DTLA MAKEOVER: POLISHED NAIL SALON By Keri Freeman
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VOL 15 NO 7 - APRIL 22ND - APRIL 28TH / DTLAWEEKLY.COM
polished nail salon
olished Nail Salon is located in Downtown Los Angeles on Spring and 6th Streets. Soon celebrating its fifth year, the corner nail salon known for great pedicures in the Historic Core is emerging from the winter months with a whole new look, and due to Covid, a whole new purpose.
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pring is here, revisiting DTLA once again revealing to us the beauty of everything new. Each new Spring confirms our determination and our ability to survive the coldest, darkest winter months. Mask, sanitation, and safety were already a necessary mandate at Polished Salon. Mandatory conditions authorized by the local health departments and legal rulings long passed into existence, laid out for all in the beauty industry. At Polished, this was an expected practice. Want wasn’t expected; an unforeseen worldwide pandemic that would shake DTLA to its core only to release it a year later in hopes that somehow we would remember who we once were. But, it’s okay! We remembered! Didn’t take long after news of reopening for DTLA to spring back into action.
photos by Piertro Arrendondo
Nancy nguyen - photos by gary leonard
Nancy Nguyen opened Polished Nail Salon in 2017 with the purpose to fill her new 2000 sq ft space with community members looking to enhance their appearance with hand and foot care.
A visit to Polished has an inner-city feel; from inside, patrons see the glimpse of passerby’s through the salon’s floor-toceiling windows, revealing the sporadic hustle of our Historic Core.
