Really couldn’t afford it but to be truthful I can’t afford emotionally not to pamper myself anymore. It has never been a secret that I love being a girl.

The manicurist was Vietnamese. He told me the story of growing up in a communist country. His brothers escaped as boat people in 1979. They made it to San Francisco where they settled and sponsored this young man and his parents to come to the United States when he was 15.

He loves America and all of the opportunity it allows us. Something those of us who grew up here tend to take for granted.

He is happily married and expecting their first child, a new baby daughter named Jasmine. He was so cute when he explained he worked very hard with his brother in law to build the salon business. His reason for working so hard?

A happy wife makes a happy life. :)