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HOW YOUR NAILS CAN BE A REFLECTION OF BLACK HISTORY

HOW YOUR NAILS CAN BE A REFLECTION OF BLACK HISTORY

At one time in history black was the favorite color applied to fingernails, and men; not women; wore it!

A warrior about to go to war used to have his hair polished and curled, his nails manicured and colored, and his lips tinted to match.

The use of color indicated status; black for the important, green for people of the lower classes. This status symbol stayed for many years. Queen Nefertiti, daughter-in-law of Tut-ankh-Amen reigned in Egypt 3,000 years ago, painted her fingernails and toenails red.

Cleopatra’s extracted her nail color from the juice of the henna plant. Henna on the nails was limited by a strict social code. Only a brave women dared to color her nails above her “status.”

Women of lowly rank were permitted light colors only. Moving on up the social scale, nail shades grew deeper and deeper. The most brilliant colors appeared only on the royal fingertips of the queen, as your reds, golds, rust colors.

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