i.e.,My experiences have been less than stellar. I moved a year ago and was looking for a new nail tech to do my gel manicures. I ended up with a lady by the name of Nookie. While everyone was very friendly there, the products must be outdated because within a few days of my gel polish manicure, my nails became brittle and started to break. I have had gel nails for years and never had a problem so I decided to see someone else the next time. Her name was Lee I believe. Well, normally when you have gel polish removed, they soak it off, this time however, she drilled it all off my nails which made the matter even worse. I left there feeling like I would never go back. I called the owner, Valerie and explained what happened and she said I needed gel powder nails and that maybe the other product was bad and that Lee was probably drilling to fix the broken nails. I thought, ok, maybe she is right. After all, she is the professional, right? So I proceed with the gel powder with the owner doing it. Upon completion, I was very pleased because I was told that gel powder is much safer and better for the nails than acrylic and you can grow them longer than with regular gel polish. I was smitten and paid my $60.00 with tip and left. Two weeks later, I went back for a refreshing since I had lots of growth. Valerie drilled down some of the older polish (I had a dark color which made seeing the nail bed impossible). Valerie applied the gel powder over the other polish with the dip technique and once again I was happy until about a week ago when one of my nail beds felt "funny". I noticed a slight lift so I decided to pry it off to see what was going on. WOW.....fungus!!! A brown and black area on my nail and a ruined nail bed. I was appalled and decided to remove all the tops off my nails. Thankfully there was no other nails affected however, the gel powder is so hard to get off that it shreds your nail bed just like acrylic, which I was told would not happen. I was also surprised to see that there was a lot of lifting in areas so I am certain that if I had not caught this nail, I would have had all my nails affected because the gel polish is dark and they do not remove it all so you would never know what is growing underneath. In all my life, I have never had a fungus nor the kinds of problems I have had here so I caution anyone from using this facility! A local favorite, or highly recommended because