Nail polish is a common beauty product nowadays in the 21st century. In fact, it has been invented in thousands of year ago. In the ancient times, women did not have a store to buy their nail polish. They made the nail polish from different types of natural ingredients. In addition, nail polish is privileged to royal families in many countries or it is used only for special events.
Red was the most popular color for nail polish long time ago in many countries. For example both Indian and ancient Roman people loved red. They paint red nail for their weddings. For Peru, people would draw eagles on their nails as a respect for important occasions.
Cosmetics were common in ancient Egypt as you can probably notice different kinds of beauty products like eyeliners, mascaras as well as nail polishes on pictures of ancient Egyptian. In the old days, only women from royal family were allowed to use red nail polish. Ordinary people who wished to use nail polish had to pick light colors. For royal family, nail polish was painted by technicians who made the polish more long lasting with Henna and blood.
Around 1045BC, Chinese people in the Zhou Dynasty started to concern nail beauty. They did not use nail polish at that time but long false nails. As these long false nails were made of gold, silver, gem stones and jewelries, they were mainly worn by the queens only. Chinese people developed their first nail polish from flowers, egg white and wax in Ming Dynasty and red was their most popular color.
In 1920, Michelle Menard of Revlon invented the first bottle of nail polish from the inspiration of car painting. The first generation of nail polish contained some toxic chemicals and therefore, product formula has been kept changing.
In 1980, Tinkerbell launched its first Bo-Po brush on peel off nail polish. You do not need chemical remover to take it off. The nail polish became the most popular nail polish at that time. There is still brush on peel off nail polish nowadays, but the most famous brand is Minx instead of Tinkerbell.
The technology of nail polish keeps improving from day to day. Now, you can even find the mood changing nail polish in the market. The color of this nail polish, after painted on your nails, changes from time to time according to your mood and body heat! What a wonderful product for women!
Wow that's the first time I know that!
ReplyDeleteAnd I want the Mood-Changing nail polish please!! :O
lol No0ony if that was in Q8 I'd be the 1st person buying it ;p
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