Metro by metro
The leading nail salon chains in every Kentucky metro area
Tracked nail salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Glamour Nails leads in 1 metro area, Anthony Vince' Nail Spa in 1 metro area, and L'Amour Nails & Spa in 1 metro area. 6 chains lead at least one metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
Not enough tracked stores: Clarksville, TN-KY (KY part) · Owensboro, KY · Paducah, KY-IL (KY part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Bowling Green, KY · Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (KY part) · Elizabethtown, KY · Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH (KY part) · Lexington-Fayette, KY · Louisville, KY (KY part)
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L'Amour Nails & Spa
#1 in Elizabethtown, KY
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Nail Studio
#1 in Bowling Green, KY
Not enough tracked stores: Clarksville, TN-KY (KY part) · Owensboro, KY · Paducah, KY-IL (KY part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked nail salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Kentucky compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Kentucky as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Kentucky and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Kentucky is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Kentucky. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked nail salon chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Super Nails and Asian Nails sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Super Nails | ▲1 | +8.5% |
| 2 | Asian Nails | - | +7.0% |
| 3 | Regal Nails | ▲1 | +6.9% |
| 4 | Hollywood Nails | ▲1 | +5.4% |
| 5 | Nail Spa | - | +4.0% |
| 6 | Pro Nails | ▲1 | +0.6% |
| 7 | K Nails | - | -2.2% |
| 8 | Paris Nails | - | -2.5% |
| 9 | Top Nails | ▲1 | -4.9% |
| 10 | Paradise Nails | ▲1 | -5.0% |
| 11 | LA Nails | - | -5.3% |
| 12 | Nails Express | ▲1 | -5.6% |
| 13 | Pretty Nails | - | -7.3% |
| 14 | Sassy Nails | ▼1 | -8.6% |
| 15 | Elite Nails | ▼1 | -11.0% |
- Glamour Nails
- Anthony Vince' Nail Spa
- L'Amour Nails & Spa
- Lavish Nails & Spa
- Expert Nail Spa
- Exquisite Nails
- Blush Nail Lounge
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
425 tracked store locations in Kentucky. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 31 of the 425 stores (7%); 270 of the 327 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are nail salons, against 11% across the United States.
- Glamour Nails (2)
- Anthony Vince' Nail Spa (2)
- L'Amour Nails & Spa (2)
- Lavish Nails & Spa (2)
- Expert Nail Spa (1)
- Exquisite Nails (2)
- Blush Nail Lounge (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 LA Nails 11
- 2 Lovely Nails 6
- 3 Top Nails 5
- 4 Pro Nails 5
- 5 Elite Nails 4
- 6 Super Nails 4
- 7 Nail Spa 4
- 8 Paris Nails 4
- 9 Hollywood Nails 3
- 10 Sassy Nails 3
- 11 K Nails 3
- 12 Paradise Nails 3
- 13 Asian Nails 3
- 14 City Nails 3
- 15 Star Nails 3
- 16 Emily Nails 3
- 17 Modern Nails 3
- 18 Pretty Nails 3
- 19 Nails Express 3
- 20 Lee Nails 3
- 21 Regal Nails 3
- 22 Angel Nails 2
- 23 Beautiful Nails 2
- 24 Hi Nails 2
- 25 Fancy Nails 2
- 26 Happy Nails 2
- 27 Nail Tech 2
- 28 Glamorous Nails 2
- 29 Elegant Nails 2
- 30 American Nails 2
- 31 New York Nails 2
- 32 Luxe Nails 2
- 33 VIP Nails 2
- 34 VIP Nails & Spa 2
- 35 Hannah's Nails 2
- 36 Danville Nails 2
- 37 KY Nails 2
- 38 Diva Nails 2
- 39 Crystal Nails 2
- 40 Venus Nails 2
- 41 Majestic Nails 2
- 42 Pearl Nails 2
- 43 Exquisite Nails 2
- 44 Spa Nails 2
- 45 Lavish Nails & Spa 2
- 46 Luxor Nails Spa 2
- 47 L'Amour Nails & Spa 2
- 48 Anthony Vince' Nail Spa 2
- 49 Glamour Nails 2
- 50 Cute Nails 2
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