Fabulous Nails

I had Tiffany do my nails (gel manicure) when I came in a few weeks ago and she really did a phenomenal job. They lasted and didn’t chip or crack. On the other hand, my coworker did her nails (gel manicure also) with another nail technician who did a pretty poor job, but my 5-​star review is based on Tiffany’s work. Will be coming back for Tiffany only.

Stopped in for a pedi and design with a man employee here. He did an excellent job and the prices were fair.

Can I give 0 stars?
Wow after waiting patiently for a pedicure bc I’m pregnant I came to this place only to be treated rudely and given a painful pedicure by a man who hadn’t cut his own nails nor even slightly trimmed them – he had sharp jagged nails. I was treated roughly and stabbed by his nails and repeatedly asked him to be more careful. Finally I asked him to wear gloves. He did but now while the stabbing was done I was still treated too roughly and I am the type of person that loves super firm massage usually etc!!!
But yeah not this!
It was an overall terrible experience
Even my polish needed to he retouched bc he wanted to clean the bucket right after finishing my nails! So I got splashed.
Never again. And I’m pregnant so I really needed and waited for a good time and place to go. Wish I checked Unilocal!I hope you do too for your own sake.

Not horrible, but not good either.
Came here because it was close to where I was and my parents and I wanted to get pedicures. When we walked in there was only two people sitting, so PLENTY of chairs left open, but it took them about 15 min to even sit us in a chair, and when the did seat us they sat us all separately. Which honestly made zero sense, because like I mentioned before, there was plenty of open seats. I sat in my chair for about another 15 minutes before someone even came over to start my pedi and before that they just turned on the water for the chair to fill it up and walked away. I figured I would help myself and just put my feet in during the long wait, only to find myself burning my feet (the water was beyond hot… And I like hot) so finally when the person came around to start my pedi they put a little cold water in and started the pedi.
The pedi was NOTHING special. My foot went in the water, it came out. They filed my nails and painted. THAT WAS IT! No foot message. No lotion. Nothing. Just wash, clean, paint. And this pedi was $ 25… My usually place only charges $ 15 and does «the works»
The place isn’t horrible. I just didn’t like how I paid more for less.

Got my nails done here 3 days ago. Got a French gel manicure. Was $ 30 absolutely worst nail job I have EVER gotten. It’s totally chipped & cracking after just 3 days. Horrific service as well! The man was talking in Chinese on the phone while simultaneously doing my nails. Ridiculously terrible quality of work!!!
Im calling to complain to the manager today! Terrible!!!

Absolutely the worst place I have ever been!!! I have gotten mani pedis for going on 7 years consistently and can say this was by far the worst. My nails were an absolute wreck, the lines were uneven, the acrylics poorly done and the man who did them did the images identical as opposed to mirrored and was upset when I forced him to redo them! I spent over 100 dollars on a simple set and pedi and will now have to go pay elsewhere to get them redone as I would be too ashamed to even wear them for a full day. I am livid and horrified by this atrocious job and blind robbery. NEVER go here!!!

Recently went here and had a horrible experience. They did not have good color selections, the workers were really rude, and they took at least an hour to do a gel manicure and they did a horrible job. I asked the worker to not clip my cuticles too much and she clipped it too deep and two of my fingers bled. In addition, she kept messing up on the application so she would go back in around the edge with acetone to fix her mistakes — going over my wounds everytime. And she messed up so much that there are literally 7 layers of nail polish on my nails, a lot of them are uneven and the sides aren’t filled in, all of which took more than an hour. Everytime she needed me to put my hands into the UV, she would just quickly tap my hands hard and the first time when I didn’t know what she meant, so she just pushed my hand. Honestly, I would never go back here again. It may be convenient because it is at the mall, but they are pretty pricey, rude, and do not do the job well– my fingertips look like they have bubbles on them — all while talking badly about you and other customers — they didn’t know that I was Vietnamese until I gave them my card. Not worth it at all.

If i could, I would give this place 0 stars for my last visit. I had been there one time before today and I would say it was about a 3 star experience. The people are pretty friendly and engaging and my nails looked «meh but good». Today was a completely different experience. I went in to get my eyebrows waxed, at just $ 9 dollars in La Jolla I thought it probably wont be AMAZING but what a deal! Instead of a great deal, it was a nightmare. Before the waxing started, I told the lady I had sensitive skin and to take it easy on me. She didn’t. The wax was too hot. My eyebrows are uneven. And 10 hours later my eye lids are still bright red from being burned. I have bruises like i got punched in the face from this experience and that is exactly how I feel. I will not be returning and I am upset that I paid them for their services today. I wish I could give them a better review I really do but I am so disappointed.

WORST SERVICE EVER. The people here don’t speak English. They were rude and lied. There was nail polish all over my hands. They didn’t perform the entire service. Will never go back. I asked for my money back and he laughed. I asked for the manager and he said he is never here. LIES!!!

WORST EXPERIENCE EVER
I went in here to get my acrylic nails off and get a gel manicure and didn’t even stay for the manicure part.
I had told the lady I was short on time and she said it would be done in 40 minutes but then the lady actually doing my nails laughed at me and said it would take an hour…
Then she proceeded to almost take off all my real nails along with my acrylic nails. every time I told her she was hurting me, she ignored me and get trying to pry off my nails. mind you she didn’t soak them at all and was just trying to lift them off with another acrylic nail. every time I tried to pull my hand back because she was hurting me so much she only tightened her grip on my hand… even while I was saying it HURT!!!
terrible experience never again.
mad I had to pay $ 10 for the destruction of my real nails.

I got my manicure done here many times because I live 5 minutes from here, and I liked it because even thought it the place needs reparations and the personnel is not specially friendly, it was close to home.
However, yesterday LINDA made my manicure and she was terrible!!! She does not see well, she was lazy and did not care about what I told her. Many times I needed to ask her to finish the job because she was lazy.
At the end, she left polish on my hands, surrendered the nails and also behind.
Then, I talked to two woman who work there too, and NoNE of them helped or removed the polish. They just looked at me and said nothing.
I do nor recommend this place. If you have any other option, go! And if you do not have an option, do not do it with Linda — choose one of the man, they are much better than the woman there

About 10 minutes ago I literally had the worst nail appointment of my life from fabulous nails. Not only did the lady doing my nails not take off all of my old nail polish once she applied the new nail polish, but she charged 5 dollars extra to actually rub the bottom of my feet with the sponge! Absolutely ridiculous. There is mail polish all around the nail on my skin and I’m absolutely pissed. There is nothing fabulous about fabulous nails, let me tell you.

If I could give it a big fat ZERO I would. I am also sensitive cause I went into this place on my birthday so maybe my expectations were higher for a relaxing pedicure. Horrible. No one was friendly, the guy was in a rush with me to move on to the next walk in (when I had an APPOINTMENT), barely rubbed my feet and 6 days later my toes are chipped. He never said thank you when I walked out. He’s lucky I tipped him $ 3. Glad I am not the only one that thinks this place is the worst. Only good thing is that it was convenient. Never again.

Recently we had the opportunity to get a «pedi» at «Fabulous Nails» located in the (formerly named) University Park Center (why don’t the developers’ just give up and keep the name UTC?). I have never received a «mani» or a «pedi» before, so please consider that in this review. But I did check with my companion sharing my experience at that time, and she shares my opinions.
We were seated quickly, within five minutes, and we found the person working on our nails to be perfectly pleasant. She was also particularly good at polishing my friend’s nails at the end of our service.
Oddly, they didn’t wash our feet. I assumed (and later was told) that foot washing was normal and almost expected.
The general ambiance was not impressive. And it did little (read ‘nothing’) to sooth the recipient of (in my opinion) a luxury indulgence. You might take the lack of décor as a sign of savings passed on to you. You might also conclude the owner doesn’t care and /​or has pretty bad taste.
Several booths were empty and covered with plastic, suggesting if stations are rented, several aren’t rented here (this was a Friday after work hours, so I assumed it could be relatively busy).
Whether or not I enjoy pedicures, sadly I can’t say I’d go here again.

Out of desperation I went in there to get a mani/​pedi. Great location… but it is pretty much always empty for a reason. Not a friendly staff at all. The guy breezed through my foot/​handmassage and barely cut my cuticles or buffed my nails… it was awful. I honestly can’t believe this place is in business. It’s like they hate everyone who walks in and doesn’t want their business!

I got my manicure done here several times because I was living in the area. It was just ok, but I didn’t know another place to compare. Then I moved to Pacific Beach and found an amazing place to get mani&pedi. Today I was doing shopping at UTC mall and decided to get my nails done.
First of all, the colors available are only pink from light to dark… And maybe 10 others colors, that’s it. Then, employes tried to push me to have extra services. Massage chairs are very old and hurt my back! The guy didn’t put my flip flops back.
So in summary, now I know a very good place in Pacific Beach, I will never go back to get my nails done here.

Horrible experience and service. I wanted French tip toes but she did a horrible job at it. I asked her to redo some of the toes but it still came out awful. No one greets you or talks to you. And they scraped off my nail polish because they thought it was gel, even though I told them twice that it was regular nail polish. Never coming back again

I would say this place deserves 2.5 stars. Those stars are for cleanliness and overall technique. When it comes down to the details that’s where this place loses points.
I read every single review before coming here and I was super anxious. So many negative comments but only a couple of really ugly reviews. They got the job done and that’s really all there was to it.
Maybe I’ve been spoiled by other nail salons with much better product for much less price, but this is La Jolla. They can charge an arm and a leg and people will pay it.
My experience started with a call to make an appointment. Super short «hi I’d like to make an appointment for 5:15 today» «ok what your name?» (I gave her my name) «ok bye»
When I walked in I was greeted by a very cheerful woman, older but not old. She told me to pick my colors so I went to the very small, very limited wall of colors. Every pink OPI color you can think of and a couple of odd ball blues and greens and dark dark colors. They might have 100 polishes, and 92 of them are shades of pink. Lacking on the color dept. Needless to say it took me a while. I like something different than your everyday Barbie colors. No one rushed me. The young girl was setting up my pedicure chair and she told me to take my time.
She noticed that I’m pregnant and very sweetly and politely made small talk about it. I don’t enjoy doing a lot of talking during my spa times. It’s for relaxing. But she didnt push me to chat any more than just a bit so I was happy.
They charged me $ 10 for shellac polish removal on my fingernails. I know polish removal costs money and it was a bit of a shock but again, it’s La Jolla, nothing is cheap here.
The pedicure girl was rough on my poor toes. She was very stern in her movements to remove my cuticles. It was only slightly uncomfortable. Nothing terrible, and she didnt cut me.
The massage for the pedicure was 10 minutes but 5 of those minutes were spent on my calves. My feet were in the hot wax and I thought that kind of sucks. The feet are where the tension is at. I’m almost 8 months pregnant, yo, do work on them footsies! But alas. I only got 2 – 2.5 minutes on each actual foot. So sad. The manicure massage was 5 minutes. 2.5 minutes each hand. He went over by about 1 minute because he didnt evenly space out the time between each hand and I thanked him for that. Neither massage was anything worth raving about. Seemingly very amateur in their technique and at times painful (hey don’t rub my bones like they’re gonna soften up. That hurts.) There are focal points for massages in the forearms, hands, and feet. They missed all of them. That’s mostly what I’m paying for when I get a pedicure and manicure so that was a let down.
The blue polish I chose for my fingernails was old and thick and gloopy. It went on kind of chunky and uneven. My manicurist didnt bat an eyelash at the texture he just kept on painting. Whatever I guess.
The pink polish I chose for my toes was so old it wouldn’t even open. She tried, he tried, neither of them could open it. I figured with an entire collection of pinks to choose from, I could find a new one, but she walked away with it and when she came back it was open so, whatever. It was pretty, went on smoothly. My toes look great.
I’m still sitting here in the chair writing this review because my nails aren’t dry and I just paid $ 70 in a gift certificate + $ 10 for polish removal and $ 10 for tip between the 2. I’m staying put for a minute. The polish on my toes is great! But I don’t think the woman who have me the gift certificate would have been happy knowing she spent $ 45 on a pedicure that was only worth $ 20. My nail polish is junk. They should toss it. Really. The color gets stale once it dries, even with a topcoat it has lost it’s shine. That’s saying something pretty bad when OPI makes incredible colors.
Overall I won’t come back. Nail salons are a dime a dozen, there is no reason to sacrifice service. She didnt even put my sandals back on for me. Did I mention how pregnant I am!?!
I will say that the hideous reviews of other visitors, although I am sure they were warranted, didn’t really give a good idea of the place as it is now. It’s been remodeled with the mall and the people were super sweet to me. The person to person service was great, what I would expect of a nail salon. The actual product was not good.
To the salon;
Improve your polish selection, add shellacs and gels. Those polishes are worth what you’re charging. Learn to throw out polishes that have been overused or are essentially expired. Expand the colors, even out your palate of pinks with purples and blues and greens and oranges.
Work on your massage quality. Extend the time for both by 5 minutes, trust me your customers are paying for it.
Be mindful of how much you’re up charging customers. Yes, La Jolla is expensive but come on!

Fabulous Nails is in the UTC mall, and right across the street from my job. I come here whenever I need a break from my desk. And for $ 10 manicures and $ 5 polish changes, coming here multiple times a week won’t break the bank and it keeps my nails so nice and polished and chip-​free! I never make an appointment, and am always seen within 5 – 10 minutes of my arrival. Even during prime lunch hours.
They don’t have a wide selection of polish colors, but i’m pretty predictable and usually stick with the hot pinks, reds, or neutral colors so it’s no problem for me. The place is clean, but all in all your typical nail salon.
Works for me!

I have very long nails, so I was super excited to get a french tip manicure and not have acrylics. I got the European manicure, and I think I paid for nothing because I didn’t feel a difference. the manicure lasted two days before it started falling apart. it was absolutely awful.
i only give it one star because of sheri. she was really nice, but still it didn’t last at all. waste of my money!