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125 years of fingernail trends

mashable.com
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INGREDIENTS

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while polish colors

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beauty trendsetters rihanna and kylie jenner might have led the recent charge toward long

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take a look back in time to discover where nail trends really began

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fingernail maintenance was originally thought of as a medical and hygienic industry. short

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short

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after the stock market crash in 1929

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the minute there was nail polish

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stars like actress joan crawford showed off a sharp

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starlets like a young elizabeth taylor and i love lucy's lucille brought the manicure to screens throughout america and onto the nails of the women who watched them

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actress lucille ball shows off almond nails in october

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miss pop believes that female musicians have always been the most influential force in dictating nail trends

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american singer connie francis

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long oval nails coated in barely there shades like pastel pink and shiny peach ruled the decade. mod mavens like fashion model twiggy and actress barbra streisand were known to flaunt

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disco star donna summer

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fin costello/getty images

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female r&b artists and u.s. olympian florence griffith-joyner helped solidify extra long and oval-square nails known as "squoval" as the reigning shape through the '80s

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many women also began to stray from wearing tips far past their finger's edge

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princess diana sporting short

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tim graham/getty images

2003

britney spears in her toxic music video in

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stephanie buck

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years of fingernail trends

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the nail files

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visual history of fingernail fashion

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by noelle sciacca

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bob al-greene/mashable

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manicures are personal

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bob al-greene/mashable

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over the years various screen sirens

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late 1800s & early 1900s

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an advertisement

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suzanne taylor/pinterest

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early 20th century actress and singer

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www.lily-elsie.com

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tobacco advertisement from the 1920s

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www.artflakes.com

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late 1920s & 1930s

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actress joan crawford wearing a pointy moon manicure

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www.drmacro.com

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dorothy flood

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www.drmacro.com

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s & 1950s

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vintage cutex advertisement during world war ii

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www.cutex.com

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prestigious fashion magazines and respected actresses promoted this elegant trend and it soon replaced the moon manicure as one of the most popular silhouettes

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bettmann/corbis

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s

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you want to have gorgeous nails. you want them to be exceptional just like the rest of your outfit

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silver screen collection/getty images

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barbra streisand in

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silver screen collection/getty images

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s & 1980s

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clip it off

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florence griffith-joyner's decorated fingernails at the olympics in

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tony duffy/getty images

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s & early 2000s

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delicate

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www.youtube.com

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present day

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kylie jenner shows off pointy stiletto nails

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structural fingertips like the coffin and stiletto are popular

2013

adele at the oscars in

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jason merritt /getty images

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what's next

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thing is certain

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share this story

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author

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noelle sciacca

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illustrations

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bob al-greene

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