Jenny Tran-Photo Essay

March 3, 2018; CenterPoint Mall. Linh Nguyen puts nails polish for a customer.

During history month, we celebrate women who impact those around them by being a warm source of comfort, and a strong pillar of wisdom. Linh Nguyen is a mother of two boys, a business woman, and a wife. By day, she tends to customers as a nail technician and by night, she returns to her small family. Linh paints beautiful designs on manicured finger nails, as pictured above, her attention is focused on the customer; frequenters experience exceptional service at her nail shop.

March 7, 2018; CenterPoint Mall. Linh Nguyen designs some art nails sample. 

 

March 10, 2018; Linh Nguyen hangs around with her husband and her kids. 

 At work, Linh's goal is to provide a warm experience to her customers, she wants them to be happy, confident, and beautiful, but sometimes she has to deal with upset customers. The draining ordeal drives her into an existential crisis. However, when she returns to her family, she hides all of her stresses and being a gentle mother and playing around with her kids. 

March 10, 2018; Linh Nguyen and her husband watches their kids playing. 

Since her husband is unemployed, she has to handle everything by herself like paying bills, going grocery, cooking, taking care of her children, but she still keeps working and never lets herself have a day off. As a young girl, Linh dreamed of being a kindergarten teacher, although life circumstances led her to where she is now, she has not given up her dream. She enrolled in a GED class and prepares to begin taking college classes- the catapult into her destiny. Such is the life of a woman, sacrifice, courage, passion, and love. she embodies, and virtue.