Vu Nguyen
Nail Artist
With over 20 years in the nail industry, Vu has achieved many awards for his artistic talents. He has been on the NailPro top 10 competitors and has done many covers for the trade magazines. He has spent his last 15 years educating nail techs around the world and working with the industrie’s top techs and competitors. He was trained by many of the world’s top nail techs including champion nail tech Danny Haile.. Vu also works with the product development side of the business as he works closely with the nail world’s best chemists. Vu still love’s teaching nail techs nail art and says “ There nothing more rewarding to me than to share my knowledge of art and give those without any artistic bone the ability to be an artist”.
Danny Phung
Global Artist and Educator
Former world renowned International Artist and Educator for OPI Products Inc. Holding OPI's highest title of Global Artist, Danny traveled the world, educating, demonstrating the latest tips, tricks, and techniques in the nails industry. Starting as a nail technician in 1998, Danny has owned and managed 3 salons. A competitor, Nail Judge for int'l competitions, Danny has also been featured in Nails magazine, NailPro magazine, World News, Scratch magazine, and television shows across the globe.
Beginning his career in the education category, Danny worked at OPI Products for over ten years alongside R&D departments, Marketing, and Business Development to help formulate and bring to market many of OPI’s best selling professional items we see in the nail industry today, including OPI’s Absolute Acrylic System, Axxium Gel System, OPI’s first LED light as well OPI Pro Spa to name a few.
Danny has now settled in the International Business category at Nail Alliance to apply all of his skill sets including industry knowledge, education support, and distribution channels in furthering the development and strengthening of the professional nails category.
Holding the title International Sales Manager and overseeing Asia and Canada territory for Nail Alliance since 2016, his responsibilities include but are not limited overseeing Sales and Education support for all the Brands at Nail Alliance.
You will always find Danny at some corner of the world, whether it’s pushing education with trainings, public speaking with photo op’s at PR events and Campaigns, Distributor meetings for brand building and strengthening distribution channels or Nail and Beauty Expo’s researching new industry trends, ideas, and networking to better the Nail Industry.