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As is widely known, females are crazy about beauty from head to toe, even their nails. With the development of beauty industry, females attach much more importance to their appearance; nail beauty becomes much more attractive for females. When you hang around the street, you will see colorful nails on women, some even decorated with shinning pearl beads, which make them more glamorous. As a matter of fact, nail art has begun in ancient time. From the old times, women paid attention to their nail beauty. As we say “everybody has the passion for beauty”. As is discovered, female in Ancient Greek took the lead in using Antelope fur to polish their nails and then daubed red flowers’ sap, which made their nails display charming brilliant red. Archeologists even found nail polish they used in Cleopatra’s tomb. In Tang Dynasty, painting nails was in vogue. But their material is fairly origin –camphire. First, mash the camphire’s flower and leaves, and then add little alum. Or put silk floss into flower’s sap to absorb moisture and then put on the surface of nails, the color would not fade in several months. Nail beauty is not only the representative of beauty but also the symbol of status. In Chinese old times, people also used the fake metal nails to decorate their nails to extend its length, but it only existed in the imperial palace. The tradition of keeping long nails exists in royal families both in Britain and China. Long white nails demonstrate that people they don’t need to do arduous work. People from any nationality, any race have the same pursuit and the same admiration for beauty. Techniques and methods are continuously becoming modern with the development of society; the material of nail art is more healthy and greener, which could satisfy the demand of different kinds of people. The culture of hands beauty and nail beauty originate in the development period of human civilization. Previously using in religion activities, people painted their hands and arms with different pictures to pray the blessing of gods. It lasts for a long history in 5000 years of Chinese history and culture. So far, from the many ways we can find it flashes historical light. Nowadays, nail beauty has different kinds; people can make colorful and brilliant nails. The nail polish has various kinds of colors; people also can paint all the pictures they like. In addition, nail accessories are also in varied forms, Swarovski crystals beads, and pearl beads and so on. Nail is one of the criteria to judge the female identity in the West, and is also the comprehensive reflection of quality of life for the pros and cons, of the level of cultural accomplishment, which reflects the artistic taste and unique personality.
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