Nails

Certainly, most ladies love nail colours. Nowadays, not only the ladies, even the men don’t mind to give a yes to it out of curiosity. If you’re a man, I bet you certainly been trying to put nail varnish or making request to some other ladies to put the colours on your nails. The trend changes with time where nail polish in fashion has recently become more popular in men.

Back to some interesting history of nail polish, the idea of nail colouring exists since long long time ago. The ancient Egyptians stained their nails with henna while the ancient Japanese and Chinese with natural extracts.

These admiring glances were first developed by the Chinese who used mainly harmless natural ingredients like vegetable dyes. In ancient Egypt world, people used nail colours according to social hierarchy. The bright red nail polish can only be wore for the highest ranking people while the lower ranking people only permitted for pale colours.

Modern nail varnish was invented back then for cosmetic purposes and sometimes for nail protection.

That day when shopping with other two friends of mine, we spotted some nice nail enamel of Revlon. Without a second thought, three of us got ourselves one each.

The uniqueness of the nail colour I chose was that it scented when dry. In this case, you must be thinking what so unique of this, every nail enamel scented with a distinct smell. It’s different for the orange pop colour I got which scented with sweet fruity smell when dry.




 

A week later, we spotted a Christmas limited edition twinkling pink enamel from Body Shop. This drove us to another purchase.



Realizing how irresistible those nail enamels is towards the ladies, I would like to give little reminders and facts which one should be aware of when applying the coating.

Frequent use of nail polish and remover poses serious health hazards to the users. It is said that some people can still have strong healthy nails but some experience brittle nails. There was a time I used those cheap nail enamels and what made me gazed in awe was when I saw my nails turn yellowish after weeks when I removed the nail colours. So, choose a proper brand of your nail polish but it doesn’t mean expensive brands definitely give promising outcomes. After all, you’re still applying chemicals on your nails and the negative effects may just click on at anytime.

I scrambled through the nail polishes that I have, all of them don’t have ingredients label imprinted except the Revlon polish. Reading through its label, what I discovered was it is a formaldehyde and toluene-free formula.

Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen and its fumes are irritating to mucus membranes in the eyes, nose and throat. There are still nail varnishes adopting this ingredient although it is being replaced in some brands.

Toluene often used in nail polish as solvent to dissolve other chemicals all into a solution. It can cause birth defects in animals, affects the central nervous system and is fatal if swallowed. Toluene as well is linked to cancer.

Apart from these two, there are also other varnish chemical ingredients as well which cause hefty health dangers if you can google through the net.

In a nutshell, always take care of your nails while applying nail coats. Magnificent manicures should be on par with healthcare as well.