By Heather Lusk
With nearly 1,000 color choices for the perfect manicure, La Vie Nails salon opened in Zionsville Jan. 15.
“I love Zionsville,” owner Monica Nguyen said. “The people are so nice. The area’s really good.”
Her first salon, at 86th Street and Township Line Road 14 years ago, had a lot of customers from this area, so when she eventually sold the salon she hoped to someday open a new location closer to her Carmel and Zionsville customers.
She found the right spot in the Zionsville Shopping Center at 1215 W. Oak Street. “I’m very, very lucky to get this (location),” she said.
Her salon is next to the Rice Cooker, coincidentally for the second time. The restaurant owners opened a second spot at 86th Street and Township Line Road more than a decade ago next door to Nguyen’s salon.
“Now I come back here and I’m next to them,” she said. “It’s very funny.”
She and her husband also own a Vietnamese noodle restaurant in Castleton, Pho Tasty.
Nguyen has four employees at her Zionsville salon but will add up to 10 in the summer when businesses increases.
The salon offers waxing, lash extensions and eyebrow tinting and shaping in addition to the nail services of acrylic, gel and pedicures. Children as young as five can enjoy specially priced manicures and pedicures. In the future Nguyen hopes to add facials, available at her Carmel salon, Q Nails.
Her Facebook page, La Vie Nails Zionsville, will periodically announce deals starting with a grand opening special for a pedicure or eyebrow wax.
The salon is open weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome.
