The nail menu at Aloha Beauty Lounge prints one line for art: "Price varies by length, shape, and design." Those three words are doing real work. Longer nails mean more surface to cover and more structure holding it up. A shape that has to be built out is more labor than one filed from the nail you already grew. A design repeated on all ten fingers is more painting than a single accent. Art also sits on top of a base service, so a $25 Tropical Manicure and a $45 Aloha Glow start you in different places before art enters the conversation. To get a real number, send a reference photo and call (801) 909-8989 before you book.
A line like "price varies" tends to end a conversation before it starts. You scan it, assume the answer is expensive, and book plain polish. The reason nail art carries no printed number is simple, and once you understand it you can call with the right question and get a real number.
Why The Menu Leaves It Open
Where a fixed charge exists, the menu prints it. Add No-Chip Gel Polish is +$15, flat. Over on the lash side, a four week fill carries a +$20 surcharge, printed the same plain way. Nail art has no such line because there is no such figure. One dot on one ring finger and a hand-painted set across both hands are the same category on paper and nothing alike in the chair.
Where a fixed charge exists the menu prints it, and nail art has none to print.
Length Is Surface And Structure
The longer the nail, the more of it there is to paint, and the more it has to hold up on its own. A short nail is mostly supported by the finger underneath. Past the fingertip it carries itself, so the tech is building something that will survive daily use before a drop of color goes on.
Extra length changes the design too. Art that gets crowded on a short natural nail has room to breathe on a longer one, and a scene that reads clearly at length turns to mush when it is shrunk. Length moves the labor and the artwork together.
Shape Is Filed Or Built
Some shapes come out of what is already on your hand. A round or a soft square gets filed from the free edge you grew, and the skill is in matching it across ten fingers. Other shapes have to be constructed. A long almond or a tapered coffin tip has to be extended, with the sidewalls carried out to a line your natural nail never had.
Building takes product and time, and that is a large part of why two people can ask for the same artwork and hear two different numbers. If you are not sure what your shape is even called, our nail shapes guide lays them out side by side.
Design Is How Much Painting Happens
One accent nail is one accent nail. The same motif on all ten is ten times the painting, and the tenth has to match the first well enough that nobody can tell which one came last. Then there is how the design gets made. Finishes like chrome or a cat eye, covered in our nail add-ons guide, go on across the whole nail and get set. Hand-painted work is drawn line by line. Fine detail is slower than broad detail, and three-dimensional pieces built up on the surface are slower still.
If you are still deciding what you want, the trending nail designs guide is a good place to browse. Pick one picture you love, then be honest with yourself about whether you want it on one nail or all ten. That one decision changes the quote.
The Service Underneath The Art
Art is applied during a service that has its own price, so the base is where every quote starts. Manicures are $25 for the Tropical, $35 for the Paradise Luxe, and $45 for the Aloha Glow. The Tropical includes cuticle grooming, shaping, a hand massage with a hot towel, and polish. The Paradise Luxe adds a mud mask, scrub and paraffin. The Aloha Glow adds hot stone massage, collagen gloves and a steamer.
Pedicures follow the same ladder, from Aloha Dream at $40 through Aloha Royalty at $50, Aloha Luxury at $65 and Aloha Paradise at $85. Add No-Chip Gel Polish is +$15 on any of them. So the useful way to hold a quote in your head is base service, plus gel if you want it, plus art. Ask for the base price first and the art second, and the total stops feeling like a guessing game.
Acrylic And Anything Extended
Every acrylic and artificial-nail service on the menu reads "Call for Pricing," and the same three factors are the reason. Extensions are length by definition. The shape has to be built from scratch. Art on an extended set is art on a bigger canvas. If there are long tips in your reference photo, treat that phone call as part of booking.
How To Get A Real Number
Start with the photo. A picture answers length, shape and design in one shot. Call (801) 909-8989 before you book and talk through what you are both looking at. A good salon will quote from the picture rather than guess.
Two things are worth saying out loud on that call. Say whether the design goes on one nail or all ten, because it is easy to leave out and it moves the number. Say whether you want no-chip gel, since that is a flat +$15 with nothing to do with the artwork. Anything the menu does not spell out, deposits and timing included, is a question for that same call. Nail services carry a 10-day guarantee, so ask what it covers while you have someone on the line.
Where To Find Us
Aloha Beauty Lounge opens Wednesday, October 29, 2026 at 10509 S River Heights Dr #104, South Jordan, UT 84095, within easy reach of Daybreak, Riverton, Herriman, West Jordan, Sandy and Draper. Every printed price lives on the service menu, and anything without one is a phone call: (801) 909-8989.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does the menu say "Price varies by length, shape, and design" with no number?
Because nail art has no fixed unit of work behind it. A dot on one nail and a hand-painted set across ten are the same words on a menu and completely different jobs. Printing one figure would be wrong for nearly everyone reading it, so the menu names the three things that move the price and asks you to call.
Is nail art charged on top of the manicure price?
The menu prints a price for each manicure ($25, $35, $45) and prints no figure for art, saying only that it varies by length, shape and design. How the two are combined on your bill is a question for the phone. Add No-Chip Gel Polish is a separate +$15.
How much is a single accent nail?
There is no printed figure for one accent nail. It is less work than the same design repeated across ten, though the number still depends on the detail and your length. Send the photo and call (801) 909-8989.
What about acrylics or extensions?
All acrylic and artificial-nail services are listed as "Call for Pricing." Length and shape are built into that work, which is exactly why no figure is printed. Call (801) 909-8989 with your photo and the length you want.
Do I have to send a photo before booking?
Send one and call. A photo is how you get a quote that reflects your actual nails. For anything else about how booking works, ask on that same call.
Is there a guarantee on nail work?
Nail services carry a 10-day guarantee. Call (801) 909-8989 and ask what it covers so you know the terms going in.
