# Ivy's Nails, Santa Clara: a nail salon in Santa Clara (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/santa-clara/ivy-s-nails-santa-clara-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 6 sources. Updated 2026-10-12. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/santa-clara/ivy-s-nails-santa-clara-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuel5vmx0u1vyeiqu5c0m75v%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuel5vmx0u1vyeiqu5c0m75v%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuel5vmx0u1vyeiqu5c0m75v%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuel5vmx0u1vyeiqu5c0m75v%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuel5vmx0u1vyeiqu5c0m75v%2F4.jpg) ## In short Ivy's Nails is a nail salon in Santa Clara, CA. Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Nail salon | | Address | 2118 El Camino Real #32, Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA | | Hours | Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 10 AM to 7 PM · Sat 10 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sun | | Phone | (669) 219-1386 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 5.0 across 53 reviews | | Known for | Pedicure and Manicure | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | October 12, 2026, 2:10 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 2118 El Camino Real #32, Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Transforming nails into beautiful expressions of style and self-care is our passion at Ivy's Nails in Santa Clara, CA. Our nail salon offers a full range of services designed to keep your hands and feet looking flawless, including manicures, pedicures, and custom nail art that perfectly complements your personal style. With 14 years of total experience, our studio salon provides expert care in a professional and relaxing environment. We specialize in a variety of manicure options, from classic to gel and spa treatments, ensuring every client receives a service tailored to their preferences. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon Closed · Tue to Fri 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Sat 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Location info | Mondays | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Ivy's Nails | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (669) 219-1386 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Services | Service | Custom nail art | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Gel manicure | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Manicure | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 | | Services | Service | Nail art | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 | | Services | Service | Pedicure | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 | | Services | Service | Spa manicure | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/ivynails02122020 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 | | Links | Website | https://ivysnailssantaclara.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 23, 2026 | | Links | Yelp | https://www.yelp.com/biz/ivys-nails-santa-clara | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 3 services Ivy's Nails offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Pedicure | | | | Confirmed | | Manicure | | | | Confirmed | | Nail art | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for - Pedicure: 20% of reviews (AI guess, counted across 5 reviews) - Manicure: 20% of reviews (AI guess, counted across 5 reviews) ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Ivy's Nails Address: 2118 El Camino Real #32, Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA. Phone: (669) 219-1386. Hours: Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 10 AM to 7 PM · Sat 10 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 23, 2026 at 1:59 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Ivy's Nails on its Google Business Profile: "Transforming nails into beautiful expressions of style and self-care is our passion at Ivy's Nails in Santa Clara, CA. Our nail salon offers a full range of services designed to keep your hands and feet looking flawless, including manicures, pedicures, and custom nail art that perfectly complements your personal style. With 14 years of total experience, our studio salon provides expert care in a professional and relaxing environment. We specialize in a variety of manicure options, from classic to gel and spa treatments, ensuring every client receives a service tailored to their preferences." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | China Stix | Chinese restaurant | 1 min walk | | Parking | Parking lot | 2 min walk | | Kobe Japanese Restaurant and Sushi | Sushi restaurant | 2 min walk | | Subway | Sandwich shop | 2 min walk | | Pastes Claudia | Mexican restaurant | 2 min walk | | Slamm Fried Chicken, Smash Burgers & more | Fast food restaurant | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 5.0 average across 53 reviews. ### What people like Nothing found ### What people do not like Nothing found ### Press No press story about Ivy's Nails found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Ivy's Nails Ivy's Nails hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### On a budget in Santa Clara, is Ivy's Nails the one? No answer yet ### any last minute appts at Ivy's Nails? No answer yet ### points or member pricing here, worth signing up? No answer yet ### the good stuff about this salon, what is it? No answer yet ### first time here, what is it actually like? No answer yet ### do I need to fill anything in beforehand No answer yet ### is there a socials account worth following No answer yet ### what else is on El Camino around Ivy's Nails? No answer yet ### Does this salon split it over a few months? No answer yet ### best nail salon in Santa Clara, CA No answer yet ### waiting list, how long are we talking No answer yet ### who should I ask for at Ivy's Nails? No answer yet ### anyone had trouble parking round here? No answer yet ### Ivy's Nails in Santa Clara or Rose Bloom? No answer yet ### bad experiences at Ivy's Nails, anyone? No answer yet ### Open Mondays here? No answer yet ### Ballpark for a visit to a nail salon in Santa Clara? No answer yet ### when is this salon actually dead? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Ivy's Nails We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Ivy's Nails. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 25 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Santa Clara nail salons run 13 to 44. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Ivy's Nails scores 25, level with the Santa Clara average. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Ivy's Nails | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 35 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 6 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 1 of 17 answers that recommended anyone. 3 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 92 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 48 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 65 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | Not read yet | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | No reading has come back for this signal yet. | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a nail salon When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a nail salon in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Ivy's Nails if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Ivy's Nails | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Ivy's Nails | LocalBusiness | #business | https://ivysnailssantaclara.com/ | Subject of this page | | Santa Clara, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Ivy's Nails is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the nail salons in Santa Clara, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best nail salons in Santa Clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara/nail-salon - Best businesses in Santa Clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Ivy's Nails. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJqflmPVPLj4AR-IEsHFEtjuE (accessed Sep 23, 2026) - [2] ivysnailssantaclara.com, https://www.ivysnailssantaclara.com/manicure (accessed Oct 12, 2026) - [3] ivysnailssantaclara.com, https://www.ivysnailssantaclara.com/nail-art (accessed Oct 12, 2026) - [4] ivysnailssantaclara.com, https://www.ivysnailssantaclara.com/pedicure (accessed Oct 12, 2026) - [5] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 12, 2026) - [6] ivysnailssantaclara.com, https://ivysnailssantaclara.com/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)