When celebrities walk the red carpet at Hollywood’s biggest events, they show off an unexpected statement piece — their nails. Bold colors, intricate designs and acrylics are spotted on the hands of ...

When Robin Godby takes her toddler daughters to the salon, it’s not their nails she wants shaped–it’s their self-awareness. At Nails Right Now, in the Pembroke Lakes Mall, Vietnamese men and women ...

When Kathy Pham immigrated from Saigon, Vietnam, to San Rafael, California, in 1989, she was 18 years old and searching for opportunity. To make a living, Pham turned to a line of work a lot of other ...

ALICE — You might have noticed a lot of Asian products and services dominate the beauty industry from skin care and makeup to even nails. Peter’s Nails in Alice is a Vietnamese-owned family business.

PHILADELPHIA - Kim Nguyen, her face behind a mask, worked with the concentration of a surgeon. She trimmed the cuticles of the long fingers before her, careful not to nick the skin. The hue on each ...

MIAMI — Linh Huynh used to drive a taxi through the streets of Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. Then, 13 years ago, his relatives, who worked in a nail salon in Miami, beckoned with the promise ...

If you've had a manicure lately, chances are you probably had it done at a nail salon run by people of Vietnamese heritage. The salons are everywhere — in nearly every city, state and strip mall ...

In Nailed It, director Adele Free Pham — whose father is a refugee from Vietnam — explores how Vietnamese entrepreneurs came to dominate the nail salon business in the United States. If you've had a ...