Nail Salons
Third-floor nail studio in Aberdeen Square, surrounded by dessert shops and bubble tea. Gel manicures, extensions and nail art booked by phone, and the mall parking makes it an easy weekday-evening stop.
Describe what you want in detail when you call, and ask how much time to budget for it. Nail art is where the Richmond market genuinely differs from the rest of Metro Vancouver, because there is enough demand here to support technicians who specialize, and the baseline standard sits higher as a result. Gel manicures, extensions and nail art make up the work at X. Studio, all of it booked by phone. Detailed sets take as long as they take, and nobody is served by pretending otherwise.
The studio is on the third floor of Aberdeen Square, which is worth knowing before you go hunting for it. The ground floor is what you see from No. 3 Road. Everything else stacks above it, reached by escalator, and those upper floors hold a mix of salons, dessert counters, bubble tea and small service businesses that would have their own storefronts anywhere else in the region.
Being inside a mall turns this into a weekday-evening errand rather than a weekend production. You park once, get your nails done, and pick up dinner or dessert on the way out without moving the car, which is exactly how these buildings are meant to be used. Ask what happens if something chips in the first week, because that answer varies between salons more than anything else does, and it is much easier to establish before the appointment than after it.
In the Golden Village neighbourhood of Richmond.
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