The nail business is a multi billion dollar business today primarily catering to women though that isn't how it started out. Around 5000 BCE women would decorate their nails with henna, a thousand years later Babylonian warriors lacquered their nails before battle the higher ranks wore black and the rest of the troop wore green and one golden manicure was found dating to 3200 BCE along with combat equipment. Later in China the masses could only wear lighter colors on their nails as the darker shades were reserved for royalty. In Egypt the royals wore henna and gold on their nails while the lower class was allowed the paler colors. Manicures were brought to the US in the late 1800s by Mary E. Cobb who studied the art in France and opened a salon in Manhattan in 1878.
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