Beauty Xpress - Athlone

Excellent as always
Tanx girls il see ye next time

i was in last friday. I had my little girls communion the sat.I was 10 mins late due to traffic which wasnt my fault or theres. I arrived after booking me and my 2 girls to be told she could only do 1 of our nails. I taught this was unfair as i was only 10 mins late and i had to sacrafice 2 nail app. It be diff if there was a crowd but place was quiet. Ended up another girl did my little girls nails that only took max 15 mins.

My nails were really short but look great now after Biab application with Aisha who suggested French tip to clean them up✨

Very good staff and friendly

Top service as always nails and brows look fantastic afterwards thanks to Laura and Jemalia. Every time I get a compliment on my nails I tell people they need to go to Beauty Xpress in Penneys

I usually really enjoy my visit to Beauty express, but unfortunately it seems to be going downhill. The ladies seem to be missing alot of equipment to make it a professional visit. Using strips of tinfoil and cotton pads, as they don't have the proper soak off items. Going between bottles of products as everything is running out. Alot of colours out of stock too. Their gloves are of poor quality, which doesn't look very professional. The nail files look very old and beyond well used. The ladies are always so friendly and pleasant, itd be a shame for the salon to fail because head office is not looking after their needs.

Holly was so friendly and professional and she did a lovely job on my nails ?

Great service, great staff(Laura). Very convenient.

Very efficient service love the colour chosen

Excellent service and kind staff

Good service, friendly staff, very helpful with guidance. Both girls that worked on my nails had great experience. I would return again

I had my lashes tinted and henna brow. Job well done by Laura. First time to have henna brow Laura had recommended last time I was having my lashes done and I’m glad she did.

Holly did a lovely job as usual I am very happy with them

Nicole did a fantastic job on my nails love them

Excellent and expedient service !

Good job very friendly ?

Brilliant as usual. Nicole so professionall, bubbly and chatty. Thank you x

I was very happy with the care and attention given and am delighted with the outcome

I was very happy with the care and attention given and am delighted with the outcome

All perfect

(Part two of review)

Well, being that I had removed all the nails, this wasn't really an acceptable option to me. I replied and said that and said that as I only get my nails done on special occasions, I wasn't interested in getting them redone now, but asked if I could take them up on their offer of a free nail job on a future occasion. I received no reply to this email, so six days later, I had to email again asking for a reply.

I received a brief reply apologising for my experience and advising that since I had removed the nails myself, they could not offer to fix them anymore. I was not happy with this as I felt that I had purchased and received a service that was not up to the standard expected. If I had bought a physical item in a shop that was faulty, I would return it and expect, and probably receive a full refund, no questions asked.

In my return email, I advised that I was extremely unhappy with their most recent response and that I had expected some form of compensation for having paid €55 for a set of nails that might as well have been €5 stick on nails from Penneys for the quality of them. I stated that I was making a complaint and I asked for my complaint to be escalated. Naturally I received no reply to this email.

I am not the kind of person to leave bad reviews online. I am not a person to complain about services. I was more than willing to accept that the original nail job was poorly done for whatever reason - be it a staff member who needed more training or whatever it was. I genuinely wish no badness on the technician who did my original nail job. I would have been more than happy to accept some kind of offer of compensation for this and would have been happy to return as a customer.

However, it has been my experience of making my complaint and being constantly ignored and left completely unsatisfied that has made me decide that I will never be setting foot in this salon again for any treatment. I am so disappointed at how poorly this entire complaint was handled.

Since there is a character limit, this is going to be a two part review. (Part 1)

I got gel nails done about a week before Christmas, complete with extensions. They looked amazing and I was delighted. Unfortunately, one of them fell off three days later. I rang the salon and they offered to fix it and so I went in two days later. By the time I got there, two more of the nails were lifting at the nail bed and another one had fallen off and so I told the lovely girl who was fixing the one that fell off. She kindly fixed all four nails for me and explained that the likely reason they were falling off was that the nail bed hadn't been properly prepared before application of the gel.

I left that day relatively happy and had a very good experience with the girl that fixed the nails - unfortunately I can't recall her name. At this point it was just before Christmas and I then proceeded to spend the whole of Christmas week and the following week using old nail glue I had at home to continuously restick the remaining six nails that hadn't been fixed back onto my nails. Every single one of the six remaining fell off at some point over that fortnight and I continued to stick them back on as I wanted to get some kind of wear out of a €55 gel nails job.

By the time the fortnight was over, I decided I was fed up of resticking the nails and so I pulled them all off - something that was very easy to do, and if you've had gel nails before, you know removing them is usually next to impossible. It was at this point that I decided to write a complaint to Penney's Beauty Express. I emailed outlining my experience and stating I was unhappy. By way of reply, I got an offer to fix the nails - phrased in such a way that they were doing me a favour . 'Usually we would fix them with no problem in next 48 hours. It is 3 weeks now usually after 3 weeks you would need to get your refills done. As appreciation of being our customer we can offer You to get You nails fixed free of charge'.

Eyebrow tint exactly what I requested. Service was very good.

This time I don't like your work. Shape of eyebrows is not right . Looks bad

I went to holly today to do my Gel nails, once again Holly done my nails very well & helped pick a nice colour. Thank you Holly

Jamie did a fab job.. very professional very friendly would highly recommend

Nicole did a fab job . Very friendly.. professional job done in a very nice manner .. would highly recommend

One of my nails chipped the day after getting them done here. Very disappointing, €28 for gel nails that chip on day 2, won’t be returning.

Excellent service and quick

Two amazing staff who worked so hard to get me out on time !

Holly is the only woman I let near my nails..... she's a master.

Change farming fingers to fashionable nails

Super as always

I got BIAB gel nails. Service was very quick, just 45 mins and very happy with the results. Will definitely be back.

It was professional

Holly is brilliant. She's so friendly and amazing at what she does !! Always feel so at ease with her getting my nails done & I'm always thrilled with them.

Lovely pleasant girl very happy with my nails

I love going in to Holly to have my nails done. She is always very plesent and plenty of conversation brilliant service.

I love going in to Holly to have my nails done. She is always very plesent and plenty of conversation brilliant service.

Very convenient and pleasant service

I had my nails done with Nicole. She's an asset to the team & brilliant at her job. Highly recommend getting gel extensions done with her. Delighted with the results.

Efficient and amazing service as always.

Staff very friendly & good workers. You can even get your feet done here and make up done also eyebrows. Reasonable prices

Lovely and expedient service. Delighted with my nails!

Great service, friendly team

She was very good at nails art

She was very good at nails art

Holly did a lovely job on my nails for Christmas I am delighted with them a job very well done ? ✔️

Beautiful red xmas nails, I'm very happy with the quality and service.. girls working there are very nice ?

Excellent service by Ms Cooney.
Very professional and a pleasant lady.