Jezebel: nail polish

The Garden Of Eden Had A Nail Salon?

hortense — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:45:00 EDT

This rather suggestive nail polish ad is causing a bit of a stir over at Scrangie, a nail polish blog, with commenters taking both sides as to whether the ad is humorous or offensive. What do you think? [Scrangie]

Nailed

Anna — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:40:00 EDT

Says Hortense: "What would the OPI name be? "I'm Not Really Freddy Krueger?" [Vintage Ads]

Crimes & Misdemeanors

Maria — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:45:00 EDT

A 12-year-old girl in England was detained and questioned by police for more than an hour after she put a splash of nail polish on her thumbnail in a drugstore. The girl was "caught" by a security guard who called the police who told the girl she could be forcibly restrained because she was over the age of 10, even though she made no attempts to escape or resist her detainment. Eventually, the girl's parents had to pick her up and pay for the Revlon peach-colored polish. How many actual robberies, and assorted other crimes happened during the time it took to detain this girl? [Telegraph]

"Secretaries, look!" begins a typewriter...

dodai — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:45:00 EST

"Secretaries, look!" begins a typewriter ad from around 1955. "Look how Underwood and Underwood alone helps your keep fingernails and hands lovely to look at, lovely to touch!" The first feature: "exclusive half-moon keys." The shape means "fingernails never touch the keys. No more worry about short unfashionable fingernails, chipped nail polish!" And that's not all: "Try Underwood's new chip-resistant nail polish, Underwood's Red, free! Beauty consultants styled it just for secretaries. A brilliant red, it stays on and on. Type us a letter on office stationery asking for it." How badly do you wish this were still available so that you could test-drive it? (Click picture to see a larger version.) [Vintage Ads]

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