JEWELLED NAILS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20587, 28 November 1936, Page 11 (Supplement)

JEWELLED NAILS

VOGUE FOR THE SUMMER Women who kept their finger-nails carefully groomed to a good shape and in condition during the winter are wise, for brilliant and exotic nail polishes and decorations are to be popular this summer, but they need a wellshaped finger-nail to show them off. Specially designed as an accompaniment to the white and pastel mauve, pink and blue evening frocks are five shades of diamante nail polish. This is applied by expert manicurists in Bond Street in London, who coat the nails with a foundation, apply the diamante in either gold, silver, red, green or blue, and then paint over another coat of the transparent foundation to keep the diamante smooth and flawless. The effect is that of a jewel, and the varnish is carried from the base of the nail right to the tip. Matt silver and gold, which are aluminium paints and therefore not injurious to the finger-nails, is another idea. It is a smart and out-of-the-ordinary nail varnish that can be wo-n for luncheon and cocktail parties as well as for dinners and dances.

Women can learn how to apply these varnishes themselves; they are the modem replacement of the jewel-like nail shields that were slipped on over the ordinary nail, but which sometimes caused ill-health to the natural nail.

Hostesses and other busy women are catered for by another specialist who has a new method of applying the more ordinary daytime nail varnishes. A soft paste polish is applied to the clean, prepared nails, and well buffered on. Liquid varnish is then painted on the smooth surface, and when this has dried a further buffing gives an extra polish. The paste polish not only prevents the nail drying or becoming brittle, as a result of immediate contact with the varnish, but the whole coating will last ten days instead of five or six.

A colourless nail food in a tiny pot, with a brush attached, is intended lor the bureau or dressing-table of the busy woman, so that a little can be smoothed into the base of the nail at odd moments. More nail troubles of whieh women complain come from nail starvation than most of them are aware of.