10/22/09

LOVE LOVE LOVE IT

by pugabull

They take the time to tell me a haircut will not work, I get the best color here. They really make me beautiful! They take the time to really do a good job. They always ask how I am doing and what is new in my life, its nice to walk into a place like that.

The rewiew about the beard waxing............must I say more? Who gets their beard waxed (drag much)? Get over yourself.

05/04/09

I LOVE this place!! Loyal customer!

by citygirl2222

I am a long time customer of Wax On Wax Off and I have absolutely nothing but good things to say. I have gotten the $100 waxes from other salons and they take 40 minutes and are just horrible. Then I moved to Little Italy and stumbled across this place and have never looked back. The ladies here are done in about 10 min or less every time! They are amazing! They always do great, barely painful waxing, in addition to eyebrow threading. Monika always remembers me, and fits me in whenever I call to say I'm on my way. And they even give UIC students a great discount; I believe its 10%?

The salon here is great too. I always see girls walk out with fantastic color and cute cuts too. Amazing waxing and threading, and they are always warm and welcoming to me and the dozen or so friends that now use them on my recommendation. Oh and its easy to find metered parking. One time, I did not have any quarters and they gave me a few! They are always so nice and friendly.

I am extremely surprised and thoroughly offended by the racial accusations that are on some other reviews. As for the Brazilian man - he clearly needs to get over himself! The employees here would never lie and say they don't do men if they didn't. From his story, both employees were just being honest and admitting they do not do those waxes. It shows they are not a money-grubbing salon that would experiment on their customers just to make a buck. And he is not at all justified in saying they are "gay unfriendly." One of their stylists is gay and very much respected by the owners and loved by the customers. Posting such inflammatory remarks when a person doesn't even know what goes on is just ignorant.

And to Reg104's review - people like this should be ashamed of themselves for posting such hateful things. How typical that the person claiming racism would resort to calling people names and making fun of their heritage. Really? "Racism at its best"??? All because she couldn't do your hair? She was honest that she wasn't experienced with that type. I think we can all agree that even the person making the post wouldn't want her to just give it the old college try and hope it turned out ok. If that person were at all reasonable they would see that she was actually RESPECTING them and not trusting herself to work on hair that she was not familiar with. And of course any person can see that Reg104 is herself a racial biggot calling the employee "Olga" simply because she has an Eastern European accent. Thought she left without losing her class?? Yeah right - you can't lose class when you don't have any.

So everyone, do yourself a favor and start getting affordable, nearly pain free, SUPER quick waxes and threading done here! You will never switch again!

• Pros: Best wax in the city; affordable; nice employees; threading

01/17/09

Rude and unfriendly staff

by bonibras

I am a black Brazilian man and I chose to go to this saloon before reading all these reviews here. Well, I'm surprised that I agree with some people who found the staff very unfriendly and slightly anti-ethnic, but it's not an open racis t stablishment. I just believe they are not prepared to deal with black beauty (although they are not in Poland so they should be). The brunette girl is ok. I asked a lot of things on the phone, and she said she could do the facial threading, but when she saw me in personal she said she couldnt do because my hair is too thick.(Actually, it's not very much because I do waxing for 5 years in brazil and my beard is not thick). I took that as a simple opinion of hers, not as racism. If she wasnt prepared to do it, she was right telling me so. The blonde, Monika, was the one who waxed my face. She is definately unhappy :(, she said she never did waxing on men because "they don't do it", but I doubt there never been any men there. In short, the service did not attend my expectancy (in brazil is much better, but I dont wanna compare) because there are some smal thin hairs on my face yet. I would never come back there, because although I am very cheerfull, I left that place feeling depressed.

• Pros: Price, not painful, clean
• Cons: unfriendly staff, anti-ethnic service, gay unfriendly