Vintage nail polish

A vintage Mary Quant Nail Polish Set 4 in original case complete with cuticle sticks and emery boards. A must have for the Mary Quant collector!! from 1157668213

Bourjois have announced their return to the UK, we thought what better time to take you on a trip down memory lane with 9 90s makeup heroes.

Max Factor Nail Confections ad, 1973 (via)

Northam Warren catalog, 1924 A recent entry of my “page-a-day” calendar informed me that “Modern nail polish first grew popular in the 1920s,” when the Cutex company developed a brush-on varnish based on automobile paint. I had to know more! A quick search on the internet told me that nail polish originated in China, dating back to 3000 BC. Early polish was apparently made from a mixture that included beeswax, egg whites, gelatin, vegetable dyes, and gum Arabic. In Egypt, members of high…

Image file to download and vintage original printpublished in 1974 Cutex (Cosmetics) Nail Polish — , Cosmetics — Advertisement

Manicured nails might seem to be a relatively modern phenomenon but as a new book reveals, they're actually far older.

Nail polish became very much en vogue in the 1930s. And there are a ton of color that you can wear and still be vintage.