The+Nail+Polish+Creation

The idea of using nail polishis is very old, in about 3000BC the Chinese, Italians and Japanese had this custom.

The Chinese ones in particular,were a mixture of several ingredients : egg whites, beeswax and evenjelly ! Petals were crushed and included in the mixture to obtain a pinkish, reddish. In600BC, at the time of the Chou dynasty , there were specific colors assigned to the royal women to separate them from ordinary women. Initially, the royals were gold or silver , but as time went on , these colors changed to black and red.Meanwhile, the lower class had to be content with lighter colors.If people who were not part of the royalty were seen using the " true colors", they would be executed!

The creation of the enamel as we know, is attributed to Michelle Menard in1920 and was inspired to paint cars. Interest in the nail polish then began to grow and many Hollywood stars were seen with red manicured.

Since there has been a great number of other enamel colors.Today, the colors cover the entire spectrum from black to white, red to green, through all the intermediate colors.