Beauty & Nails Studio is a beauty salon at 25 Mataroa Road in Mangaweka, in the Rangitikei district, holding a perfect 5.0 rating from seven Google reviews. A combined beauty and nails studio usually covers the staples — manicures and pedicures, waxing, lash and brow work, facials — with small rural salons tailoring the list to the room and the day. Out here it pays to ring ahead rather than turn up on spec, as village studios often run by appointment alone. Hygiene is the honest tell in any salon: sterilised tools, fresh files, a patch test before tinting, and a good therapist will ask about skin and nail health before starting rather than just getting on with it. For a village the size of Mangaweka, a well-reviewed studio on Mataroa Road is a handy thing to have on the doorstep, sparing locals the run into Taihape.