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193.122.23.66 added a mention that blue is the most attractive polish colour for men. It's not clear if men find it most attractive on women or on themselves. Anyhow, I couldn't find any trace of a scientific report having found that blue is more attractive, and since I have serious doubts that such a report exists I have removed the mention. Please cite sources. --Valmi ✒ 19:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
"Strappy heels are greatly accentuated by polished toes, and draw attention to one of the most beautiful parts of the female body: the feet." Purpose? Truthfulness? I don't see it, it's gone.
"Nail polish was first invented in ancient China.", because: 1. Historical nail polish is already being dealt with in another paragraph. 2. Nobody knows for sure who invented the very first nail polish. We cannot simply say that China was the first just because our ealiest records come from China. --Neg 11:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, usually that is how we find out. We assume that it's the oldest until we find something else that's older. By that logic, nobody knows for sure who invented the first anything, because there could be an earlier person (or record) who invented it who we are not aware of. The snare 04:22, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Not a secondary sexual characteristic
I removed nail polish from this category; it's nonsense. Nothing applied to the body is a sexual characteristic, secondary or otherwise. Pastafarian Nights 20:45, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nonsense removed
I have stripped this article of much contentious speculation. I don't think we can really make assertions about men who wear nail polish carrying a "social stigma", for instance, and the previous version tied itself in all sorts of messy semiotic knots which generally confused the issue. There is absolutely no way you can say stuff like "Reddish and pinkish shades of nail polish represent femininity in most cultures and can make the wearer appear more sexually attractive", especially not without references.
The article makes it clear that nail polish is a product used mostly by women, and the examples of men who wear indicate that its use by men is countercultural without any need for judgmental speculation.
Moreover, I have removed waffle, such as "Sometimes people paint their nails a color that will match their clothes, but others tend to paint their nails to match what color they think represents their mood." Sure, and some will paint it to match the carpets, and some to match their car, and some because their name is Scarlett/Blanche/Primrose/whatever. Good grief, we really do not need a list of reasons that people might choose certain shades of nail polish, or this article will go on forever! -- TinaSparkle 19:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: History
I have to dispute the claim that nail paints started in Japan and Italy. Numerous archaeologic sources actually trace nail paint to Egypt, from the Middle Kingdom. Henna bark was one of the first pigments satisfactory to the task, and it is still in use as an ingredient today, some five millenia after the first successful experiments by the wives of high-ranking Egyptian officials. Of course, the Revson brothers did give it an acetate base for permanency, which Revlon brought to market first and other companies soon adapted to their processes. - B.C.Schmerker 14:41, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
In any case, the present text says: "appears to have begun with the Japanese and Italians". The wording should rather be: "in the areas corresponding to present-day Japan and Italy" -- neither the 'Italians' nor the 'Japanese' existed in year 3000 BC... --Jorgengb 13:46, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] wtf wikihow?
I am turning here because the discussion section on wikihow is pretty much exclusively disses to the ideals of whoever wrote the article. In the article it says:
"When buying black nail polish, claim it's for decorating your nails. Make a point to buy one other color as well, and talk of how you are going to dot your nails with whatever color you bought."
The misspelling of "colour" aside, I don't understand this. Is there some second, arguably DEVIANT use for nail polish? Hit me back o ye party people.
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- I think nail polish can be used for "huffing," but I'm not completely sure of this. But, I will have to tell you that the word "color" was not misspelled there, sorry to say. There are two acceptable spellings of the word in the English language "color" and "colour" and it typically depends on where you are from as to which one is correct - for example, in the United States, we spell it "color."128.194.26.248 (talk) 01:48, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
The advice was because black nail polish has historically sold primarily amongst the gothic subculture. Hence why CVS only has one brand and type of Black nail polish, 2.50 cent Sally Hansen, as part of the Xtreme Wear line targeted to kids with minimal cash or time for nail maintenance. So yeah, the only deviance is one of social nonconformity, especially because black nail polish sells well among men comparatively. As for huffing, pretty much all nail polishes and removers have toxic solvents. I've worn black nail polish from the sally hansen line, and it has comparable ingredients to other colors, like pink.--24.91.98.99 (talk) 18:07, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Can we get a good section on the various types of nail polish remover, as well as any possible safe alternatives? When nail polish goes on, sooner or later it will have to come off, yet, the article affords almost no time to this lengthy and generally rather toxic practice.--24.91.98.99 (talk) 18:07, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
