Toe Nail Art Designs • Art Platter

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Nail art is a creative way to color, decorate, enhance, and embellish the fingernails. It really is a type of artwork that can be done on toenails and fingernails, usually after manicures or pedicures. A manicure and a pedicure are beauty treatments that trim, shape, and polish the nail. Usually the cuticles are removed by these methods and soften your skin about the fingernails or toenails.The exact origin of toenail treatments is unclear, since it appears to have originated in several parts of the global 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 social seductiveness and position. Women of the lower class wore neutral and pastel shades, as the upper classes deep wore, bright shades. In Babylonia, 3200 B.C., men, not women, decorated their toenails with green and black colored kohl, an ancient aesthetic. To prepare for war, warriors of Babylon spent hours having their toenails prepared, hair possessed 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 started in ancient China. It had been created from beeswax, egg whites, gelatin, veggie dyes, and gum arabic. Chinese dipped their toenails in this mixture for several hours or remaining it on to dried. Colors ranged from green to red, depending on mixture of the ingredients. Through the Zhou Dynasty, 600 B.C., royalty used this simple toenail polish with silver and gold dust on the nails to show their social position.