Rani Spa

Stay away from this place! I never got my hair done there and now never will. I just went in on my way home to buy a hair product that was $ 23, the woman took my credit card and called it in. A day later there was another fraudulent charge for $ 55 on my card from Rani Spa in Westbury, NY in addition to the legitimate charge. They have still not credited me, now I have to cancel my card and have the bank investigate.

Parveen did a phenomenal job on my hair today! Love the cut and blow dry and all for just $ 35! Highly recommend her!

Had a great service there — facial and massage for 2 hours total. Parveen was lovely and very caring. I told her what exactly I want and she did a great job. The prices are not to beat. :) will definitely come back.

Very upset with this salon. They advertise smokey eye 15 so i decided to try it out cause I had a party to attend. All she litterly did was draw a line up. Something a 10 year old can do. No blending no nothing it took her 3 minutes. I didn’t even complain cause clearly she was not a makeup artist so no point. Rani must hire any cheap labor. Do not get your make up done there! They should not claim to do smoke eye when they do not know how to do makeup at all. I was thinking the lady was Indian she must know how to do a beautiful smoke eye cause Indian ‘s always have dramatic smokey eye look. But no horrible. I washed my face right when i got home.

I’m not suggesting that you should go to Rani Spa, I’m telling you GO TO RANI SPA!
I’ve been way overdue for a service so I called the to make an appointment. They were able to fit me in on the date of my choosing and even made sure that my service would be scheduled appropriately so that I could get to work on time!
The people who run the spa are awesomely accommodating and awesomely nice and awesomely talented and did I mention awesome? I have never felt more comfortable taking a spa service than I did here.
And the price!!! I paid almost four times the amount at «Spa» nearby for the exact same service provided for me today. On top of that I was offered a free mini service complimentary so that I could try a full one at another time! I am never going anywhere else except Rani Spa. Quality work, excellent service, and no bull poop prices.

Do not get a massage here. They don’t have real massage tables, hence no face hole. My neck hurts now post massage than it did beforehand.
Also their website is very misleading… the Manhattan location does not have many of the services listed on the website, the funny part being that the website lists the prices «at the Manhattan location.» The woman that I spoke to seemed clueless when I brought up several services that I read about on the website.
Worth the extra money to go to a real spa or massage parlor rather than getting services here.

Decent salon for threading, facials and massages at a reasonable price. Parveen is awesome… should ask for her when you go in. I usually go to her for threading and shoulder massages.

Do not come here. Awful for threading. My eyebrows came out all uneven. When I told her they were uneven she fought with me saying they were fine.
My underarm wax left so many hairs and even after I asked for a touch up I was given attitude.

I’d like to give rani spa 0 stars. It is a horrific dishonorable business. A frequent client, they convinced me to purchase an 8 pack gift card. A week later my wallet was stolen with the card in it. I went into try to talk to them about it and confirm that they had a record and not only did they not have a record, they also said their computer was broken and there was absolutely nothing they could do about it other than sell me a new card at a very good rate. As if!
I proceeded to call five more times and even physically went back into the store to dispute it and convince them to honor the charge but was bounced from employee to employee with no one able to help me and everyone claiming they were not the manager and couldn’t assist. I called and emailed their corporate office to discuss further and never received a return call.
I’m horrified by their thievery and will NEVER go back there again.

Let me preface this by saying the 2 people working in the Hell’s Kitchen salon that day were very nice to me and welcoming. However, the services were sadly not very good. I would not go back nor recommend this place.
I live about 2 blocks away and saw the sign outside saying Blow– dry & Shampoo was $ 30 — certainly a better price than similar places in the area. I figured having a good affordable place close to home was a win win.
The stylist who did my hair used the curling iron/​flatiron technique so she basically blew my hair straight using a flat brush and then used the curling iron/​flatiron to make my hair have some movement and a «flip» curl. I asked why she wasn’t doing a blow dry with the brushes and she said don’t worry, this will look great. It also took a great deal of time. In the end it was OK but not what I wanted. And then she put some waxy substance on both sides to prevent flyaway hairs. I was curious as to why she hadn’t used any of the other products they sell in the salon which are perfectly good for my hair. Within minutes of having that waxy substance on my hairline, I felt itchy and it also had a slight odor. I asked for help getting it out but of course there wasn’t much they could do.
Then when it was time to pay, the woman who takes the money asked the stylist how much and she answered $ 50. SO I said sign outside says $ 30 and so after a bit of back and forth and someone going out to look at the sign, we agreed on $ 30. I tipped the stylist $ 5 before they had to haggle over the price. I would never pay $ 50 for this service and was shocked they thought they could fool me. Again, the stylist was a nice person but I think not very skilled in blow drying and that’s why she used a different more time consuming technique.
And for the first time in my life and mind you, I am rather cost conscious, I actually went home and had to wash my hair because that waxy product was really annoying me. So, I blew $ 35 but learned a valuable lesson — to go back to my usual place when I need this service.

ZERO Stars! After a couple of messages on Unilocal from various representatives of Rani Spa begging for a second chance, I listened (and against my better judgement) went back. REMINDER: I still have that pre-​paid loyalty card I bought 3 years ago. The woman who thread my eyebrows was Parveen. I had been growing them out for quite some time. I asked for a natural look, and asked her to keep the eyebrows thick. What I ended up with was thin brows that had a curved shape (no arch) and she cut my eyelid in 2 places. She knew she had messed them up by the look on my face, and she kept saying «I will fix them.» To top it off, during the threading she assumed I was the same ethnicity at her and spoke to me in her native language several times. Thanks for the racial profiling!

Awsum place! I had a very pleasant experience at Rani for Brazilian wax, under arms wax and threading. I have been there couple of times and its gonna be my to go place for sure. Staff is very friendly.
Good packages available for all the services. Superlike :)

WOW! I am beyond shocked that this establishment would falsify an account using my name to write a FAKE review.
I did go to this establishment for the first time 3 days ago and I wish I had read the reviews beforehand.
This has to be the WORST waxing job I had. There was so much left over wax i spend a long time trying to rid of it. And so many missed spots. Towards end of waxing, I got a pressure sales pitch on how I needed to purchase $ 300 dollars worth of vouchers for their waxing. I politely declined, but she kept pushing and pushing. Not until after the waxing did I noticed that she did not use any gloves, and she was double dipping! When it came for payment time, she tried again, at t his point begging, this time for threading which I still politely declined.
Now I understand why this establishment is empty. Never will I step foot in here. Just the idea that they would even create a fake review… wow.

Dolly did a great job on my blow dry. Can’t beat it at this price in this area.
I visit many salons around the city x blow drys: dream dry, Beba blue on 10^th, tbe dry bar.
It is not a luxurious place so, if you just want something convenient this is the place.
Blow Dry ask for Dolly.
I will definitely come back.

I went in one night They are nice, seem desperate though. They open at 11am but i wanted to come in earlier. Some guy (manager or owner) called the hairstylist to see if she will be able to come in at 10am for me she said yeah. He took my info down and appt was set for friday ⁹⁄₂₇ at 10am. I called at 9:45am to say im on my way since im only a block down, no one picked up. I called 3 more times and no one picked up, i went to the salon around 10:15am and it was closed so i waited till 10:50 am and left. Not trying to be negative just writing my experience, they need a younger and more alert staff, an organized appt system and better communication skills. They need a tabatha MakeOver lol

I came in here today to purchase an Aveda product, a scalp remedy dandruff solution… They were trying to sell me some texturizing, volume and hair mousse products in PLACE of the dandruff product that they do not have. If they were trying to sell me an add-​on product then fine but they were trying to sell me a product in place of a product no where close to the one I wanted. These ‘beauty’ representatives do not know their products.

Really regretting not checking Unilocal before coming in. When you walk in, the place looks chic. There’s carpet and huge mirrors and fancy products on display. I love Aveda and Moroccan oil products so I thought $ 19 for a blow out with great products – how bad could it be? Well they did not use a single product they had on display. The stylist said she was using Rani products and when I asked why not the products on display, she said its because they just got those products in. That makes no sense. If you don’t know how to use the products, just read the bottle. It’s just frustrating because its false advertising. I am giving it 2 stars because it wasn’t a bad blow out. I will not be returning.

My husband bought me a facial & massage package as a present because it is so close to our apartment. I won’t go back.
The massage was nothing special at all, but the facial was awful. After explicitly asking the aesthetician not to touch a problem spot on my face, she proceeded to dig at it, made it bleed like crazy and then used some sort of laser to stop the bleeding without warning or asking me first. Unforgivable.
Before I left I felt practically harassed at the front desk to buy packages and come back for more services. Not happening.

I was going to give this place a 2 star rating as I’m sure there are worse things out there but then I realized that I was charged $ 38 instead of the $ 28 listed on their website for a Brazilian waxing.
I have absolutely NO idea how this place stays in business. I’ve never seen anyone in there. I actually feel really bad for the employees.
Waxing…I’m going to spare you the gory details but the girl who performed the service was definitely not a pro. It took a half an hour (it usually takes tops 15 minutes) and she take normal sanitary precautions (no gloves, double-​dipping, etc). I felt worse for her than for me throughout the whole thing. I was offered a shower (they have one upstairs?) afterward but I declined.
As I was leaving, another woman gave me a free two minute shoulder massage to try to entice me to return the following week for a Thai massage. The shoulder rub down was quite good but I have to say, doubt I’ll be back.

If you’re going for the no-​brow look, this is the place to go.
My sister and I came here together and sister decides to go first to get her eyebrows done. They completely messed up my sister’s eyebrows. They were not even the same length and one was barely there…
Horrible service, horrible customer service, horrible people. Seriously, stay away unless you want your eyebrows completely slaughtered. If I could give this a ZERO star, I would because Rani deserves nothing but poo. Because that’s what they’re full of. Lots of it.
P. S. The same day we were there, this other customer was threaten to file a lawsuit.