No polish. Just shine.
No polish. Just shine.
The manicure with no polish at the end of it. Full dry e-file work on the cuticle and sidewalls, then paste and powder buffed into each nail until the plate carries a pearl-like shine. Nothing cured under a lamp, nothing to remove next time.
Japanese Natural Manicure is the one service on our menu that finishes with no polish, no gel and nothing cured under a lamp. A Japanese manicure works the other way round from everything else we do: the plate is prepared, then a mineral paste and a fine powder are buffed into its surface in two stages, until the nail carries a pearl-like shine. It is where our technician sends clients whose gel reaction has settled and who want to stay off gel.
The service includes:
C$53 for 50–60 min. No polish, gel or cured coating goes over it — that is not part of this service and is not offered with it.
50–60 min, in the same order every time. Ten nails, each one finished individually.
The e-file question deserves a straight answer: what hurts is technique, never the tool. Our technician holds an eighty-hour e-file certificate from KASYA Nail Club, signed off in 2023, and on a service like this the plate is prepared delicately rather than filed down — light vibration, short contact, nothing sharp and nothing hot. Tell us and we stop. Your kit is washed, ultrasound-cleaned, disinfected and steam-sterilized, then stays sealed until the pouch is opened at your table.
The method is old and simple, and it works with the nail surface rather than over it. Once the nail is shaped and the cuticle worked, a mineral paste is buffed into the plate, then a fine powder. Each stage has its own buffer and the two are never interchanged. The shine that comes up is the surface of your own nail, smoothed and polished until it reflects light — which is why the finish reads as pearl-like rather than glossy, and why the difference shows immediately on nails that have spent months under coating.
Two things follow, and together they are the whole argument for the service. Nothing is cured, so there is no lamp. And there is no coating to take off next time — you come back to a bare plate rather than a lifting edge.
It also sets the honest limit. This is not a coating: it adds no strength, it holds no colour, and it wears off as the nail grows. Expect roughly two weeks of shine, with a return every two to three weeks if you want it kept up. Anyone who needs three chip-free weeks of colour is better served by gel, and we say so rather than sell this instead.
Coming straight out of gel or extensions: suitability is assessed once the coating is off. If the plate is not in a state where the buffing stages would be safe or would hold, the technician says so and the service is adjusted or postponed rather than pushed through. Removal of coating applied at our studio is free when it is booked together with a new service. Another salon's work is removed as Complex Removal, twenty to forty minutes, paid in full.
C$53, 50–60 min. It costs more than the manicure most clients compare it against, and the reason is time on the plate: the full detailed e-file manicure is the same work Flawless Russian Manicure gets, and then all ten nails are treated individually in two stages. None of that is faster than applying a coating.
The shine holds about two weeks, and the return interval is every two to three weeks. Our five-day fix covers chips, lifting and premature coating failure, so it does not apply to this service — there is no coating on the nail for it to cover.
Book a pedicure into the same visit and the pair runs as one combo appointment at five percent off, performed one after the other by the same technician.
