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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Nail art is a creative way to color, decorate, enhance, and embellish the toenails. It is a kind of artwork that can be done on fingernails and toenails, after manicures or pedicures usually. A manicure and a pedicure are beauty treatments that trim, shape, and polish the nail. Often these procedures take away the cuticles and soften your skin about the nails.The exact source of nail treatments is unclear, since it appears to have originated in several parts of the world around the same time. In ancient Egypt, from 5000 B.C. to 3000 B.C., women would dye their fingernails or toenails with henna to point public seductiveness and status. Women of the lower class wore neutral and pastel shades, as the upper classes wore deep, bright shades. In Babylonia, 3200 B.C., men, not women, colored their toenails with black and green kohl, an ancient aesthetic. To get ready for war, warriors of Babylon spent time having their fingernails or toenails prepared, locks got and curled other similar beauty treatments. As with ancient Egypt, nail color indicated one's status, black for noblemen and green for the common man. Around the same time, 3000 B.C., the first nail polish originated in ancient China. It was made from beeswax, egg whites, gelatin, veg dyes, and gum arabic. Chinese language dipped their fingernails in this mixture for several hours or kept it on to dried up. Colors ranged from red to red, depending on the combination of the ingredients. During the Zhou Dynasty, 600 B.C., royalty used this simple toe nail polish with gold and silver dust on the nails showing their social position.