Tulip’s Nail Salon

I’ve had many pedicures here over many years and I’m always happy with the result and the process. It’s consistently good service.

Have started going to them recently. Quick service. They do a good job on acrylic nails. They have good color selection

I WANTED to like this place… Despite the bad reviews Bc a friend recommended it to me but I def won’t be back. I came for an acrylic fill and not only did the lady not even completely fill in my nails… The shape was butchered and the paint job was a mess. Looks like a child did it– she was clearly in a hurry. I literally wanted to give zero tip– and actually I wanted to walk out midway through the service. I was burnt by the drill not just once but TWICE and so badly the second time that I yelled and jumped so abruptly it knocked my phone off the table and startled the others In the salon.
In addition to bad shaping, lack of filling, and sloppy polish… My matte top coat didn’t even cover all of the polish so there was awkward shine still showing. WOW. Such a waste. I was looking forward to having great looking nails for the holiday too.

Lynn is quite easily the best at manicures and pedicures. Sweet and helpful, and I will always go to her. However she is the only person that will answer the phones, most of the time when she is with a customer. The other manicurists just sit there, gossiping with each other and let the phone ring. They are lazy and sullen and do nothing more than is required. Others, while working on a customer, will often be on a personal call the whole time they are with that customer.

Went back again and was just as pleased with the service as last time. This time however, I showed up two minutes to close (didn’t realize when I got there and I didn’t think to look). When the lady asked I told her I wanted a brow and bikini wax. She told me she would be with me as soon as she finished the manicure she was on (third coat). As the other lady was paying for her manicure she said thanks for the beautiful work and apologized for keeping her after close. I was so embarrassed because I hadn’t realize they were closing but she waxed me anyways, did a great job and did not rush me or give me any attitude. She was super professional and sweet and complemented my natural brows and gave me some beauty tips. I’d give this place 10 stars if I could!

One of the worst pedicure’s ever!
I came with a friend who wanted to try it, we both will never return!
To sum it up:
— Seated quickly
— Salon dirty, stains all over the waiting chairs
— Massage chairs were ripped in places, especially the remote control which has wires showing!
— Pedicure water cold to warm with a hard plastic foot rest, so every time they pull a foot out you have to balance on hard plastic which hurts
— They use dirty stained wash cloths
— She did ask if I wanted my nails cut and then filed 4 of them slanted!
— When she attempted the scrub, she used some yucky scrub paste, it was a mix of powder and cream, she tried massaging it in and then sloshed water over my legs to rinse it, she then left me to soak in cloudy, cold dirty water before attempting an awful massage!
— They use cooking oil to massage, applied a bit and used her finger tips to rub it in, it was HORRIBLE, I felt so greasy! During this time she left a wet, cold, dirty washcloth hanging off my toes in probably so kind of attempt to keep my foot warm, I asked her to move it, she put it on the floor then used it to wipe off greasy oil from my nails before painting.
— The paint was done with no toe spacers and I had to put my flip flops on with disgusting greasy oil. I had to use a towel to wipe what I could off. The drive home was awful and the edge of any seat is covered in grease!
UNCOMFORTABLE /​UNPROFESSIONAL/​UNHYGIENIC — UNIMPRESSED!
I could not wait to shower and remove the polish.

This place used to be great. I moved out of state last year, and came to Seattle yesterday for the funeral of the father of my children. Admittedly, I may just be in a bad mood, but their so called pedicure sucked. They didn’t groom the skin around my nails properly nor did they paint the toes right. There is nail polish all around each toenail. When I brought it to the attention of the lady that did my toes, she «attempted» to clean up 1 toe. When I asked another lady for some polish remover, she brought me a little cotton ball and «attempted» to fix two more toes. Thanks for the 30% correction effort.
This place is horrible. Go anywhere else.
How do I post a picture of their craptastic service?!

Terrible! Total pedicure time 15 minutes. My feet looked no better upon leaving than they did when I walked in and the Nail polish chipped off less than a week later. I’ve never had a worse pedicure, ever.

I’ve only gone to Lynn, but she is quite literally the best nail tech I’ve ever met. She is very sweet as a person and she is really thorough, careful, has an attentive eye. It’s worth calling ahead and getting on her schedule (she fills up and barely takes walk-​ins anymore) versus walk-​in. My friend gets her eyebrows waxed by Lynn as well and she always does a great job on that, too. I’m pretty shocked to read the negative reviews, but perhaps that is because I’m a relatively new customer and didn’t see it before the renovation and haven’t gone to another tech besides Lynn.

Just don’t. I read the reviews and then DID, but really just don’t! Drive a few more blocks in any direction and go to any other place in West Seattle, but just don’t waste your money here. First off, I’m 5 days into my «no chip» «shellac» and it’s literally pealing off my nails. I ran in to this place to have a polish change, no filing, clipping, lotion… just polish change and I paid $ 25 to have my nails chip in 5 days. I’ve had regular polish that lasted longer than that. And the top coat they used is scratched and turning weird and cloudy. I should probably go in to let them know, but going off of everyone else’s reviews which have turned out to be correct, they will probably do absolutely nothing at all. I should have known better!

5 STARS for the WAX from JENNIFER who recently moved to this nail salon from Kirkland, she took her time and did not rush and did a nice job.
As for the nails, I’m kind of still shopping around at different places since my lady of many years at Top Coat has quit. Jennifer did ask me to try her for nails and I might someday but for now I am going to another place for about the past couple of months. I have very very sensitive nails and need someone who doesn’t rush and who is very careful with the drill. After reading the other reviews of this place for nails I am very hesitant to go with the nail work here.
I do plan to get my wax from here in the future as long as Jennifer stays here. I am one who usually sticks with just one person.
Great WAX JOB!!! Jennifer FIVE STARS For the good Wax.

DO NOT GO HERE. I got a full set pink and white and they cut my skin over charged me and my friend over 50 dollars and did not fill my nail all the way. We went to complain and the boss would not offer us a complimentary service or even to fix the nails. They yelled at us and threatened us and were fighting amongst each other. This place is a nightmare and completely unprofessional.

I am a regular mani/​pedi customer of a few salons around the west Seattle area. This is one of the salons I visited in the past 2 weeks. The salon itself is very dusty and dirty but I overlooked that because it is very cheaply priced and I was in a hurry. The pedi was just OK the Polish did chip off within the first week I had it. But the worst part is when the girl had me move to the mani station. After again rushing through the mani (which is strange because there wasn’t anyone else in the salon) as I was drying my nails at the station she put her bare foot up in the station next to my nails and starts CLIPPING HER TOENAILS!!! Needless to say I was extremely grossed out and even though they are a reasonably priced salon there are WAY too many options just down the street.

Received a horrible pedicure. Every nail was cut unevenly, polish was left all over my skin, and it just looks messy overall. I will not be going back, ever.

I was going here for my fills for the longest time. Not the best of salons, but they had Ann who did such an awesome Job, i put up with the rest. However, Ann left and they won’t tell me where, and when i asked who was good (to replace her) they said «Everyone’s good» but everyone is NOT GOOD! I would love to know where Ann went :(i would follow her…

I just received the worst manicure ever! I have been to Tulip several times and I know it is hit and miss but generally they do a good job… except for today. The gal worked very quickly as if she could hardly wait for me to get out of there. She screwed up the polish (bad brush strokes, smeared) and had to start all over again. Since she blamed the nail polish, I picked another color. What a mess! It was a sloppy job and she even missed part of my thumb nail… and she didn’t used sealed sanitized tools! I will never go there again and I will pay a little more money to get a quality manicure.

Came here on the recommendation of a coworker when the original salon I had found on Unilocal was not open on a particular day. My friend and I were welcomed as walk ins but when a regular came in after us she was seated immediately and took away a tech leaving one to do our two pedis. I was killing time before I needed to be somewhere in the evening and this just made our service take twice as long and cut into my time to grab dinner afterwards. The manicurist opened the tools in front of each of us which I appreciate. Although I was confused why she put newspaper on the floor in front of the soaking tub. That is until she pulled out a credo blade on my friend’s foot! Pretty sure those are not legal for salon use anymore. If not careful that could cause a serious flesh wound or more likely expose under layers of skin and allow in bacteria! So gross! My friend brushed it off saying she has bad calluses. I did not brush it off. The credo blade also did not come out of the bag of sanitized tools. I have no idea where it came from and it was probably just used on my friend. So I politely declined the razoring of my skin and she politely obliged and asked if the pumice block was ok. No problem. I’ll do the callus trimming at home myself.
Decent price, good polish job and nail art, questionable safety standards. Since this was my first foray into nail salons in West Seattle I will probably try another next. They seem to be on every block in the neighborhood.

This is probably the most conflicted I’ve ever been in writing a review. I wanted so badly to rate Tulip Nails higher, as I honestly walked out with one of the prettiest coats of paint on my expertly painted nails that I’ve ever received. However sadly, I doubt I will return. The overall experience just wasn’t very pleasurable.
I set out after work to find a nail salon so that I can get a fill on my acrylics. I recently relocated to West Seattle, and live not too far away from California Avenue, where thanks to Unilocal,I have realized there are TONS of nail salons.
I had originally set out to visit a much higher rated salon and my trusty GPS got me there in plenty of time before they closed, but sadly, this girl has an atrocious time trying to parallell park. (So yes, this did limit my choices exponentially!). I was hoping I would find some easy street parking… you know the kind where the two cars in front and in back of you have left you enough space similar in width to the Grand Canyon? But no such luck.
So I sadly kept driving down California to find another salon. I took a turn and gleefully noticed Tulip Nails, as it was in a shopping center strip mall with its own devoted parking lot. I swooped into the lot, parked my car and bounced inside.
And before the door closed behind me, I wanted to run away.
Aesthetically, this place looks HORRIBLE. From the stacks upon stacks of old dusty magazines in the crowded uncomfortable waiting area, to the haphazardly placed nail and pedicure stations. Tulip nails is in dire need of a makeover.
Upon my arrival, I was instantly greeted and told the girl at the first station I needed a fill. She told me to «pick my color». Which is standard practice when you walk-​in to a nail salon. I stood there confused for a moment as I didn’t know where the «pick my color» station was. Most salons keep the banks of nail polish at the front, near the door. This salon oddly keeps them at the back of the salon. So as I walked past the many empty nail stations and pedicure massage chairs inhabited by the two brave souls obtaining pedicures (no way would I EVER get a pedicure here, I’m sure the Fungus Gods visit this salon quite frequently).
I was tempted to leave, but had to remind myself I was merely getting a fill, it was nearly 7pm and I had a «hot date» tomorrow evening and my nubs needed to be gussied up this evening. So I stayed.
Here is where the experience improved:
The young lady who did my nails was very engaging. And also very knowledgable. She didn’t make the typical «small talk» most nail techs make (i.e. «you just get off work»… etc). But she actually asked me a few questions that encouraged an actual conversation. Not too chatty, but just enough. Although I always wear my acrylics short. She also recommended cutting them down as I had a very impressive nail bed, and didn’t need to wear my nails long. As shorter nails helped my acrylics to look more natural. I appreciated the information! She painted my nails with the precision of a tattoo artist. And she did a beautiful job. She did attempt to «upsell» me as my brows needed a bit of plucking… but I declined the waxing.
It was offputing however, that when it came time to pay, she exclaimed «I do extra work for you because you are a new customer, I replaced three nails and I should have charged you but didn’t because you are a new customer»… While I appreciated her doing whatever it was she did that she «could have charged me extra for»… I would have appreciated her telling me that I needed extra work and asking me if I wanted it, since there was an additional charge. That statement left a very tacky taste in my mouth.
Overall, my nails look great.
However, the dirty unkempt, outdated salon, will keep me away. It is in no way a relaxing atmosphere.
Quite frankly, my gyno’s office is more relaxing.
PRO’S: Talented nail techs take their time painting your nails and do great warking.
Ample parking in dedicated parking lot.
CONS: Tactless up selling techniques
Dirty Salon

This place was friendly but very rushed… I like to come and relax. I felt like the lady didn’t take her time on me and gave my feets the TLC that they needed. I will not come here again.

I strolled into this salon and was met with friendly service, a nice hot bath for my feet. The woman who did my pedicure was very nice and did a great job with a massage! The downside is the polish chipped pretty darned quickly. I think they put cheap polish in OPI bottles but I’m not sure…