I used my £2 for £20 worth of treatments for a City manicure. It took place in the basement, the hair salon was at street level. Although not a veteran of manicures, reading the City Manicure blurb on Compton's website, I was anticipating a professional 30min treatment in a nice environment resulting in pretty nails for my weekend away.What I got was a bored looking girl with a towel on her lap.Yes, this salon doesn't even have have a table to do manicures on.My cuticles were roughly snipped after applying some gel, which I'm sure didn't have time to penetrate.Then she started applying base coat-I asked about buffing and she said not on the express manicure.For the 3rd time since my arrival I had to say I was having a CITY manicure (twice as long).After huffing and puffing she removed the base coat, did a cursory buff then reapplied base.After applying my polish she went looking for topcoat, eventually she came back saying she'd have to use shellac because she couldn't find OPI.Apparently this was a bonus.However, the varnish wasn't well applied and due to the Shellac topcoat, was a nightmare to remove.My nail varnish remover is normally very efficient, even on dark purple glittery toenails(!),but this stuff was awful-took forever,had to be very rough and scraped it off.Thank goodness it was a pale colour,maybe shellac needs specialist remover?In conclusion, never again and wouldn't recommend manicures there to anyone else either.