Ancient chinese nail polish

Which is the most popular nail polish in China today? That question is common, just as question about which the most popular nail polish is in any country around the world at the moment. But I wrote the question about China because the interest in chinese nail polish is growing very much. People seem vvery interested especially in ancient chinese nail polish. Nowadays women, and men for that, isn't only keen on what brands and colors and effects to use but also about the history of nail polish and exotic topics like ancient chinese nail polish or how nail polish was used in other long gone cultures such as the kingdom of Egypt or others in Asia. This may indicate not only a growing general interest in nail polish and its history, but also thet people want to know how women for thousands years ago used simple substances from the pure nature to decoratet heir nail and bodies. Maybe soon we will see women who use ocher, umber and other color substances as popular nail polish! Who knows? But it's certain that ancient chinese nail polish is inspiring people and that they are eager to get to know more about this topic.

In the article History of nail polish, the previous one on this blog, you can read about how the ancient chinese culture used their own mixture as popular nail polish. This differed a little bit from the ones used in Egypt and other parts of the world, but the main idea was the same. Arabic gum was the component in the mixture that kept it all together, like a kind of glue. Albumin, which can be found for example in eggs, also have a binding effect. The color of the popular nail polish came from color substances from flowers and plants in nature. Beside these ingredients, beeswax and gelatin was also used to get the perfect ancient chinese nail polish! Of course the ancinet chinese nail polish used wasn't available in so many colors, the most common colors of the most popular nail polish in ancient chinese cultures was red and black. This may be a reason to the fact that these colors, especially the red one, is still regarded as the original and most true popular nail polish color. Other popular nail polish colors for the rich royalty in China was gold and silver, and they probably used the real metals and not only a similar color substitute! That is not too common today, one may claim with right...