10 most interesting facts from manicure history.

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Ancient Egyptians were the strange people and for some reason they were sure that long nails will promote communication of mere mortals with gods and also long nails were considered as a wisdom symbol. It was allowed to let grow nails only to people of a high position, slaves had shortly - cut nails. And still color of the owner of nails spoke to all people around about the importance in society: very bright and saturated nails spoke about a high position of the owner whereas at slaves nails were not made up, and Cleopatra liked to paint nails henna which gave to nails a brown-red shade (still call color of the earth)



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In Ancient China long nails could be carried not only to ancient Chinese women, but also ancient Chinese. Long nails on female hands showed to all people around that the young lady belongs to high estate and it is contraindicated to it to dig a kitchen garden and to milk cows, and long nails on male hands indicated courage (still, presently they would speak about courage of the man, especially too if it decided to walk on gangster districts of the city).

Favourite colors for coloring of nails were silver and gold, and at the time of government of the Ming dynasty — red and black.
By the way in Ancient China the first way of nail extension appeared — they were extended with silver tips.



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Ancient Romans lived under the same laws of society, as well as ancient Egyptians. If you carry at that time long nails with bright manicure — you took a place of honor of the first Roman in the village!

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And how unique tastes the French had (as always!). In the 17th century in France too men could go with the made-up nails, but all of them thought up something special, a little perverted — the French specially let grow only one nail on a little finger and liked not to knock at the door to acquaintances, and to shkryabat it this nail as cats.
Presently at many men it is possible to observe the grown nail on a little finger, but now it bears absolutely other implication)



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In the east ancient people were especially lazy. Not to paint constantly nails they approached a question of ingenuity a little with a perversion. Instead of constant coloring, they just stuck dye directly in the basis of nails, thus nails grew at already painted.

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The woman by name was a champion in the world on the longest nails …. here we deceived you! The severe man by the name of Nelvin Feyzel who for the uncertain reasons did not cut the claws of the whole 25 years was a champion. As a result they had length of 9 meters and 53 centimeters. In Ancient Egypt and China this person would be at the level of god!



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The first "an orange stick" for manicure appeared in 1830.
In 1830 when at the king Louis Philipp the hangnail on a finger inflamed, it was ordered to one doctor to remove a hangnail from a royal finger. Then the resourceful doctor, having coped with this small operation, developed set for manicuring.
Then the orange stick borrowed in dental surgery tools without which any manicure office still does not do was entered into this set. The niece of this doctor, adopted skills at the uncle and made manicure popular not only in court circles. And already by the beginning of the XX century manicuring becomes the important commercial industry, and "sets for nails" which entered powder, a suede file, hand ointment and an orange stick were on sale in each universal little shop. Then also women and men equally used these sets.



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Modern manicure "was born" in 1917. Doctor Koronyu at that time the first thought up the liquid allowing to delete a cuticle, and the first manicure salon opened in 1878.

The manicure salon of Mrs. Kobbs (on an engraving below) which opened in New York became the first not only in the city, but also in the country. Since then art of care of nails took place a huge way: from luxury to availability practically to everyone and from laborious manual work before use of digital technologies.

The first manicure salon which was opened by the businesswoman Mrs. Kobbs in 1878 was located on Vest-23 the Street, Manhattan. For those years manicure was expensive pleasure, destiny of ladies from the high society, wives and daughters of wealthy people.



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1932 became the real break in the history of manicure. Charles Leshman in 1932 created the first nail varnish. Varnish was very saturated, bright red color.



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Acrylic nail extension appeared in the 1960th year. According to one of the version, the American stomatologist was his inventor, thought up such building after a finger injury which result was a broken nail and he strongly complicated work to the doctor. According to other version, this stomatologist wanted to disaccustom to a foolish habit to gnaw nails the spouse. Anyway, nail extension gained world popularity.



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