28 days of SoNailicious Nails – Day 9 – Red October Nails

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Nail fine art is a creative way to paint, decorate, enhance, and embellish the fingernails or toenails. 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 procedures and soften the skin about the fingernails.The exact source 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 fingernails or toenails with henna to point cultural seductiveness and position. 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, decorated their toenails with green and black color kohl, an ancient aesthetic. To get ready for conflict, warriors of Babylon put in time having their claws 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 toe nail polish originated in ancient China. It had been made from beeswax, egg whites, gelatin, veggie dyes, and gum arabic. Chinese language dipped their claws in this concoction for several hours or kept it to dry out. Colors ranged from green to red, with respect to the mixture of the ingredients. Through the Zhou Dynasty, 600 B.C., royalty used this simple toe nail polish with silver and gold dust on the nails to show their social position.