INDEX: Nail Polish Store Fixtures

INDEX:
Nail Polish Store Fixtures

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This Nail Polish Store Fixtures index page aggregates links
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as well as deep Background courtesy of Wikipedia.

BACKSTORY: Nail polish (also known as nail varnish) is a lacquer that can be applied to the human fingernail or toenails to decorate and protect the nail plates. The formulation has been revised repeatedly to enhance its decorative effects, and to suppress cracking or flaking. Nail polish consists of a mix of an organic polymer and several other components, depending on the brand.^[1] People use this liquid to create simple or complicated designs with bright colors, charms, or other.

Nail polish originated in China and dates back to 3000 BC.^[1]^[2] Around 600 BC, during the Zhou dynasty, the royal house preferred the colors gold and silver.^[1] However, red and black eventually replaced these metallic colors as royal favorites.^[1] During the Ming dynasty, nail polish was often made from a mixture that included beeswax, egg whites, gelatin, vegetable dyes, and gum arabic.^[1]^[2]

In Egypt, the lower classes wore pale colors, whereas high society painted their nails a reddish brown, with henna.^[3]^[4] Mummified pharaohs also had their nails painted with henna.^[5]

Colored nail polish did not make an appearance until the 1920s. Early nail polish formulas were created using basic ingredients such as lavender oil, Carmine, oxide tin, and bergamont oil.^[6] It was more common to polish nails with tinted powders and creams, and finish by buffing the nail until left shiny. One type of polishing product sold around this time was Graf’s Hyglo nail polish paste.^[6] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

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