Happiness Nails

Need to start speaking English in front of your customers! Pay attention to what you’re doing and focus ! Leave the chat for later super annoying!!!

I LOVE THIS PLACE!!! The other location in Oceanside does a terrible job– rushed and definitely not the best they can do. This location is practically empty every time I come in so there is never a rush. The ladies take their time and really put effort into their tasks. I always get a spa pedicure and I always leave happy! Great service, great prices, and kind ladies! My toes look awesome!

Been coming to this location since 2005 they know me by name and they know what I like service has never been an issue. Even waited six months and got the same treatment as if I never took a break. I won’t go anywhere else for my nails even though I live in poway. My manicurist Cindy is the best.

I walked in here just based on poor reviews. Just to see if I can give them a benefit of doubt. The first time I went in was on a Saturday and of course they were busy like any other businesses, but I was able to be assisted with no appointment. I was pretty impress with the attentive to detail on time frame the owner was noticing since I got there. I didn’t understand, but you can tell she was keeping track of workers and customers waiting. My wait time was 30mins or so but understood due to it being a Saturday. I was pretty happy with my service full set with gel color. I had gone in wanting to know if she would point out 2 nails that got damaged by prior nail salon and she actually did. That’s what I wanted, for her to raise that concern. The price is similar to other nail places I always pay about 30dlls. The staff overall among my observation seem as they are hard working people just trying to do their job the best way possible and with a smile. Some people get frustrated or bothersome due to them speaking their language, but it doesn’t bother me. We can’t judge a book by its cover. My next visit was on a Wednesday and got in right away. It was a good day to go. Not overflowing in customers. I will continue to come back. I’m pretty content with this shop. Give it a try but know that with out appointment and on weekends of course it will be busy.

My friend gave me a gift for a deluxe pedicure, the lady who originally took me saw I had a gift certificate and gave me away to a young girl… she did a nice job. just didn’t like the vibe in there and the passing off of me when they saw I had a g/​c.

I can’t 1-​star a place, I just can’t! But this particular Happiness Nails nearly pushed me there!
Came in the day of my dad’s wedding as to make sure I didn’t have naked nails going to such a formal event. They weren’t busy, there was one woman at a spa getting her toes plucked at and one very pregnant gal picking out her nail color. It wasn’t until after I was seated that a rush of women piled in.
It felt too sweat-​shoppy, street corner/​pimp-​profit to me. A man sitting at a manicure table yelled to me «what can we do for you?», I let him know I needed a manicure and pedicure and that my sister (following in moments after me) just needed a manicure. He immediately summoned a small, very quiet young lady to ready a tub for me to use. The man then instructed me to pick my color. The woman signaled for me to come over, despite my mentioning that I’d like to wait for my sister to arrive. No biggie!
But I just felt uncomfortable, not physically, but emotionally (?) This was one occasion where I wish I had asked if they could skip the leg and hand «massage», it just seemed too forced. The girl, again, was just so young and so very quiet/​tentative/​sheepish, she didn’t even talk to her counterparts which was unusual to me since I’m used to hearing (and rather enjoying) the sing-​song of conversation in a language I only wish I could comprehend. She seemed uncomfortable and so I fee like I was mirroring her. God, I hope my feet weren’t THAT bad.
My toes turned out great! My nails not so much. I should have timed my drying under the heat lamp because I fuzzied up my right hand ring finger and pinky reaching into my wallet for the $ 35 cash (including tip) for their services! Argh! And I didn’t notice until I was in my car! Totally not anyone’s fault but my own and if I hadn’t been on a time crunch, I would have tried to run back in to see if a light layer of paint could be painted over the mess up! I wish I had paid for everything before the manicure had been done!
I also didn’t want to encounter the man seemingly heading the operation again though, the one who greeted me initially. He was just too domineering for my liking.

Made an appt for mani and pedi for 5pm. Walked in on time and watched them take 3 other people in front of us. Then at 5:20pm they seated us in spa chairs. At 5:45pm, still soaking my feet, no one has come back over. So as I stand to leave, they start paying attention. Oh, NOW you can start taking care of me? No, thanks. I’ll go elsewhere.

Not going back there again! The place stunk like whatever food they were heating up!?! The technicians barely paid any attention to their clients, but they sure liked to yap back and forth! Gross

I see Tom. He does a great job. No personality. Doesn’t talk to you. And they all talk to each other, who knows what they are talking about. Busy place. If your a few min late, they refuse you. But they are never on time for you. But cheap fills.

This is the worst place ever. The way they treat you seems to be based on what you have on and what brands. I came in with my sister to get her nails done, and asked for a gel mani and a full set acrylic for my self. They told me that it was too expensive, that they won’t do gel. My mom goes in on a different occasion, she’s wearing a bebe dress and coach sandals and a coach handbag, and her Versace glassss, and she’s waited on hand and foot and do whatever she asks.

Worst experience EVER in a nail place! If I could give zero stars, I honestly would. Went here and met my friend for a mani/​pedi. They sat me down for the pedi and nothing was ready — no water yet either. I told them I had gel polish on my toes and that I wanted the same thing. She tried taking off the gel polish several different ways and couldnt figure it out. This is a nail salon, right? Just getting the old polish off took her about 35 minutes. When I asked her to cut down the nails she smirked at me and started talking to the employee next to her in vietnamese. Oh jeez. here we go. I had to ask her a couple times to cut them down. She only wanted to file them and kept saying they’d be too short if she cut them. She took another 35 mins to paint my toenails. NOTHING in between! No foot scrub, no massage… wth is going on? I mentioned it. She still didnt do it.
My mani: one fingernail split a little bit on the side. She put acrylic on it to «fix» it. I asked her not to do exactly that. So as she was trying to hide what she was using on my nail, I asked to see the bottle. She said «oh nooooooo» and started her vietnamese bickering again. Next thing I know, 12 asians are looking at me and talking back and forth.
At one point, they were yelling across the room and laughing so loud that everyone in the salon looked confused.
So…not a relaxing atmosphere. Crap service.
She tried charging me full price. Ha! Didnt happen.

There is certainly a range of talent in this place, but I am giving 5 stars for Janet because she does amazing pedicures and her eyebrow waxing is better than any place I have gone, regardless of price. I have also had Tina do a great pedicure too. Ask for these ladies and you won’t leave disappointed! Great prices. It’s not a fancy place, but everyone is nice, the tools and chairs are clean, and it gets the job done.

I will only let 3 girls touch my nails at this place. Tina, Janet and I can’t remember the other woman’s name but she’s tall with a Marilyn piercing. I usually go for a pedi and gel color change and every time I go and request one of these lovely ladies, they never disappoint.

I’m giving one stars because the workers are lazy and take forever to take care of you. I would give none but it doesn’t have that option.
I usually go here to get my nails done and today I went to go get my eyebrows done. THEY SUCK! That is literally all I can say. She literally effed up on my eyebrows and made one of them skinnier than the other and I sobbed some tears in my car. I know it’s just eyebrows but COME ON REALLY? She didn’t even clean them up after she waxed them, and left my hair and face so sticky with the hot wax. Trust me, save your money and DONT COME HERE and just go get your eyebrows threaded.

I have been going here for years even before they moved to this new location from the one next to rubios. The place is kind of dirty and their nail polish selection needs an update but they are reasonably priced and they do an ok job most of the time.
Until today I had never had a problem so I had always recommended my friends to go here, but after today I will never step foot in that salon again. Long story short there was a mix up of credit cards when we were paying and the guy (don’t know his name) started arguing with us and yelling at us. We tried to explain to him what was going on and he just wasn’t having it.
After arguing back and forth we finally got charged and left. As we were walking out he was obviously talking about us and yelling in his language. I do not recommend this place to anyone unless they want to be disrespected and yelled at by a grown man.

Horrible! This was the most painful and longest gel manicure ever. Lady worked on my hands for about an hour and a half. And made me bleed several times. Never again.

Haven’t been this happy about my nails in a looooooong time! Tom did an awesome job! Definitely recommend going there! I got a gel color fill and he did and awesome job so detailed.

This place has gone downhill. It’s the same company and mostly same people working here that used to work next to Old Navy and then next to Rubio’s and now it is in a new location & even though half the staff is the same the quality is just not the same as it used to be.
I went there just five days ago to get a gel French manicure. Yesterday I noticed that my manicure was starting to change color to a grayish black color where now the nails look dirty. I went in today and showed them the nails and ask them why this happened and if there was anyway to fix. First off all, the nail tech that I got did not speak English so she had no idea what I was trying to tell her she thought that I wanted her to remove the gel and paint over and I had to keep saying no and stopping her. I kept explaining to her how they are five day old nails and I don’t want a new manicure! Until finally someone that did speak English came up to me and was able to talk to me. She saw my nails and said that this never happens with gel manicure that I must have done it myself so I asked her what would cause the nails to turn this color and she said that lotion changes the nail color. Really? I have tons of friends that do gel nails all the time and this never happens to them. One of my friends saw them and told me she uses self tanner dyes her hair, uses Clorox to clean the house and no matter what they don’t change the color or chip; that’s why she gets gel nails! I told her I use an unscented lotion and I didn’t think that that’s what it could’ve been and then she said maybe my shampoo did it. Come on, really? How about maybe they didn’t seal the nails correctly? She told me that the only way she can fix it is if I paid $ 15 to have the polish changed. But I don’t want to pay $ 15 to have the polish changed it’s been five days since I got gel nails put in and it supposed to last three weeks!
If you charge me $ 28 for a manicure that supposed to last three weeks and it doesn’t even last one full week plus you are less than helpful or willing to fix your mistake don’t be surprised when I give you a negative one star review!

So I felt like trying out a new place… bad mistake. Only a week and my gel nails are chipping away. :(not impressed won’t be back they are fast but that’s about it.

Wow, I haven’t been here in awhile, but it sure looks empty. The water fountain is missing in the middle as well as some of the spa chairs.
In the past the mani-​pedi were OK, but I found that my nail polish seem to chip the next day. I was coming here for convenience.
Boy, I feel kind of bad that I bought a gift card for someone. Hopefully they do better nail jobs than when I was going.