Alternatives for Acrylic Nails Consumers

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Alternatives for Acrylic Nails Consumers

During the past few years the concept of acrylic nails have become a big industry across the world. Occupying an important part especially in females. The obsessive search for beautification has led to the use of cosmetics as a way of encountering that perfect appearance. Although that perfect appearance may result at a high price. Acrylic nails consumers rarely are aware of the consequences of the use of highly harmful chemicals contained by artificial nails. Women are not aware of the great health complications all chemicals contained in acrylic nails performed when used.

Artificial nails are used to improve the aspect of natural nails and help disguise unpleasant appearance of them. In occasions the length of the natural nails is not the desired one, in return the person is no longer forced to walk around with nails in that condition. This is one of the reason why many clients rather use acrylic nails regardless of their side effects and health complications they implicate. Woman has been wearing nail extensions since the Egyptian times and back then they had a completely different meaning to what they now. Wearing nail extensions from bone, ivory and gold, Egyptian women used them as a sign of status and wealth. Artificial nails are very popular today, but they also were in the early 19th century in Greece, many upper- class women wore empty pistachio shells over their nails, slowly spreading the artificial trend in Europe. Fred Slack was a dentist, in 1954 that damaged his finger nail while working. He used material that he had in is clinic, a piece of solid foil to cover his nail and then put a layer of restorative substance over the top. He was amazed at the

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...ne that never dulls. They will never yellow or crack like acrylics, and you can expect 3-4 weeks before a fill in is necessary”. This is the most positive side of the use of gel nails, they are more of a protective shell of your natural nails.

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