Polished: Why We Care About Our Nails
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The Connection Between Vietnamese Refugees and the Nail Industry
Hollywood actress D.P. Hedron asked her manicurist to train about 20 women on how to do manicures and that was the seed that started at all. I think another stream of why this industry exploded so much is also this hunger and this thirst for just being able to survive. Even though the US was at war in Vietnam, the name for the US and Vietnamese is Nookme which means beautiful country. And so even though all of the stuff was going on, Vietnamese people had held the US in a very beautiful light. It was very easy for them to just devour that American dream and come here in search of that.
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