$20-25 for a pedi, $12-15 for a mani, or $30-35 for both together, including the spa chair. A buck extra each for paraffin wax or quick dry topcoat.......$3-5 for a French/American.........

But most of the time I do it myself. I have a foot spa, paraffin wax, all the utensils, polish, EVERYTHING!! I may go once every 6 weeks and then keep it up at home....being a broke college student, you learn how to do stuff!!!

I just had to post a response to this.

Normally I go to an Asian salon to get my nails done. Normally cost me no more than $25, I get the massage chair and my nails look TIGHT. Well, this past weekend, I decided to give my own people a try and visit the black salon. Never again.

First off, my appointment was at 2:30 and I didn't get in a chair until 3:45. Next, they sat me in the back of the salon and had my feet soaking FOREVER. I mean, by the time the girl got to my feet, the water had turned cold. I wanted a french manicure which they charged an extra $10 for. I ended up paying $42 for the pedicure and I didn't get a parafin wax or massage chair.

To top it all off, it hasn't even been a week and my french manicure is already chipping away. :mad: :eek: :(

I will be sticking with the Asian's from now on.

Sadly enough, I feel you. You try to support your "own" and get ripped off and mistreated by your "own." I'll be sticking with the Asians also!

Try Bliss Spa in NY. It is on the expensive side but we all deserve to pamper and splurge on ourselves sometimes:)

This is what they have:

foot patrol - facial for your feet. Includes buff, towel-steam, scrub, hot stone therapy (supposed to keep the blood circulating or something) soak, nail clip and file, crème massage, paraffin treatment, and polish... 90 minute treatment. $100

the hot milk and almond pedicure - intensive dry-buffing with a fierce diamond-sided flexible fiberglass callus fighter, whole milk and almond oil steam and scrub. 60 minute treatment. $65

the hot foot - eucalyptus soap salt soak, sweet orange oil softening, and de-scruffing heating sea-salt scrubbing process. Milk and Almond soak... 60 minute treatment. $70

Now those sound REALLLLY nice...I might need to make a trip to NYC...

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Why is it that we will give other folks a million and one chances when they disappoint us, but when it come to BLACK folks that get one chance and we say stuff like "I'll never go to another black person to do XYZ again." How many of us have gone into a major department store (which, 99 times out of 100 is owned by someone white) and gotten poor service? How many times have we then said I am not going to shop at stores owned by white people again? When THEY mess up it is the doctor or sales clerk or waiter that had a problem. When WE mess up it is black stores this, and black lawyers/doctors that! What a pitiful form of self hatred!! And we wonder why "we" don't have anything.

Did you say anything about the poor performance? Did you let your expectations be known to the owner of the salon? Do you REALLY think that all black folks are alike and that since one person gave you poor service they ALL will give you poor service? Come on now! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I agree with Eclipse!

I have been doing my own pedicures because the last few places that I've been to (Asian), they don't seem to know where my cuticle is. They keep cutting my skin. I also don't like it when they don't understand what I'm saying. If I want to express a concern, I want to the person to be able to respond to it. This was in Philly, so I may try some of the places in the uppity areas around here.

I went to look on the Bliss Spa webiste, and unfortunately, it states that they don't do nail services alone. They need to be combined with a facial service! :(

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O.K., I haven't checked this message board lately and I'm just reading your response.

First of all, whether you are white, black, asian, green or purple, if you mess up, I'M NOT GOING TO DO BUSINESS WITH YOU AGAIN, FLAT OUT. And just because I won't go to a black NAIL salon doesn't mean I have 'self-hatred' for myself.:rolleyes: How you made a correlation with that, I don't have a clue.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

When it comes to service in the black community, sometimes it's slow. We do a lot of things slow. Not saying that the quality is lacking, but the service most times is. I know that EVERYTIME since the age of 13 when I started getting relaxers, I got to wait damn near 8 hours to get out the salon. Why?? Because OUR PEOPLE have to schedule 6 people at a time every hour. That makes no sense to me, other than trying to get all the money you can - and stylist know that NO black woman can go w/o getting her hair done at least once a month - so we take it and wait.

I get tired of spending my whole Saturday in a hair salon, which is one of the reasons I have decided to go natural. (But that's a whole 'nother topic.)

So before you get up on your 'high horse', don't go around making accusations about self hatred and putting words in my mouth. If the establishment messed up then yes, I'm not going do business with them again, straight up. And if they happen to be black, oh well. If they happento be white, oh well. If they happen to be asian, OH WELL.

And I don't have to let the business know of their poor performance. When I don't show up anymore, they'll get the picture. :D

I love my people and don't EVER question me on that. :mad: But in some areas, I feel like we need to get it together, seriously. It's sad, but we have to be real. It's something called TOUGH LOVE.

And I'm out...:cool:

Nothing because I do it myself and it's as professional as going to a salon. However, only on special occasions have I gotten a professional pedicure such as for formals (when I don't have enough time to do it myself).

My pedicures are $30

Del, Where do you go? :D

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I made that correlation because, as I quoted in my first response, you said "I decided to give my own people a try and visit the black salon. Never again." Not, I'll never go to that shop again, but the inference, based on your sentence structure was that you would never visit a black salon again. Now, if I got the meaning incorrect becaue of your syntax, I appologize. I doubt that was the issue though, because of the little rant that you go on below.




You are right, sometimes hair stylists are slow, some times nail techs are slow, any one can be slow, but we vote with our dollars. I'm not saying you don't have every right to get your nails or hair for that matter, done by whomever you choose, but when you generalize, you sterotype people which is just not cool. I have a relaxer and I REFUSE to spend 5 or 6 hours in a salon like some people will. Ain't NO BODY that good. I'll drop your behind in a hot minute, but I attribute it to the INDIVIDUAL not "OUR PEOPLE" being "slow" as you did. I recently started going to a multicultural salon, although my individual stylist is Black. One thing that I have noticed is that while we do tend to spend a longer amount of time in the salon than our paler sisters, it has more to do with the nature of the style, than the stylist. I typically sit under the dryer for a while, then get my hair blow dried the rest of the way. Then she hot curls my hair. Most of the White women get the wash, blow dry and curl with the brush blow dryer thing. They are in and out a lot faster, but again, I'm not sitting around waiting.

I get tired of spending my whole Saturday in a hair salon, which is one of the reasons I have decided to go natural. (But that's a whole 'nother topic.)

You know what, you are right, you don't have to let people know anything, but I think if we LOVE our people as we both say we do, we OWE it to them to hold them to a higher standard. You can't correct what you don't know. As it was explained to me, LOVE is an action verb. You gotta DO something with it. But, if you are fine with the fact that the black dollar turns over in our community something like 1.5 times while it turns over in the Asian community many, many more times than that, then hey, I'm :cool: too. Actually, I'm not, but I can only do me, and point out where I see inconsistencies. :D