Need brows? Ask for Natalia!
For years I have considered permanent makeup to enhance my over plucked brows. The thought of having permanent tattoos on my face kept me from taking the next step. Â Year after year I drew my brows on my head, never got them even, and usually by midday they melted off or worse, just one was gone. Â Finally I'd had enough and took the plunge. Â
A tattoo artist in town came highly recommended by several friends. BIG mistake! A tattoo artist is not a make-up artist. Â I asked for light brows matching more of the darker tones in my blonde hair. Â What I got were too high, uneven, orange brows.., neon orange! Â After a good cry I hit the phone to interviews several licensed make-up artists in the city to discuss my options. Â All were very kind and offered great options and advice but...I just didn't felt right about committing until I spoke with Natalia.
There something about Natalia and I now know why she holds a five star record.  She is patient, kind, compassionate, and a gifted make-up artist.  Natalia took the time to evenly draw my brows to compliment my face and welcomed suggestions for  questions or changes.  After my procedure I must say, it was a bit disturbing to see my brows so wide, shiny and black but Natalia assured me that the color would lighten to match my hair and skin tones and the thickness of my brows would thin once my swelling went down.  She said I would see a more natural looking brow in a few days and Natalia was absolutely right.
It's been five days since my brow procedure and they look wonderful, exactly what I envisioned but best of all? Â No more neon orange. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Natalia !!!
Need brows? Â Go see Natalia!
Natalia is the best. As some people know, I really don't like when people touch my face but I trust Natalia without any reservations.
I've been going to Natalia for years and years and she has has always done the best job. She's incredibly thorough, and she never rushes through her appointments.
I primarily see Natalia for mini-facials and brows. She has a full appointment book so you should schedule a few weeks in advance. She is best reached via text message which I find to be a much better way to communicate (compared to phone calls).
Hands down I love this place. The shop is located in a great area in San Fran. If you find yourself showing up early for an appointment you can easily just run around and check out the neighboring designer/luxury shops.
As far as the service, it couldn't be better. The women in the shop are always smiling and always friendly. They make sure you're comfortable while they set up your spot. & whether you're getting permanent makeup or a facial you can be sure that they know what they're doing.
Not only that, they have the best skincare products. I've had troubled skin for years and acne that I could never get under control. I've worked for Sephora and even then I couldn't get a skincare regimen to fix my skin. I went to Natalia and asked if she had a good cleanser and sure enough she hooked me up. I've only been using this cleanser for a week and my skin has done a 360. It blows my mind. Instead of waking up with blackheads and redbumps I now have clean healthy skin. It is a miracle haha.
Shout out to Natalia you're the best!
Natalia is an amazing artist! Â I had her tattoo eyeliner on my upper lids and they are perfect. Â I am a professional makeup artist with 13 years of experience - I trust Natalia and am blown away by her talent. Â I am thrilled with the fact that I don't have to apply liquid liner everyday now and am going back to get my brows done with her in a couple of weeks.
Review Source:Natalia is fantastic. I have been going to her to get my eyebrows shaped for over a year now. Wow, how time flies. She is very sweet and really takes the time to get to know you and what you're looking for. I have the kind of unruly eyebrows that hedge trimmers probably work best on, but Natalia manages them amazingly well. She is professional, quick and very attentive.
She also gives added bonus tips on how to maintain your skin. My eyebrows look great, they are now easy to maintain and she does a great job on them on a monthly basis. She's also very good about rescheduling appointments and takes the time to text you if there's an opening you might be interested in if you are waiting on her because she is booked.
Her services are on the pricier side but given the union square convenience (which I'm sure does not come with cheap rent for her), it is well worth it. I definitely recommend Natalia for eyebrow shaping.
Natalia is wonderful. Â I had my brows done and they are amazing. Â She has a really great eye for colors and shapes and does an amazing job with permanent makeup. Â Considering the wonderful work she does her services are dirt cheap. Â I had work permanent makeup done by someone else and Natalia did my brows so much better!
Review Source:I would like to share my amazing experience with Natalia. I honestly chose her to do my brow tattoo because she is Russian. And I trust my former compatriots. Natalia did an amazing job (she uses the powder method). I am really happy with the way my brows look - as natural as possible, considering that they are tattooed. When I go out, i touch them up a little bit for a more dramatic look. But it's such a relief in the morning, when I wake up and do not have to rush to the mirror with my brow pencil. Thank you!
Review Source:I love Natalia. She is the nicest woman and she is really helping me improve my skin!!!!!!!! She takes her time and really personalizes the treatment. I am so happy I found her :) Also, her eyebrow shaping is amazing. I am pretty eyebrow obsessed and she is worth every dollar---she is a perfectionist and it really shows. Highly recommended :) I also really like her products. She recommends great stuff but itsn't pushy at all.
Review Source:I am so happy to write a review and give the highest rating to Natalia at Infinite Beauty. Â I have had my brows done twice at different locations and each time the results were horrible. Â The last time my brows were done they were uneven, poorly shaped and did nothing to compliment my face. Â I got a recommendation to Natalia and kept her name for three years before getting up the courage to call her. Â I should hug the person who recommended her to me because I am so very happy with the work that Natalia did. Â Natalia and I discussed the look that I was hoping for and she got busy drawing my brows and making corrections along the way. Â Natalia is a perfectionist if there ever was one and I would recommend her to anyone. Â I am happy to have met her not just for my brows, but happy to meet this very kind and gentle soul. Â Natalia you are awesome !!!
Lydia M
I love going to Natalia.  She has incredible sense of beauty.  Her eyebrows treatment are the best.  After her facials my skin feels 10 years younger.  Natalia is very  professional.  Natalia is a very unique and spiritual person.She is very warm, kind and understanding. It is always a pleasure to have an appointment with her.  Besides feeling beautiful after her treatment, I also feel emotionally healed.  I would highly recommend Natalia
Review Source:I've been going to Natalia for years, and even though I tried other estheticians, I could never find anyone with same professional skills and warm personality. She is not just providing a "pampering" experience (what I figured a lot of estheticians do out there), but really works on your skin making visible improvements. I would absolutely recommend her to everyone.
Review Source:Natalia's many specialties include brow shaping, a service for which I will forever be grateful. Natalia spotted my overplucked Indian eyebrows a mile away and urged me to grow them out so she could reinvent them. She did and the compliments haven't stopped since! She also gave me an incredible facial that everyone noticed, I was glowing and happy with my skin for the first time in years. Thank you Natalia!
Review Source:My eyebrows were uneven and misshapen. I decided to get them tattooed. I was nervous about doing something so permanent, but Natalia put me at ease. She made them look perfect, and I am so happy with the results. My only regret is that  I wish I would have done this sooner. If you are thinking of doing permanent make up, I would definitely go to Natalia!!
Review Source:I felt compelled to rate Infinite Beauty because I moved to the Bay Area from NYC and was completely stressed about finding my new eyebrow person. Â I love a perfect brow and looked so hard for so long to find my guru in NYC, it was difficult to start the process again. Â I came onto to Yelp and read the (accurate) positive reviews, and after reading Helen's Angry Asian Eyebrow review, was convinced to try Natalia out! Â (I'm nowhere near Asian, btw). Â So thank you Helen!
Natalia is amazing, simply amazing. Â She transforms my face with perfect, perfect eyebrows. Â They look naturally (dare I say it?) perfect. Â After I went last time, my husband (who didn't know I had an appointment) asked if I had gone to the salon for highlights. Â He thought my face looked brighter -- that's how good she is! Â (Plus, she's super cute and sweet -- who doesn't like someone who is super cute and sweet?)
She truly is an artist and I cannot recommend her enough. Â I feel so lucky to have found her!
I got my eyebrows waxed by Natalia, and she did a beautiful job! Â What an artist! Â My eyebrows have never looked better, and believe me, I've been getting mine done for over 20 years now. Â Natalia is very sweet, too - a true professional. Â I will definitely be going back once a month, and I'm happy I finally found the right person for my eyebrows.
Review Source:Natalia really helped me out. Â I had a bad permanent eyeliner job that I needed fixed. Â She was able to practically fade out the previous person's mistake. Â I'm going to see her again once my lids heal up to get the permanent eyeliner that I always wanted. Â She is nice and very knowledgeable and precise in her work.
Review Source:I went to Natalia on the recommendation of a friend and am beyond grateful that I did. Â Natalia is an excellent aesthetician and is knowledgeable, and easygoing. I went for a brazilian...my first ever and after sweating the process all day in anticipation of this momentous occasion i had a wonderful experience despite the circumstances.
I made my appointment through text message  but it  can also be done by phone.(text is a bit odd but convienent especially if you are in a drop dead quiet office making your appointment and dont care to let your coworkers know about your afternoon plans to get your hoohaa beautified)
I let her know that i was a rookie to this process and she quickly let me know some of the basics:
 1. at least two weeks since last shaved
 2. least painful time to get waxed is during the first 3 weeks after your monthly visit
 3 . take some advil at least an hour prior to help reduce the amount of discomfort
I follow the basics and get to the office and immediate change into a little cotton skirt like wrap from the waist down and she walks me through the process and proceeds to work her magic.
During the entire time she is explaining what she is doing, explains the after waxing process (rookies: yes there is a process nothing too burdensome just some things to keep in mind) and also holding a conversation with me to help keep my mind off of the potential  pain..which I have to say is slim to none (lord knows i was expecting fire and brimstone type pain)  She is quick and thorough!
I definately plan to continue going to Natalia for my waxing needs and recommend that anyone else that is considering their first or just needs to find a perfectionist in the craft see her too.
If I could give Natalia more stars, I would. Â I am very picky about my brows, but Natalia is even more picky! Â I have never had an esthetician who was so careful and precise. Â After she amazed me with her prowess on my brows, I started going to her for Brazilians as well. Â Of course, she is just as amazing.
I also go to Natalia for facials (yes, I know...) Â Her amazing attention to detail in everything that she does is truly impressive. Â I also love that I can text her in the middle of the day when I discover my chin has EXPLODED and she can get me right in.
Besides the great results, she is a truly nice person and a delight to go see, even with all of the pain she inflicts!
I've been seeing Natalia for over a year now. Â I don't see her on a weekly or even monthly basis, but she always remembers me and she has always done the same service every time and she does it professionally and very well.
She is super gentle, makes you feel super comfortable and has a great sense of humor (which I think is a must when you're going for the bikini area).
I love that you can text her for appointments, or even e-mail her and she gets back to you super quickly. Â I will definitely return to her and recommend her. Â
I don't know about you, but when it comes to "down there"...finding the right person who knows what they're doing doesn't just apply to your lover...it also applies to your esthetician.
I'm not sure if I've reviewed Natalia, because I think I have...but if I haven't she's amazing. She is a perfectionist when it comes to my brows. After I go to her, I always get compliments. And besides other peoples compliments, I always feel and look refreshed inside and out. She is an amazing person, easy to talk with, comfortable to talk with and is AMAZING!!!and I've seen her brow and liner permanent tattooing, and she is AMAZING. Natural looking and impeccable. She's AMAZING!!!and delightful!!!
Review Source:I'm stingy about giving 5 stars, especially when it comes to people working on or near my face. That is, unless they are really, really, exceptionally amazing. This is such a case.
Let me give you a little history about the Angry Asian Eyebrow. Until I was about 21, I thought that through evolution, older Asian women were born with hairless, thin, and angry-looking eyebrows. About 20 years ago, my mom went to have her eyebrows tattooed in the back of a Korean restaurant by a Korean lady who had a prison tattoo gun. Thankfully, my mom has always had nice, full eyebrows, so the prison tattooist wasn't able to do too much damage to her brows.
However, as she aged, I noticed that her brows turned a blue-gray hue, and started seeping mysteriously downward, morphing into a strange shape and size. Â Amazingly, I learned that everyone in the Baltimore-Metro area went to the same Korean prison tattooist to get their eyebrows done, which ultimately resulted in an entire ethnic community plagued by angry blue Asian eyebrow syndrome.
I vowed never to let anyone do anything permanent to my eyebrows, even when my eyelash permist in Virginia repeatedly begged me to let her "do something" to my horrifyingly short, thin, shapeless and helpless eyebrows.
"Helen, please," she begged me, as she pulled out an eyebrow pencil from her lab coat and instinctively started shading in my eyebrows. "This is how they SHOULD look!" I would look into the mirror every single time, and flinch in horror.
Needless to say, I moved to San Francisco, and never saw her again.
Enter Natalia Poliakova.
My co-worker recommended Natalia for months and months before I finally got off of my paranoid ass and went to see her.
Since I work in cosmetics, it wasn't uncommon for my girls at work to stop and apply the season's latest and greatest kit on me, to see how it would work for the "golden-toned." Each time, they would "fix" my brows, which translated into darkening them, shaping them, and extending them so that they were the appropriate length to frame my face.
I took that as a clue, and gave some thought to having them permanently "fixed" by someone here in the city.
Because she came so highly recommended by my friend at work who had exceptionally beautiful eyebrows, I took the chance. My first appointment was to do a bit of color correction on my eyeliner. Since it had been done quite some time ago, I wasn't sure what it would actually do for me. Natalia took the opportunity to even out some funky lines and wings that ended up on the corners of my eyes. She took such care in making them look perfect that I was literally in the room for two hours. The result? Absolute perfection. The next step?
The dreaded eyebrow.
I knew the results would be amazing when Natalia took over an hour just to shade, measure, and perfect the shape of my eyebrows. For 32 years, I have lived with what I thought were just genetically crooked eyebrows. One was visibly higher than the other, making me look inquisitive most of the time, even when I wasn't.
After measuring and shading and shaping, she got to work. It was 100% painless, and she spent every waking moment checking to see if I was comfortable, and even measuring and assessing her work midway through as I lay on the table.
An hour and a half later, I walked out of her room with super duper dark and defined eyebrows. I panicked, thinking that I would scare every passenger on the BART on my way home and disappoint my father, who had a field day yelling and screaming at my mom when she got her eyebrows done when I was a child.
Magically, after about four restful days, the eyebrows started to appear from underneath the light scabbing that occurs with this kind of procedure. They were about 50% lighter than the initial day. Beautifully shaped. Natural looking (really. really. really. natural). They weren't black, like the color of my hair. They were a perfect, perfect brown that didn't scream Angry Asian Eyebrow Syndrome. In fact, I think they make me look more restful. And zen.
The best part about it is that my eyebrows are now even. The reason I have the behind-the-screen photo here on yelp is because of my crooked eyebrows.
(Now I can change the picture).
How can a person change someone's view on the entire Asian race and Korean ethnicity in relation to eyebrows?
If they are as accommodating, understanding, talented and artistically and aesthetically blessed as Natalia.
If you are looking for a quick, 10 minute brow wax or a sub-standard permanent eyeliner/eyebrow quickie, this is NOT the place for you. You will find that Natalia will treat your face as she would her very own-- taking into consideration what you like, what looks best on you, and how you will ultimately view yourself.
See Natalia. I'm not lying, folks. 5 super BIG stars. She's incredible.
Natalia is indeed an excellent aesthetician! She is very knowledgeable, professional and does everything with highest degree of perfection. Whatever services you require - brows, facial, brazilian, Natalia is the best. I have tried other aestheticians and have found Natalia to be superior in her skills. I've been going to her for about 2 years and can recommend her with full confidence. If you are looking for perfection, go to Natalia. You will be very happy with her services and as a bonus her very cheery personality!
Review Source:I agree that Natalia Poliakova is the best aesthetician I've ever been too. Â NEVER has anyone been able to make my skin or my brows look as perfect as Natalia does. Â I always get the feeling she really cares about my skin, is extremely professional and fun. I will seriously not waste my time or my money going to anyone else.
Now that I think about it, I need to get my brows done! Â Make an appointment as much in advance as you can because she does book up!
Definitely a hidden treasure. Natalia Poliakova is amazing for eyebrows and skin care; she herself  has the most translucent skin and the most perfectly shaped eyebrows . I was seriously burned and nearly disfigured at another well know Union Square Russian beauty salon. Natalia nursed my singed eyebrows and scarred eyelids back into tip top shape. Every time she does my eyebrows, I don't  feel the need to wear makeup. Her attitude, compassion and enthusiasm is one of a kind.
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