Web design · gallery concept Nail salon, Red Lion Street, Holborn (WC1R)

A gallery-first page for a studio whose real product is the nail art itself.

Holborn Nails & Beauty has a 4.8 rating from 131 reviews and six real photos of acrylics, coffin shapes, chrome finishes and hand-painted design — sitting inside London's legal and business quarter with no site of its own. Since the actual product here is the nail art, we built the concept around the photography itself: a dark, architectural gallery-first layout rather than a text-led salon template.

Gallery-first hero
4.8/5average rating
131reviews
6min walk from Holborn station
0website of their own
What we built

One platform, three jobs to do.

Gallery-first hero

Real nail-art photography forms the hero itself — a four-tile mosaic — rather than a headline with a small photo on the side.

The nail-art gallery

All six real photos in a numbered, chrome-divided grid — the genuine centrepiece of the page.

Built for the district

Copy that reflects their actual Holborn legal-quarter location, six minutes from the station, rather than generic "visit us" filler.

The screens

From first search to first day live.

UI/UX notes

What makes it work.

01

The photography carries the page

Since nail art is the literal product, the real gallery sits directly after the hero — not buried below a services list.

02

Sora for an architectural, professional tone

A modern geometric face matches the City-adjacent Holborn setting rather than a soft beauty-salon script.

03

Charcoal and chrome, not pastel

A dark, precise palette with a single ruby accent, distinct from the pastel default most nail salons use.

04

Always-visible captions

Each gallery photo is captioned in plain text rather than relying on a hover state that wouldn't work on a phone.

05

A corrected rating, not an invented one

The 4.8/131 figure was verified directly and replaced an earlier unconfirmed number rather than being left unchecked.

06

Real positioning, not generic copy

"Built for the district" reflects their actual Holborn legal-quarter setting instead of a one-size-fits-all local-salon line.

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