It has been a while since I visited a nail salon and gotten a proper service. Today we were here for girl time with a great promotion to take advantage of.
My guest treats herself to a professional pedicure at the start of every summer season and thought to invite me along for a day of self care.
Her social media feed prompted her with an ad for Champagne nail salon with a promotion in time for the up coming Canada Day longer weekend.
From June 20th to July 13th, 2025 they are offering Deluxe Pedicures for only $36. Regularly this service runs at $65+. This is a 60 minute service that includes foot soaking, scrubbing, trimming and shaping, collagen mask with hot stone, moisturizer lotion massage, and nail polish to finish. More detail on each of the steps below. If you are looking for a gel set this will be $68 total.
Sadly I was tardy for my appointment and on a busy weekend chairs are a hot commodity with back to back bookings. Therefore a late arrival is a cost to yourself with no chance to make up for the time.
On the upside there is plenty of underground parking and any business you make a purchase of at least $20 at, they will reimburse your parking for $2 per hour.
By the time I got to my seat I barely got to soak my feet. Especially seeing as the water was far too hot for me to enjoy the foot bath. By the time colder water was tapped in and adjusted for my comfort, it was time to place my hardly soaked feet on the towel covered foot rest for serving.
Here, toe nails are trimmed and filed straight to a square, unless otherwise specified. A treatment that isn’t very comfortable as the file also rubs and chafes the skin around the nail.
I don’t prefer it, but I do like how the filing includes buffing the nails and any calluses on the bottoms or soles of your feet. Thankfully I don’t have too much dried and harden skin to have to worry about.
With skin and nails trimmed and excess cuticle curbed, attention is the directed to your calves. A scrub is applied straight from out of a packet. Rubbed in by hand, but not hard enough to soothe and leave the skin feeling soft and/or refreshed.
I do like how each pedicure is planned out with a pack of all the tools needed including scrubs and disposable toe separators. This offers a professional look that ensures one use only hygiene.
After, the calves are rinsed with the remaining water from the feet soak. The water is the drained and a collagen mask is applied on to the calves and rubbed in with hot stones. Same as before, this service is only on the calves, no where past the knee or ankle. The feel of the wide and flat stones were pleasantly smooth against the skin, but not rubbed in hard enough to pass on any therapeutic benefit. This service was as brief as the others, a flash in the pan that didn’t have you enjoying the experience of it all that much.
A hot towel marked its end, and the final step for your legs is the application of the moisturizing lotion through a hand massage.
You get to pick your paint from a basket of swatches: glitters, pastels, and opaques. I went with a neon yellow to match my eyelash highlights, and because I was planning on painting my finger nails a neon yellow as well.
Base coat, two coats of colour, and a top coat. The result was such a uniform job, my nails never looked so clean and straight. My fingers were jealous over the attention to detail the toes got, but there was no manicure special and it would have been $68+. I was impressed that after one of the nails dried spotty my tech wiped off the paint and started again. Considering how much longer salon painted nails last, gel or not, this was much appreciated.
New for me was the completion of the service with a setting spray that looked like an aerosol hair spray canister. And with that we were done, leaving with our refreshed nails, ready for the season of flip flops and peak-a-boo toe shoes.
If you are interested in this service for yourself, once again the promotion runs until July 3rd.
Champagne Nail Lounge at the Quay
904 Quayside Dr, New Westminster, BC V3M OL3
(236) 453-1167
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