Interesting facts about nails and manicure
Today, beauty elephants provide a variety of body treatments. One of the most popular procedures in beauty salons is, of course, manicure. Well, where now without a manicure? It is done not only by girls and women, but even by men and children. There are a lot of interesting facts about manicure. We wrote the most of them in our article. Read on! You will definitely be surprised.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT NAILS AND MANICURE
FACT NUMBER 1: Our nails are made from the same substance as hair. They are based on the protein keratin. Even when burned, they will smell the same.
FACT NUMBER 2: It is no coincidence that we need nail care so often: they grow at a rate of about 0.1 mm per day.
FACT NUMBER 3: A woman's nails usually grow more slowly than a man's.
FACT NUMBER 4: The growth rate of nails is not always the same. In summer, nails grow faster than in cold winters. This is due to a change in metabolic rate. In summer it is much more intense.
FACT NUMBER 5: If a person takes certain medications, is often under stress, is on a strict diet or has metabolic problems, then nail growth will slow down;
FACT NUMBER 6: When typing text on the keyboard, the nail plate is massaged, which stimulates its growth. Massage improves blood circulation in the fingertips and all processes, including growth, are accelerated.
FACT NUMBER 7: The bad habit of biting your nails has been beneficial once. To rid his patients of it, a dentist named Maxwell Lappé in 1934 invented special plates that soon became popular as false nails.
FACT NUMBER 8: Only the area around the nail can sweat. The nail bed itself cannot do this, since there are no sweat glands in it.
FACT NUMBER 9: Nail painting and painting was a common practice for the ancient Incas. The most common pattern they had was an eagle.
FACT NUMBER 10: The most popular type of manicure is french. But the most interesting thing, of course, is not this, but the fact that this type of manicure was invented in Hollywood, and not in France, as many think. This type of nail design was suggested by Jeff Pink, since nail design was suitable for almost any look and outfit.
FACT NUMBER 11: Many people believe that water helps their nails grow thicker if they are kept in it more often. This is a slightly controversial fact, although it is due to the fact that nails have the ability to quickly absorb water.
FACT NUMBER 12: In Ancient Egypt, the shade of nails directly depended on which class it belongs to. The most popular nail color was green.
FACT NUMBER 13: The very first nail polish in the world was red.
FACT NUMBER 14: Pregnant women grow nails much faster than breastfeeding women.
FACT NUMBER 15: Nails grow at different rates on different hands. On the left-hander, the nail plates grow better on the left hand than on the right.
FACT NUMBER 16: The owner of the longest nails in the world is Indian Sridhar Chillal. He has been growing them for almost 66 years. When his nails were measured for registration in the Guinness Book of Records, their total length was nine meters and nine centimeters. Recently, an Indian circumcised them, as life with such «decoration» became simply unbearable.
FACT NUMBER 17: Nails begin to break if a person does not drink enough water. For normal nail growth, the body must receive its daily rate.
FACT NUMBER 18: The world's first incredibly high value manicure set was made in Babylon. All instruments were cast in solid gold, although they were very different from the instruments that we all use today.
We hope that after reading the article you have learned a lot of interesting and useful things.
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