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4 services · from $58 · 1h to 1h 45m
Acrylic and hard gel, full sets and fills. These are the longest appointments in the shop and they are taken by the two people who do them all day.
The length in the second column is what the booking calendar reserves. The last column is when this service typically wants seeing again, which is a fact about the service and not a sales tactic.
| Service | Length | Price | Come back in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acrylic full set | 1 hour 30 minutes | $88 | two to three weeks |
| Acrylic fill | 1 hour | $58 | two to three weeks |
| Hard gel full set | 1 hour 45 minutes | $98 | two to three weeks |
| Hard gel fill | 1 hour 15 minutes | $68 | two to three weeks |
The length is worked out, not assumed. Every service on this site has a length against it, and every add-on adds its own minutes. The calendar adds them up before it looks for a slot, so the time you are offered is a time that actually fits what you asked for.
$88 · 1 hour 30 minutes · back in two to three weeks
Length built in acrylic over a tip or a form, shaped, refined and finished in regular polish or gel colour. Ninety minutes at the table, and the price is the same whether you choose a short square or a long almond.
$58 · 1 hour · back in two to three weeks
The regrowth at the base filled in and the whole set rebalanced and refinished. Booked at two to three weeks. Past about four weeks the set has usually moved far enough that a fill is the wrong appointment, and we will say so rather than doing it badly.
$98 · 1 hour 45 minutes · back in two to three weeks
The same idea in hard gel: lighter on the nail, more flexible, and it does not have the smell acrylic has. It takes longer because it is built and cured in thinner layers, and it cannot be soaked off — it is filed off.
$68 · 1 hour 15 minutes · back in two to three weeks
Regrowth filled and the apex rebuilt. Hard gel holds a fill slightly longer than acrylic, so three weeks is normal rather than optimistic.
Acrylic is a powder and a liquid mixed into a bead at the table and shaped before it sets. Hard gel is a thick gel built in thin layers and cured under a lamp. Acrylic is harder, cheaper and quicker; hard gel is lighter, flexes with the nail rather than against it, and does not fill the room with a smell. Acrylic can be soaked off. Hard gel cannot — it is filed off, which is why the removal takes as long as it does.
At two to three weeks the regrowth at the base has moved the stress point of the whole nail down towards your fingertip, and that is when nails start breaking at the side walls. A fill takes the existing product down, fills the new growth and rebuilds the apex where it should be. Past about five weeks the set has usually travelled far enough that a fill is the wrong appointment, and we will tell you that with the price difference before we start rather than halfway through.
A short square set and a long almond set are the same price. The work is the same work; the length of the nail is your decision, not a surcharge. What we will say honestly is that a long set on somebody who works with their hands all day is a set that will break, and that is worth ten seconds of conversation before we start.
It is the removal, and mostly it is the removal you do yourself at home in front of the television. There is a page on this site about exactly that, because it is the single most useful thing anybody in this trade can tell you.
Each of these adds its own minutes as well as its own price, and the calendar adds them up before it looks for a slot.
| Add-on | Adds | Price | Goes with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nail art, one or two accent nails | 10 minutes | $10 | Manicures, Pedicures, Extensions |
| Nail art, all ten nails | 25 minutes | $32 | Manicures, Extensions |
| French finish | 10 minutes | $12 | Manicures, Pedicures, Extensions |
| Chrome or cat-eye finish | 10 minutes | $14 | Manicures, Extensions |
| Soak-off of work from another salon | 20 minutes | $18 | Manicures, Pedicures, Extensions |
What the calendar does with that
The calendar looks for a 1 hour 10 minutes window, not an hour. That is the whole difference between this booking form and one that offers everybody the same slot.
Thu-Ha Nguyen, Danna Ruiz and Emil Duran. You can ask for a person by name when you book, and the calendar will only offer you times that person is actually working — including their lunch, which is not a slot.
Files and buffers are single use. Files, buffers and wooden sticks are single use and binned in front of you. Steel is washed and steam sterilised, and every pedicure gets a fresh liner.
There are nails we will not work on. There are nails we will not work on, and there is a page that lists them. Being told no at the beginning of an appointment is better than being told nothing and finding out in a fortnight.
Six tables · three pedicure chairs · a published price for everything
Pick the service and any add-ons and the calendar adds up the minutes before it looks for a slot, so the times you are offered are times that actually fit what you asked for. A pedicure also needs one of the three chairs, and if none is free at four o'clock on a Saturday it will say so rather than book you in and hope.