Thats not the norm... try Sisters (dubai mall), belle femme (they do home service and have locations in jbr, jumeirah, and business bay), lofts fifth avenue (locations alllll over).
If go to places like the NailSpa, Tips and Toes and Nbar you will get everything apart from the wax glove (which is an extra charge), make sure you book a regular manicure and not an express or polish change only, went to Nbar the last time and it cost 75 dhs, which is kind of average for that kind of manicure, hope you were charged less.
Some places have an express manicure....sounds like what you got. A regular manicure from Sisters, Pastels or The Nail Spa (particularly the one at Arabian Ranches) will have what you are looking for!
this is going to sound so odd.......but it is bugging me.
ok, so in the UK - I go for a manicure and they exfoliate your hands. soak your nails, cuticles done, hand massage and lovely creams, a little hand wax glove for tender sweet smelling skin and you feel as though I could work for a hand commercial (if it were not for my small hands and wrinkly skin !!!HA HA HA HA HA but it is the feeling that counts - you get my drift ??)
so moved to Dubai, walked into a nail salon - needed my nails doing badly over grown and in a bad way - looks like I am auditioning my hands for the feet double for gholum in lord of the rings - or the hobbit.
so put my hands out - all I got was take the nail varnish off, a file, cuticle tidy up and a repaint - with a 10 second massage - if you blink you would have missed it.
is that what a manicure here is like and is that normal ? or was I just conned ?
and if I was conned - can anyone recommend a good person at home or to go to - before they lock me up for scientific experimentation My hands look terrible..........
thanks loads........