Comments on: History of Nail Polish

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:27:46 +0000

Da’sha, thanks. I’m glad I could help and good luck with your project.

Well, you can try and get a hold of this book, it should have some information on the history of nail polish:

Meyer, Carolyn. Being Beautiful: The Story of Cosmetics From Ancient Art to Modern Science. William Morrow and Company, 1977.

As for online resources, I found a few blog posts about the subject but they are mainly saying the same things I did. I didn’t find any that dicussed the subject in a broader, more in-depth way, sorry.

By: da'sha

da'sha — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:25:20 +0000

hello bloggers, I am a student and i am doing a research project on nail polish for national history day,this is a very helpful post and i hope it helps many others but i need more historic information. Do you have any suggestions for other sites on the history on nail polish. Thanks for creating such a helpful website and i hope you have open suggestions,going to lunch now byee.byee.

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:55:00 +0000

Beauty Blitz, glad you enjoyed the post. That’s a nice tradition. Where do you come from?

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:32:55 +0000

Meream thanks. I’m glad you found it interesting.

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:30:23 +0000

Citrine, that’s ok, don’t worry. I understand why you thought so and thanks for letting me know one of the sentences from my post is very similar to sentences in other articles online. I do my research and then try to write the info using my own words, but looks like sometimes I fail. It wasn’t intended obviously, I would never just copy and paste from another site and if I did, I would cite the source like I did in the past, but I shall be more careful in the future.

I guess you’re right and some of my sources did quote some of the info on wiki, so you weren’t that wrong to think I copied from there too after all.

Of course, I don’t know more about Chinese than you or people raised Chinese and I didn’t mean to imply that. Sorry if I did or if the post offended you, it wasn’t my intention. I just assumed that with so many resources reporting the same info, someone must have done their research. But I’ll be more selective of sources in the future.

By: Beauty Blitz

Beauty Blitz — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:32:20 +0000

Coolness! Back in my country most ppl use henna to color their nails, especially for weddings. Sometimes it looks weird, but I guess its a tradition. Love the info! .-= Beauty Blitz´s last blog ..No need cuticle lotion! =-.

By: All Women Stalker

All Women Stalker — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:32:13 +0000

This is by far the most interesting thing I’ve read all day. Will now think “car paint on my nails hm…” whenever I paint mine.

-meream
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By: Citrine

Citrine — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:26:46 +0000

I am sorry that I accused you copying from Wiki. What I did was, I just copy and paste one sentence (the one I think the info is incorrect) of your post (professors told us that’s how the detect plagiarism) and it pretty much yield an exact match from Wiki as well as several other websites.

That’s why I assumed that you got if from Wiki (which is the most credible from the bunch) It just seems to me that all of them simply copied from Wiki then copy off each other…Of course, I am not asking you to go to library just for a single post. I am just not fond of the fact that people were presenting some pieces of information about Chinese history/culture that’s never been heard by Chinese, never recorded by a Chinese nor can be found in Chinese encyclopedia (So I guess a random European visitor knew more about Chinese history compared to Chinese scholars?)
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