Beach Nails II

I LOVE CINDY!!!
Been going to her for years!
This is my go to stop for fills, pedicures and eyebrows.

Under new management! I’ve been to Beach Nails 2 (in Cortlandt Town Center, near Marshalls), twice now in the last month and have been very happy. The new owner is on-​site and makes sure his staff do their best. Wendy and Cindy are polite, have good English and are talented (acrylic nails and a fill-​in). I even got a free 5-​minute back massage while my nails were drying. I tried another salon a few months ago but Beach 2 is better in all ways except, possibly, for price. But I’d be happy to pay a couple of extra dollars for the treatment I received.

I moved here recently and have been to beach nails about 10 times for manis and pedis. The initial appeal to me is that they have a big staff so there is usually no wait and they are pretty quick; however they are pretty aggressive and physically rough with the mani pedis maybe because they are rushing so much, and my manicures only last a day
The owner is a little scary and I’ve watched her scream at the employees in the middle of the salon in English making the customers really uncomfortable
Today I decided I’m not going back. I got a mani pedi and when the girl took my card she asked how much to add on for a tip, I told her the amount which was 25% of the service. She actually said «but I did your manicure and your pedicure.» And waited for me to increase the amount. I’ve been leaving the same tip on a mani/​pedi for 15+ years and never had a complaint. I was so disgusted and insulted, but actually so caught off guard that I actually stupidly gave in and increased the tip. After she finished my manicure and I had time to think about it — I complained to the scary owner. She actually said to me «well how much did you tip her?» LOL
I will not be going back and I will be telling my friends not to either. A tip in my eyes is a courtesy based on how well the service was performed, and at my discretion — and 25% is more than enough! That was so insanely rude.

We normally go to another salon for monthly pedicures but decided to try here. BAD IDEA!
They have a different price for men and women. Men are more? Maybe because we have more toes. LOL.
The prices they give on the phone are less than they really charge. They do not have posted prices in the salon. Legal?
They use the same instruments over and over, very unsanitary. Legal?
My Wife had a Gel Manicure, also higher price than the one given on the phone. She is a Licensed Cosmetologist and was surprised by the lack of skills, knowledge and the proper tools that the technician displayed.
This place made us feel dirty.

Every time I get my nails done here I ask myself WHY did I go back… I would just like to mention the lady I had was very nice but she’s not very thorough in the pampering dept.
Origially I wanted just a pedi… a simple pedi… I was coerced into getting a Spa Pedi… Normally when I get a Spa Pedi the massage lasts 10 – 15 minutes… so bc it was my bday week I said okay, why not treat myself…
As she was doing her thing a mother/​daughter came in and wanted their eyebrows waxes. My lady said she was going to take them and to let me feet soak… my feet literally soaked for probably 10 minutes which was a heck of a lot longer than my 2 minute foot/​leg massage. Once I was done and all polished up I decided to get a mani.
She rushed through the whole process and didn’t even soak my cuticles. I was charged $ 38 for the short Spa Pedi and Mani… ($ 30 pedi/​$ 8 Mani). After my nails were done I sat at the drying station and I was not offered the normal complimentary back massage most nail salons give you.
After 3 days my mani was destroyed and I had to take the polish off bc it started to lift and peel away… Never again!

The work that the nail salon does is excellent but the employees are down right rude and the last time I was there I felt harassed and attacked by one of the staff over a tip. I have since refused to set foot in this establishment and I’ve been able to find much friendlier salons.

This place gives a great first impression when you walk in, but that’s where the greatness stops. I went for a simple manicure, and it has to be among the worst I’ve ever had.
I just left the salon, and am noticing polish is applied unevenly; some sheer spots are apparent, some nails have the polish going to the cuticle (or even on the cuticle), and some have the area touching the cuticle exposed. Multiple nails are snagging on things, since a coarse nail file was used and not smoothed out after, and the shaping of the nails is inconsistent. I stated I wanted them squared off, but some are squared off at an angle, and a couple have the corners deeply rounded.
The manicure was done in about 10 minutes, so with that rush job, I’m not surprised it turned out the way it did, but considering I was the only customer among 4 manicurists, there was no reason why she felt the need to rush. She spent more time trying to sell me on a pedicure and massage than she did shaping my nails.
It turns out the manicure was cheaper than most of the other places around, but while it seems like your getting a bargain, you’re really getting gypped, because you’ll need another manicure almost immediately.
When paying for the manicure, she didn’t even bother to try to give me back my change, ask if I wanted change or even say thank you as she placed MY change in her drawer. She would have ended up with it anyway, but it should have still been my decision. Talk about pretentious!

I normally use Gemini nail salon in Montrose, which is wonderful and they do an amazing job, but on this particular day I had a bit of a time constraint and I thought that driving there would have taken too long. Little did I know I would have been better off just making the drive. When I walked into Beach nails I was already annoyed because there was a woman hovering over me trying to help me pick a color. I literally told her from the beginning that I had somewhere to be at 6 and it was 4:15 at the time. Plenty of time for a basic mani pedi, right? Not at this place. She insisted that I get a spa pedicure and I told her that would take too long. She said it would be fine so I just gave in. Now I’m the type of person who doesn’t want to be bombarded with conversation while I’m trying to relax. I talk to people all day for a living. This woman’s name was Helena I believe. She literally would not stop talking to me about how she does facials and telling me I need to come back next week for one. Then she kept telling me how my eyebrows were very uneven. I was in awe at how bold this lady was being with me. It was awful. I was being very nice the entire time because I am just not one to complain. The pedicure took way longer than I had anticipated and when she was finally in the middle of my manicure and I was already going to be late she told me she needed to go do someone’s eyebrows! I told her honestly I need to leave this is taking too long. She sat back down and did a horribly sloppy job on my nails. I barely had time to let them dry because she took her sweet time talking even after I had made it clear I was in somewhat of a rush. I smudged my nails on the way out and didn’t even care because all I wanted to do was get out of there. I ended up paying $ 48 for everything and I still gave her a $ 10 tip because I worked in the service industry for so long and I just can’t bring myself not to, but mark my words: I will NEVER go back there. Just imagining this woman’s voice and the way she kept badgering me about the facials and the million questions she barraged me with makes me want to scream. I’m getting angry as I sit here and write this. There are so much better places to bring your business. If I had a good experience they would have gained a repeat customer, but the 20 minute drive to Montrose to get my nails done will be so worth it to me. It was one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had.

I would give it negative stars if I could. Okay so I know of both locations, I live in long island ny but my fiancée lives here so I visit on the weekends and decided to do my nails. I’ve been to both locations before and also had problems I just wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt .
I started off by going with my fiancée to the one in peekskill, and the problem I’ve always had with that one is that I get there with no appointment (yes I know appointments make everything better — but even with an appt with them you still have to wait), but they make me wait forever (I have no problem with waiting) but then they let people without appointments (yes I’m sure they have none) go ahead of me. It’s ridiculous, they literally ignored me a few times and I was like that’s bull. Anywho, so I walked out of that one and decided to go to the beach nails II in the town center thinking it’d be better .
They then tell me to get a color, which they have a lack of but whatever, then the lady starts ushering me more like pushing me inside but I have no idea where to go, I get this nice old looking guy and he pushes me into the chair. I hate getting touched but whatever. He does my nails I ask him to make them round and I get square … the bowl looked dirty and I saw nail clippings everywhere (which clearly weren’t mine), he then proceeds to put nail polish on my hands yes hands because barely any of it got on my actual nails, all of it was on my skin. What the heck ?? I literally didn’t want to say anything because he seemed so sweet and I didn’t want to get him in trouble or worse make him lose his job. I really couldn’t deal with the horrible job though so I asked another lady to help and he kept kinda yelling at me to come back and let him fix it, and the lady proceeds to again push me, why do they keep pushing ?!!
I say no thank you just take the nail polish off I don’t want to waste more time I could do a better job myself. The receptionist (a boy, who I later found out is the owners son) then nicely asks what is wrong. I politely tell him I just want the Polish off and my money back. He then proceeds to tell me I can’t get a refund only a gift certificate. Mind you the guy who did my nails is now screaming at me saying come back let me fix it (way to Treat A customer). I own a business myself, and my fiancée has a family business so I know how you should speak to a customer and I was most definitely not impressed with how they handled the situation. The receptionist calls his mother and she says no refunds. I say there is no sign that clearly states that I cannot get a refund only a gift certificate. I tell him to call her back so I can talk to her .
Yes $ 8 isn’t a big deal, but it’s the principle that counts and the way I was treated, they didn’t treat me with any type of respect. I then tell the owner I just want my money back, she says the service was rendered too bad (too bad ?!) I got the nail polish taken off and even left your salon a $ 2 tip for un fully painted nails and nail polish on my skin oh and getting pushed around and yelled at. She then tells me no refund etc etc and hangs up on me. At this point I’m ready to strangle someone and I call back and we are yelling back and forth, her son tells me rudely to hang up the phone and flings my $ 8 at me as if he is doing a public service. I take the money and start flinging my arms like finally that’s all I wanted, and I accidentally hit the merchandise on the desk and it hits him in the head because his head was down. God forbid I «touch» any of them, yet they kept pushing me around .
This is literally when all hell breaks loose, they all start screaming at me and get in my face and start pushing me around, I won’t stand for any of that, so I start moving their hands out of my vicinity and my fiancée at this point is trying to push back the old man who did my nails because he keeps trying to push me. The receptionist yells how old are you ?! What does that have to do with anything. Then one of the customers gets up and gets in front of me as if I’m the one who is crazy and I’m like what ?? Lady sit your butt down this has nothing to do with you, why would you even get involved in this ??

Not sure why I gave this place another try. Came here because my usual place was closed and really needed a pedi because I was going out of town. First the two guys are outside as I walk in and are like yeah hello, I was like oh you’re talking to me. Then he asked me what u wanted and told me to pick a color. Rushed me to the back the women I got was nice at first but then I guess he told her she was taking to long so she rushed and finished me and rushed me to the dryer. I got there at 6:30 they closed at 8 she was done with me in 20 minutes if not less. They were very unprofessional. I will definitely not be coming back. You are better off paying $ 13 at the one off bear mnt and 202 than come here.

I go to Kenny. always love my nails… they use quality gel and the place is always spotless… If you don’t want to be rushed or wait… call ahead and make an appointment
The prices are also great in comparison with other area salons

I usually go somewhere else to get my gel manicure but I had just gotten out of work and just wanted a quick manicure so I came here because its right near my house.
When I first walked in I said I wanted a gel manicure and the guy behind the counter said he thought I might like this new regular nail polish that lasts up to a week and I said no, I want gel. He then went to go get the gel nail colors for me so I could choose and he called one of the girls over. As I am trying to look she gets in my face and ask «which do you want tell me» and I said I am looking. «You come here there more colors here you want red don’t you.» I said «no. maybe more on the pink side.» «This color you like this color lets do this.» It actually was a nice color so that was fine but I don’t like how she was making decisions for me and rushing me. They were not busy at all.
So I sit down and she was mad that she had to take the gel color that was already on my nails off and she was scraping it so hard off my nails. It felt like she was sawing off my hand. Then when she got to my left hand, she noticed that i was missing half of one of my finger nails and she goes «why don’t you paint this one it looks so ugly» and I said «I am letting it heal I don’t want anything done to it.» She really wanted to paint it, she made that very clear even though I kept saying no. She did however take it upon herself to sand the top of it down a little bit because it was bumpy… and i was kind of annoyed.
She rushed applying my nail polish on because she said she had a 5 o’clock appointment and when I got there it was only 4 o’clock. I feel like my nails were done sloppy and she was very rude. I am never going there again.

The place is really clean and looks nice but the man who did my nails wasn’t very good (unfortunately). He filed too close to my cuticles, even though I asked him to be careful after I saw he made two of them bleed. Also, the top coat he used must have been thinned out because it looked horrible on my polish and smudged after I left even though I waited 20 minutes for it to dry.
I went home and put my own polish over the mess he made. :(I won’t be back.
The guy sitting next to him seemed to be doing a better job, so maybe other people have a better experience here. I did notice the place was somewhat empty when I got there at 5pm (only one other customer was there) and that’s usually not a good sign, so maybe it’s not one of the better options in an area where there are about 15 nail salons in a 5 mile radius. I’ll keep trying in this area, so far I keep striking out with the nail salons.