nail art

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Nail art is an innovative way to color, decorate, enhance, and embellish the fingernails. It is a type of artwork that can be done on toenails and fingernails, after manicures or pedicures usually. A manicure and a pedicure are beauty treatments that trim, shape, and polish the nail. Often the cuticles are removed by these methods and soften the skin surrounding the fingernails.The exact origins of toe nail treatments is unclear, since it appears to have originated in different parts of the global world around the same time. In ancient Egypt, from 5000 B.C. to 3000 B.C., women would dye their fingernails with henna to point public seductiveness and status. Women of the low class wore neutral and pastel shades, while the upper classes wore deep, bright shades. In Babylonia, 3200 B.C., men, not women, coated their toenails with green and black color kohl, an ancient plastic. To get ready for conflict, warriors of Babylon spent hours having their fingernails prepared, wild hair got and curled other similar beauty treatments. Such as 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, vegetable dyes, and gum arabic. Chinese dipped their nails in this mixture for several time or left it to dry. Colors ranged from green to red, with regards to the mixture of the ingredients. During the Zhou Dynasty, 600 B.C., royalty used this simple nail polish with silver and gold dust on the nails to show their social status.