Ann & Amy’s Nails

My favorite nail shop in Oakland. I’m in & out less than an hour (By appointment only, no appointment a long wait) A little prices Eyebrow, Medi & Pedi totally $ 84 (With gel nail polish), I have never paid this amount but it’s well worth it (Nail’s last a long time 3 weeks max).

First visit: Amy is great with eyebrows. Made an appointment and had to wait a little but she gave me a free lip service and only charged me for the brow in appreciation of me waiting.
Second visit: made an appointment with Amy but then she had someone else do my brows. I didn’t want to seem rude so I just alright. Well, it was a little disappointing. I’m still coming back but only if Amy does it!

IF YOU WANT YOU EYEBROWS ON FLEEK THIS IS THE PLACE TO GO. Their customer service is excellent. they are little pricey but that of okay because you leave feeling pretty.

A week later my nails look horrible. Cheap products that just don’t hold up. Plus when my nails were done the nail technician didn’t completely fill the nail to my cuticles making my nails grow out faster.
Customer service wasn’t that good and not sure how clean tools were.

I came here after Amy gave me her number at the store i work at, i decided to give it a shot and im happy I did so. She did my nails exactly how I wanted them and i also had them do my little sisters nails (little flowers) which she is still so happy with. not to mention the eyebrow waxing, it was perfect and my eyebrows look great. deff. will be comming back here

The ladies here are always very sweet and take care of my hands and feet. I usually don’t make an appointment, but they work me in and make my nails look great. I brought my 12 year old daughter once too, and they treated her special. Recommend if you are in downtown Oakland and want to pamper yourself.

Ann & Amy nail Salon on 12^th gives really good service. I found them on Unilocal,and I am really satisfied with my nails and toes. Will definitely recommend them to my friends and family…

Did a clean and amazing job as always the ladies here are so sweet and Amy is hella crazy

I lovvvve this little shop that a friend of mine introduced me to. It is in downtown Oakland right next to the 12 st. bart entrance. It is not all flashy like the nail salons you will find on the lake or north Oakland, but these ladies are sooo good at what they do and Amy is hilarious. She always does a fantastic job on my eye brows (and for only $ 9 ! Far better than some of the swanky shops I have been to. Any Q (Kiue) is an artist of nails. She always does a great job. I can show her a photo of what I am looking for and she will exceed my expectations!!!

Amy is extremely disrespectful. Today she called me back after unsuccessfully trying to make an appointment and told me to come. When I get there she tells me they didn’t have time to do my feet and then she give my appointment to someone else while I’m sitting there. She is super ghetto and loud and the nail color selection is old and over used. The only person who is professional there is Angela. I will never go back to that ghetto whole in the wall nail shop.

I’ve read so much reviews about Amy and how great she is at doing eyebrows. I’ve been looking for someone through the east bay who is great at eyebrows. I have naturally thick eyebrows that I usually get threaded but seeing all her reviews I really wanted to try her out and to just shape them. However, even though I told her I wanted to keep them thick– they ended up extremely thin… I cried. They were extremely thin and one of my eyebrows was thinner than the other. Now I have to grow my eyebrows out another 3 months just to go back to the usual person who does my eyebrows. Please if you have thick beautiful eyebrows don’t go to her. She may be great at doing thinner eyebrows but not thick. I asked to keep the thickness. I’m extremely sad and won’t be coming back.

Got a last minute appointment for a fill and a pedicure within 30 minutes! Nails were a little thick for my taste but looked good

Just an FYI… My no chip manicure lasted 4 weeks. It got ugly. I was lazy, but it stayed on!

I went into to get an acrylics set and was told $ 20. The minute i sat down for my nails to be done Amy i believe came by to ask me to clarify what I wanted? And I was thinking why ask when you just told me $ 20. She said do you want gel? or powder because gel cost $ 23 and I replied I wanted what cost $ 20. The lady that did my nails didn’t have too much conversation with me. She was rough on my CUTICLES while smoothing the powder on my nails.
I waited almost a hour plus for nails to dry and she kept saying not yet dry. but i could see my nails were dry but since it was lunch time they wanted to eat so this was there way of buying time. A TRANSACTION FEE of $ 1 will be charged if you use a credit card. My nails looked like something I could do myself and forgot to say the place looks dusty and not well kept.

Never again.
I needed a fill and pedi while I was in the area and came up on this place. The lady who did my pedi was attentive, I’m pleased w the pedi work. The lady who did my fill was nice, but her work I was less than thrilled with. She burned my skin w the drill and now I have a cut on my thumb. My fill is clumpy, thick, and all nails are not even shaped the same. Why did I have to coach her through the process? When it came time to gel paint them she tried, but I just was not satisfied. It looks like a kid painted my nails! On some, the paint doesn’t even go to the side of my nail bed. I told her I was unsatisfied when I was there, but I didn’t have time to re-​do them entirely. To rectify the situation I just had her slather a coat of glitter over my base nail color to hide the clumps and errors. At $ 81 for a fill and pedi w gel that took 2.5hrs of my day, I could not bring myself to tip the establishment for a service that I was completely dissatisfied with.
p. s. I’m not sure how clean this place is. I didn’t see anything that told me they were keeping items sanitary in the least bit. The lady doing my pedi was getting tools out of this little pencil case that looked dirty. It didn’t even look like the tools had been sanitized. Even the spa pedi chairs had dirt around the basins.
I will never return.

They do great work… but…there are a few concerns that everyone should be aware of.
Like a good 98% of other nail salons their ‘Gel’ extensions are just acrylic nails with a gel top coat. So many people get scammed with this only to be out an extra $ 20 – 30 for a dang top coat.
I came here for a fill on nails that I had put on at another salon. My acrylics were done in a glitter overlay, so I asked if they had something to match. The tech said yes… but failed to tell me that it was part of their ‘gel nail’ scam. So naturally I was kinda surprised when my fill was pushing $ 30. Not to mention my nails were super thick.
I came back a few weeks later to have the nails removed. The (same) tech started going away at my nails with a clipper which is probably one of the most painful ways to remove nails. Her attempts were unsuccessful, which does not surprise me… they were as thick as kit kat bars.
After a few minutes of gritting my teeth through the pain I finally spoke up, «can’t we just soak them off?»
«No, soaking don’t work for gel.»
«But it’s not gel. It’s acrylic with a gel overly. Besides, even gel overlays can be removed with acetone,» she quietly got up and began filling a bowl with the liquid.
One hour later my natural nails were free.
As I was in front of the nail dryer I watched something pretty disgusting take place. She poured the entire bowl of nail polish remover back into the same bottle that was used on clients; as if it was routine!
So next time you think about getting your nails done, just remember that your hands might be subjected to used polish remover. I shudder to think what other poor health practices are done here.

Im very happy that i stopped by this place today!!! Angela did a GREAT job! She took her time to perfect my beat up nails from the previous horrible job someone else had done. If you like a little wild side to your nails i would ask for her ! :D

DO NOT GO HERE IF YOU ENJOY YOUR CUTICLES. SO MANY REVIEWS ABOUT DAMAGED CUTICLES.
The lady who did my nails burn me several times around my cuticles with the drill. She even accident went up my pinky finger while looking away & left a burn.
Everytime she burned me she just put blue liquid to stop the bleeding & continued filing away.
A few days later I noticed one of cuticles had not healed. It was swollen and tender. I could tell there was liquid under that scab so I used clippers to remove the scab and pus came out. I’ve never had any infection in my entire life from a nail salon.
And on top of that my nails looked terrible. I had to go get them repainted somewhere else.
They only get 2 stars because they lady who did my pedicure did an excellent job.

I won’t ever come here again. I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve never been here but everyone just kind of stared at me. Rude.
Made an appointment for 12:00. I was 3 minutes late. I was told to sit. 10 minutes later they tell me to sit in a chair.
Sat for another 15 minutes until this lady came over. Don’t know her name. She looked like she had botoxed lips and she was kind of rude.
I wanted a fill, cut down and nail design. Red flag number one should of been the fact she didn’t know where anything was at the station.
She cut my nails down, didn’t check them to make sure they were the same length. She started my fill and when I pulled my hand to look at it (because she was doing a terrible job) she stomped her foot and had an attitude. Very uneven and very thin acrylic. You could still see the end of the original nail under the acrylic.
She also cut me while filing because she filed so hard.
Paint job was just as sloppy. I wanted starfish on my ring finger, I guess she couldn’t do it so I sat for another 15 minutes to wait for another lady to do it. Doesn’t look like starfish, looks like flowers. The lady who did the design also put the top coat on while the design was still wet and it smeared the design.
I came here because I saw all the nice designs here on Unilocal,but I wish I never had.

Last Friday, I walked in to Ann & Amy’s Nails without an appointment and got seated right away. I work by this place and passed by it almost every day. Finally hit this place up. I had a body spray tan the day before and told the lady I do not want a full pedicure massage/​scrub. Just polish and that’s it. She understood and do as told. I forgot to ask for her name but she is the one that is pregnant. Very nice and helpful. Told her I was getting married the next day and wanted to get my nails done.
For my toes, I did a regular candy apple red color. My finger nails were short and uneven. She suggested I get a gel french manicure by adding fake nail tips. I’ve never had that done before and don’t know how it works. Of course, I asked how much. Didn’t want to pay too much for it. But then hey, my wedding is the next day and I want to look pretty and gorgeous. The price quote was at a decent price and went for it.
The gentleman did my finger nails. Never had a man worked on my nails before. He took his time and manicured my nails by all these nail utensils. Very detailed and thorough work. It took awhile to have my nails done. The worst part was inhaling the powder fumes. It was strong. I had to hold my breath many times and look away. He did a great job on my nails. It was very pretty. I’m a happy woman and bride. Altogether for the toe nail polish and gel french manicure was about $ 34. Gave them separate tip.
Cheap and good quality. It’s been 5 days now and my nails are still holding on strong and gorgeous. I will definitely be back to Ann & Amy’s for my nails. It was a great experience. All the ladies were nice too.