Al-Aishas Nails & Beauty Salon

This is a no frills kind of place. For eyebrow threading, that’s exactly how it should be, a standard chair and some string. That’s it. Having lived in Dubai, I’m slightly picky when it comes to threading, and view it as an ancient Indian art. As a teenager, I was fascinated watching the ladies in the salons doing it, with so much ease!
Al-​Aishas reminds me of the salons back home, Hindi/​Arabic music playing, a huge queue of people waiting to get there brows threaded. The treatment itself took about 10 minutes, which is completely normal. The lady both threaded my eyebrows and plucked the pesky hairs!.\ After the threading you get a tiny eyebrow massage as they work in the aloe-​vera gel to cool your eyebrows.
The main reason I will be going back here, the threading done was excellent and the price was as it should be. £5 for eyebrows, none of this £10+ seen in other salons.
If you don’t mind waiting and having a no frills treatment, I could not recommend here more!

DONT GO HERE Terrible service. Terrible attitude. Went for appointment with my daughter and was told to come back in half an hour cos they couldn’t take us both at the same time. Went back in half an hour and was told again to come back in half an hour as the couldn’t take both of us at the same time. Obviously couldn’t bear the sight of an empty chair although we were booked in. Mismanagement and greed rule here.

Will never go back.
I had an ok experience the first time so i went back as it was reasonably priced and i turned a blind eye to the lack of good hygiene i realised was lacking.
Big mistake ! I never gave it a thought that it could vary as much getting another person.
Everything bad written in the reviews I now know as true.
From the eyebrows shape & colour which was a disaster to dropping the dye on my brand new trousers to the shellac nails on hands and feet. I was also nipped and have never had such a painful experience. I just wanted it over and vowed never to go back. The female realizing it had got off to a bad start when she dropped dark eyebrow dye on my trousers and told me it would wash out was surly and hopeless. On hindsight I should have insisted on someone else to take over but i got nasty comments from the Madam who sits in the middle controlling everything. She who must be obeyed was very hostile and extremely rude.
I wont be back but just to say I will read the reviews more closely next time so be warned.

My experience here was neither good nor bad. Things are done very differently here in Scotland than I’m used to back home in the States, some things more than others.
I walked in mid afternoon and was able to get right in, which is almost unheard of any other time in this area. I was looking for an eyebrow wax (£5) and a shellac manicure (£20). I was sat down right away and had my eyebrows done.
I leaned back in the chair, and she pulled out a wax pen from a heating element (not sure I’ll get a wax from here again since that pen obviously is used on every customer.) and began waxing up my brows. She put the fabric strips on and basically ripped the every loving hell out of my face. Haha, I’m not sure an eyebrow wax has every been this painful. Maybe it’s because I’ve been lazy and just tweezing at home, but wow, this was a doozie. After she was done, she tweezed the rest of the stray hairs, cleaned me up and sent me over to have my nails done.
I’m not sure of sanitary regulations here in Scotland, but what I’m accustomed to is nothing like what they do here. Back home, new, unopened packages of files and sanitized (via ultraviolet lights and cleaner) are used on each new client. I noticed everywhere, that products were being reused (aka sucked back up in to the bottle they came from), tools used were just taken out of drawers, not wiped down before or after and manicures are done completely backwards. Where I’m used to soaking my hands pre cuticle cutting to help with how much it hurts to have those suckers pushed back, here they do everything dry. Maybe the girl who did my brows and nails was newer because she clipped both pinkie finger cuticles to the point of blood.
After a painful cuticle removal and a quick filing of my nails with what looked like a dirty nail file (there was a spill stain of some sort, and obviously that side of the file was being used on my nails), I was asked to go wash my hands. I got up, not knowing where to go, only to find that there were no sinks, except in the toilet to wash my hands. I washed my hands and sat back down.
Looking at my nails now, from afar, they look ok, but since I’m actually staring down at them, I can see bits of ‘pink’ where she missed nail with the polish (hard to miss since I got a midnight blue colour). Shellac is a pretty lengthy process where you apply a coat, bake under light, apply a coat, bake under a light, and so forth until everything is hard and dry. I generally prefer paying a bit extra for shellac because it lasts for two weeks and there is no chipping. I’m pretty rough with my hands, so it’s better for me.
All in all, I wouldn’t necessarily rush back, but I suppose it’s ok if you’re in the area and can turn a blind eye to the reusing of products, the nail tools not being in sanitizing liquids and goopy nail polish.

This has been my worst eyebrow experience ever, my sister and me we both had a thread and tint, the girls hardly spoke and seemed to struggle to understand you. My eyebrows ended up a completely different shape and very obvious… my sister’s were a really odd shape and you couldn’t tell she had just had them tinted. Would definitely avoid!

Decided to bite the bullet and try threading for the first time. My friend has been recommending this over waxing for a while now, but was put off by reports of it being painful. So glad I plucked (excuse the pun) up the courage.
Called the salon on a Sunday to see if they had any appointments, my eyebrows were starting to resemble small bushes, and they told me just to pop over. Perfect!
It cost around £11 for an eyebrow thread and tint which is very reasonable. I usually pay £18 at Benefit for a wax and tint. Their whole price list seems very reasonable. The results from the threading were so neat and accurate, was delighted with the shape and colour. The girl doing the threading was super fast and professional. Hope I get her again next time.
Would highly recommend this salon and threading. Doubt I’ll ever go back to eyebrow waxing now!

Fish hook brows. Scouse brows. Perma-​surprised brows. JUST. SAY. NO. I’m not sure what crazy Kool-​Aid those ladies are drinking, but those are not good looks. Hey, to each their own! Thanks to papa and mama G I was blessed with thick luscious brows that need some taming, otherwise, I would be channeling some serious Frida Kahlo on my business. Unfortunately waxing causes a bizarre allergic reaction on my skin (read: hives), so threading is a godsend. I first dabbled in threading when my cousin took me to a place in TriBeCa in NYC. After seeing the results, I was instantly hooked.
411 on threading: Less pain than waxing (well at least for me). It’s just a piece of thread that ran across the surface of the skin and pulls rows of hair in a line, keeping straight lines (hence beautiful, and not wonky results), sanitary (no fears of double dipping in wax), cheap as chips as low as $ 7 in the US or £5 in the UK.
Al-​Aishas is a no frills, no fuss clean salon that was literally around the corner from my old flat, and a stone’s throw away from Partick station. No appointment necessary, and there is rarely ever a queue (maybe during peak times (evening Fridays or mid-​morning Saturdays). I can only comment on brow threading, which is only £5. For something you would get done every 2 – 3 weeks, why on earth would you spend more than double or triple for Blink Bar or the like for more «posh» surroundings, brand name, or «experience», when it’s just a woman running a piece of thread over your brows and yanking hair out (super glam!). Simple.
The service is quick and efficient. The ladies will tell you when you need to hold your hair back, or your face taut. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am. Once the ladies are done, they go over with tweezers to get any rogue hairs, then smooth over with aloe vera gel, and finally send you along your merry symmetrical brows way. Alleluia for Al-​Aishas!