Escape Nails & Spa

"Johnny's service is impeccable. Best nail guy in Boston, I'll only have my nails done by him after the beautiful job he did with my powder gelish!"

"Thank you so much Nina you always take such a good care of my nails and I appreciate. Everyone looking for a good nail salon please check out escape nails, downtown Boston!!!"

"Went there to do dip powder for the first time and had a terrible experience. To begin with, the lady was extremely unprofessional and rude. When she was using the machine she cut almost all of my cuticles and blamed it on me because i supposedly did not have my finger a certain way. It was very bad that my thumb was bleeding a lot. Secondly, she did not clean my cuticles at any time before using the machine and i asked if she wasn’t going to clean it and she then attempted to do so but did not do it correctly because she didn’t know how to. When we got to the application of the dip powder she messed up a few times and i had to tell her to do it again. My nails are almost a week old and they already look like this. On the second day of getting them done my nails began to chip on the corners. My naturals nails are ruined and all chipped because of this. The picture below, the first day i got them done and 6 days later.. all chipped & ugly. Do not recommend this place or at least with the person i did it with. Definitely not worth the price I paid for."

"I came in yesterday for a last minute gel mani and regular pedi. Tiffany did a FANTASTIC job and was a joy to chat with! It is one of the best mani and pedi’s I’ve ever had-I’ll definitely be back to see her! Thank you! Update: I’ve been coming here for 3 months and have always had a wonderful experience! Nina is the best! She always gives me a perfect gel mani and regular pedi, and now I get my eyebrows waxed as well! Julie is also fantastic and I go to her when Nina isn’t in the salon. Thanks ladies!"

"By far the worst experience i’ve ever had in a nail salon, this place is managed by unprofessional, rude con artists. I came in for an appointment and right away upon asking how much a regular set would be they said $35+, to which i said i didn’t want anything fancy i just wanted a normal set so that should be $35 right? She didn’t answer and instead followed with a series of questions about my nails, again i told her plain black nails and had to tell her repeatedly i didn’t want to pay the extra $20 for gel, i then was seated and tried to ask the woman working on my nails how much it would be and they said $55, i said again i didn’t want any of the extra stuff and she wouldn’t give me a clear answer and got started working on my nails. I’ve been doing my nails regularly for some time so there’s a normal amount of damage on my nails and told her they were sensitive and i’m not sure if she didn’t understand or what but she proceeded to butcher my nails, going hard with a drill and then it got even worse, she started using plastic nail tips to wedge inbetween and rip off the acrylic. This was extremely painful and i asked a couple times to just soak them off and she would let them soak for a minute or two before going back in with the plastic tip, this completely ripped my pinky nail in the middle of the nail bed. I was so uncomfortable and just needed to stop and i told her i was good and that i didn’t want the set anymore, she insisted on finishing the removal and then again brutally filed and buffed my sore nails including the one she ripped and i kept taking my hand away because it hurt so bad and she kept taking it back. If it’s not already obvious I’m not a confrontational person so i sat through all this, and then when i tried to leave another artist approached me and kept telling me it would be better for my nails to let her keep going and put gel polish on, this all just felt like a ploy to upsell and keep me as a customer, and i had also noticed other artists asking people if they wanted extra things that would add on to price and be insisting. I did wind up going back and sitting down and after a few more minutes of prep and buffing i couldn’t do it anymore and had to leave u was in so much pain, upon leaving they told me i had to pay for the service because we had taken up time, which would’ve been fine with me, but after not being told that that was an additional expense i said there was a misunderstanding and that i was very uncomfortable the whole time, had already tried to leave and had been pressured to stay for the treatment, they were so shady about telling you what your paying for and continuously up selling, the manager was at the counter and got very aggressive with me quickly when i questioned why they didn’t say this before and that i had been trying to leave, he raised his voice and just started repeating that i had taken then time and needed to pay and i didn’t argue about paying i just said that they should’ve told me and that i was very uncomfortable during the treatment. overall they were just rude, lazy, unprofessional and they clearly value trying to get you to pay as many extra fees possible over quality work, for your sake save yourself the trouble, money, and pain."