Johnny Nails and Spa

Always a great experience here. I go mostly for pedicures, but get my nails done for Christmas and other occasions. This years design is awesome. The first manicurist did a great job with the filing and polishing. I took a picture from the internet and the other manicurist painted the design. Love it!

I have been going to Thomas and Jenny for years and have never been anything but over the top happy. He ALWAYS does an amazing job and when I tell him I want something blingy and a little over the top he just grins and says Ok and he comes up with something amazing. I would never ever let anyone but Jenny do my feet she is just that good. I have a lot of problems with my right foot and I know she will never cut me or rush either. Eyebrows are the
same they look perfect when she’s finished. I know I get quality service and at a very good price. My daughter told Thomas I was not feeling good one time when she went and he texted me to check on me and see if I needed anything. I live in W Va and work by Dulles and go all the way to Frederick to make sure my nails look good and they do, so worth the trip.
Sandi

I arrived about 6:30 on a Wednesday night. I saw that they were open until 7:00 so I said that I would come back another day. They said no we can do it right now, I needed a full set of acrylic nails. I said okay. I don’t know the young man’s name but as you walk in, he was seated on the left side in the front. I have had acrylic nails for over 15 years and could tell that he was cutting corners to get out. He cut the nails down and never checked to see if the length matched the other hand. Which of course, Nails on one hand are shorter than the other. He did not use the finishing file to smooth out my nails before polishing. He told to just rinse off my hands without using the soap or brush. Why? I have never been told that before! He put on 2 coats of the gel polish and that was it. At this point, I paid the man at the counter and left knowing that I would never go back there again. If he had somewhere to go then he just should have said that he did not want to do my nails. Big expensive lesson learned!!!

I am very glad for the people who have had good experiences here, and I can see how the place may have potential. However, my experience was less than stellar, if not downright confusing.
I made my appointment online, the day before. Generally, I do things at the last minute and I don’t like to make appointments. I also don’t like calling, especially nail salons where I know that the people are busy and also it is highly unlikely that the person on the other end speaks good English. So I was tickled when I saw that this place took online appointments.
When I came in, I was actually a couple minutes early. The fellow treated me nicely. I told him I had an appointment. He could not find it. I told him I made it online. Confused stare. He says something in Vietnamese and the word goes around like wildfire: «online» «online».
Eventually he shrugs and says «Come in; what do you need?» So I explain Mani-​Pedi, eyebrows. For my manicure, I don’t like polish, so I had alotted myself 1 hour +15 minutes for travel to pick up my son.
I was pleased when the pedicure started as I was allowed to soak for quite a while. Something that annoys me when I get a pedicure is when they put your feet in the water for a minute and then they want to work on you right away to get you out of the chair. 20 minutes later, I was still happy, but wondering what was going to go on next. A young lady came and started working on my feet. I started to talk to her and her phone rang. She gets up to talk on her phone for about five minutes then comes back. She works on me for another couple minutes and then another young lady came and started and the first got up and walked away. A few minutes in, a man came and started working on my feet. Then he left and left a very young girl to do the polish. All told it was an okay job, but I’ve never had four people work on my feet at one sitting. So at this point we are about 40 – 45 minutes in when I am shown to the drying station. I consider telling them that I am going to have to skip the manicure part, but I cannot seem to catch anyone’s eye. It had become quite busy, but there was still time for one of the people to be standing in the back talking on their cell phone. I called my husband and I asked if you could please pick up the son, as it appeared I was going to be late. It is a good thing that I did. I sat at the drying station for about 35 minutes. I was initially annoyed, but then I figured I would wait and just see how long it would take. So now I am at 1:20 and I have not had the manicure or eyebrows done.
Finally I am led to the manicure station and we go through the whole episode again, although this time just two people doing my nails — with the first one on the phone much of the time. I had explained to the first person that I didn’t need polish. When the second person sat down she picked up a bottle of fluorescent pink polish and prepared to start. Apparently, I am the only person in the world who does not like to have nail polish as she seemed genuinely confused. I suggested she do the clear polish and that made her happy.
I was allowed to dry my nails at the manicure station, rather then be exiled over to the drying station. So after I have been there for two hours I gather my things and go to the front desk. I am getting ready to pay when the man who checked me in realized I had not had my eyebrows done. So I go to the back room for my eyebrows. That was a pretty good job.
Back at the desk, I am told the total, and like some others was a little surprised to pay a top-​of-​the-​line manicure rate when I really did not even want polish. I mention how glad I am that they take online appointments and the guy tells me: «No. Please do not make appointment online.» He gave me a card and told me to please call directly. So either the appointment setting does not work for them, or they do not want to pay the commission for the appointment or both. No matter. It took away the only reason I would ever use them.
So I am giving two stars as they, in the end, did what they were supposed to do. However, it was an average job and the longest amount of time I have ever spent in a nail place.

This place is decently friendly and does an okay job. I’ve been twice and the first time was great. However, there are too many negatives to warrant a good review.
The last time I was there, I made an appointment for a gel manicure and a regular, basic pedicure. The nail clippers my manicurist had out were so rusty they looked like they must be as old as I am. Thankfully he didn’t have to use them on me. He was on his phone texting for a good portion of my manicure, which ran about 15 minutes past their closing time of 7pm. He ran out the second the clock hit 7. The lady who took over my manicure, I’m guessing an owner, was very nice. But when I went to pay I was charged $ 59 for a gel manicure and a basic pedicure. I didn’t think to question it until I left and it was too late. I started adding it up and that means each of my services was about $ 30, which seems really high for either a gel mani or a basic pedi. Pretty sure I got had, and I probably won’t return.

Thomas did a great job taking care of my wife and her nail design. I will be bringing her back. Next time I will try out their mani-​pedi for my self as well.

Won’t be back. I got my eyebrows waxes during my break at work on a Friday. The girl was in a rush and did not even pluck any of the stray hairs around my brows. Sorry, if I pay $ 10.00 I want them to look better than when I came in.

These are crooks. They overcharge for everything. I just went in to get a toenail polish change and a manicure. They don’t have exact prices on their chart only price ranges. I had a pedicure done somewhere else yesterday, all I needed was a polish change. No design, no file, no buff, no French and they still charged me the highest amount in the range. For my manicure I asked for light filing, cuticle cutting and a buff shine. That’s it. No lotion, no Polish or any other frills. Again they charge me the highest amount in the price range. I was looking for a new nail salon, this will not be it. I hate crooks. I work for my money too. I went there for a total of 10 minutes and it cost me $ 32. The search goes on.

I just got a pedicure there and I can’t say how happy I am with the way it turned out! I had a young lady who did my toes, I can’t remember her name, but she was a senior in high school. Very sweet. I haven’t had a pedicure in years and now I know what I have been missing. I didn’t even make an appointment, I just walked in. And I was done within an hour. I will definitely be going back to get my nails done and I totally plan on keeping up with my pedicure!

My daughter & I met at Johnny’s. Very happy with our pedicures. Tommy & young woman, who’s name I didn’t get, did a great job. We will meet there again.

Alex is the best! I have never been more comfortable or more satisfied with my nails ever before Johnny Nails and Spa. They have a variety of colors from both Essie and OPI. Very clean place and they have TVs all over so you can unwind after a long days work.

I can just about cry of disappointment! I thought with my first perfect experience, this place would be my daily nail salon. I guess not!
I went in for a fill in and a change of color for my nails yesterday. I even made a appointment and showed up on time! I as walked in, Thomas and Jenny were the only nail technicians. The only good thing was the Thomas remembered who I was and greeted me with my name. I guess… So as I sat there and waited a few extra 15 minutes as he was patiently finishing up a client before me, I picked out a few colors for my nails. I was so excited to get this nail design that I saw on the web. After looking at Thomas’s work on Unilocal,I was so sure he would do a perfect job with my desired design. When he was ‘ready’ for me, he asked me to have a seat and asked me what I wanted done. I showed him the colors and the design I wanted. He looked at the design and made this face like wtf? Then laughed and told me that the design was nail polish made and not acrylic color powder, making me look stupid in front of other clients. I simply just said «should I pick a nail polish colors then?» He replies «I mean I guess I’ll do them with these color powders» as he picks up his phone to text someone. So after then, he started on my nails and boy I felt a vibe that he was being rushed on my nails! I kept having to tell him what color I wanted each finger to be and how perfectly I wanted it to turn out and even offered to show him the picture again! He said no he didn’t need to see it again and continued on… I was so nervous that with his pace of not being calm and patient with my nails, he might cut my fingers off with that nail buffer machine!!! I felt like he wasn’t happy to do my nails and was in such a hurry to get me out the door. As I was sitting there nervously, two other clients walked in and waited there… Jenny started on one of them as the other waited. Moments later another client walks in (I’m guessing a daily for Thomas) and he greets her and tells her to have a seat… Oh MAN! He starts working extra faster on my nails after his daily customer walks in. Then I can definitely feel that rushed feeling. As he was done putting on the base colors, he tells me to go wash my hands. After washing my hands, he quickly makes a crappy zebra design on my two ring fingers with just a black color that look NOTHING like what I wanted. The color I wanted were red and black zebra prints on my ring fingers. He just put these really ugly lines that don’t even look zebra printed. I asked again if he wanted to see my picture, he said no. Then got up and asked his next client to have a seat and started on her. I was so upset. Then after he got his other client settled in, he turned around and put a top coat on me and told me to put my hands in the light. Then continued to work on his other clients nails. I’ve noticed that while he was working with the other client, he was working in a easy calm pace. I mean really? Anyways. After the light turned off, I quickly took a look at my nails and saw they looked awful! They weren’t fully colored, you could still see old color that I had on my nails previously, my nails were painted red, black and white, and on the nails that were red, there were black colors smudged color on it! The «zebra print» also known as just simple ugly lines looked like crap… I figured not to ask him to fix everything since they were done and he was already having that stress feeling. I didn’t want him touching my hands any more.
In all, the work Thomas did on my nails this time is so disappointing. I’m no nail designer but I believe I could of done it better my self. After looking at Thomas’s beautiful work on Unilocal and his good going reviews, I was surprised to see how he did my nails this time. Maybe they should hire more nail technicians so he won’t freak out every time a client walks in, that way customers like my self won’t feel awkwardly pushed and receives a nice designed manicure.
I’m not sure if I would want to come back to this salon or if I should go look for another one. I like the friendliness and the cleanness of the salon, but I don’t want to spend my money on a place where I felt being pushed out the door and getting a crappy manicure. It’s a shame… I thought I really liked this place.

Thomas and Jenny are two of the nicest people, their new shop is beautiful and modern. The pedicure chairs are so comfortable, I love the massage. Jenny does a fabulous pedicure. Thomas is great with nails. Does a beautiful French manicure. I’ve been getting gel on my nails for years and I never have a nail pop or break. I’ve been to a few nail salons in Frederick and Johnny’s Nails is by far the cleanest best salon to go too. Highly recommend them, you won’t be disappointed !

I recently got married in the Frederick area, so a few weeks before the wedding I tried out Johnny’s nails to make sure the reviews on Unilocal were realistic before trusting them with my wedding day nails. I went late in the evening and there were only 2 nail technicians, which I figured was due to the time I went. They did a good enough job and said he would be available the day before my wedding. Flash forward to the Friday early afternoon before my wedding. I show up at around 2:15pm, needing to leave by 3:30 to show up on time for our wedding rehearsal which I figured would be enough time for a manicure and pedicure. Again, they had only 2 nail technicians and 1 hairdresser. After waiting 15 minutes, I asked how much longer since they made it seem that a 3^rd person would be working on my nails. The lead man said «Oh right now!» and had the hairdresser start the pedicure tub and remove my previous nail polish (where she complained bc it was now removing her own nail polish — wear gloves???). I then sat in the tub for a half hour. The lead guy finished with the person he was working on, and came over to my now frigidly cold pedicure tub. He said «sorry 3^rd person had to go pick up her kids…» meanwhile 3 other people had come in and were waiting and they also told them they would be right with them. He kept leaving me to go talk to people as they came in. He started to apply a top coat when the color clearly needed at least 2 more coats. I had to ask him to please apply one more coat, so he gooped on a ton of paint on my big toes and moved me to the nail station (this ended up causing my big toe nails to not dry hours later and resulted in them getting ruined so I had to redo them). Once we got to my nails, it was 3:25. I was given an ice cold bowl to soak my nails in (when he realized the temperature, he giggled and said oops! thought that I had put hot water!) I told him I really needed to leave soon but if we could quickly do my nails I would just do a simple natural colored coat instead of the glittered french manicure I had done on my initial trial that I really wanted. He ended up slowly doing my nails while being distracted by all of the people waiting for the 2 nail technicians to finish up. Finally I lost it when it got to 3:45 and begged him to please just finish my nails since I was now going to be late for my wedding rehearsal — he said «ok you pay now so we can get you out of here once you are done.» I gave him a good tip in the hopes he would finally just focus on me and get me out of there. He apologized and in trying to now rush he ended up messing up my ring finger and pinky finger next to it. I have to admit, I had my one and only bridal breakdown here and could barely to hold back tears as I had to ask him to fix it (it was now 3:55). I ended up running out of there just after 4:00 pm with my nails still wet and was over 30 minutes late for my rehearsal with nails that weren’t what I wanted and ultimately had to be redone that night by my sister. The entire time I was there, the 3^rd technician who they claimed stepped out for 10 minutes to get her child never showed up. They need to communicate to their customers that there will be long wait, instead they make it seem like it will be just a minute. It ended up putting me in a horribly stressful situation and I got zero benefit out of it because I had to redo my nails. I would never go here again and would never recommend it to anyone. They need more nail technicians and better communication. There was so much else going on that was so wrong that I won’t continue going on and on about, but unless you have no where to be and there is no one else in the nail shop I would go anywhere else but here.

They always treat us very well. The massage chairs during a pedicure are awesome! I love the colored acrylic you can choose for your nails. They never chip. Sometimes the wait is long for a set of acrylic nails, but you never can tell who’s going to be there at the same time as you.

Just moved back to the area. Had to find a new nail salon after living in Hagerstown for 10 years, so glad I found Thomas at Johnny’s Nails, won’t go anywhere else from now on. Love the true pink and white.

Jennifer is amazing. She gives great massages and is super sweet and her work lasts. I always ask for her so I am not sure about the other staff. The prices are great and the place is clean. My new favorite nail place!

This was my second visit; I’m hooked. New lovely clean salon, friendly professional staff and environment. It also has the MOST comfortable seats where you can receive a beautiful pedi. Then you can move to another location for your flawless manicure. Having 2 large TV screens doesn’t hurt.

Great new establishment! The people who work there are great and the salon has an awesome friendly atmosphere. I’ve been getting my hair cut there since it opened and I can’t recommend it enough! Vicki is the one who does all the hair cutting there and she is absolutely fantastic. If you go here I can guarantee they will take care of you right! I’ve been so please with Johnny’s that I had to write a review!