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NAILS: After several seasons of weird and wonderful manicures, for spring there's an au naturel approach to nails… well, almost.
So in the 1920s, when paints developed for cars and aircraft began being applied to nails, many found them startling.
It would have made far more sense to use flash powder and ball bearings, LaDue thought, because "spherical shrapnel" are "superior to nails in damage".
Then I wrote letters to friends and family back in the United States and raised $2,500 to buy the materials and the tools — everything from cement mix to nails, corrugated tin and window panes.
Customers and catwalk artists alike have also been experimenting with texture, with this month's issue of Vogue suggesting applying lace to nails with a clear varnish, in anticipation of one of spring's biggest fashion trends.
So what if it turns out that coral nail polish -- recommended by Jin Soon Choi, who is to nails what Frédéric Fekkai is to hair -- makes you look too West Palm once it's in your medicine cabinet.
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