Manicures, structured gel, fine-line art and lash sets, in a studio with real ventilation and a polish line that skips the ten worst ingredients. Appointment-first. The board by the door says when a chair is free.
Most salons smell like a salon. Ours smells like the roaster downstairs. Every station pulls fumes down and away before they reach you, every tool arrives sealed, and nothing on the shelf carries the ten ingredients we decided not to argue about.
Metal tools are scrubbed, pouched, and run through a Class B autoclave after every single client. The pouch is opened at your chair. The log lives on the wall by the desk, and we like it when people read it.
Source-capture extraction at every nail station and a room that swaps its air twelve times an hour. Dust and gel fumes leave through the ceiling, not through you or the person painting you.
Our polish and gel line skips formaldehyde, toluene, DBP, camphor, and six more. It still holds a gloss for three weeks. It just does not come with a headache.
Pregnant, asthmatic, or just tired of the fumes? Say so when you book and we will seat you at the station nearest the window.
Draws the fine lines. Twelve years in and still steadier than a ruler, with a weakness for negative space and a firm opinion on almond versus squoval. She will talk you out of the wrong shape, gently.
Maps every set to the eye in front of her before a single fan goes on. Cat, doll, open, or wispy, but always yours. Nobody leaves Delphine's chair wearing someone else's lashes.
The cleanest fast gel set in the building and the one people book for the wedding. Ask for the reversed French; it photographs better than the classic and lasts just as long.
New sets go up most weeks. Bring a screenshot, or bring nothing at all and trust the chair.
Text us your name, the service, and two times that suit you. We answer within the hour while we are open, and the chair is yours the moment you say yes.
When a chair opens up, it goes on the board by the door and on our story. First name, first served. Most days that means manicures and fills. Full lash sets, almost never.
Fifteen minutes of grace, no questions. Past that, we may shorten the service so the next person stays on time. Cancel by 9pm the night before and there is nothing to pay. Same-day is half the service, and we will still be glad to see you next time.
Full sets hold a $40 deposit when you book, taken off the bill on the day. It travels with you if you move the appointment with a day's notice.
118 Meridian Row, Suite 2
Northgate
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Second floor, above the coffee roaster. Street parking on Meridian; the Alder Street garage validates two hours.
Last appointments start an hour before close. Pedicures, ninety minutes before.
(555) 555-0147
or write to hello@lacquer.example
The walk-in board goes up on our story by 10 each morning. If your name is on it, come now.