PISCESSY NAILS

Bring a picture when you book. Every nail technician would rather see a photograph than hear a description, and at a studio working the design end of the trade that gap matters more than usual. This small Cambie Road room does gel manicures, pedicures and extension work with attention to design detail, and it takes bookings by phone rather than through an app. Phone booking is worth planning around. A studio running a couple of chairs may well have the person answering mid-appointment, and a set with detailed design takes considerably longer than a plain gel color. Describe the job when you call rather than when you sit down, because design work is priced by complexity rather than at a flat rate, and nobody enjoys learning that halfway through.

Richmond is competitive in this category in a way that benefits customers. Shops sit in every plaza, prices run below Vancouver for comparable work, and the design end of the trade has become properly skilled over the last decade.