Nail World

I went to check out Nail World last night because they are in the area and I didn’t like feel like driving to my usual nail salon. The customer service is great, but they CANNOT do nails, my nails are very lumpy and look awful. Please save your time and money and go elsewhere, you will be highly disappointed.

Great place to go for a relaxing pedicure! They have given me the best pedicure I have ever had. The nail tech took her time and I didn’t feel rushed or ignored. The massage was A1 and really got me to relax and distress. I have been there 5 times now and the Wait time can average 5 to 30 mins. Jasmine the manager is a sweetheart who makes you feel very welcomed! Definitely recommend this place for pedicures.

I’ll start this off by saying I don’t write reviews.
I love this place. They pull out all the stops for a $ 30 mani/​pedi: I’m talking hot towels, foot /​leg massage, scrub, this is the real deal. I’ve been to other places that charge more for way less. The pedicure experience for me is really about the experience: the massage fair, the foot rubs, the removal of that dead skin (sorry, gross but true!!). I can honestly say I am 100% satisfied with the work done, and it’s a really reasonable price to boot!!!
Nail World does a fantastic, thorough job on my calluses, I leave with completely smooth heels and toes. A few people mention issues with hygiene, I’ve been going to Nail World for years now, never had a problem with hygiene or broken chairs!

I have been to numerous nail salons since moving to Atlanta. And this is the first and only one that I have been 100% happy with. The customer service is awesome! I had a deluxe pedicure and mani. They take their time, which is great because I was fully able to enjoy my pedicure and mani. I felt as if I were in a spa. They are under new management and from the earlier reviews I will say that this place has made a full 360. The best part is its down the street from my house. I will definitely be a regular here!

Stay away! I thought the «New Management» sign would bring a different element. It does not. Still filthy and the pedicure chair I sat in was broken in the bowl. There was a sharp metal edge and it sliced my toe. I was outta there! Nail 1^st in Glenwood Park is excellent and clean.

Don’t go here unless you’re okay with getting a foot infection. I wanted to like Nail World since it’s close to my house, but I won’t be going back.*
I have no idea how this place stays in business. I cringed as I watched the woman «clean» the tools in the tub of water and then put them back in the drawer. 1. That’s not even close to being an effective sterilization method, and 2. Putting wet tools into a drawer is really gross. I can get past the place being totally sleepy and not having any new magazines. Heck, I can even get past a mediocre paint job, but there’s no excuse for poor sanitation practices.
*I checked the state’s licensing page and from what I can see, Nail World has not been licensed as a nail salon since 2007.

I only ended up here because Q Nails randomly decided to close on Sundays until February.
Great.
Well, it just so happened that another patron had pulled up at about the same time and I asked her if she knew of another good shop to to go. She told me about one located in the Grant Park area. Now I can admit that that alone kindof of sold me. She said I could follow her there, so I did.
Yes, I followed a stranger to an unknown location. Don’t judge me; I like to live on the edge!
Anyway, like the previous reviews stated (and I had not read them prior to sitting down in the chair), this place looks a little «sterile» for a nail shop located in such an artsy type of area. However, that’s where that image ends.
The «massage» chairs aren’t all operational, and the vinyl coating is peeling on most of them. They could also use a good sweeping, if you want to let the truth be known. A couple things they do have going in their favor are 1) a «chore chart» of when the tubs are cleaned and by whom and 2) a bottle of bleach cleaner spray at every station. At least that’s what it said on the bottle. I didn’t smell bleach at all when I sat down but whatever…
The pedicure was ok. I thought my pedicurist was a little wimpy with the pumice stone. Sometimes you really just need to get to WORK on people’s feet and she left a little to be desired. Now, she did acknowledge that I have soft skin on my feet (I don’t let my tootsies get crunchy… believe that!) but I still would have liked to actually feel something.
The only thing they have over Q nails is this scrub that they massage into your feet and calves. It’s a nice touch! However, she didn’t do the design the way I wanted and I was just over it. This experience certainly wasn’t worth the $ 27 price tag ($ 23 for the basic pedi, $ 4 for the design)! I was appalled, honestly. I feel like, minus the scrub, they did a half-​assed job and charged more than their worth. Whatever.
Something that concerns me: I pointed out that she missed applying the top coat on one of my toes. She’d been working on the guy next to me, and instead of taking off or changing her gloves, she just rinsed them off and came back to me *side eye*. Thank God she didn’t actually have to touch me, but still. That man could’ve had Ebola or something on his feet!
Lesson of the Day: Stick to what you know, and wait a measly 24 hours for it!
I’ll not be back.

After providing a great review — I have to now add that I now agree with Jennifer B — I ended up with a fungus amongus on my toe. A clean up in the hygiene aisle would be helpful!

The pedicure was great. I agree that the name and décor are somewhat sterile for an such an artsy area of the city. I was bored on Saturday and decided to treat myself to the $ 30 deluxe pedicure at NW, which includes a soak, sugar scrub exfoliation, and hot mud treatment (for lack of knowing what the heck it’s called). I cant complain, but I’m not going to say that they have my allegiance, if a new salon came into the East Atlanta/​Grant Park area, then I would give ‘em a shot.

Over the past 20 years, I’ve probably had hundred’s of manicures at 20+ salons; I have never left one feeling traumatized. I wanted to go home and soak my feet in bleach for fear of the infection, I’m afraid is coming.
Nail World *looks* like a nice, walk-​in, salon but lacks the basic hygienics needed. After they pulled out the «cheese grater», you know that thing that cut/​sloughs dead skin from your feet, I watched in horror as the technician «sterilized» the instrument by dipping it in the soapy water my feet had been soaking in. No barbicide. No rinsing. Right back into the tool kit.
Need I say more to discourage you?

Ugh. I went here for a long time because it is so close to my house, but every visit ended in disappointment. Not only does it feel like a factory with a million chairs lined up and very sterile (in appearance, only) setting, but it felt like my feet were being butchered.
They seem to be hurrying to finish everyone so they can move on to the next customer. There are a million polishes in no particular order, but there don’t seem to be very many «normal» colors. The people who work there are not very friendly and rarely speak any English. I usually don’t care about this, but you definitely get the feeling that they’re talking about you in Vietnamese.
I never really feel relaxed in there, and I’m always rather disappointed I didn’t take a drive further down the road to Inman Park.