Nail art: the art of painting nails

Nail art: the art of painting nails
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nail art history

History of nail art

Nail art and nail design Nail design: the most unusual ideas - The variety of artistic techniques of nail decoration with colored varnish, glitter, sequins and other decorative details. While the phenomenal popularity of nail art found, by and large, only with the advent of the twenty-first century, the history of nail decoration is rooted in the deep past - even for five thousand years BC, in India there was a tradition to paint the tips of the nails with henna.

The first nail polish was invented before the onset of AD - although, of course, by the action and consistency, he was quite different from today's nail polish, used for nail art. For three thousand years BC, the Chinese invented a special mixture to give nails a color composed of gelatin, beeswax, vegetable dyes, crushed rose petals and egg white. Apply a polish on the nails had to be with extreme caution, and to change the color of your nails, leave the mixture on your nails for a few hours. This trend of nail art as an artistic decoration glitter nail also came up with the Chinese: another six centuries before the Christian era, Chinese aristocrats decorated nails plates of gold and silver, which became a symbol of wealth and high social status.

Nail art as an independent direction of nail care with the onset of AD was forgotten for several centuries: only in the Renaissance tradition of the ancient manicure received "rebirth" in Europe, gradually gaining popularity during the Victorian era. And at this time in America already existed art painting nails: in the fifteenth century, American Indians decorated nails drawings.

The twentieth century revolution nail art

nail art history The modern history of nail art begins in the twenties: it was the epoch of "Roaring Twenties" and the revolution in fashion led to the emergence of a fundamentally new direction in manicure - the so-called "moon", the two-color nail polish, which remains popular to this day. But, by and large, the development of nail art was only possible in the early thirties - once in 1932, the legendary cosmetics brand Revlon launched the first nail polish. Surprisingly, the inspiration for the first nail polish were not the ancient technique of staining of the nail plate, and the most that neither is a trivial car paint.

This series of amazing facts in the history of nail art does not end there: still striking that their contribution to the art of nail decoration made ... dentists. In 1934, Maxwell Lappe dentist invented artificial nails for clients with a bad habit of biting his nails Harmful nail-biting and how to fight it And in 1955 another dentist, Frederick Slack invented acrylic legs, which even today remains one of the most popular types of nails. Of course, to decorate pictures of colored lacquers such artificial nails was much easier than the "natural" nail plate, nail art so rapidly began to gain momentum. In the seventies, with the phenomenal popularity of artificial nails long, was born and one of the classic types of modern manicure - a well-known French manicure French manicure - the good old classics no longer in vogue? . But with the advent of the twenty-first century, nail art has experienced a real boom (which, however, continues to this day): Hundreds of colors and textures of nail polish, a huge number of decorative details provided an infinite number of options for nail art.

Modern trends in nail art

Among the hundreds of possible variants of nail art decorations today, there are several key areas of nail art:

Classic Figures on nails: this option nail art is created with a set of nail polishes several different shades. All sorts of drawings - from the vegetable or flower ornament abstract to divorce - are applied to the nails thin brush, which facilitates the process of drawing.
Nail Art Decoration Rhinestones: tiny sparkling rhinestones or sequins are the perfect addition to any nail polish or drawing on nails.
"Flower" nail art, one of the most amazing destinations in the modern design of nails. Instead of creating a floral pattern that option involves nail art decoration nail plate with dried small flowers, the petals of which covers an additional protective layer of clear varnish. This "herbarium" on the nails look not only beautiful, but also very original.

Maria Bykov

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