The Journal

Short, specific reads on nails in Da Nang, new pieces every few days.

Guides · 8 min

Làm lại: what happens when you tell a Da Nang salon the nails are wrong

One of the 151 salons in this guide rates below 4.5 and 59 show a flat five, so the star column warns you about nothing. The 22 reviews at three stars or less are the whole public record of failure, and sorted by when the customer spoke, they say the same thing: the remedy tracks the timing.

30 October 2026

Guides · 7 min

Nailroom 1-1: the one-chair rooms, and the arithmetic behind a flat 5.0

72 of the 151 nail salons in this guide carry fewer than 100 Google reviews, and all 72 together hold 7.6% of the city's review text. Nineteen of the 31 smallest show a perfect 5.0. One of the eleven biggest does. A low count means four different things and only one of them is a warning.

24 October 2026

Guides · 7 min

Mắt mèo: 80K where cat eye counts as a colour, 180K where it counts as art

Cat eye is named in 24 of the 715 reviews behind this guide, at 20 of the 151 salons, which is more than French work and nearly three times chrome. Not one of those 24 reviews mentions a magnet, and the magnet is the whole trick. Two Da Nang menus publish a price for it, and they disagree about what kind of thing it is.

21 October 2026

Guides · 6 min

Tháo gel: what it costs to take off the set you flew in with

27 of the 715 reviews behind this guide describe arriving with product already on the nail. Twenty-three are five stars, the single one-star is about a file rather than a colour, and the two-star is about 150,000 đồng that nobody mentioned in the message.

5 September 2026