Did I see Carolyn Jones' Shirl wearing blue nail polish? She was ahead of her time!
shareMy father was a chemist for Revlon in the late 50s. Blue nail polish was around then, too. Just didn't catch on as it has now. He used to bring home samples...
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Yeah, I noticed that, too. Pretty bohemian for the times. And I really liked Jones in this film. She was perfectly cast.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. -- A. Einstein
Liza Minelli as Miss Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret' - Germany, 1930's, divinely decadent dark green. I would wager women have been wearing blue and green and black nail polish since the notion of coloring ones nails was discovered.
shareThe use of nail polish dates back to 3000 BC. Around 600 BC, during the Zhou dynasty, the royal house preferred the colors gold and silver. However, red and black eventually replaced these metallic colors as royal favorites. During the Ming dynasty, nail polish was often made from a mixture that included beeswax, egg whites, gelatin, vegetable dyes, and gum Arabic.
In Egypt, the lower classes wore pale colors, whereas high society painted their nails a reddish brown, with henna. It was also known that mummified pharaohs would have their nails painted by henna.
By the turn of the ninth century, nails were tinted with scented red oils, and polished or buffed. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, people preferred a polished rather than a painted look by mixing tinted powders and creams into their nails, then buffing them until shiny. One type of polishing product sold around this time was Graf's Hyglo nail polish paste.
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