8499 Old Redwood Hwy # 107, Windsor California 95492
If you are person that regularly likes to get a manicure, then you will notice that most nail salons are run by immigrant Vietnamese women who speak in broken English, knowing only a few basic terms to keep a light conversation going as they work. Often they’ll laugh and talk among themselves in Vietnamese, and whenever this happens 9/10 times a friend will always ask,
“Are they talking about me?”.
This leads my friends to wonder if they really do talk about us knowing many can't understand Vietnamese and me to wonder why most shops are run by Vietnamese women.
Answering the first question, no, they do not and will not talk about you behind your back. As a daughter of a Vietnamese immigrant who often would go to nail salons and wait for my mother to get her weekly manicure, I know that they don't because I can understand what they say. Often times they will talk about what they will do for dinner, what time they are leaving work, about the last Viet. drama they watched on Youtube yesterday, and what their children have achieved in school. Many shops even have a rule of no talking about a customer, unless they have done something wrong against you. So no, they aren't talking about you and they wouldn't even want to, so no need to sweat about it.
Ms. Tippi Hedren - Godmother of the Vietnamese Nail industry
Ms. Nathalie Kay “Tippi” Hedren, an American actress, animal rights activist and former fashion model, was born on January 19, 1930. Hedren was instrumental in helping Vietnamese immigrants in California started doing nails.
Off-screen, Hedren is the international relief coordinator for the nonprofit organization Food for the Hungry. After the fall of Saigon, she began working with Vietnamese women in Hope Village, a refugee camp in Northern California, where she began to receive attention from Vietnamese women for her long, shiny nails. mine. mine.
Hedren asked Dusty, her manicurist at the time, if she would go to the camp and meet the Vietnamese women. Dusty agreed, and Hedren drove her to Camp Hope every weekend to teach nail technology to a group of about 20 eager women. When they graduated, Hedren helped them find jobs throughout Southern California.
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Ms. Tippi Hedren - Godmother of the Vietnamese Nail industry
Ms. Nathalie Kay “Tippi” Hedren, an American actress, animal rights activist and former fashion model, was born on January 19, 1930. Hedren was instrumental in helping Vietnamese immigrants in California started doing nails.
Off-screen, Hedren is the international relief coordinator for the nonprofit organization Food for the Hungry. After the fall of Saigon, she began working with Vietnamese women in Hope Village, a refugee camp in Northern California, where she began to receive attention from Vietnamese women for her long, shiny nails. mine.
Hedren asked Dusty, her manicurist at the time, if she would go to the camp and meet the Vietnamese women. Dusty agreed, and Hedren drove her to Camp Hope every weekend to teach nail technology to a group of about 20 eager women. When they graduated, Hedren helped them find jobs throughout Southern California.