Gloria's Beauty Center

 

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Marla S.

Salem, MA

4/29/2008

Oh my DEAR GOD, I beg of you yelpers...DO NOT use this establishment.  Long story short version...I never ended up getting any service.  Long version, read on:

I would give this place NO stars if possible.  Anyway, Saturday afternoon I dropped into Tedeschi (across the street) and notice this little place.  I've moved out of Brighton so when I come back and there is something new it's semi-exciting.  Plus I am ALWAYS on the look out for any sort of beauty salon with Sunday hours.  What is UP with no Sunday hours in the burbs???? I see on the window they now have "new Sunday hours" so I figure I'll walk over after I do my shopping and ask for a menu of offerings, prices and hours.  
I walk in.  The atmosphere looks ok.  Terra cotta colored everything, ladies in matching lime green polos.  It APPEARS pretty professional.  2 ladies gab at the counter.  1 addresses me.  (Let's say they are both of Spanish/Puerto Rican decent just for accent and looks purposes)
Lady #1-Hi.  Me: (After looking for a brochure anywhere) Hi.  Do you have a menu of what you offer here with prices? Lady #1- *Blinks at me, then shrugs shoulders* Me: You know...like a list of what you do?? A menu with prices? Lady #1-Shakes head vigorously and looks at Lady #2.  Lady #2 looks at me.  Me: Motioning like I'm opening a brochure...Do you have a list of prices? Like a menu for what you do? Lady #2 with "you so crazy" expression.."We a beauty salon.  You want restaurant! It next door"--motions for the door to me.  These are times where I really have to pause at the absurdity of my life.  I MAY have rolled eyes.  Me: No.  I don't want a restaurant.  I want a beauty salon with a list of the things you do here and how much they cost.  Lady #2 and Lady #1 begin conversing in another language and Lady #1 walks off to find someone else.  Motioning "one minute" the whole way.  Lady #2 makes mad face and disappears to the back too.  I think OK....they are getting "the one that speaks English"...maybe Gloria herself!
So outcomes Lady #3 who may well be Gloria.  To spare you anymore reading, suffice to say I do the same act again.  Lady #3 says: Nnnnnnnnnnnn No.  OK AN ANSWER! It strikes me as bizarre they have no brochures and nothing on the wall to say "pedicure $25"...even the grossest and weirdest places in all of Allston/Brighton have at the LEAST got that down and speak more basic English.  (Pick color).  Then she goes "what you want"? SO.  I say "ok well I thought maybe I'd drop in on a Sunday if I knew how much stuff cost, but I guess not..Thaaaaaanks" and turn to leave.  She starts to say something about Sunday hours start at 10am...so I say "ok, maybe I'll come back then".  I mean I just want OUT now and this is getting really stupid and all three women are looking at me like I'm a retard.  I turn to leave and she is still trying to sell me a pedicure if I'd only tell her what I want and when....I say I'm all set, turn and leave.  As I go I hear TWO very LOUD "ESSS CUSE ME!!!!" and I vow to never put myself through this shit ever AGAIN.
**The most crazy part of this review is when I went to look up the info, the website is really well put together!**

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