Kim’s Nails

I have lived in Summit for over ten years and finally understand why I have never given this place a try. The woman doing my nails was rushed and unprofessional, she didn’t do my cuticles and when I politely asked her to fix a nail that she hadn’t evenly coated and was lumpy, she gave me an attitude. It was not only her, the woman asking me and my friend what we wanted done was so rude and insolent that my friend decided not to get anything done. However, this wasn’t even the worst part. I got my eyebrows waxed and specifically asked for a minor touch up just to keep the shape, and I left with HALF of my eyebrow missing. Luckily, I stopped at the Blue Mercury down the street and could get some eyebrow pencil, but I am still left with HALF of an eyebrow. There is no way I will ever be returning here after the wait, the extremely rude staff, the high level of unprofessionalism and the botched manicure and eyebrow job.

Don’t come here! I have been waiting for over an hour for a manicure. Numerous others have sat down before me though I had been waiting the longest — it looks like I am unfortunately not the only one who has received unfair waiting treatment, based on other reviews. When I mentioned this wasn’t right, I got a poor answer (basically no response other than «Ok»).
This is the second negative review I have written in 5 years, I do not take this lightly but had to warn others about this.

I love Kim’s Nails! Im so saddened that I moved to California. When In NJ, I would travel 30 minutes just to get a pedicure here. They give the BEST pedicures, well worth the $ 25 bucks. I never had to wait when I come. Service is immediate. Also, they understand my clumsy tendencies. I have to say that I mess up my pedicure every single time I get one. Even If I go home and come back the next day, they fix it free of charge. They’ll probably know who this is just by that description, lol. Manicures are also very good here, and they give you massages as you’re getting your nails done. Only thing is the polish doesn’t last too long. It literally chips off the whole nail, but once again I am hard on my hands and feet. Regardless, still love Kim’s nails. They also have great taste in candy ;)
Be prepared to pay for parking. The street it’s located of off was doing some serious construction the last time I was there, so finding parking takes me 10 minutes alone. I always park on the street behind the parking lot in the back, and walk through the lot. But all else is great!

Though this is a «nail salon»., like most they offer waxing services. «Young» is the young woman that I go to. She’s pleasant, professional and thorough. Pricing is very reasonable.

Don’t bother make an appointment they don’t know how to keep it. Expect to wait in a way that apparently isn’t even on a basis that’s not even first come first serve.

I’ve been here a few times and I’ve never had a good experience. The salon is very close to my home or else I would never go back. They do OK manicure and pedicure, but the polish never stays on. After a week my pedicure is chipped and my manicure barely lasts 3 days.
They are open on sundays which is the only good thing about the salon. If you are stuck and need a mani/​pedi on Sunday I’d go here but any other day of the week find a different salon.

They are nicely located but that is it. Rushed my mani pedi, spoke to each other during my service, filed and massaged while looking everywhere other than my nails.
My polish literally fell off my nails while I was driving my car 2 days later. I usually carry my own polish but impulsively stopped in to this salon while walking along the street .
Big mistake. Not satisfied.

I like Kim’s for permanent french, shellac, and pedicures. They do a nice job and the staff is friendly. Their full body massages are great and I think I’ve tried everywhere in Union, Essex and Morris counties. Both Sue and Vicki do deep tissue that you will hope will never end.

The girls who do pedis barely speak English and the time I was there the girl must have had bronchitis and she was coughing on my feet. Disgusting. I was going to use my credit card and the Asian told me cash was better. Would never go back. Ever.

My sister found this place and she likes it because they use a freshly sanitized set of tools on each customer. Ever since I’ve tried it, I’ve been making my trek all the way here to get pedicure, manicure & eyebrow wax.
The pedicures are better than the manicures as they usually spend more time and care on it. And they’re open till 7:30 on the weekdays. I usually come early Saturday mornings but I came around 6pm this week and there was barely anyone there. I thought that would’ve been great but I found the person doing my pedicure didn’t work as much time as they usually have. I’ll definitely try not to come in late in the day again.
I don’t really love this place but it’s pretty decent.

Dirty and inexperienced.

Kim’s is not the best nail salon I’ve been to, but it’s a good choice among the local options, and it’s pretty inexpensive. I find the pedicures to be consistently better than the manicures. I like that they appear to use a freshly sanitized packet of tools on each client, rather than grabbing something out of the sanitizer when you can’t be sure it actually went through the sanitization cycle.

Everytime I used to go here to get mani/​pedis, the nail polish just wouldn’t stay on. I don’t get it. It must be something that they do or what they use. It isn’t worth it plus the guy that owns it is like crazy!

To be completely honest. This place didn’t make me jump up and down. The people were nice when you first walk in and then when you leave but in-​between they didn’t talk to you unless you spoke to them. Not saying I’d go there expecting a conversation but the experience should be somewhat pleasant, right?
The lady that did my pedicure said not a single word to me but talked like a sailor in Spanish to her friends. (I took Spanglish for 3 years). And the lady that did my manicure was nice and answered my questions and asked me a few. Which was nice.
Ok so aside from the lack of personality here, my service was OK. I asked the pedi lady to give me an extra scrub on the bottom of my feet and she started scrubbing the side (not the bottom) so hard I think she might have broke skin. I probably won’t be coming back here.

Like the previous reviewer I live in Boston and was in Summit for a visit. I was going to a wedding and needed a pedicure. My friend made me an appt here and they still offered the $ 25 mani/​pedi deal. My pedicure was an okay experience, but it literally chipped within 24 hours. I have had pedicures that never chipped from other places and less than a day of nice toenails is pretty sad. Then I had the WORST manicure I have ever had. I didn’t want any polish, and I didn’t have any polish on (I never put polish on my fingernails), just a nice buff for shine, which I said twice before the woman started. She still put nail polish remover on my nails – unneccessary. Then she TORE at my cuticles and made me bleed – it is two days later and I had to put a bandaid on my finger last night because it still hurt and was raw. Yuck. Then at the end she waved some clear polish at me, I said yet again no, I’d just like a buff, and she said that was $ 5 extra. Thanks for telling me earlier. My nails didn’t look any better than when she had started, in fact worse because of the one bloody spot! Yikes!
So while the pedi was not bad, merely a mediocre 2 star, the mani was so bad, I have to give one star. Guess it really depends on which manicurist you get when you come here. And, you get what you pay for.