SVS NAIL STUDIO

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SVS NAIL STUDIO

Ghent

SVS Nail Studio is another single-technician operation in this guide, run out of Ghent by Samantha, who reviewers refer to interchangeably as Sam or Sammy. It shares the same broad pattern as a couple of the other small studios on this list: a short review count — six total — but every single one at five stars, with no exceptions or lukewarm ratings anywhere in the sample.

What stands out specifically about this studio is how often pedicures come up as the reason people return, and the specificity with which reviewers describe that service. One reviewer, an avid walker covering ten miles daily, described their feet as feeling “reborn” after a visit, specifically praising how professional and detail-focused the service felt compared to a typical quick pedicure they might get elsewhere — a meaningful comparison from someone whose feet genuinely take a beating.

Multiple reviewers independently use the word “detailed” to describe Samantha’s approach, which is worth noting since it wasn’t just one customer’s phrasing repeated — different people, describing separate visits, landed on the same specific word. One reviewer went further and explicitly contrasted her with other nail techs they’d used previously, calling her simply the best they’d ever been to, and specifically citing how much time she takes to make sure the result looks right before considering the appointment finished.

That same reviewer also mentioned she takes real time on natural nail prep — effectively a full manicure — before applying acrylic or gel, rather than rushing straight to the extension itself. That prep-first approach comes up again in a separate, independent review, where a different customer specifically credited Samantha with taking care of their real nails underneath the enhancement rather than treating the natural nail as an afterthought to be covered up.

For anyone who’s had acrylic or gel damage their natural nails at a rushed salon before — a genuinely common complaint in the nail industry broadly — this specific, repeated pattern across independent reviewers is a meaningful point in this studio’s favor, more so than a generic compliment about how nails looked on the way out the door.

One review is worth mentioning directly for the sake of transparency: a customer noted that the studio offers a small review-based discount, but specifically said they weren’t reviewing for the discount and would have left the same praise regardless because of how much they genuinely value the work. It’s a minor detail in the context of the review itself, but worth surfacing rather than treating every five-star review as equally spontaneous and unprompted.

Cleanliness isn’t specifically addressed one way or the other in this studio’s available reviews, so there’s nothing concrete to report given how small the sample size is here — six reviews simply doesn’t give the same texture that a salon with two or three hundred reviews provides.

Hours run Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 8 AM to 7 PM, Saturday 8 AM to 7 PM, and Sunday from 12 to 7 PM, with Wednesday as the one closed weekday — a slightly unusual schedule worth double-checking before planning a visit around what might otherwise be assumed as a typical Monday-through-Friday work week.

Given the consistency across every available review and the specific, repeated, independently-corroborated praise for both pedicure care and natural nail protection, this reads as a strong option for anyone prioritizing those two things specifically. The one honest caveat is sample size — six reviews is a smaller foundation than most other salons in this guide, so the pattern here, while consistent, is based on less data than a salon like DB Nail Studio or Devinn Nail Bar.