Wicked Local photo by Dick ShermanIntroducing the staff at the newly opened Nail & Spa Club: from left, Lana Cao, Kayla Danh, Michelle Cao, and receptionist Pot Danh.
By Staff reports
Tue Dec 08, 2009
(Posted by CAAI News Media)
Lakeville - Kayla Danh traveled halfway around the world before deciding to put down roots in the “nice little town” of Bridgewater and pursue her American dream.
The youthful, soft-spoken Vietnamese woman endured some tense moments during the course of her odyssey, which included flights from communist oppression in her homeland and Cambodia and stops in Thailand and the Philippines en route to a safe haven here in New England.
Her family settled eventually in Worcester, where Danh, only 11 when she arrived in the U.S., spent her late childhood and studied at the California Beauty School, where she earned the licenses that qualified her to practice as an aesthetician, described by Merriam-Webster as “one sensitive to beauty.”
For four years, until a year ago, she managed a nail salon owned by her sister and a fellow countryman, Tom Huynh, on Winter Street in Boston.
Along the way, Kayla, who had settled in Randolph, worked briefly in Bridgewater and found it to be “a nice little town.”
Weary of the commute to Boston and the tribulations of working in a big city, she shared her feelings with Huynh and suggested he consider moving the business to Bridgewater. Huynh took a field trip, touring the community and deciding he liked what he saw.
The upshot: he rented the property at 15 Central Square and launched the Nails & Spa Club, which opened late last month after Danh and Huynh had labored since July to rehabilitate the decidedly downtrodden premises.
The rehab has paid dividends. The property has been revitalized from floor to ceiling and wall to wall, and today features an attractive earth-tone atmosphere featuring new plumbing, heating, and electrical service, floors, walls, and partitions. To step inside is to enter a different realm, replete with amenities like incense and soft classical music. Furnished with standard beauty shop accoutrements, the 1,100-square-foot facility will soon feature separate rooms for administering facials and body massage.
Danh’s sister will soon join the spa’s team of licensed beauticians.
The spa offers a wide range of services, which, in addition to standard nail and massage applications, will soon include reflexology, which involves ministrations to the pressure points on the feet, which, says Danh with a smile, “makes you feel better.”
The range of services also covers natural nail care and enhancement (including pedicures), as well as body waxing. Manicures range from the “classic spa” treatment for $15 through such exotic offerings as deluxe, milk and honey, and pomegranate specialties for $22; and pedicures ranging from the express level through classic, deluxe, milk and honey, and, once again, pomegranate. The latter three are priced at $40, while the express, at $25, is for people who don’t want to linger long enough to enjoy a therapeutic, 10-minute massage that’s calculated to enhance blood circulation.
In addition to the soothing music and seductive incense, the spa offers its customers such beverages as herbal team, and soft drinks.
The point is, a trip to the spa – Bridgewater’s newest small business - may not make a new woman (or man) of you. You’ll just feel that way.
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