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Award-winning nail artist partners with YWCA Regina for self-care workshop for women

A local nail salon and the Regina YWCA are promoting healing and connection through self-care.

Goal is to promote healing and connection

Hien Pham, owner of Pham Nails & Beauty Bar, has partnered with YWCA Regina to offer a workshop on nail care for women residing in YWCA Regina residence and shelter, with a focus on reconciliation and community. (Kirk Fraser/CBC)

The Regina YWCA and alocal nail salon and are promoting healing and connection through self-care.

The Pham Nails and Beauty Bar held its first workshop for women from the YWCAresidence and shelteron June 24.

Participants got to learn about nail care and art from Hien Pham, award-winning nail artist and owner of The Pham Nails & Beauty Bar.

Organizers say self-care offers a sense of healing and confidence for vulnerable women who face barriers in accessing such services.

At the workshop, participants learned about nail care and art from professional nail artists. They were also provided with kits and instruction to do their nails. (Kirk Fraser/CBC)

Pham saidhe's been looking to give back since he immigrated to Canada from Vietnam in 2002.

Pham shared his interest in givingback to the community while doing Cora Sellers's nailsand they started discussing how to make the workshop a reality.

For Sellers, who is an Indigenuous woman, the program is important because of how anti-Asian and anti-Indigenous racism,colonization, trauma and poverty have impacted women served by YWCA Regina.

"I'm doing this to give back to a community and just to make people happy I am happy when people around me are happy and also, to make people feel that there are so many good people and good things out there in our society, so always think positive,"Phamsaid.

Cora Sellers and Hien Pham collaborated to make the program a possibility for the women in the shelter. (Kirk Frase/CBC)

Phamwants to show these women the importance of self care and the viability of a career as a nail technician or a nail artist.

"We're gonna teach them the basics of how to apply polish on their nails. In the meantime, I'll show them how fancy you can get with the nails," Pham said. "But first I have to show them the basics of how to do nails first. We try to teach them to do basic self care first before getting to another level of being a nail artist to working in the industry for themselves."

At the end of the program, the participants were provided with their own nail kits to practice.