Mirela and I have just come back from having our feet pampered and painted at Nails Design on Porchester Terrace, Bayswater. I didn’t check out other nail salons in the area but this nail salon seemed to be very popular and if you want to guarantee that your nails will actually get done on a certain day within a reasonable time booking is strongly advised. We had actually tried to go in at around lunch time but the wait was going to over an hour (and you know when they tell you that the wait is actually likely to be much longer) we decided to come back with a booking for 5. Even then we had to wait nearly half an hour.

Nail Designs is owned by a Vietnamese man and he is very friendly and seemed quite good at whipping around organising all the manicures. All the nail technicians are also from Far East Asia (sounding Vietnamese too) so you know that they are likely to be quite efficient. After Mirela and I had finished with our pedicures he had left the premises and for some reason things went a little pear-shaped for the ladies who had come in as walk-ins. A number of them were getting frustrated with how long they’d had to wait and and all in brawl nearly started – I think a bit of the fault of the nail technician who was, sorry to say, giving some typical Asian attitude (not good) but also the customers who were being fairly rude. It was only entertaining because we’d finished our pedicures and were just waiting for our toes to dry. The nail jobs at Nail Designs must be pretty good though because despite all the fussing – everyone stayed to get their nails done!