No extensions, no length you didn't ask for. Your own nail, shaped properly, with colour that still looks new three weeks later. From $40.
280 Alhambra Cir, Suite 23, Coral Gables · Around 1h · Walk-ins welcome
A gel manicure isn't just polish that lasts longer. The part that decides whether it looks expensive is the prep: the shape being even across ten nails, and the cuticle line being clean so the colour sits flush instead of flooding. That's most of the hour.
Almond, oval, square or squoval, matched across both hands. If your nails are different lengths, we agree where they're all going first.
Pushed back and tidied, not cut into. This is what makes colour look painted-on rather than poured-on, and it's where most rushed manicures lose it.
Thin coats, cured under lamp. A thick one looks finished sooner and cures unevenly — it shrinks, it lifts, it chips at the edge. I also seal the free edge, which is why yours shouldn't chip at the tip in week one.
None of this shows the day you leave — everyone's nails look good the day they leave. It shows three weeks later, when they're all still on.
If your nails bend, peel or split before they get any length, a gel colour alone won't fix it. Builder gel is a reinforcing layer over your natural nail — not an extension, nothing added on the end. It gives the nail something to grow under. Hard gel, from $15, is the tougher version of the same idea.
This is the honest middle ground between a plain manicure and committing to soft gel extensions.
Around an hour. Solid colour included.
Optional, on any manicure.
The colour holds its shine well past two weeks. What ends it is regrowth at the cuticle, so most clients come back every two to three weeks. If yours is chipping in a few days, something went wrong in the prep — tell me and we'll fix the cause, not just repaint it.
Regular polish, from $30, is right if you change colour constantly or you want it off in a week. Gel, from $40, is right if you want to stop thinking about your nails. For $10 more, gel is the better value almost every time.
Only as much as your own nail grows. What I can do is protect that growth with builder gel from $55, so your nails stop breaking at the length they always break at. If you want length now, that's soft gel from $70.
Not when it's soaked off properly. It damages nails when it's picked off at home — because what comes away with it is a layer of your nail. If your gel is lifting, come in rather than helping it along.
Yes, and a gel manicure is the service most likely to fit into a gap in the day. But there's one chair, so booking is the only way to guarantee it. Same-day slots often show on Booksy.
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