Clou Nail Studio - Mcallen Nail Experts — Local services in McAllen

I decided to check this place out because I saw on their page that they do beautiful designs, so they must be skillful but the salon is very different from the pictures. I got a gel mani, no design. The girl doing my nails never gave me their color options, then was watching videos on her phone as she was cutting my cuticles and nicked me and just kept going. Second, she didn’t put a gel base and went straight polish on my nails. When asked if that was normal, she said yes and kept going.

Next, I got a regular pedicure and couldn’t even get my nails painted because all their colors went bad. Even their clear top coat immediately separated and had them take it off. The girl seemed lost filing my nails, maybe it was her first time. The pedicure stations had a weird smell and water left over from previous sessions still in the tub. Just seemed unsanitary. I only got a $5 discount for not getting my nails painted. 80$ total, which is wild.

The only reason I’m giving it two stars is because I told the owner about the girl not using a base coat as she was checking me out and she immediately redid my nails. She was incredibly nice and professional, good at what she does. It’s a shame the other girls that worked on me don’t have the same work...

I called ahead to ask if they accepted walk-ins for a full acrylic set + toes. They kindly squeezed me in for a full set of acrylics around 10:45–11, even though they couldn’t take me for toes since it was a busy day (totally understandable!). The salon itself is super clean, organized, and welcoming. Everyone was really friendly, and the nail tech who did my set was very sweet, made me comfortable, and checked in with me multiple times during the process even offering something to drink.

I had shown her a French tip design they’d done before and asked for a very square shape. While I appreciated her checking in while doing the set, after leaving I noticed a few issues gel overflowing on my cuticles, some acrylic touching my skin, inconsistent nail shapes/sizes, and uneven lengths (especially on my pointer fingers which she added acrylic on while i was there to match them) but once I got to the car and looked closely, I realized I wasn’t happy and ended up going to another salon to fix them. (which is where i took these pictures)

Overall, I really appreciated the friendliness and cleanliness, but the quality of the set just didn’t meet...

got a pedicure here since everyone’s been recommending it, not sure if it’s who I got but I do remember she said she mainly does eyelashes and brows¿ anyways she barely grazed my feet and felt like she didn’t even take off any of the dead skin, I barely even felt her hands, also she didn’t even trim my toe nails at all, I’m pretty sure she gave me an ingrown also :/ for a $80 pedicure I...