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  2. Nail art - Wikipedia

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    Many photos show the empress with 6-inch-long gold guards protecting her long nails. [6] 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. [7] The first actual record of nail art was from the short-lived Inca Empire (1438-1533), one of the largest empires in South ...

  3. Nail (fastener) - Wikipedia

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    The slitting mill, introduced to England in 1590, simplified the production of nail rods, but the real first efforts to mechanise the nail-making process itself occurred between 1790 and 1820, initially in England and the United States, when various machines were invented to automate and speed up the process of making nails from bars of wrought ...

  4. Charles Revson - Wikipedia

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    Charles Haskell Revson (October 11, 1906 – August 24, 1975) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was best known as a pioneering figure in the American cosmetics industry as the person who created the first pigment-based nail polish and founded and managed Revlon through five decades.

  5. Nail polish - Wikipedia

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    Nail polish (also known as nail varnish in British English or nail enamel) is a lacquer that can be applied to the human fingernails or toenails to decorate and protect the nail plates. The formula has been revised repeatedly to enhance its decorative properties, to be safer for the consumer to use, and to suppress cracking or peeling.

  6. History of cosmetics - Wikipedia

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    Eugène Schueller, founder of L'Oréal, invented modern synthetic hair dye in 1907 and he also invented sunscreen in 1936. [46] The first patent for a nail polish was granted in 1919. Its color was a very faint pink.

  7. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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    Alarm Clocks. 725-2008 Prior to the year 725, no one was ever on time for anything. But that year in China, Yi Xing invented the first known alarm clock, and the descendants of his contraption ...

  8. Olympian Jordan Chiles Explains Why Her Long Nails ‘Actually ...

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    “A lot of people always ask me how I do gymnastics with such long nails. To tell you the truth, they actually help me with my technique,” Chiles, 23, recently told.

  9. Milestones: A look back at AOL's 35 year history as an ...

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    1985: Case formally launches Quantum Computer Services from the "ashes" of Control Video, starting the company that would become AOL. 1989: Quantum Computer Services is renamed America Online.