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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: The Surprising Start of Vietnemese Nail Bars
Description: Tippi Hedren, star of Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ and ‘Marnie’, was already known for her activism - primarily rescuing big cats - when, on 19th August, 1975 she visited a Vietnamese refugee camp in Sacramento, California
Her nail art dazzled many of the women she met - so she set about helping them retrain as Hollywood manicurists, disrupting an industry which had previously been seen as a Beverly Hills luxury. Today, over half of nail technicians in the USA are of Vietnemese descent.
In this episode, Rebecca, Arion and Olly consider if Hedren’s template for celebrity am...