06/30/09

love the enviroment

by Shantall

Ingrids salon is the best aroung the area, the staff are great, i have been getting my hair done, make up for special occasions, and my nails all the time. i've been going to ingrids since i was 12!! when they were located on 74st.

I have gotten my nails done by 3 of the manicurist there . they are all great! i see Cristina about every 2 weeks for my nails, she is very profesional, i always get completed about my nails and my pedicures, they last a long time. my hair is always done either by Fernando or Juliana i can honestly say that i've never had a complaint. i've done highlights, color and cut my hair short! (fernando was able to fix a terrible mess a beauty school teacher did to my hair, and he made it 100 times better).

this is the best place for any service!!

• Pros: nearby, great services, they do EVERYTHING!!
• Cons: NONE

06/04/09

!!!!!!!DO NOT GO TO THIS SALON!!!!!!!!

by Jheights

Do NOT ever go here to have your hair cut or styled!!!! This place is the biggest rip-off in the area and they are NOT TRAINED!

I was getting married so made my appointment w/ a woman two weeks beforehand at the desk who could hardly speak English. "Mao will take care of you" she said smiling...

The Venezuelan "MAO" turned up 20 minutes late at 10 to 12pm, began to cut my hair without asking me what I wanted to have done. He began styling it as if I were a MEXICAN bride w/ ringlets and puff - I pulled it off and asked him to begin again. I cried as the clock ticked... He fried, refried and once again fried my hair. He charged me $100 CASH for the styling and the cut (but have receipt.) I ran out of the salon crying at 1.25pm and my car was waiting for me at 1.45 to take me to the church. I have proof how he screwed up my hair on my wedding day. MAO SHOULD BE BANNED FROM EVER CONDUCTING ANY HAIR CUTS OR STYLING!

I am seriously thinking of suing the salon.

• Pros: SOMEWHAT CLEAN
• Cons: "VENEZUELAN MAO," ATTITUDE, TARDY, COCKY APPROACH, $$$$

12/15/08

A waste of time and money

by Silvia188

I just moved to the neighborhood and decided to try this place for my weekly manicure/pedicure. It's fair to say this was probably the worst service I've had in a while. Almost every employee (including the lady doing my nails who left me mid-nail polish to take a call) was on their cell phone, lounging about in front of the few customers (it was a Monday afternoon) or cracking jokes for everyone to hear. During my pedicure, she let my feet soak for a total of maybe 5 minutes and used the scrubbing pumice, which is one of the main reasons I go to a salon instead of doing it myself, for less than 10 seconds. She scrubbed so quickly and lightly I didn't even feel it, and usually I'm very ticklish. In the end, she didn't even use the little paper strips between the toes before she applied the nail polish. My manicure was similarly rushed, so much so that now I have air bubbles underneath the polish caused by applying thickened base coat too quickly. To top it all off, there were no pedicure driers at all in the place, only a small portable manicure drier that was on top of the working station. For all of that, she charged me $6 more than what a standard mani/pedi combo in the neighborhood costs (i've been to two other salons in the same three or four blocks) and didnt even give or write a receipt. I will never visit this place again.

• Pros: Nice open space
• Cons: Rushed and careless service, employees constantly on their cell phones