Tip Top Nails in Elizabeth City , NC (2024)

Went with my daughter for a mani-pedi last Saturday, January 2, 2010. The shop was fairly empty but they did not have many technicians despite the inordinate numbers of chairs they had. We were seated at the pedicure station and a female tech started on my daughter while I sat there. Shortly therafter, the place started to fill up quickly with walk ins with problems. The female tech finished my daughters pedi and took off to start new clients and never came back to her. My daugher had to wait in the pedi chair with no tv or magazines for at least 50 minuted while a male tech who had hands of sandpaper did my pedi and mani.

My pedi was ok. The mani was horrible. The male tech did not clean the nails after the hand massage which by the way felt as if my hands were being scrubbed with hard sandppaper. He did not hot towel the cream into my legs or my hands. And he did not clean up the nail polish that ran over into the cuticles.

He completed my daughter's mani which was a french mani. Not onely was she horrified by his rough hands(she is 11 years old) but the white of the french mani looked like a drunken highway line painter did it.

There was a tv in the salon, but it was tuned to a Korean or Chinese channel. There were no magazines, and we were kept waiting in between services for too much time.

It was very obvious to me that these people are only interested in the dollar since they were very motivated to start on the new people that came in to hook them, Meanwhile, we were just left sitting there until one of them was free and they gave us the worst technician they had.

This place scores extremely poor on nail care and technique, poor customer service and lack of courtesy and respect towards customers. I have had mani pedi's in every type of setting you can think of- from private home sessions, to Elizabeth Arden Salon in NYC to little store fronts in Chinatown, NYC. NEVER , have I had such a horrible experience. PS both our manicures lasted less the 4 days, the pedi's look okay so far.

Sorry to be such a downer, but I wish I had had a review before I wasted my money on this place.