Oakland settler achieves American mirage
Click photo to enlarge Alice Ly pours a warm, aromatic bath for a guy in her new salon Natural Nails Plus on Grand Avenue. Alice Ly lives to alter bodies happy. In fact, it's been her life's illusion since coming to America from Vietnam at the time of 19. Last month, it all came together when she opened Natural Nails Plus on Grand Avenue in Oakland.
What makes this machine shop unlike from the dozens of other fingernail salons in Oakland is Ly's story. She was 9 when her padre radical Vietnam on a small, crowded motor boat for America. He would fashion out a new life on Oahu, then send for his ball and chain and three daughters.
Ly thought the period would never come, but her family was finally reunited a decade later. She still remembers her father's advice. He told her not to air a salon -- and he spoke from experience. "My priest was a cosmetologist and a masseuse, and he said it was very assiduously work," says Ly.
"He told me to go into the salubriousness trouble oneself profession." Her two sisters did go into the medical field. One is an RN, and one is a medical biller, but Ly is a healer of a strange kind, which is what makes her salon different. Oatmeal cookies, Korean lawn tea and a sweet-smelling lavender marrow infuse the mood as you enter her shop. Like a accommodating friend, she welcomes you into her circle of soft jazz and restful massage.
Yes, Natural Nails Plus is a glue salon, but it feels more have a fondness a spa. Ly, who's a licensed cosmetologist with a station in business administration knows how to cocker her customers and even has free parking outside her shop.
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June 26 2011 01:26 am | Nail by admin
