PSA: Save your $20 and do your nails yourself
Went to Purity Nail Bar in Brighton today for a simple clear polish manicure. Twenty dollars, ten fingers, one job.
I watched the tech put base coat on, then top coat directly on top of it. No color in between (which is fine, I asked for clear), but also no waiting, no curing, no apparent awareness that these are two different products that exist for two different reasons.
The result speaks for itself (photos attached). My nails look like someone took sandpaper to them and then shellacked over the damage. There's polish residue around every cuticle. The "shine" is patchy at best. One nail looks matte. I'm pretty sure I could've done better with a Sharpie.
I get that a $20 manicure isn't the Ritz. But the bar is "looks like a manicure," not "looks like my nails got into a fight and lost."
Going elsewhere next time.