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3000 BCE
Egyptian women
These were often made from bones or ivory -
fred slack
Fred Slack, a dentist, broke his fingernail at work, and created an artificial nail as a realistic looking temporary replacement -
Dr.Stuart Nordstrom
invented the professional liquid and powder system used in acrylics. He is also the founder of CND; a brand we all know and love -
flo jo
popularized the product, very know for having long acrylic nails -
gel nails
a service that uses a gel-based polish and requires a UV or LED light to cure the polish and lock it onto your nails -
The funky half-moon manicure
One of the most popular 90s nail designs was the half-moon manicure. To recreate this look, start with a base coat of your favorite color. Once that's dry, apply a second coat of polish to the bottom half of your nails -
square nails
square nails have reigned supreme. The squared off nail look is easy to do at home, gives your nails uniformity and is pretty impossible to mess up. -
style of
pastel purple, pastel pink, red, and blue in iridescent finishes would usually be enlisted to achieve this sought-after nail trend. -
style of
“bloody” tips, jagged tips, suspicious shadowy tips, and mysterious dark and dripping tips will be huge in the year 2013.Jan 29, 2013 -
style of
Hologram Nails. Color-changing shimmer -
Millie Bobby Brown
Millie wore a jet black manicure that was glamorously goth. Olivia Munn, MTV VMAs. -
COVID year
Nail artists share the nail trends they believe will rise as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and salons closing and reopening. so in 2020 a lot of people started learning how to do there own nails with kits nails tech has made. -
Multi-Colored Manicures
Learning to think outside the box was a necessity in 2020, and in 2021, people are going to apply that mentality to their manicures by painting each of their nails a different color. -
style of
While round nails will always be popular owing to their simplicity and practicality, no one can deny that long, dramatic coffin nails are 2022's top manicure trend. -
Today
Digital lavender, a cool-toned lilac pastel, which WGSN has named as its color of the year for 2023. It also happens to tie in well with the digitally inspired textures we're seeing in nail art: color-shifting shimmers and light-reflecting iridescent finishes.