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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Did Tippi Hedron start the Vietnamese manicure industry?

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Strange but true, actor Tippi Hedron kickstsarted the Vietnamese manicure industry in the United States in the 1970s. This is that story. 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:08.1

Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff.

0:10.0

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck.

0:11.5

Jerry's here, too, and for days.

0:13.7

And this is Short Stuff, one that ties into a recent episode of ours.

0:18.2

ROR!

0:20.0

That's right.

0:21.0

Thanks to the following Inside Fullerton website, National Museum of American History,

0:26.6

K-C-R-A.com.

0:27.8

The rock.

0:29.2

Dot edu.

0:30.9

And a website called Viet Salon.

0:33.7

And if you're like, that's a funny sounding name, it's not because we're talking about the

0:38.1

interesting fact that Vietnamese American and Vietnamese women generally populate the manicure nail

0:48.7

professional system like no other group in the United States. Yeah, and it's one of those things that you just know that in the United States.

0:57.9

Even if you don't get your nails done, you just kind of know.

1:01.9

Vietnamese people tend to be the ones that run and own nail salons.

1:06.5

But it's one of those things that you probably have never stopped to ask why.

1:11.2

And this is one of those great stories where there's actually a specific answer, a specific date, specific people involved that answer that question why.

1:21.2

Like there's an answer to it, not just, well, that's just how it turned out.

1:25.4

Yeah, for sure.

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