Painted Nails (2016)

It wont take long to fall in love with the subject of Painted Nails Van Hoang a Vietnamese nail salon owner who serves an ethnically diverse group of working class women with acrylic nails and intricate airbrush designs Through the course of the film Van unintentionally becomes a contemporary Norma Rae or Erin Brockovich Painted Nails brings us unprecedented insight into the personal nature of the political movement to regulate one of the fastest growing industries in the US Major loopholes in the federal law dating back to 1938 allow the 50billiondollar cosmetics industry to put unlimited amounts of chemicals into personal care products with no required testing monitoring of health effects or labeling requirements via Kanopy