{"id":5057259,"date":"2021-11-29T23:55:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/?p=5057259"},"modified":"2021-11-29T23:55:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:55:02","slug":"entrepreneur-joyce-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2021\/11\/29\/entrepreneur-joyce-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"She Se Puede: Joyce Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caring for nails didn&#8217;t come easy at first for&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joyceega_nails\/\">Joyce Garcia<\/a>, owner of&nbsp;Girls Nails Cave&nbsp;in Wallingford. Garcia asked for a nail kit for fun when she was 15, did her first set, and hated it. So it wasn&#8217;t until two years later that she began doing nails for her sister and eventually friends.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garcia grew up in San Juanito de Escobedo, Mexico. She moved to Connecticut when she was 19 and started working three jobs seven days a week in order to help her family and bring them to the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screenshot-2021-11-29-at-10.13.07-PM-e1638248036800.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5057262\" \/><figcaption>Photo Credit: Girls Nail Cave<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten years after getting her first at-home set, Garcia, who considers herself a nail artist and educator, came up with the name Girls Nail Cave while cleaning her husband\u2019s \u201cman cave.\u201d At that moment, she knew she had the name of her business.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more about Garcia&#8217;s journey by reading Owner recalls the&nbsp;journey leading to opening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myrecordjournal.com\/News\/Wallingford\/Wallingford-News\/Woman-opens-her-first-Nail-Salon.html#gallery-1\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.myrecordjournal.com\/News\/Wallingford\/Wallingford-News\/Woman-opens-her-first-Nail-Salon.html#gallery-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Girls Nail Cave in Wallingford<\/a> on the Latino Communities Reporting Lab\u2019s story by Jareliz Diaz.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LCRL-e1638251401278.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5057268\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CTLatinoNews<a href=\"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/announcement-ctln-partners-with-the-latino-communities-reporting-lab\/\">&nbsp;partners<\/a>&nbsp;with the Latino Communities Reporting Lab in best serving the Hispanic-Latino communities of Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cover Photo: Owner Joyce Garcia stands in the entrance of Girls Nail Cave at 200 Church St. in Wallingford&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caring for nails didn&#8217;t come easy at first for&nbsp;Joyce Garcia, owner of&nbsp;Girls Nails Cave&nbsp;in Wallingford. 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