Booking platforms and beauty round-ups carry much of what AI cites when people in Singapore ask about haircuts, Korean perms and facials. On 27 buyer questions, Miin Hair & Beauty tops our measure of AI search for hair salons in Singapore with 36.1 out of 100, one citation ahead of the next salon, which is too close to call. The salon Google puts first for “hair salon singapore” is joint 12th in AI.
The ranking: 20 salons by AI visibility
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ChatGPT: 1 · Gemini: 3 · Perplexity: 4 · Google AI Overviews: 5
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ChatGPT: 3 · Gemini: 3 · Perplexity: 2 · Google AI Overviews: 4
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ChatGPT: 2 · Gemini: 3 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 5
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ChatGPT: 4 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 1 · Google AI Overviews: 2
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ChatGPT: 1 · Gemini: 1 · Perplexity: 2 · Google AI Overviews: 3
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ChatGPT: 2 · Gemini: 0 · Perplexity: 0 · Google AI Overviews: 4
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Linked citations in four scored engines. Equal scores share a rank. Scores describe visibility in this panel, not business quality.
Source: Ahrefs Brand Radar, Singapore, November 2026.
View data: AI citation leaderboard
| Rank | Business | Score | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | AI Overviews | Google rank | DR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miin Hair & Beauty | 36.1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | n/r | 10 |
| 2 | His & Her Hairloft | 33.3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | n/r | 2.7 |
| 3 | Platinum Cutz & Style | 27.8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2.0 |
| =4 | J. Seoul | 19.4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | n/r | 2.2 |
| =4 | Kimage Hair Salon | 19.4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | n/r | 18 |
| =6 | Orange & Teal | 16.7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | n/r | 5.0 |
| =6 | Salon Plus | 16.7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | n/r | 1.5 |
| =8 | Picasso Hair Studio | 11.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | n/r | 27 |
| =8 | DR. LASH | 11.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | n/r | 8.0 |
| =8 | Gentleman’s Cuts | 11.1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | n/r | 6.0 |
| =8 | ProTrim Korean Hair Salon | 11.1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | n/r | 21 |
| =12 | BADA HAIR | 5.6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/r | 14 |
| =12 | Chez Vous Hair | 5.6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21 |
| =12 | The Hive Salon | 5.6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.4 |
| =15 | Walking On Sunshine | 2.8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| =15 | skin pple | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | n/r | 33 |
| =17 | August Hair Salon | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5.0 |
| =17 | ON Hair Salon (name to verify) | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.8 |
| =17 | Peachy Skin Bar | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/r | 9.0 |
| =17 | Sage & Fawn | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/r | 4.6 |
Engine columns show listed citation counts. Where a salon appeared under two hosts on the same engine, we checked the answers one by one, so no answer counts twice in this table. The panel contains 27 questions and 108 stored answers, none missing. Score: up to 25 points per engine, with full marks at 9 citations (how the score works). It is not a quality rating. ”=” marks a shared score; the order within a tie is not a difference in performance. Google rank is the organic position for “hair salon singapore” (Ahrefs, 12 October 2026); n/r means not in the recorded results. DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating. Answers last updated 16 October to 12 November 2026. Source: e-Alchemists analysis of Ahrefs Brand Radar data, Singapore, November 2026.
Three findings
The three highest-scoring salons have Domain Ratings of 10 or less
Miin Hair & Beauty (DR 10, 13 citations), His & Her Hairloft (DR 2.7, 12 citations) and Platinum Cutz & Style (DR 2.0, 10 citations) head the score table. The first two are one citation apart, too close to call a leader. His & Her Hairloft is also one of only 3 of 20 salons cited on all four scored engines. Picasso Hair Studio and ProTrim Korean Hair Salon, with DRs of 27 and 21, share =8 with two other salons.
Chez Vous Hair leads Google’s salons and shares =12 in AI
Chez Vous Hair is the first salon in Google’s organic results for “hair salon singapore”, behind a Seth Lui listicle. On the AI score it shares 5.6 points with two other salons, from two scored citations, both on Gemini. None of Google’s top three results for that term (Seth Lui, Chez Vous Hair and Reddit) is among AI’s top three salons.
Facial businesses are rarely cited
Six of the 27 questions are about facials, yet the facial businesses in the panel are rarely cited. Peachy Skin Bar, the first business in Google’s results for “facial singapore” (Ahrefs, 11 November 2026), has no citations in this panel on any of the six engines we recorded. AI Overviews on Google keyword searches, a separate panel we report but do not score, cite it 5 times. 4 of 20 businesses have no citations on any scored engine, and all four came into the panel through Google.
Who AI cites instead
Under our classification rules, aggregators take 121 of 245 (49%) citations to the 15 most-cited domains on each scored engine. Salon websites take 50 (20%), and social platforms and media 60 (24%). The aggregator figure counts lifestyle and beauty magazines such as Vogue Singapore, Women’s Weekly and Byrdie as aggregators because they publish salon round-ups. Fresha, the booking platform, is the single most-cited domain on Perplexity (11 citations) and Google AI Mode (10), and shares the lead on Google AI Overviews (8) with Reddit and google.com. ChatGPT’s top source is the directory Lookup.sg (8), followed by CNA (7) and Fresha (6). Perplexity also cites Women’s Weekly (8) and Locallista (7).
Gemini is the exception. Four domains share its lead on 3 citations each: three salons (Miin Hair & Beauty, His & Her Hairloft and Platinum Cutz & Style) and the round-up site spendsanity.com. Salons in the 20 take 13 of Gemini’s 28 top-15 citations (46%).
Google vs AI in hair and beauty
Google organic position 2
AI rank: =12
Highest AI score: 36.1 / 100
Google term: hair salon singapore. AI ranks apply only within this panel; tied scores share their rank.
View data: Google vs AI in hair and beauty
| ”hair salon singapore”, Google top 3 | AI top 3, by composite score | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seth Lui (listicle) | Miin Hair & Beauty |
| 2 | Chez Vous Hair | His & Her Hairloft |
| 3 | Platinum Cutz & Style |
Platinum Cutz & Style is the one salon in both views: fifth in Google’s organic results and third on the AI score. The page Google ranks is a “best hair salons” listicle on the salon’s own blog.
Technical readiness
Of the 20 salons:
- Fewer than 3 put a barrier in front of AI crawlers.
- 12 publish an llms.txt file.
- At least 18 have structured data (JSON-LD) on the homepage.
- 13 mark themselves up as a local business.
No salon’s robots.txt bars an AI search crawler from its homepage; fewer than three block GPTBot or other training crawlers there. These limited homepage checks do not explain a particular salon’s count.
The hair and beauty playbook
Each move below is a test to run and track, not a result this study measured.
→ Test a real price list. 11 of the 27 questions ask what a haircut, perm, manicure, lash set or facial costs. A crawlable price page is a fair experiment.
→ Keep booking profiles complete and accurate. Fresha has more listed citations than any salon on four of the six engines, and Vaniday is in AI Mode’s top 15. Domain counts do not show which salons those pages named, so check your listings for accuracy rather than expecting a measured lift.
→ Answer the Korean-style questions. The panel includes “Where to get a Korean haircut in Singapore?” and “How much is a Korean perm in Singapore?” Test a page that answers them.
→ Facial businesses: answer the facial questions. Six questions are about facials, including “Which facial is best for brightening skin?” and “How much is the cheapest facial?”. Pages that answer them directly are worth testing.
How this was measured
We took every salon question (haircuts, perms, rebonding, colour, nails, lashes, facials) with a Singapore or buying modifier in Ahrefs Brand Radar’s Singapore database, 27 in all, and counted the citations to each salon’s website in the 108 stored answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews (AI Mode and Copilot recorded, not scored). Questions about which hair-colour shade suits someone, and one about facial masks, were left out as product advice. Measured, not modelled, in November 2026. Full method: How we measured this.
The 27 questions in the panel
- Where is the best hair salon in Singapore?
- How much should a haircut cost in Singapore?
- What is the best short haircut for older women?
- Do you tip for a haircut in Singapore?
- How much is a cheap haircut in Singapore?
- What’s the best facial for older skin?
- Which facial is best for brightening skin?
- How to choose the best hair salon?
- How much is Chanel facial in Singapore?
- What type of perm is best for men?
- Which aesthetic facial is best?
- How much for a haircut in Singapore?
- Do you tip a hair salon in Singapore?
- What is the best haircut for guys?
- Where can I get the best hair salon?
- Which facial treatment is best?
- How much are lash extensions in Singapore?
- How much is the cheapest facial?
- How much is a men’s perm in Singapore?
- How much is a Korean perm in Singapore?
- Where to get a Korean haircut in Singapore?
- What kind of haircut is best for curly hair?
- What is a number 1 haircut in Singapore?
- How much does a manicure cost in Singapore?
- What is the difference between lash lift and lash perm in Singapore?
- How much does a perm cost for a man in Singapore?
- How much does a haircut in Singapore cost?
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