For fifty years, Vietnamese women have been doing America's nails. Walk into almost any salon from California to New York and you'll find them: patient, precise, working ten-hour days so your hands look beautiful.
I grew up in Van Phuc, a craft village outside Hanoi where silk has been woven by hand for a thousand years, and where today nail artists paint in the same quiet way. Watching them work, I kept thinking about my friends in the States: paying $80, $120, sometimes $150 for a set with art, giving up two hours of a Saturday, tipping on top, and then losing it all at the next fill.
So I started Pressed by Hand. Every set is painted to order by Vietnamese artisans, packed by hand, and sent straight from Hanoi to your door. You press it on in ten minutes, take it off whenever you like, and wear it again. The same craft you've trusted in the salon for decades, now made for you, at a fraction of the salon price.
— Huy Thu, founder
Pressed by Hand, from Van Phuc craft village, Ha Dong, Hanoi
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