Hanah Nails runs out of one unit in the New Bugis Street market — the kind of address that either puts people off (“is this legit?”) or, once they’ve been, becomes the whole point. Gel manicures start around $18, with add-ons like the cat-eye effect bringing a full set to roughly $28, and gel extensions from about $65. Those aren’t invented numbers; they show up consistently across a ThreeBestRated listing and an independent Lemon8 review from someone who tracked their manicure lasting seven to eight weeks without a single chip. That kind of durability at that price point is the actual story here, more than any tagline could be.

The salon is run by a nail artist named Hanah, and the reviews that keep surfacing — on the salon’s own site, on Facebook, on Google — read less like marketing copy and more like people describing an actual afternoon. One customer wrote about bringing her two sisters in for nail art and being surprised at how affordable the customisation was; another described a hard gel top-up that showed zero chipping five weeks out, and when one nail did chip later, the salon redid it and touched up the rest for free, unprompted. Small thing, but it’s the kind of detail that’s hard to fabricate and easy to verify by just reading the reviews yourself.

Because Hanah Nails hasn’t built out a standalone website, its digital footprint lives almost entirely on Facebook and Instagram — which is unusual for a salon this well-reviewed, but not necessarily a weakness. It just means the “proof” is scattered across platforms instead of packaged into one polished site, and a shopper has to do slightly more legwork to find it. We think that legwork is worth it.