Interesting Development Of Nail Polish

By Dorothy Auston

How long do you think nail polish has developed? The answer is over thousands of years. Thousand years ago in countries across the world, ancient women pursued nail beauty to make themselves perfect. The same situation happens today, women pursue different kinds of traditional and advanced nail treatments to make themselves look attractive!

Nail polish had been popular since ancient time in many different counties like India, Rome and Peru. There were not many choices of color to choose and the most popular one was red. People did not paint nail polish during daily life but only during special events like wedding. Some of them might paint their traditional and auspicious symbols like eagles on their nails.

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.

The first public nail polish was launched by one of the beauty product brands, Revlon in 1920. Inspired by car painting, A French makeup artist named Michelle Menard invented the first commercial nail polish. Unfortunately, this first nail polish was found with toxic chemicals and such formula was later improved.

A brand named Tinkerbell introduced its brush on peel off nail polish in 1980. With this peel off nail polish, women needed no nail polish remover to take off their nail polish. The product became the best selling nail polish at their time. The most famous brand for peel off nail polish now is not Tinkerbell but Minx which offers a wide range of attractive peel off nail polish.

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!

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