Beautiful Nails is a beauty salon at 216 Joo Chiat Road, #01-01, in Singapore's Joo Chiat neighbourhood, with a 4.9 Google rating. Nail salons live or die on the details you notice only once you're in the chair: metal tools sterilised between clients, fresh files and buffers, cuticles tidied gently rather than rushed. Careful prep — shaping, buffing, a properly cleaned nail plate — is what makes a manicure last for weeks, whatever polish or gel goes on top. Gel should cure fully under the lamp and be soaked off rather than peeled, or the natural nail pays for it. On a street with a salon every few doors, asking how tools are cleaned and watching how a technician preps are the quickest tests of a good one. That 4.9 rating, on a stretch of Joo Chiat Road crowded with salons, makes Beautiful Nails worth a visit when you're next in the neighbourhood.