Athena-Nails & Spa — Local services in Baltimore

Horrible Experience. I walked in to the spa to get my hair done for my maternity photos after I heard great reviews regarding their upstairs hair salon. I requested for a blow out and was informed the hair staff was on vacation. As I turned to leave, the store owner informed me that she had a nail tech that works up stairs often and can do my hair in 10 minutes. After 35 mins of waiting, Courtney comes and leads me upstairs to a cold work area. She was very nice and a great person thrown into a bad situation. She washed my hair and then the nightmare really begins. I watched her walk around the salon checking every single drawer for a comb, a brush, some clips, and a flat iron. This salon had no back up tools and the hair stylists took their equipment with them. I watch poor Courtney attempt to use a pen to clip my hair up in order to blow dry. I watched as she found 1 roll brush and removed the weave hair of the main stylist from the round brush to attempt to blow dry my hair. I watched her attempt to flat iron my hair with a CURLING IRON. After she pulled out a rusty curling iron and plugged it in to flat iron my hair I realized I had enough. I was charged $25 for this and the store owner was not available to talk with. MY MATERNITY PHOTOS WERE RUINED!!! This store was so set on getting a couple of $ that they chose to place this sweet girl Courtney in a really bad position and I feel absolutely bad for her as a stylist as this was not her fault. The owners should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to take place just to make a couple of extra $. I will let everyone in Canton and Fells Point know not to ever visit a...

DO NOT EVER GET YOUR LASHES DONE HERE!!! Ever!!!!! I'm a lash technician and I did one of their "fixes". My client got volume lash extensions there and the fans were not properly put together and thrown on her lashes in about 15min. The amount of glue used was insane, I've never seen anything like it!!

The worst part of this whole thing was the damage that was done to my clients natural lashes. My client had gone there several times and didn't know what was right and what was wrong until one day her eyes swelled up and became red and crusty. She came to see me a few days later once her eyes were better and asked me to take the lashes off and redo them.

A lash removal shouldn't take long at all, like 15-20 min. Yet I sat there for 2 hours to take the lashes off this poor girl because of how much glue was caked on. I noticed a few things that were done very very wrong. Because of the previous and continuous damage done to my clients lashes she now had GAPS where there were literally no lashes. So whoever was doing her lashes decided to just glue them onto her eye lid!!!!! HER SKIN!!! Hence why she became red and swollen.

There was so much damage and so few natural lashes left I couldn't re-lash her and she had to wait weeks for her lashes to grow back before I could book her an appointment.

DO YOUR SELF AND YOUR LASHES A FAVOR AND AVOID THIS PLACE IF YOU VALUE...

I patroned Athena for the first time this past Friday (7/19). The establishment is pretty clean inside. I received a manicure with gel-X and a spa pedicure. I was offered water after my pedicure. Maria completed my services. She was professional, kind, and did an amazing job with my pedicure ($42)and manicure ($60). She was quite meticulous. She could not shape my nails the way I requested. Most people can not. I'm not sure why. It's pretty simple to me, and I can do it on my own at home - round across the top with a sharp edge/square. I like the shape she gave me, it's just not my preference. I asked for a polish that lasts long and doesn't chip easily. Gel-x was recommended by the owner, so I tries it. It's lightweight and uses the same process as gel or powder/acrylic (UV light and soaking to remove). My nail chipped the very next day. Not...