been to in NYC, this is a great, clean salon. The people are very nice and the prices are on par with other nice salons ($ 24 for mani/​pedi). They give the typical hand/​arm and foot/​calf massage as well as a quick shoulder rub. They also do this hand wax thing with the manicure, which I’ve only had done in physical therapy! It was a very nice touch! I will go back.