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  2. Nail polish - Wikipedia

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    Nail art is a creative way to paint, decorate, enhance, and embellish nails. Social media has expanded to a nail art culture by allowing users to share pictures of their nail art. Women's Wear Daily reports nail polish sales hit a record US$768 million in the United States in 2012, a 32% gain over 2011. [15]

  3. Nail art - Wikipedia

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    The nail is also part of the puzzle of mounting gender identity; the nails for teenagers and adult women represent a piece of the symbol of what is a woman and how the woman should present herself. Though women use nail art to express their womanliness, the different types define a woman with particular personalities, e.g. French manicure ...

  4. Artificial nails - Wikipedia

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    Artificial nails, also known as fake nails, false nails, acrylic nails, press ons, nail extensions or nail enhancements, are extensions placed over fingernails as fashion accessories. Many artificial nail designs attempt to mimic the appearance of real fingernails as closely as possible, while others may deliberately stray in favor of an ...

  5. Nail buffing - Wikipedia

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    Nail buffing is the act of polishing the nail using buffers of successively finer grit in order to make nails look more consistent and shiny. [1] A paste is used to fill ridges on nail surfaces. [2] Buffing is also done prior to the application of nail products or artificial nails to help the product adhere to the nail.

  6. Queer manicure - Wikipedia

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    Lesbian women have sometimes described studying a woman's hands, nails, or fingers to evaluate them as a potential partner. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The portrayal of short nails as a "standard" among queer women [ 5 ] was popularized by works of queer fiction like The L Word , [ 4 ] [ 6 ] though this is sometimes considered a stereotype . [ 1 ]

  7. List of songs recorded by Nine Inch Nails - Wikipedia

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    Nine Inch Nails performing in June 2022; from left to right: Ilan Rubin, Trent Reznor, Alessandro Cortini, Atticus Ross, and Robin Finck. This is a list of every song ever released by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It gives information about songwriter(s), length, original release, and year of release.

  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 ver

  9. Hypernymy and hyponymy - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, semantics, general semantics, and ontologies, hyponymy (from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó) 'under' and ὄνυμα (ónuma) 'name') shows the relationship between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym).