India's First Nail Wellness Studio
Beautiful nails.
Zero shortcuts.
Gel, extensions, lash & red light — every tool sealed, sterilised at 134°C, and opened in front of you.
Manicures from ₹800 · Extensions from ₹2,200
Gel, extensions, lash & red light — every tool sealed, sterilised at 134°C, and opened in front of you.
Manicures, pedicures, soft gel, polygel, BIAB. Half of what we do.
Lifts, tints, extensions, brow lamination. Single-use everything.
Medical-grade panel, private room. Five protocols.
USDA organic actives, mixed fresh in your treatment. Three protocols.
Every time I came home from a salon disappointed, I wrote down what happened. I wanted it to be a list of small mistakes — the kind you tell yourself were one bad day, one bad technician. The folder kept growing.
Gel that peeled in five days when it should've lasted a month. Cuticles cut so roughly they bled. Tools wiped on a towel and used on the next woman. A pedicure that gave me an infection three days later.
I'm not the only woman with that folder. I read hundreds of reviews of salons across Chennai — the same complaints, in different handwriting:
These aren't unlucky women. This is the industry. I built Based for the version of me who didn't know to ask better — who didn't know her tools should come from a sealed pouch she opens herself, that her gel should last three weeks not three days, that bleeding is not "how it is."
It's the salon I wished existed when I was twenty-two. It exists now because no one else built it. I hope it changes what you expect.
These are not reviews of Based. They're real Google reviews of established nail salons across Chennai — we read 2,500 before we built this studio. Every standard we hold is a direct answer to one of these.
All quotes verbatim from public Google reviews. Locations anonymized. We will never make these mistakes — because we built every protocol around not making them.
"If we cut corners on sterilization, none of the beautiful work matters."
Six honest little tools for a real read on your nails, your body, and what you've been putting on yourself. Each one is happy to tell you "you don't need a thing" — and mean it.
One photo of your hand. An honest read of plate, cuticle and warning signs.
Score your damage. Get a tier and a clear path — sometimes the path is 'do nothing'.
Paste the ingredient list. We flag what the EU bans or restricts, in plain English.
Chennai humidity and hard water are real. Find the system that survives your life.
Acrylic, hard gel, soft gel, BIAB, polygel — matched to your nails, not our margin.
Sleep, energy, stress, skin. A real read before you spend on red light.