Night Light Nail Salon

Don’t ever get your nails done by Van the owner. Twice I’ve had her and twice she put acrylics on crooked, took up to two hours because she kept getting up to answer the phone, welcomed another customer, and did other various management tasks always putting you last on the priority list. I only come here because my best friend swears by this place, when I go with her she gets massages and a good discount and friendly service. Every time I go I never get massages and I still tip very well and they never give me a discount like her. Her staff works hard but Van should never touch a nail.

Great service but so unbelievably unsanitary! They use the same cheese grater for everyone without washing in between, they dumped someone’s hand soak water into my pedicure water, and I suspect they reuse the paraffin wax for everyone too. The lady who did my manicure would stop and text or make calls in the middle. My nails look great but I’d pay extra for clean tools!

Van is downright amazing. The only nail salon I’ve been to that truly understands customer service. They’re amazing, and you can tell what loyal customers they have based on the wall full of holiday cards written from clients to the owner. Won’t go anywhere else!

The worst experience ever. So rude. I wanna show her how to do my nail, yet she refused. I talked to her ‘I can show you how to do it’. She answered’ but I don’t know.’ … And extra stone for $ 2/​each??? I will not visit here again.

Not sure why this place has such amazing reviews. Everyone is super nice but it was so crowded and crazy busy my two technicians were distracted. They would leave to help someone else every 2 minutes. My gel manicure wasn’t bad but their distraction definitely shows. There is a gap between my cuticles/​tip of my nails and the polish, as if it’s a week or two old already. Overall very nice technicians but no better than the 3 star nail salons.

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This is a small business owned by a woman named Van (pronounced vuhn). She is kind, warm, and friendly. I walked in on a busy Sunday with no appointment and got an eyebrow and lip wax within 10 minutes. Great Service, great quality, great experience. I will definitely be going back.

Favorite nail salon I’ve tried in Seattle! Good, reasonable prices, fast seating, and the paraffin dip and shoulder massage make it worth your trip! Try it!

Super awesome experience! My nails look great! They are very meticulous and very friendly. The pedicure was amazing too! The hot stone massage was a pleasant surprise! Definitely coming back here!

I love nightlight salon! Van is amazing. They are always packed but they always accommodate no matter what. My cousin and I came for New Years nails and are so happy! We got sparkles and really fun nails. Van did ours. I always look forward to coming here!!!

Visited Night Light Nail Salon for the first time yesterday and I loved it! The salon was very busy as it is a few days before New Years Eve but they got my friend and I right in — no waiting time! I am pretty particular about Shellac & hate when you can see through to the nail so I was very happy when my technician asked me how I like it! My nails turned out great.
The owner noticed that we had not been in before and took extra care to be sure we had a great experience!
We’ll be back & bring all our friends because this salon is awesome!
Highly recommend — Thank You!

I hate writing bad reviews but seriously when I spend 60 bucks on gel nails I expect them to last. I got A full set of Gel nails done on Monday Dec. 21 and by ThursdayDec 24 three broke off completely! I am new to Seattle, and was looking for a new Spot, and if they don’t rectify the situation ladies, it’s absolutely not worth it. It Is absolutely unacceptable to spend hard-​earned money on quality that is none existent. I plan on contacting the owner directly. I expect quality and when you spent $ 60 on your nails, they shouldn’t break within three days. I am a published model and have been getting my nails done for years, I know quality and this ladies IS NOT quality.

I’m in love. Let me tell you why:
You see a rather average looking nail salon on an average looking Street. Nothing special except maybe a little bit of an odd name. But you decide even with the lack of parking, you might as well try it out. So you pull up and walk in. Immediately someone great see you at the door — probably Van, the energetic yet tiny owner who works seven days a week to keep the place humming — she asks you what you’d like. And that offers you coffee tea or water.
Even if you’re in for a mani-​pedi, you won’t have much of a wait. The most I’ve stood in line is about 15 minutes. Even without an appointment.
You will sit back luxuriously in one of a row of big massage chairs. You can choose your setting and get your back pampered even while your arms and legs are being pampered.
But wait! There’s more. Every manicure comes with a head, neck, and shoulder massage and basic paraffin wax treatment.
So, great color selection, super chill and fun staff, really good prices, what’s not to love?
I have never regularly gotten manicures or pedicures until I found the spot. Now I barely missed a month without getting my little luxury. Nightlight even offers stamp cards for 20% off a treatment.
And if you do become a regular, Van and her staff will remember you. And they’ll make you feel like family.

This really is the best nail salon in Seattle. The prices are competitive for the services, which are consistently top notch. Ever manicure or pedicure comes with a back, shoulder and leg/​arm massage and paraffin wax. I’ve been coming here for the past four years. Even though I moved away from the U District it’s still more than worth the drive even though there are salons within walking distance from my house. I try new salons every now and then and always come back to Night Light Nails. Van, the owner, and her employees work exceptionally hard and are perfectionists when it comes to making the polish look perfect.
I’ve only had manicures and pedicures so I can’t comment on any other service. I’ve gone in and asked for «the speediest manicure possible» and been out the door within 15 mins and only charged $ 10, or going in on a Saturday for a mani/​pedi some salons do both at the same time which can be uncomfortable. Night Light Nail only does this if they’re extremely busy, so it’s a really relaxing and leisure experience.
The only downside is sometimes (especially in the summer) they’re extremely busy so there can be a bit of a wait but that can’t be helped.
Overall, 5 Stars for the cleanliness of the salon and tools used by the technicians, the over all experience and end result. I’ll be a loyal Night Lights customer as long as I live in Seattle.

I love the fact that a woman owns and runs this salon. I see too many places where the ladies are doing all the work and the men take the money.
This place offers amazing customer service, competitive prices and great quality work. I got a paraffin wrap on both hands and feet, a back and neck massage for an amazing price. Not much more you can for…

This salon is the best I’ve ever been to. Clean (she opened new nail tools), high quality (back massages, wax treatment for hands AND feet, tea and water), kind staff (they helped me put on my jacket and shoes. Polite convo), and overall I loved my nails. I’ll be coming back again. Loved!

First time here. Super friendly staff, very casual, and good prices. Annie did an amazing job with my acrylic French manicure. She knew exactly what I wanted. I haven’t had acrylics in a long time because every time I get them done, they are too wide/​chunky/​thick/​fake-​looking/​etc.
If I had any negative thing to say it would be that they don’t sanitize or use fresh nail files.
It’s hard to have your nails shaped and done exactly how you wanted them, but they did a great job here! Now just need to see how long they last!
I will definitely be coming back!

I have been here a couple of times and had good service in the past, but this experience was so bad I am actually upset I even went. I called in ahead they day before to make reservations for my friend and myself. When we got there, we were told to sit down and afterwards, a group of 3 girls came in for manicures as well. 5 minutes later (past our appointment in which we weren’t seated yet), they came and took the other 3 girls leaving my friend and me still waiting. We were finally seated after waiting for 20 minutes and we weren’t even offered water like was done in the past.
Compared to my past experiences where when you get started, the manicurist usually stays with you for the whole appointment. In this case, my manicurist kept yelling over my head to the other manicurists and then would get up and leave me alone. She would keep going to work on a girl’s feet for a pedi and would then come back and forth between that girl and me WITHOUT washing her hands. So gross. As much as I love meeting new people, just the thought of having someone else’s foot juice or nail niblets on my hands is absolutely disgusting.
At one time she left me for so long I had time to go ahead and trim all of my own nails, and even begin buffing. I was already in a bad mood because she was so rough and haphazard in pushing back my cuticles which some had a couple dots of blood forming from her being so rough. She finally came back and started buffing without even looking at my hands and was buffing so hard she buffed off the skin of middle right finger. I told her that hurt and she finally wasn’t so aggressive but when the time came to start manicuring (after she left to go work on somebody else again) some of the nails had small patches where the polish wasn’t entirely covering the nail or she would skimp out on the nail polish. At the end of the appointment, I wasn’t even told good bye or given a fan/​spray to let my nails dry. Instead I awkwardly sat next to my friend who was still having her hands dried under a fan.
I usually go to nail salons to relax with friends, celebrate, etc, however this experience was the exact opposite of what I wanted: getting more stressed out and not being able to relax with my friend and get a decent manicure. Instead, I had to pay for an unhappy experience.
This was a horrible experience compared to my past good experiences here and although I am a big advocate of giving everyone a second chance, I will need to take a break from going to this salon for a while to let this bad memory pass.

I absolutely adore this nail shop. It’s always busy but the quality never fails. I go every few weeks and have done a range of shellac to my first ever acrylics yesterday!
I tend to bring in photos of designs that I like and have them do similar styles but I’ve never had them turn down something I’ve wanted to do.
Can is crazy sweet and always remembers you!

One of the best nail places I’ve been to! The service here is just great and the prices are affordable (there is a 10% student discount).
Even when you get the regular pedicure, you get your feet scrubbed and rubbed in wax. My feet felt awesome after my pedicure! The owner is also very friendly — she offers water right as you get in. Both of the times I’ve come here, the service has been fast. There was a good amount of people here but I didn’t have to wait. You can make a reservation online too!
No complaints about the quality of the nails either. Come here to relax and get a mani-​pedi :)

Prices are good, service was amazing. However, the quality can be improved. I took a closer look at my toes today (after two days since getting a pedicure here) and the layers are totally uneven. You can see the ridges of the bottom layer in all of the nails! Quite sad about it since it looked like a friend just did my nails instead of going to a pro. I give them props for including a paraffin wax and a hot stone leg massage with the pedicure though. I might come back to check out their waxing services since they looked pretty cheap too, but I won’t be back for any nail services. Too newb. I had really good service though. Free bottle of water while they do your nails.