Spring Spa And Nails

Review on cost alone:
I called to find out the cost of a regular Mani pedi without polish since I was new in town. At $ 32, higher than the San Francisco Bay area and southern CA but cheaper than the $ 40, $ 38, and $ 35 quoted at 3 other places. Perhaps I will try this place here but today, I will give First Glance a try because Unilocalers ranked them 4.5 stars and the price is $ 30 for the aforementioned.

To the long winded 1 star review, it obviously written by someone in the business trying to downgrade Spring Spa. (Too many technical terms that a lay person would not use.) I AM in the business and go in once a month for a manicure and pedicure with Thu and it never takes less that an hour and forty five minutes. They throughly practice State Board regulations regarding sanitation. They are never rude to walk-​ins, but it helps to make an appointment.

I walked and was not welcomed.
The staff felt rude and when I could finally get someone to acknowledge me they asked what I wanted then told me they had no time for me.
Rude rude rude…
Not getting my business!

I guess I’m considered a regular here now! I go every 2 weeks to see Mai. I get a gel manicure and they are fabulous! Very friendly business, I am always greeted when I enter. My gel manicure takes an hour, TOP. The product is good and my manicure could probably last another week if I wanted it too and took better care of my nails. The shop is small, but has massage chairs for pedis; I have yet to have one because I’m waiting for the summer time. Draw backs are that there is no music or back noise which can get awkward. It’s a quaint store so nothing fancy on the walls or anything but the employees are friendly, my manicures are always done in a timely manner and my nails always come out looking great! Those are all the things I look for in a nail salon!

I honestly felt obligated to write a review about this place. I needed a simple gel manicure which took over two hours. Although Tom was a nice man, his attention to detail was awful. Although I pointed out several times the smeared gel polish leftover on my nails, he constantly neglected my request to clean it up. He insisted that it would be fixed, but obviously it was not. To my disappointment, I honestly believe this place does not deserve the reviews it has received. Adding in another two cent, immediately the day afterwards I went to another salon to get my nails fixed.
Although this does not directly relate to my nails, I am very sensitive to smells and it was clear that he was a heavy smoker. Te fumes radiating off of him were nothing short but a punch in the face the whole time I was sitting there.

I LOVED this place. Pedicures are amazing! Will never go anywhere else but here!

Had gel manicure by Tina. Wonderful manicure and a very nice lady!

Best pedis ever!!! I get one once a week because it is So wonderful!!!

I just have to say I went in here again today after being out of town for a while and read K.A.R.‘s review and was appalled. I have never, in all of my years going here, have EVER seen a person get a «15 minute» pedicure. These people really take their time, and I usually cannot get out of there within an hour! Also, the guy is always the one who does my nails, and he is a really nice man who does his work well. It is offensive what this person wrote, which leads me to believe she is writing so some other nail salon can take their business. Look at the rest of the reviews and tell me this doesn’t sound fishy!
One more thing: Last time I wrote, no one in town had gels, and now it seems like everyone does. But I just have to say, I don’t think anyone in town can beat out the $ 22 price. Plus, the quality is superb. Yesterday, I got my $ 27 french shellac and I’m so sad I have to leave Clovis! Germany hasn’t caught up with the craze yet and I will certainly be longing for my Spring Spa Nails.

Just returned from the second worst pedicure I’ve had in Clovis. And I went here in the first place on all of the 5 star reviews. Thanks Unilocalers.
Pro:
* cheap
Cons:
* screwed up the appointment, which was for two people and they recorded it for only one, so we had to take it in turns;
* awful chemical smells permeate the place;
* I explained to the technician that I didn’t give two shits about the oils and «massage» and the polish. I wanted: 1. my nails trimmed neatly and buffed down to an even height; 2. my callous removed; 3. my cuticles and the area around my toes trimmed thoroughly, and 4. the dead skin sloughed off my feet and ankles.
All of that took the technician less than 15 minutes to complete, which told me he didn’t give a tinker’s damn about what the customer (me) asked for, he was going to give me what his manager considers a pedicure. Which in Clovis apparently means cuting toenails and then spending an hour slathering cheap oils all over the customer’s feet and legs because Spring Spa and Nails is the second joint to pull this stunt. He told me he was done, but I refused to leave the chair until he’d at least pretended to attend to the heels of my feet because a pedicure includes working on the heels, too, not just the sides and bottoms.
So after my 15-​minute pedicure I sat up at the front waiting for my friend to finish up, and I felt my right toe burning. The idiot pumiced the bottom of my toe until it bled! I started inspecting my feet, and I noticed that ½
of my nails were razor sharp, my heels were as rough as before the pedicure, I could slough off great wads of dead skin from the back of my
feet and ankles, and my pinkie toes were completely unbuffed and thick, like they’d never been touched. And my cuticles looked as if they hadn’t been touched. There was still dead skin hanging off them and everything.
I had to come home and wash off the sticky strawberry-​scented lotion he slathered all over my legs (I dug smelling like that crap when I was 12, but now that I’m an adult, not so much) and didn’t rub in, which in turn stained my dress. And I just spent the past 30 minutes cleaning up his half-​assed job on my toenails and cuticles. And there’s a Bandaid staunching the bleeding on my right toe. Which will probably take two weeks to heal up. I mean, who in their right mind thinks it’s Okay to take a pumice to non-​calloused skin?
What a flippin’ disaster and a great waste of my time and money.
If you want to pay $ 25 for someone to rub cheap oils all over your feet and legs, make a mess of the clothes you’re wearing, and walk out smelling like a stripper, you’ve found the place.
If you want someone to actually clean you feet, clean your nails and toes, remove dead skin, remove callouses correctly, file and buff your nails properly, in other words give you a damned pedicure, go anywhere but this joint.

Best place in town for pedi’s! The price is fantastic and the quality is just as good as the other places that are more pricey. This seriously is the only place I will go to now to get my pedicures!