Salon VN is a beauty salon at 688 Geylang Road in Geylang, Singapore, holding a perfect 5.0 rating on Google. Beauty salons live or die on repeat custom, so treat a first visit as an audition: a good therapist asks about your skin, any sensitivities and what you actually want before a facial or wax begins, rather than launching straight in. Cleanliness is the clearest tell — tools sterilised between clients, fresh linen, wax never double-dipped. In Geylang, where salons fill the shophouses almost door to door, the ones that last are the ones regulars return to, so a steady weekday trade tells you more than any signboard. For anyone in the neighbourhood after a salon locals clearly rate, this spot on Geylang Road is an easy one to try first.