000-000-0000 · closed Mondays
2 services · from $18 · 20m to 25m
Two short appointments for under-twelves, with no gel, no acrylic and no drill. A grown-up stays in the room.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little manicure | 20 minutes | $18 | — |
| Little pedicure chair | 25 minutes | $24 | — |
A pedicure needs a chair as well as a person. There are three pedicure chairs and six technicians. A pedicure needs a chair as well as a person, so it can be unavailable at a time when a manicure is not.
$18 · 20 minutes
Under twelves. Nails cut and shaped, a gentle buff and one coat of regular polish. No gel, no acrylic, no drill and no cuticle cutting.
$24 · 25 minutes
The same again in a pedicure chair, with a shallow warm soak and the jets off. Twenty-five minutes is about as long as it holds anybody's attention.
A child's nail plate is thinner than an adult's and their nails are still settling into shape. Gel and acrylic both involve preparation of the surface and a removal at the other end, and neither belongs on a nine-year-old. This is a refusal we make often and we make it politely.
Twenty-five for a little pedicure, with a shallow warm soak and nothing switched on in the chair. That is about as long as it holds anybody's attention, and stretching it out is how a nice half hour turns into a bad one.
Not in the next room, not outside on the telephone. There is a chair beside every table for exactly this.
It usually is. We go slowly, we show them the file before it touches them, and if they change their mind halfway through we stop and there is nothing to pay.
Marisol Vega, Thu-Ha Nguyen, Rina Ocampo, Danna Ruiz, Emil Duran and Yelena Boyko. 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.