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  2. Nail art - Wikipedia

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    A lot of these above did not use nail art as it is widely known today, only stained, dyed, or dusted the fingernails and toenails. [5] The first actual record of nail art was from the short-lived Inca Empire (1438-1533), one of the largest empires in South America. Incas decorated their nails by painting eagles on them. [6]

  3. Nail polish - Wikipedia

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    Nail polish originated in China and dates back to 3000 BCE. [1][2] Around 600 BCE, during the Zhou dynasty, the royal house preferred the colors gold and silver. [1] However, red and black eventually replaced these metallic colors as royal favorites. [1] During the Ming dynasty, nail polish was often made from a mixture that included beeswax ...

  4. Artificial nails - Wikipedia

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    Artificial nails are an extension, not a replacement, of natural nails. There are two main approaches to creating artificial nails – tips and forms: A tip is a heavyweight nail-shaped plastic plate glued on the end of the natural nail, or, if it is a full-cover tip or "press-on", glued on top of the entire nailbed, and can have gel, dip or acrylic added on top

  5. History of cosmetics - Wikipedia

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    History of cosmetics. Nefertiti bust with eye liner applied ≈1,320 BC (≈3,300 years ago). The history of cosmetics spans at least 7,000 years and is present in almost every society on earth. Cosmetic body art is argued to have been the earliest form of a ritual in human culture. The evidence for this comes in the form of utilised red ...

  6. Manicure - Wikipedia

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    Manicure. A woman giving another woman a manicure. Belleville, Ontario, 1930s. Manicure closeup – clear nail polish being applied. Nail polish being applied as part of a manicure. A manicure is a mostly cosmetic beauty treatment for the fingernails and hands performed at home or in a nail salon. A manicure usually consists of filing and ...

  7. Mary E. Cobb - Wikipedia

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    30 January 1902. (1902-01-31) (aged 49) New York, New York. Occupation (s) Manicurist, Cosmetics Manufacturer. Known for. Inventing the modern manicure, emery board. Mary E. Cobb (May 1852 – January 30, 1902) was the first known American manicurist and introduced modern nail manicuring to Britain and the United States.

  8. Nail (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    A nail is a protective plate characteristically found at the tip of the digits (fingers and toes) of all primates, corresponding to the claws in other tetrapod animals. Fingernails and toenails are made of a tough rigid protein called alpha-keratin, a polymer also found in the claws, hooves and horns of vertebrates.

  9. String art - Wikipedia

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    String art, created with thread and paper. A string art representing a projection of the 8-dimensional 4 21 polytope. Quadratic Béziers in string art: The end points (•) and control point (×) define the quadratic Bézier curve (⋯). The arc is a segment of a parabola. String art or pin and thread art, is characterized by an arrangement of ...

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