Is £32 too expensive...

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...for Shellac nails?

I only get them done once a month but I've just noticed the price has gone up from £30 to £32. I know it's only a couple of quid but it's just taken me out of my justifiable price bracket.

I'm fairly low maintenance in other beauty areas. Don't dye my hair, wear fairly inexpensive make up, but love the 'polishedness' of having my nails done.

So if you have your nails done, how much do you pay? And would £32 (with a complementary glass of fizz) be too much for you?

In my area normally £15 🤷‍♀️

I've only paid up to £25 for my nails where I am, £32 sounds a lot to me and I wouldn't t pay it but I'm not one for expensive beauty treatments, it's your money so spend it how you like.

Same for me.. my local nail salon’s prices rocketed up to the extent I could no longer justify paying the price.

I brought myself an led light and gel nail kit and now I do my own, I did watch a few tutorials, it’s easy to pick up. I use blue sky and gelish, it’s easier to remove that shellac. (Shellac was very expensive).

The good the is I can do mine and friends nails whenever.. but the down side.. you loose the pamper experience!!

If they charge to remove shellac then it’s easy to do yourself with normal nail varnish remover but you must use a rougher sand paper like file and get off all the shine then you put normal nail varnish remover on small cotton wool pads and do as the salon does wrap in tin foil saves a lot in the year if they are charging to remove as extra

On the other side of the world I pay the equivalent of £22 for shellac, no bubbly sadly. The massage chair is so strong it would be hard to drink it though!

I don't want to pay for a trained professional, I'm buying a lamp from ebay' is destroying my industry

That's life though isn't it. I can't afford to pay a trained professional, I'm disabled and completely broke, yet I want my nails to last longer than a day, so I gel them at home myself. It's the same as dyeing your hair at home. Not all of us can afford beauty salons or hairdressers

I think that's expensive!! I'm north west and I pay £15 for hands, £25 for hands and feet.

Personally it would be too much for me, I do my own and my starter kit only cost £27 and polishes cost a few pounds. I'm happy doing my own and they last just as long as the salon jobs.

But if you can afford it, are happy paying it and pleased with the end result and experience then why not.

I wouldn’t pay it but I’m low maintenance. Can you learn how to do it yourself or you do a friends and they do yours ? Make an evening of it ?

As a beauty therapist i can tell you that youre basically paying for the brand, but you may also be paying for the complimentary fizz, that when you look at it like that, its not exactly complimentary. Shellac, is a very good brand, and if im correct (im trained in jessica, another well known and highly established brand) you have to undergo training youve already had just to be able to stock the brand. £32 isnt too much money to ask for, of a client if theyre sourcing it in from shellac themselves.
its the simple things in life, that bring us the most joy and as im not a therapist at the salon you go too i can tell you, cheaper brands are just as good, but the only downside to a cheaper brand is there isnt very much room for cockups and you may find it lifts alot quicker. hope this helps x

What I'm paying for is training and years of experience. No way would I let some untrained amateur with a cheap lamp from eBay loose on my nails.

I used to pay £70-80 but I got those paper ones!
£32 is fine! Enjoy

cheaper brands are just as good, but the only downside to a cheaper brand is there isnt very much room for cockups and you may find it lifts alot quicker.

Well they’re not as good then, are they?

@kikipost
what i should have said was theyd lift quicker if they had been cocked-up.
so if theyre not cocked-up then yeah they are just as good.

That's really expensive, i pay £15 every four week's, wouldn't pay £32.

I would ask for a pre -paid deal, lots of salons will give you something for buying 5 together. The other thing is I think you will just get used to the cost and it won't seem above tipping point... in London £32 is pretty usual

I pay £37 with no complimentary fizz every 2 weeks so think you’ve got it good 😃

In London, it’s £45 for removal, full manicure and Shellac on natural nails.

I pay £20 for the same in SE London but would expect to pay more in a more salubrious part of London

I pay approx £18 and have had finger nails and toe nails both done for £32 as a
package. The professional beautician who does mine (a lovely lady) has refused a few times as she said it seriously damages your nails having it done too much and I’d had them done 2 months previously. She advises a break of a few months always between shellac. X

I do my own, it's so easy and fraction of the cost