La Signature
Shape, cuticle work, buff, two coats, warm oil. Sixty minutes.
$85
Maison Noir is four chairs off Wisconsin Avenue. One guest per artist, no double booking, and the appointment finishes when the hand is finished — not when the next name on the list arrives.
I have never been anywhere this quiet. Halfway through you forget it is a nail salon at all.
Four weeks on and the gel has not lifted once. It grew out like it had always been mine.
They shaped my nails to the hand I have, not the hand in the photograph. Nobody had done that before.
We are open until nine on Fridays, and the last hour of every evening is held for one appointment only. Tuesday to Saturday, eleven until eight.