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 While holding a plastic prosthetic finger to practice "applying powder," Thanh Nguyen, 24, just said that "there is nothing to be afraid of going to nail lessons," because "I did not steal anything from anyone." Thành said and smiled kindly. Thanh's sister, who previously also had a nail degree, advised Thanh to study nail to find a job while waiting for college.

Thanh went to the US for 5 months, had just been in nail school for about a week. Before coming to the US, Thanh studied tourism and worked as a receptionist for a "resort" in Phan Thiet.

Twenty-one years old, Hoa Vu came to the US for 2 months, but has been in nail class for 1 month. Hoa was a Dalat. After finishing 12th grade, Hoa assisted in doing business with her family before settling in the United States. Hoa said, "My mother went to the US first, is doing nail work," so Hoa's "going to nail school to find a job" is almost no surprise.

 However, if both Hoa and Thanh believe that learning nail to work as a nail technician is only "temporary while waiting for college because we are young" then Viet Le, 32, is almost determined to stick with nail profession in the future, because "my mother also has nail salon."

 

While the US nails industry has only 4% of men, in the nail world in Vietnam, men account for 28%. (Photo: Khoa Vu / Vietnamese)

Viet is a Saigonese, has been to the US for 4 months, has just completed the exam, is waiting to rest for a few days and "practice more powder" and will start working. Viet seems to have learned and prepared quite carefully for this job, so he said, “If I like, I will follow this job. It is said that traveling interstate can make $ 4,000 a month. I see nothing as hometown when going to nail school! Why do people seem disparaging, stigmatizing this profession so much? "

Through research in her students, Ms. Nga Tran said one more reason men go to nail lessons is "to help his wife open nail salon." These are usually men who are "old," and have a wife to do nail work, want to learn nail so that "when the owner of the salon, he knows how to talk to customers and workers.

Men make nail difficult or easy?

Jobs such as sewing, makeup, cooking, flower arranging, baking, ... seem to be specific jobs for women. But when men step foot into these fields, they have outstanding success. Nail profession is no exception.

"Hard to follow nail profession is how to overcome the old thought of Vietnamese people who always consider nail profession as lowly. Mr. Nguyen Xuan Sanh, who did nail through many different states before returning to California, said his thoughts.

Viet Le, who used to work as an interior decorator in Saigon, had just finished taking the exam for 'license' as a nail art, answered without hesitation, “I find nothing difficult. It feels easy! "

What Viet finds difficult is that "in school there are not many people who allow me to practice powder." Therefore, in order to "feel secure" to work, Viet must find someone to teach more about nail powder.

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Mr. Nguyen Quoc Dat (left), 40 years old, both an owner and a nail technician, "Not feeling self-conscious when I go to nail work to make money for my life ..." In the picture: Mr. Dat is working "powder nails" for customers at Glamor Nail, Murrieta City, owned by him. (Photo: Tien Vu)

Mr. Nguyen Quoc Dat, 8 years experience in the profession "file" also said humorously, "Making nail is the easiest! Men do not know what else they do, we just do nail but can't do it anymore. "

However, in order for everything to become "the easiest", everyone needs to undergo training. Look at Hoa Vu, who has been learning nail for a month, brushing his lips, brushing the brush strokes "French painting" on the hand of a classmate, or watching Thanh Nguyen work hard, meticulously practice holding brushes, applying powder on his fingers fake hand, only visible until the worker can do the nail "Pink and White" without using the nail to cut the "shape" or the hand slowly dab the "liquid" and use the brush to get the right amount of powder to apply. On the guest nails, there is no shortage, it cannot be a one-a-day affair, or something "just looking at it can be done."

Mr. Dat confided: “The first set of nails I took was an hour and a half, both trembling and shaking and perspiration poured down. Now it only takes about 30 minutes, maybe 20 minutes to finish it. ”

After the first week of working, he thought that if he wanted to be good, he had to have "nails to wash." So when the customer enters "fill" the old nail, he "offers" for the customer to make a new nail, but only pay with "fill" money. Just like that, after a while, the skills Reached up clearly.

With 12 years of experience teaching nail for many groups of students, Ms. Nga Tran commented: "When boys have studied this profession, they are more successful than women."

The reason for her success given by Nga is that “boys, especially when they are single, have many easy conditions to fly out of California,

so their opportunities to cultivate are more likely. After half a year of willingness to go like that, when they come back, almost all of them get better and make more money.

Men who do nail must be good at "powder" (acrylic)

Those who have gone to nail school, used to work in nail art, easily realize one thing: man who does nail "requires" to learn powder (nail acrylic), must be good at powder, and few men do "pedicure" ( foot water) for guests, unless it's your "powder guest".

This probably stems from the Vietnamese feudalist concept, as Mr. Nguyen Xuan Sanh said: “Vietnamese men have the concept of honor of the East Asians, so they think if Sitting down as a woman's feet is judged to be vile and inadequate. ”

Not only do many male nail technicians feel the same way on their own, but even female salon owners do not want or "feel embarrassed" when calling a man for a pedicure, unless requested by the customer or the man himself. "Voluntary."

"That is the reason why nail art men find it harder to find jobs when they graduate than women," said Ms. Nga Tran of ABC Cosmetology School.

Many classifieds stores need nail technicians, but only "female only." It's because a female mechanic who just graduated from school can also do water hands and feet. Meanwhile, the newly graduated male worker is immediately evaluated as "inexperienced", so not many people will hire it, except when the male worker accepts to do the pedicure, and the shop owner agrees.

Besides, the story of male workers being afraid to do footwork also comes from the attitude and behavior of the guest.

“I don't know how to say it, but there are many strange ladies! They seem to respect the dough workers sitting on the table to make their hands more than the workers sitting below for the legs, while also wholeheartedly making themselves beautiful. Mr. Nguyen Quoc Dat expressed his thoughts.

Therefore, to be able to "survive" with the nail profession, the only male worker has to do is to be good at powder. Many female workers "criticize the powder," fearful of inhaling the substance "arcylic" and "liquid" that will affect their health, while the male worker has no choice. That is, the woman has the right to choose to be only a "water technician," and the man who does not know the powder is not considered a nail technician.

Nothing "wonders"

No one can deny that nail is a life-changing job for so many Vietnamese refugees, not only in the United States but also in many other parts of the world. From May, 1975, when Tippi Hedren, a famous movie actor from the 60s of the United States, trained nail art for the first 20 Vietnamese women to come to the US during the evacuation wave at that time, to Now, nail profession has passed on to many Vietnamese families, including Vietnamese men who also entered this profession.

Thanh Nguyen, 24, moved to the US for 5 months, studying nail to make money while fulfilling his dream of studying economics at university. In the photo: Thanh Nguyen practicing manicure powder on his finger at Advance Beauty College, Garden Grove. (Photo: Ngoc Lan / Vietnamese)

Not only people who have just moved from Vietnam to such as Thanh Tran, Hoa Vu choose nail careers as a "stepping stone" before finding a better direction in the future, but as Ms. Nga Tran said, "Many children have just learned. After finishing the high school here, I also go to nail lessons so that I can work weekend to earn more money to cover tuition fees for the college years.

As Mr. Dat shared: “There is no time or pride when I go to nail work to make money to take care of my life and my family,” or as Mr. Nguyen Xuan Sanh said about the future, “I don't know. If I quit this job, what better job could I find. "

 

Because of that, the nail profession will still accompany the Vietnamese on the way to make a living in the country, including Vietnamese men.