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Beauty By Numbers.
Beauty Reporter
The shape, length, and color of a womanOs fingernails are about more than mere decoration: In imperial China, noblewomen had their long fingernails measured and recorded in marriage contracts to exempt them from manual labor. These days, extreme length merely warrants a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. We look at the numbers.
NPATRICIA TORTOLANI
3000 B.C.: Year experts believe nail polish was invented in China.
1920: Year Henry Ford first used nitrocellulose lacquer to paint cars.
12: Number of years later that chemist Carlton Ellis patented the lacquer as the first nail enamel.
$300: Amount used to start the Revlon Nail Enamel Company that same year.
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