Grin Nails and Spa

I’ve been going to Grin Nails for years. I love the spa feel of the salon. The service there is very good. Very relaxing.

My first time getting a pedicure at this place. Thanks to a review from 7 days ago, I decided to check it out. Smiles and friendliness from everyone working there. I thought $ 30 for a pedicure was a little pricey but am SOOO glad I decided to stay anyway.
I had Cindy who did a great job on my pedicure complete with hot stone and leg/​feet massage – added bonus! She did an impeccable job and I wasn’t rushed at all. Eyebrow wax was great with Cindy too.
I will definitely be back. Clean, impeccable service and very relaxing atmosphere (and such comfy chairs!!). I highly recommend this place!

Writing this literally from the pedicure chair.
I’ve been coming to Grin since they opened, having lived in the area for so long, and I’ve always meant to write a review and never remember to.
Grin is, by far, my favorite place for a pedicure. Personally, I hate the stereotypical massage chairs that most places offer. I find them tacky and I hate the faux massaging so much that I never turn them on. So, for me they’re a waste. (And I find them annoying to basically climb in and out of) This is one of the things that I love about Grin: it truly feels high end, with upholstered chairs like you might find in someone’s living room, super cushy and very comfortable.
Adding to the high end spa feel: the décor, soft music playing (you will never hear the trashy radio) no TV’s (thank goodness), and lovely bamboo bowls. Grin is virtually spotless, they are so clean and ALWAYS take their tools fresh from the sanitizer.
During their pedicures they also use hot stones for no extra charge — heaven. (They also give you a complimentary hot stone neck/​shoulder massage while you dry!) I have tried several nail places in the area for pedicures and I never leave near as satisfied as when I leave Grin.
Let me just say this: I live about an hour away now in Gilbertsville, and I am still always looking for an opportunity to grab a pedi at Grin!
I have not frequented Grin nearly as often for manicures/​gels/​acrylics as I have for pedicures. But I do know first hand that they do a great job on nails as well!

When I stepped into the place, pretty much everyone who works there smiled and say hi to me. I care a lot about good manners so, that was great for me.
Now, the service: I didn’t wait, I was immediately seated, I always go to these places because I bite my nails and I’ve been in very expensive ones, high quality and cheap ones, low quality ones.
I’m new to the area and since they are besides my bank I stopped there, I had fake nails with gel manicure, I paid about 30.00 first time and the last time I went (for refill) I paid like half of that.
What I love: The massage with stones they give you when your nails are drying out, also, I have a horrible finger (from biting it) and somehow it looks great now, they added lotions to it, no one ever did that before. I felt appreciated and I won’t go anywhere else.
I haven’t had other services but I will be posting when I do.

OMG! So expensive! $ 35.00 for a gel manicure. I only went there cause I had some extra time at lunch. NEVER AGAIN!!! I usually go to Diana’s Hatboro nails, they are awesome there!

Love this place! My mom and I have been going here for over one year now and I always leave satisfied. I think their pedicures are the BEST and the gel manicures always turn out great also. Would highly recommend this place for thorough and quality service. I noticed in one of the posts it was mentioned about there being no massage chairs for the pedicures. This is true, however, the extensive foot and leg massage that is performed for approximately 10 – 15 minutes on each leg more than makes up for the mechanical massage you would get from the chair. Great place and always clean, which is a huge must!

Have been here several times and always the same story. You ask how long the wait is and the say not long. They then plop you in the non massaging, stained pedicure chair and have you put you feet in scalding water. At this point you just wait. Today I sat for 35 minutes and all I got before walking out was pruned feet. As I was walking out I saw people that had come after me getting their manicures. I continued to give them the benefit of the doubt but this time I am done. Will never set foot back in that place and unless you have several hours to spare I would not recommend it to anyone. They were so inconsiderate and unapologetic as well.

Awful! Do not waste your time or money! This place has gone completely downhill! They used to be my favorite nail salon but my past three visits have been terrible! I will not be back and will continue to spread the word on my Awful experience!!!

Stopped in with a girlfriend this past Saturday for the official first mani/​pedi of the season.
Let’s cut right to the chase: NO awesome back massaging chairs.
I love those chairs, I’d pay the $ 30 just to sit in the chair and read a magazine for an hour. I’ve tried to replicate the experience at home with any number of off the rack back massaging pads, they’ve all been found wanting.
So right off the bat, I’m wary.
My fears are not exactly assuaged by the fact that the owner/​manager is a forceful presence. He orders: «WELCOME, please sign in. «Then he resumes his Romanesque half-​recline on the front waiting section sofa.
He’s scary and we don’t want to snuggle, so my girlfriend and I scurry off to the safety of pedicure section in the back. There, I’m soothed by the better than average décor, the fact that they have a nice selection of dark polish (I do love a nice asphalt with red glitter) and the promise of something to do with hot stones.
I’m just getting settled in to a nice hot foot bath, when the owner barks something at the girl giving my pedi. She jumps, I jump… all the other women jump. I almost drop People magazine on my poor tech’s head. (All about Pippa!) Not super relaxing. This happens about once every 10 minutes to either my tech or another tech. I’m thinking: «Who is this guy? «
Pedi was awesome. Hot stones are the best. Toes are beautiful and on to the mani.
Apparently my tech picked the wrong station. Another reproving word from the head honcho and I’m forced to shuffle to another table (in a near empty salon) with one of those cotton thingies between my toes.
Mani looked great, and during dry time, they give a nice shoulder massage with another hot stone. All the while, the manager was sitting up at the front register glowering at his staff; and interjecting sharp comments from time to time. I was expecting him to whip out a kettle drum and command each woman to file in sync.
In sum, the services are great. The salon is impeccably clean and I would absolutely go back for the hot stones; forgiving even the lack of fancy chairs. But what’s with the manager? His presence was an uncomfortable addition. I couldn’t relax, and that’s what I go for. So I’m not sure I’ll be returning.

I guess I spoke too soon with my original post.. . I went back to Grin to get a set of acrylic nails and was pretty disappointed. After talking to other people I discovered they charge way too much and they didn’t even do a good job, even to my untrained eye. First, it took forever because apparently only one employee there could even do acrylics – you’d think they’d be more prepared on a Friday afternoon. I guess she was the only one who could do a number of services because she kept disappearing to help other clients, leaving me in the hands of someone else who was obviously just killing time so I didn’t feel abandoned (she would file my nails but then the other woman would come back and re-​do it anyway). She hurt my fingers repeatedly with the sander-​thing and got globs of acrylic under my nails, forcing her to go back in and cause more pain to dissolve it and separate it from my skin. I realized after I left that she didn’t even make all the nails the same length and one is pretty crooked. Now, a week and a half out, one of the acrylics is lifting from my nail bed (near the cuticle). Plus I see gaps between my real nail and the acrylic tip on 4 fingers and I know that’s not right. I’m pretty sure it took over 2 hours!!! I’ve only had acrylics once before, but the experience was nothing like this one. I also question the cleanliness at Grin. I didn’t see any employees washing their hands, wearing gloves or masks, and I don’t even want to think about the tools.. . I didn’t see sterilization machines like I have at other nail places. I consider myself lucky that I didn’t end up with an infection and I won’t be going back. I’ve heard Diva Nails in Doylestown is much better.. .