Mei Tanaka
Owner and master gel specialist
Takes most builder gel appointments and is the person to ask about brittle, bitten or over-filed nails.
Clean nail care · West Asheville, North Carolina
Lacquer Room Nail & Beauty Studio grows healthy natural nails with flexible builder gel, paints fine freehand art and lifts brows and lashes gently, with metal tools sterilised between every client and each step explained before it starts.
Each treatment names what it covers, how long it takes and what it costs. Nothing is sold as a package, and no price depends on booking a second treatment.
Dry cuticle care and a flexible builder gel over your own nails. 75 minutes.
$72
Light, odour-free soft gel extensions in four shapes. 90 minutes.
$95
A gentle keratin lift and a deep tint for natural lashes. 60 minutes.
$98
Micro-French, chrome, dots and fine lines on gel. 30 minutes.
$25
A pipeless soak, heel smoothing, scrub, calf massage and polish. 60 minutes.
$68
Pencil mapping, gentle lamination, a hybrid tint and a tidy. 50 minutes.
$88
There are no liquid-and-powder acrylics and no shared dip jars here, so the room smells of nothing much at all. Metal tools come out of a sealed autoclave pouch at the table, and pedicure basins have no jets to hide bacteria. Lacquer Room is a nail and beauty studio rather than a medical practice: where a nail or the skin around it looks as if it needs a doctor or a podiatrist, the technician says so before starting instead of working over it.
Dotted accents, stamped florals and pedicure colour: the quiet, wearable detail most clients ask for.
Three nail technicians and a brow and lash specialist who also runs the front desk. The owner and the senior technician take most first appointments.
Owner and master gel specialist
Takes most builder gel appointments and is the person to ask about brittle, bitten or over-filed nails.
Spa pedicure and natural nail specialist
Leads the botanical spa pedicures and HEMA-free gel appointments for sensitive nails.
Priya sized each soft gel tip to my nail beds. The set felt light enough to type on and lasted three and a half weeks.
Lauren B., Gel-X soft gel extensions
Rosa opened a sealed autoclave pouch in front of me, and the basin has no jets at all. My feet felt new.
Elena G., botanical spa pedicure
Priya painted whisper-thin ivory French tips freehand and told me the price before she began.
Sophie R., hand-painted nail art
Usually, yes. Builder gel is a flexible layer sculpted over the natural nail with a soft supporting apex, so a thin nail stops bending and peeling while it grows. It is rebalanced every three to four weeks rather than stripped back. When it is not clear whether builder gel or Gel-X fits, describing the nails in the contact form is the quickest way to decide.
Yes, for what each treatment describes. Removal of another studio's acrylic or dip is $25, and nail art that needs longer than the half-hour slot starts at $45; both are agreed before work begins.
Nothing special for nails: they can arrive polished, and removal of the studio's own gel is included. A first brow or lash tint needs a free patch test at least 48 hours before the appointment.
Metal tools are cleaned, sterilised in an autoclave and opened from a sealed pouch at the table. Files and buffers are single-use or given to the client to take home. Pedicure basins are pipeless and are scrubbed and disinfected after every 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.
An occasional email about opening hours, seasonal colours and holiday closures. One address, nothing else, and it stops the moment it is asked to.