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5 services · from $28 · 30m to 1h 15m
Five manicures, from a thirty-minute tidy to a structured gel that is built to survive a fortnight of typing. The difference between them is time and what goes on the nail, and both are on the line.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Express manicure | 30 minutes | $28 | one to two weeks |
| Classic manicure | 45 minutes | $38 | one to two weeks |
| Gel manicure | 1 hour | $55 | two to three weeks |
| Structured gel manicure | 1 hour 15 minutes | $68 | two to three weeks |
| Builder gel overlay | 1 hour 15 minutes | $72 | three to four 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.
$28 · 30 minutes · back in one to two weeks
Shape, cuticles tidied, a buff and one coat of colour or a clear finish. No soak, no massage — this is the appointment for a Thursday lunchtime, and it is honest about being short.
$38 · 45 minutes · back in one to two weeks
The full thing in regular polish: a soak, cuticle work, shaping, a hand massage and two coats with a top coat. Regular polish is dry to the touch in ten minutes and properly hard in an hour, which is the trade-off you are making against gel.
$55 · 1 hour · back in two to three weeks
Cured colour that is hard when you leave and stays glossy for two to three weeks. Includes the removal of gel we applied. Gel from another salon is a separate line on the price list because it takes longer and we have not seen what is under it.
$68 · 1 hour 15 minutes · back in two to three weeks
A gel manicure with a thin structural layer built over the middle of the nail, which is what stops a soft or bendy nail flexing and cracking the colour. It is not an extension: nothing is added past the end of your own nail.
$72 · 1 hour 15 minutes · back in three to four weeks
A thicker overlay across the whole nail, for nails that split at the sides or peel at the free edge. It adds strength rather than length and it is refilled rather than removed, which is why it is on the manicure list and not the extension list.
An express manicure and a structured gel are not the same service at different prices; they are different amounts of work. The express is a shape, a tidy and a coat of colour, and it is honest about being short. The structured gel builds a thin apex over the middle of the nail so that a soft nail cannot flex under a rigid colour, which is what cracks an ordinary gel manicure at day twelve. Everything in between is a point on that line.
If your own nails are strong and you want colour for a week, a classic manicure in regular polish is the right answer and it is the cheapest thing on this page. If your polish is chipping in three days, that is gel. If your gel is cracking at day ten, that is structured gel and not a different colour. If your nails split at the side walls or peel at the free edge, that is a builder gel overlay, which is a strength problem rather than a finish problem.
Most of the manicures here are done dry: no bowl, no soak, cuticles worked with a fine bit rather than softened in water. Water swells the nail plate, and a gel applied to a swollen nail lifts when the nail dries out again. The classic manicure keeps its soak because it is finished in regular polish, where the soak costs nothing and the warm water is half the point.
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 |
| Paraffin dip | 15 minutes | $20 | Manicures, Pedicures |
| Extended massage | 10 minutes | $14 | Manicures, Pedicures |
What the calendar does with that
The calendar looks for a 40 minutes window, not an hour. That is the whole difference between this booking form and one that offers everybody the same slot.
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.