Paint Your Nails the Way You Love

The creative ways to paint, decorate, enhance and embellish the nails is all in Nail Art. It is a kind of artistic work which can be performed on fingernails and toenails. The exact birth of nail treatments is still not clear as it seem to have originated in different parts of world approximately around same time.

Ancient Egypt from 5,000 B.C. to 3,000 B.C. showed some evidences on women dying their nails with henna to display social status. Lower class women painted pastel and neutral shades while upper class women wore deep and bright shades. One will be surprised to know that around 3200 B.C., not women, but men painted their nails with black and green kohl which is an ancient cosmetic. Around same period, 3000 B.C., the first nail polish came out in ancient China.

Nail Care Industry is growing rapidly since the invention of modern day nail polish. The year 2012 gave birth to nail art in USA where its popularity reached peak. Same year released a short nail art documentary which was named as “NAILgasm”.

By: Bhavna Sharma

Content: en.wikipedia.org