Nail care that looks after you
Lacquer Room Nail & Beauty Studio is a quiet nail, brow and lash studio on Haywood Road in West Asheville, North Carolina, for people who love groomed nails but not chemical headaches.
Mei Tanaka opened the studio in 2019 in a former print shop, with four manicure tables, two pedicure chairs and a brow bed by the front window. It offers six treatments: a builder gel manicure, Gel-X extensions, hand-painted nail art, a botanical spa pedicure, brow lamination and a keratin lash lift. Each is a single named treatment at a single published price.
Hygiene is treated as part of the treatment rather than a background detail. Metal tools are cleaned and sterilised in an autoclave between clients, files and buffers are single-use or go home with the client, and the pipeless pedicure basins are scrubbed and disinfected after every appointment. Each table has its own extraction, and the shelves hold Japanese and European gels including fully HEMA-free lines, which keeps a small room comfortable for sensitive clients.
Three promises to every client
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No shared jars, no jets
Product is taken out with a clean spatula or brush, never dipped into, and every pedicure basin is pipeless and cleaned between clients.
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Time enough to be gentle
Appointments run from 50 to 90 minutes, so cuticle work and removals are never rushed, and nail art that needs longer is priced before painting starts.
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Seven days of wear, guaranteed
If a gel nail chips or lifts within seven days, Lacquer Room repairs it at no charge. Any client may also ask to see the sealed tool pouch opened.
A visit, step by step
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Step 1
Choose a treatment
Send the treatment wanted and a rough time range through the contact form, or telephone during opening hours.
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Step 2
Shade and shape are matched
Sheer swatches are tried against your skin in daylight and brows are pencil-mapped first. A first brow or lash tint needs a patch test 48 hours before.
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Step 3
Careful, unhurried work
There is no need to remove polish at home. Removal of the studio's own gel is included, and another studio's product is $25, agreed in advance.
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Step 4
Aftercare to take home
You leave with cuticle oil or a lash serum and honest advice on wear until the next rebalance.
What the studio does not do
Lacquer Room is a nail and beauty studio, not a medical practice. It does not offer liquid-and-powder acrylics, dip powder, lash extensions, waxing beyond the brows or any procedure that breaks the skin, and it does not treat fungal nails, ingrown nails, warts or other conditions of the nails, feet or skin. Where a request needs one of those, the studio says so when it is asked rather than taking the appointment.
Ask about an appointment
The name of a treatment and a rough time range is enough to start. Lacquer Room replies with the times that are genuinely free.