Vietnamese Nail Industry Leader Speaks of Grit, Love Amid Hard Times
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IRVINE, Calif.—Tam Nguyen was a toddler when his parents fled Vietnam in 1975. They lived in a refugee camp in Sacramento, Calif., run by actress Tippi Hedren. It was the birthplace of the Vietnamese nail industry—and today, 80 percent of California’s 11,000 nail salons are Vietnamese-owned. Hedren, who is known for starring in Alfred Hitchcock’s […]