Six, never seven
Two chairs, six appointments, and the number does not move even in December. A set here is ninety minutes to two hours of continuous fine work, and the seventh appointment of a day is a worse appointment than the first six. Hands do this. No philosophy attached.
The consequence is that booking opens two weeks ahead and fills in about a day. Cancellations go out on a waitlist text rather than back onto the calendar, which is the fastest route in if you are flexible.
One slot for someone new
Every week, one appointment is held back for a person who has never been here. It gets released on Friday for the following week and it is genuinely the only reason a studio this booked is not closed to new clients.
It is also why the honest advice for a first visit is: get on the waitlist text and take the Tuesday morning when it comes. Everybody wants a Saturday and nobody who comes in on a quiet Tuesday morning regrets it.
What art does to the clock
Eight dollars a nail is the price. What it costs you is time, and it is worth budgeting for: one accent nail adds about ten minutes, five nails adds forty, and ten detailed nails can add an hour and a half to a two-hour set.
Say at booking roughly how much art you want so the slot is the right length. Arriving with a ten-nail reference for a ninety-minute appointment means choosing between the art and the set, and neither of us enjoys that conversation.