Barry’s Beauty Bar Queens

I didn’t even get a chance to make it into the salon to get my nails done. I had tried to call every day for about a week to make an appointment since it was my first time there, before I finally gave in & made an appointment online. I made my appointment & saw they required a $ 20 deposit. I wasn’t alarmed by that Bc from pictures, their work looks great. I received my confirmation email & it said the tech was in queens but gave me the Brooklyn address. I then tried to call again to confirm I was in the correct books. NO ANSWER. I also tried to send an email. YET AGAIN NO ANSWER. TODAY, The day of my appointment I was able to get a hold of them over the phone. When I tried to confirm my appointment they told me I didn’t have one. I explained that I had the email saying I did have an appointment. She finally realized that she was looking at the wrong day the entire time. They are extremely unprofessional over the phone I could only imagine how they are in person. Sucks I lost the $ 20 deposit but better lose that than deal with them.

Ok so I’ve read all of the reviews about this place and I was sceptical of going but I decided to give them a shot. I made my appointment for 11am and I arrived 20 mins b4 and my nail tech was late I had to wait for 30 mins for her to get there. I was a lil upset about that but when she did arrive she was very apologetic and got right to work and I must say it was worth the wait. They are a lil pricy but you get what u pay for. I’d go back

I give this place 1 star because it looks nice. First off, I had an appointment at 3:30. I was there at around 3:15 because I HATE being late. It was 3:50 and I hadn’t been seen yet so I was walking out when Beverly said «ummm miss. Im waiting on you «WHAT ?! First off how are you waiting on me when your still doing someone’s nails? Anyway she took me at 4:05, 35 minutes after my appointment was scheduled and then began to eat … Like legit eating for like 10 mins. She then got started on my nails regularly, nothing special. She then began buffing my nails so hard, that my pinky began to bleed !! Yes actually bleeding. I was charged 50 $ for what would’ve been ³⁵⁄₄₀ elsewhere. I should’ve just listened to the reviews. This place is EXTREMELY unprofessional and overrated. Don’t be fooled by their Instagram ! Barry’s Beauty Bar is a waste of time and money

Sigh… I wanted to give this nail salon a chance… and I did, in fact, I gave them 2 and both times, I was disturbed by the work ethic here…
So let’s start with the nail tech, Barry… his skill on nails is amazing, he is a perfectionist and as much as I use my hands, not one nail had chipped polish or looked lack luster… but he is ALWAYS LATE and had the gall to insist on an appointment system… even has a website to book said appointments, so why be late every time… I book well in advance (at least a week) and I’m always on time and my time is precious…
The first time I booked an appt here, I’m on my way to head over there and about 30 mins before my appt time, I get a call from someone in the salon, saying Barry is running late… how late? No one knows… just that they will call me when he gets there…
2 HOURS LATER, I get a call back saying he is there and I can come in, so I do and… he is there, just sitting matter of factly, no apology, no nothing, so I ask him how he is doing, he responds dryly and we begin… after talking to my friend who also came to see Barry after me, he loosens up and he does a great job, and I’m in love!
Fast forward to today, I made an appointment last week for this day and I come in for a fill in and a pedicure… Barry is running late AGAIN!!! But this time, no one called to tell me! So I get my pedicure started and now the shenanigans begin… btw, this was not the original girl requested when booking, this was Atkima or something like that… the left over nail girl…
First, no removal of the polish, just put your feet in… I give the look of irritation and she asks me if I’m okay and I tell her, no, the water is cold, she warms it up to my liking and then takes my foot out and immediately cuts my nail without asking me what I want first, so I had to stop her… I don’t like my nails cut… but she already cut my nail, but it’s halfway off… so I tell her I do not want my nails cut, only filed, she then put my foot back in the water… mind you I still haven’t had my polish removed… why… AND… I had to ask her to please cut the remaining piece of nail off, she says she will… later… and proceeds to take my other foot and butcher away at it with cheap tools you get at your local beauty supply. after being a little too heavy handed with these cheap tools, I gently take my foot out of her grasp and tell her that she is hurting me and I would like for her to stop… now what happens next, let’s me know that I will NOT BE RETURNING… EVER…
This woman then goes behind another pedicure chair and brings out a DRY WALL SANDER!!! FOR MY FEET! You cant be serious!!! I have great feet, you should be thanking the foot God’s that I came in today and gave you a reprieve!
So I ask her, «what is that?» and she just simply points to my foot like this is routine here, so I tell her, she WILL NOT BE USING THAT ON MY FOOT… She says so arrogantly, «Oh, you don’t have to use it», and I tell her, no, you won’t be using that on my foot… now after all this, I look at my toes and every nail looks jacked… she begins polishing when I noticed this jacked file job I got and I ask her to please file them straighter and she FILES THEM WITH THE POLISH ON!!! Does not take the polish off, even AFTER SHE FILED AND GOT FILE DUST ON MY NAILS! So I ask her if she going to re-​do the polish, she says, she was but, I didn’t give her a chance to, but… why the fu** would you do that in the first place! So she does the sloppiness over and mumbles to go dry my nails… I sit at the raggedy dryer MEANT FOR NAILS, NOT TO BE STEPPED ON REPEATEDLY and I look at the time… 30 mins passed and no Barry… its now 20 mins into the time I booked for him and 6 other people seem to be waiting for him as well…
After sitting there frustrated and ashen… because I got no lotion after my pedicure… one of the nail techs yells «excuse me» very loudly and I turn around and she is in fact, talking to me and asks if someone else can do my nails, I shake my head no. I sit there and let my polish dry for another 5 minutes, get up ask the same nail tech, when is Barry to be expected, she says 2:45pm, I look at the clock again, it’s 2:40pm, so I make the wise decision to leave… she asks me if I want to reschedule some other time, I tell her no thank you, pay my bill of $ 22 DOLLARS + $ 2 TAX AND GIVE THAT FUNKY, GREASY left over nail girl from the back, $ 5 dollars tip and leave… and go back to my old spot and get a spa pedicure to calm my nerves… Barry’s Beauty Bar lost me & 2 other friends who won’t be making any further appts. Sorry not sorry, Barry, I hope your loyal following stays longer than I could…

I decided to get my nails done for my trip to Jamaica for my grandmother’s funeral. I follow them on Instagram and I LOVE their designs. This salon had a long wait, about 2 hours despite the few people there. Bev did my nails and was chatting it up with her friend 98% of the time and the other 2% was left to making little jokes with me and my boyfriend (some weren’t necessary). She took about 1 – 1 ½ hours to finish my acrylic set. She had to redo the design because she did not realize she failed to explain that the design I wanted was 5 – 10 bucks extra. They were all repeating how tired they were and how much they wanted to go home. Not professional. I asked for them to take a picture of my nails for the website. The picture was taken and failed to be uploaded to their Instagram. Maybe because my nails were «too plain» as they said … Even the thought of my nails being smudged was dismissed because «they didn’t have time for that stuff because they were eager to go home» My nails broke within the first 2 days (as soon as I landed in Jamaica after lifting my 50 lbs suitcase) and began to lift after 1 week. Though Bev painted the nails nicely, I’ve had better sets that lasted 3 – 4 weeks. I am Jamaican and I’m familiar with some of the humor but they’re just not as friendly as I’d anticipated. Even Barry wasn’t that friendly. Overpriced and dragged out process for such mediocre quality.

Really wanted to love this place. 2 stars because I loved the way Shawnese did my nails but on the flip side, only 2 stars because of the lack of professionalism. Twice my nail tech was late to my appointment that was booked a week in advance. Today… drove over an hour from Brooklyn, from work. for my 6:30 appointment that was confirmed via email. Get here. nail tech not in today. No phone call (which is provided when you book an appointment) and no email to let me know she wouldn’t be here. So here I am now an hour later, tired, frustrated and still waiting on a different tech to do my nails. My nails look horrible so I have no choice. Barry’s has the potential to be a great nail salon but the customer service and unprofessionalism is preventing that from happening. Won’t be returning.

Bev did my nails yesterday night after a long day at work and honestly I am beyond pleased! This is the best my nails have ever looked! She took her time and crafted my nails. It was worth the money spent! The owner took the time to look at everyone’s nails before they left! Everyone was kind and really showed they cared for their customers! I will only be going here from now on! I was one of the last customers and was still treated as if I was their first!

Ok so I am not sure whether this establishment is not familiar with good quality colored acrylic powder. When I asked for it, they didn’t even have an appropriate display of colors to be chosen. To add insult to injury I was charged additionally for a gel top coat that is supposed to be used to seal gel polish NOT COLORED ACRYLIC POWDER. This gel top coat seal is supposed to come with the colored acrylic powder service so why in the world was I charged additionally for it? They were going to seal it with a regular polish top coat can you imagine? They even used really cheap acrylic powder which was obvious first because of the smell, secondly because it felt like cheap plastic on my nail. The quality of the service I received was extremely poor and looked nothing like that of what they display on instagram. VERY DISAPPOINTED!!! Colette did my nails.

I give them 1 star because the young lady who did my pedicure, Simone, from the rosedale location, was very nice polite and friendly and because she did what I considered at the time a good job. I have been to the brooklyn location once before and was attended by tash, who did ny nails and Pepsi who did my pedicure and over all It was a good experience, I loved their work. However yesterday I went to Rosedale and arrived there at 3:15 pm and was not attended till 5:40pm. There were maybe 3 other clients. There were two nail techs who only looked at me and my mother up and down when I arrived and said nothing, then there was the girl who did pedicures, Simone, who greeted me and told me to have a seat. Because I did not have an appointment they skipped me and attended another person who had just walked in despite the fact that I was waiting for more than 2 hours. Simone the pedicure specialist, then felt bad for me and began to do my nails. The other two ladies were very unprofessional and rude, my mom and i couldn’t even get our eyebrows done because they wanted to have us wait unnecessarily, so we finally left at 8:40 pm. Overall if it was not for Simone, the Rosedale location would get a big fat zero for this review. Barry the owner have a good business but if he don’t get his staff aboard and trained to treat clients the correct way, then he is going to loose a lot of clients. The only reason i stuck around was because I had to go out the next day. *late entry (follow up on post) all of my nail fell off one by one less than a week later (I got my nails done on a Saturday and by Friday they all fell off intact) I paid 58 $ for my nails and I am so disapointed!!!

Honestly not a huge fan. Made my appointment for 5 o’clock, didn’t get seen until 6:30. My nails fell of within 12 days, the little studs they put on my nails fell off the next day. Only thing that I wouldn’t complain about is my feet. She did a good job, also I didn’t like how she always put her two cents in when I said I wanted my nails a certain way.

If I could give zero stars I would give zero stars!!! First of all let me start off by saying that I try my best to go to black owned businesses but there’s always some kind of problem where you just get turned off unfortunately. I’ve been to Barry’s on Flatbush Avenue and I waited in there for three hours before I was taken. INSANE! Especially since I had an appointment. Clearly an appointment means nothing at Barry’s. I said let me try the one in Queens since I work in Queens I can try for after work. Still trying to give Barry’s beauty bar a chance. I walk into the salon and was greeted by a nice pleasant young lady. She asked me if she could assist me and I told her that I needed to get my nails done so she sent me upstairs. Come to find out the pleasant young lady was the receptionist for the hair salon. Not Barry’s. That’s probably y she was so sweet! AnyWho I get upstairs and I see two young ladies sitting on the couch fast asleep. I tapped one of the girls and asked her she was waiting and she said yes she’s been waiting for a long time and so has the other young lady next to her. At that point I’m like awww man its going to be hours so I went to the nail tech and said «excuse me how long is the wait for fill-​in?» This nasty nasty lady rolled her eyes and said sign the book. I’m saying to myself «self maybe she didn’t hear you properly ask again» so I asked again how long is the wait to get a fill-​in. She stares me dead in my eyes and said I said sign the book and we will call you! I’m saying to myself wtf!!! Am I speaking French I kindly turned around and walked the fuck out because I swear Barry’s Beauty bar (both locations) will make u wanna knock a bitch the fuck out. Customer service sucks. I didn’t want to judge the salon by the reviews that I’ve been reading but I experienced it firsthand and the customer service is disgusting. Usually I read the reviews but it’s sad to say that I don’t really don’t write a review but THIS situation right here NEEEEEEDED review!

I’m only giving 2 stars because the staff is entertaining, but Over all I had a bad experience. I should have listened to the reviews. My fellow Unilocalers were right sad to say. This is a very honest review. I’ve been following them on Instagram for over a year. The last time I was in NYC I didn’t have time to check them out. So this afternoon my flight landed in queens from Houston & I decided I was going to check them out. I called before I arrived to ask if they were taking walk-​ins & I was told they were. I arrived at 6pm and did not get out of there until 9 o’clock. I asked how much would it be to soak off & for a full set? Beverly told me it will be $ 30. I sat down soak my nails off and filed off all of the acrylic «by myself» no one helped. I’m thinking to myself what am I paying you five dollars to soak off and you’re not even going to help me take the acrylic off… But whatever! It took me about ¹⁵⁄₂₀ mins to soak. Then Shawnese told me to sit in her chair she would do my nails. I’m very picky when it comes to my nails and this lady is an amateur. I told her from the beginning I did not fly all the way from Houston to get my nails done and they come out wrong. She assured me everything would be fine she knew what she was doing. Well that was a lie! She messed my nails up so bad I was getting pissed off and very unsatisfied with her work. I even asked her how long have she been doing nails? she replied one year. Beverly sitting next to Shawnese, see my facial expression’s and heard me complaining. So when she was done with her client… She decided to take over my nails. Thank God she did, because I was honestly debating on if I should even pay them or not. Beverly is very good! I should’ve went to her from the beginning. She tried her best to fix my nails, but I still left there with two crooked nails. I ended up paying $ 50 for a plain short full set, no designs or anything. Which is $ 20 more than the original $ 30 I was quoted in the beginning. I’m highly disappointed and don’t know if I will ever return.

Stepped in around 5:30pm on my way home from work. Not only is there no sign for the place the professionalism is also non existent. Before even telling me that they take their last customer at 5pm on Sunday (they close at 6pm), the girls basically took turns saying that they weren’t going to take me. This place is a joke.

Despite some of the questionable reviews my bestie and I decided to give this place a try and I must say… we were NOT disappointed! Service was great, Symphony did my pedi and she was awesome! Great conversation, respects privacy and understood the balance between chatter and relaxation. Great massage, which I absolutely needed, I work on my feet and she made me feel brand new. She even recommended the Polish I chose! It’s her first week on the job ladies so take her name and get in line. Whenever I come back to NY I will be sure to pay her a visit!
***4 stars bc of the bodyguards at the door downstairs. They share a building with a hair salon (hair first floor, nails on the second) and the women at the door acted like they didn’t want to let us in. Bc I look like a thug with my khaki ankle pants and pointed toe flats –_​_​–

Never again!
I followed him on Instagram for quite sometime and always like his work. During the summer I decided to book an appt for the day before I was leaving for vacation. Made my appt for 1:30 and I got there on time. After arriving on time and waiting 30 mins one of the ladies said he had an emergency and will be late, do I want someone else to do it? I said no. I will wait. The ladies had the nerve to say things under there breath talking in patoi (Jamaican dialect) not knowing I am a Jamaican. They were saying things like I’m not taking her and blah blah. After another 30 mins they said he won’t make it to the appt. I asked if someone can call me when he’s there I don’t live far, they took my number but no one called. In 2 ½ hrs I called n they said yes he’s there. Arrived back at the shop waited another 30 mins and still no Barry, this time he’s there but feeling extremely sick. I gave up cause now it’s late I don’t wanna drive around looking for a nail salon n I leave the next day. I wasn’t super pleased with the nails but it was such a struggle so I settled. First off if I made an appt with him why get upset if I want to wait for him? Second communicate n be str8 up. Granted if he’s sick ok he’s sick but u could have told me that 3 hrs ago… Barry would never get my money again. They were really unprofessional.

Absolutely a waste of time and money. Got regular acrylic nails by the owner Barry himself. I wasn’t impressed, nails chipped two days later, polish got dirty, couldn’t even get a fill in because the nails were coming off themselves. It only had been two weeks and it looks like I had the nails on for months. I always like to support the black businesses, but this establishment is just bad, no customer service, a bit dirty, and expensive. Definitely go somewhere else.

never again! My nails were so thick and messy. When it was time for the nail to come off they would not no matter how much I soaked and I got an infection on my index finger. The woman that did my nails was tall light skin looks like she’s in her mid 30’s short cut and also does eyelashes. Not to mention I asked for the casket shape and she gave me stiletto nails and said «sorry her mind was somewhere else» my toes were painted horribly I was so disappointed because I was expecting what I see on IG DONT DO IT TO YOURSELF!!!

I’ve been following his page on Instagram. I was in need of a fill in I decided to go and there was a lady just lounging on the chair I told them what I wanted she gets up and says go sit to that station I told her what I wanted and she said she was able to do what I requested upon sitting in the chair I noticed she really didn’t have a clue on what she was doing after her trying to make it work I had to soak off my nails and get a new set. I was told someone else was going to do my nails another girl who was in there also tried to do what I showed her in a pic she was pleasant but my nails are thick and crazy looking I will never go back there again and not to mention I also received a pedicure I could have done at home and I was there 4 ½ hours my nail bed is so sore
Never again!!!

I made an appointment here with the owner online as they require. He wasn’t there when I arrived, the ladies in the shop didn’t even address that. After waiting 15 minutes, they told me «oh, he’s running late.» I waited until 4:30– no show, no update from anyone. Unfortunate because they ask for your contact when you make an appointment, but no one notifies you if there’s a problem. I got my nails done a week ago by a different tech here and it looks 3 weeks old.
I’ve seen his work, very impressive but at this time, not sure it’s worth the hassle of going to this location.

I love to go here for my full sets ! I’ve heard poor things about their manicures & pedicures, but their full sets GIVE ME LIFE! They honestly make me feel better about myself ! And they’re affordable. The customer service is phenomenal. I recommend you make an appointment. If you come in as a walk in, you’ll be waiting FOREVER! I recommend them for acrylic full sets !