PassionsClassy Gold and Red Nail Art with Il Était Un Vernis

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Nail art work is an innovative way to color, decorate, enhance, and embellish the fingernails or toenails. It is a kind of artwork that you can do on toenails and fingernails, usually after manicures or pedicures. A manicure and a pedicure are beauty treatments that trim, shape, and polish the nail. Often these methods remove the cuticles and soften your skin about the toenails.The exact origin 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 toenails with henna to point public seductiveness and status. Women of the low class wore pastel and neutral shades, while the upper classes wore deep, bright shades. In Babylonia, 3200 B.C., men, not women, coated their nails with green and black colored kohl, an ancient cosmetic. To prepare for warfare, warriors of Babylon spent hours having their claws prepared, locks curled and got other similar beauty treatments. As with ancient Egypt, nail color indicated one's status, black for noblemen and green for the normal man. Around the same time, 3000 B.C., the first toenail polish originated in ancient China. It was created from beeswax, egg whites, gelatin, veg dyes, and gum arabic. Chinese dipped their fingernails in this combination for several hours or still left it to dried. Colors ranged from green to red, depending on combination of the ingredients. Through the Zhou Dynasty, 600 B.C., royalty used this simple toenail polish with silver and gold dust on their nails showing their social status.