Hi, what do you think about nail art? 
I think it's really cool how someone can enhance the nails by painting, decorating and embellishments!
My wife loves painting her nails and then applying tiny nail graphics on top. She is quite good at it, but enjoys going to salons to have it done too. 
I would have to have it done at a salon.  Back in ancient Egypt, women would dye their nails with henna
That is fascinating! What is Henna? 
A type of dye also used for body art.  They would use different colors depending on their social status
That's really neat. So nail art today was likely inspired by the ancient Egyptians. 
They were some of the first.  In 3200 BC, Babylonian men would paint their nails to prepare for war
My wife could probably give those Babylonian men some pointers! I wonder when nail art became popular in the United States?
spent hours having their nails prepared, hair curled and had other similar beauty treatments. As in ancient Egypt, nail color indicated one's status, black for noblemen and green for the common man. Around the same time, 3000 B.C., the first nail polish originated in ancient China. It was made from beeswax, egg whites, gelatin, vegetable dyes, and gum arabic. Chinese dipped their nails in this mixture for several hours or left it on to dry. Colors ranged from pink to red, depending on the
natural pink base nails with white tips. French manicures were one of the first popular and well known color schemes. French manicures may have originated in the eighteenth-century in Paris but were most popular in the 1920s and 1930s. However the traditional French manicures were much different from what we know today. They were generally red, while leaving a round crescent shape at the top blank to enhance the lunula of the nail, known now as a half moon manicure. 
With the modern French manicure, trends involving painting different