Use of acryl as a material for nail extension started by chance. It happened in 1954, in Philadelphia, Fred Slack, a dentist, was the beginner. Once he hurt his finger nail while working. He took a piece of solid foil, made the first false nail in the world and covered it with restorative material. He filed it and was surprised at the result ' the nail looked naturally and the pain passed at once. The dentist carried on his experiments using acrylic toothpaste and nail forms. Soon his brother Tom joined him and they patented their invention ' f…

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Manicure has ancient history that started very long ago. Then it wasn't a process including nail cleaning and care, it was just the way of painting nails, and in different countries people used different ways of doing that.
In Ancient Egypt and China women used henna to color nails. Grant people colored nails red and ordinary people were allowed to have nails of lighter tints. Later Chinese women covered nails silver and gold colors using paints made of wax, egg whites, gelatin and gum-arabic. Except it they wore special nail tips made of gold…

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hi, im new to nail art and just learning, i seem to make a mess all the time lol
what do you use to clean the brushes etc is it just nail varnish remover ??

also can you help, i have 2way nail art pens, can i use them to paint whole nail
or do i use ordinary nail polish for the whole nail, and use the 2way just for decoration ?? any tips would be helpful. thanks dianne

To merge Lace elements into nail art to make it elaborate ornamentation has become a recent fashion. Generally, designers indicate by means of painting Lace patter on nails that gradual color change studded with small pearls, gold and silver silk thread or crystal pellets will produce sometimes elegant, sometimes noble, sometimes fashionable and sometimes feminine flavor, promoting the nail art into a new height…

The most outstanding feature of Lace painting is to manifest exquisite Lace with terse and regular lines, so manual color-painting…

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Hello, nice site. Want to share my photo report from Nail Art Competition that was in Almaty Kazakhstan 21-22 of September 2007. It was 7th Kazakh Nail Art Competition devoted to Modeling and Designing Nails and Models Defile between masters and juniors.

Here is list of designs and models who took participation in the competition:
Theme was “My best city†(dedicated to Almaty):

"Piter" nail art is a winner.

The enumeration of photos top-down.

1. “City of clocksâ€

2. “Piterâ€

3. “Apple†symbol of Almaty

4. “Snow…

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