Adrian's Bosslady Nail Salon is a Black-owned and women-owned nail studio in College Area at 6244 El Cajon Blvd, suite 30, San Diego 92115. Owner Adrian Gillaspie-Gay runs a no-drill operation — full sets and fills are shaped and buffed entirely by hand, a technique that eliminates the heat damage and thinning that electric filing inflicts on natural nail beds over repeated visits. Freehand nail art is the studio's signature, with custom designs painted directly onto each nail without stencils or stamps. The El Cajon Blvd location sits adjacent to PLATT College near the intersection with College Avenue, and the personal-care corridor includes barbering operations such as Pappy's Barber Shop San Diego where the grooming density serves clients who schedule haircuts and nail appointments on the same strip. The no-drill philosophy extends to acrylic removal, where Adrian soaks off product rather than grinding it down, preserving nail thickness across fill cycles. Additional technicians work alongside the owner, expanding chair capacity beyond a single-operator model while maintaining the hand-filing standard across every station. SDSU's campus sits less than a mile east, drawing students and staff into the 92115 nail salon corridor along El Cajon Blvd. Permanent makeup clients preparing brows and lips at nearby studios coordinate with nail art appointments here, a pairing reflected in the concentration of enhancement services that includes Power of Pigment in the broader Grantville corridor. The studio operates by appointment, with scheduling structured to give each full set the two-to-three-hour window that hand-filed construction requires.